Press Releases

The Bureau of Land Management is taking urgent action to protect wild horses and burros from increasingly harsh on-range conditions caused by extreme overpopulation and severe, widespread drought.

The American people have asked for more fertility control in wild horse and burro management, and the Department of the Interior is prepared to deliver.

BLM will begin a wild horse gather Sept. 19 in and around the Sand Wash Basin HMA in northwest Colorado to reduce overpopulation, support healthy horses and protect drought-strained rangelands they rely on.

The Bureau of Land Management completed a wild horse gather operation in Idaho to improve rangeland health and ensure long-term well-being of the Challis wild horse herd. In total, BLM gathered and removed 226 wild horses from overpopulated rangelands.

The Bureau of Land Management began work today in the Wyoming Bighorn Basin’s Fifteenmile Herd Management Area to strengthen the long‑term health of the wild horse herd and the rangelands they rely on.

The BLM’s plans to rescue horses on Riddle Mountain have been postponed due to a temporary restraining order related to ongoing litigation. The herd’s health is under immediate threat from severe food and water shortages.

The Bureau of Land Management will begin a wild horse gather today in the Challis Herd Management Area, approximately 20 miles south of Challis in Custer County, Idaho. The gather is necessary to protect the health of the wild horses that depend on the area’s rangelands, particularly during the winter, which have been heavily strained by long-term overpopulation and drought conditions.

The Bureau of Land Management plans to begin a second emergency operation next week to rescue wild horses from another southeast Oregon herd whose health is under immediate threat from severe food and water shortages.

Emergency rescue operations begin tomorrow to save wild horses whose health is under immediate threat from severe food and water shortages. The BLM is initiating the lifesaving gather in southeast Oregon.

The Bureau of Land Management plans to gather and remove about 40 wild horses from the Pryor Mountain Wild Horse Range in fall 2026 using low-stress bait trap methods.

The Bureau of Land Management has approved a plan to address significant wild horse overpopulation and protect rangeland health within the Red Desert Complex Herd Management Area.

The Bureau of Land Management is launching a nationwide wild horse and burro private care placement blitz beginning July 23, in celebration of the Department of the Interior’s Day of the American West and America’s Freedom 250th anniversary.

In honor of America’s 250th anniversary, the BLM is hitting the road with Freedom, a wild horse, and Liberty, a wild burro, to celebrate the landscapes, history, and ideals that continue to shape our country.

The BLM reminds the public that wild horses and burros on public lands are federally protected. Removing one without authorization is illegal and can also harm the animal.

BISHOP, Calif. – The Bureau of Land Management and U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service have approved a plan for the agencies to gather and remove excess wild horses that have roamed outside the Montgomery Pass Wild Horse Territory near Benton onto public and private lands, in accordance with the Wild Free-Roaming Horse and Burros Act of 1971. High priority areas for this gather include, but are not limited to, horses located in the Mono Basin and horses along CA State Route 120 East and U.S. Highway 6.

The Bureau of Land Management today approved the Final Pancake Complex Wild Horse Gather & Herd Management Plan for how wild horses will be managed within the Pancake Complex.

The BLM and the Nevada Department of Corrections conducted a saddle-started wild horse adoption event on February 22, 2025. Forty-five qualified bidders including successful adopters attended the event.

Trainers approved to adopt a wild horse or burro gathered from overpopulated Bureau of Land Management (BLM) public rangelands across the West will pick up their animal on Feb. 22 from 8 a.m.-4 p.m. and Feb. 23 from 8 a.m.-noon at the Boise Wild Horse Off-Range Corral.

The Bureau of Land Management is seeking public comments to update how the agency will manage wild horses and burros near Tonopah, Nevada.

The BLM and the Nevada Department of Corrections – Silver State Industries have announced a saddle-started wild horse adoption event at the NNCC on Saturday, February 22, 2025.

The Bureau of Land Management is seeking public comments to update how the agency will manage wild horses and burros in the Jackson Mountains Herd Management Area.

The Bureau of Land Management is seeking good homes for wild burros during three “Burro Palooza” adoption and sale events in March.

Of 194 horses gathered, none were injured, 144 were shipped to the Winnemucca Off-Range Corral and 50 were released back to the Fish Creek Herd Management Area.

The Bureau of Land Management has selected Kim Liebhauser as the new Southern Nevada District Manager.

The BLM is seeking the public's assistance in the investigation of the shooting deaths of three wild horses in the Mineral Range Mountains, located northwest of Minersville Reservoir. A $5,000 reward is being offered for information that leads to the arrest and conviction of those responsible.