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Free-roaming horse and burro summit seeks solutions
Diverse stakeholders from the conservation, livestock management and animal welfare world came together to take the first steps in a process that aims to bring consensus to the management of...
Horse Rich & Dirt Poor
Support a healthy ecological balance on your public lands! Explore the effects of America’s overpopulated wild horses and burros on wildlife, public lands, and ecosystems as you travel through...
White House proposal cuts funding for DOI, wildlife programs
The president’s recently released Fiscal Year 2020 budget proposal would decrease funding for many important wildlife management and conservation programs. Overall spending levels for both the Department of the Interior and the U.S. Fish...
BLM to return some horses to range in Oregon
Last fall, the Bureau of Land Management gathered 845 wild horses and burros from the Warm Springs Herd Management Area in central Oregon as part of a sterilization research project. The...
BLM conducts emergency roundup of feral horses in Nevada
The Bureau of Land Management has completed an emergency capture of more than 1,000 feral horses in Northern Nevada. Officials said they gathered 1,178 horses and removed 873 declared as...
WSB: Infrared cameras can help count feral horses
Current methods of monitoring feral horses and burros can be dangerous for the people conducting aerial surveys and disturbing to animals. Helicopters have to fly at low elevations — 50 to 200 feet above ground level — to allow biologists to observe...
Session of the Week: Informing wildlife policy
Registration for The Wildlife Society’s 25th Annual Conference in Cleveland, Ohio, is now open! Visit twsconference.org for details, or register now by logging in to Your Membership and clicking on the Conference tab. While biological,...
Federal courts weigh in on horses, grizzlies and sage-grouse
Federal court decisions in three recent cases illustrate the complexity of the intersection between scientific wildlife management, public opinion and the judicial system. The Pryor Mountain wild horses (Equus caballus),...
Drought pushes feral horses to the brink
Drought conditions in the American West are causing problems for feral horses (Equus ferus), requiring intense management measures. For the first time, volunteers are bringing thousands of gallons of water...
Artificial intelligence can now analyze wildlife imagery
Around the world, motion-triggered camera traps capture millions of images of wildlife in natural environments. These images are an inexpensive method to monitor wildlife with little disturbance, but they create...