Bureau of Land Management to round up wild horses in central and southern Utah
Aug 13, 2024, 7:00 AM | Updated: Aug 14, 2024, 2:49 pm
FILE - In this June 29, 2018, file photo, wild horses kick up dust as they run at a watering hole outside Salt Lake City. The BLM is planning to gather wild horses in the Sulphur Herd Management Area Tuesday, August 13. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer, File)
(AP Photo/Rick Bowmer, File)
CEDAR CITY, Utah — A round up of wild horses by the Bureau of Land Management begins Tuesday in central and southern Utah.
The Bureau of Land Management estimates there are 600 wild horses along the Utah-Nevada border. They are primarily located in Iron and Beaver Counties, outside the Sulphur Herd Management Area.
Gus Warr, wild horse and burro manager says there should “around 165 to 250 animals” located on this land.
That means they so they need to round up about 400 horses. They will give the captured horses fertility control drugs to “Reduce the number of foals born … Which in consequence lessens the need to go back in there and remove animals hopefully for several years,” Warr said.
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The public can apply to adopt the captured horses.
They’ll just need to meet the criteria.
“What kind of feed are you going to offer, do you have available water, what’s your transportation availability for the animals. If they own a horse, they usually will meet the qualifications that we have in store for them.”
You also need 400 square feet of pasture and six foot high fencing without barbed wire to qualify to take one of these horses home.
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