federal land managers

RENO, Nev. - Federal land managers have agreed to postpone a precedent-setting plan to castrate hundreds of wild stallions in eastern Nevada pending a federal court's review of the issue.

Federal land managers have announced plans to remove over 6,000 more wild horses from the range across the West in the next few months, including about 3,500 mustangs in Nevada.

Never one to back down from a fight with the U.S. government, northern Nevada's rural Elko County has been feuding with federal land managers for decades over environmental protections they say go too far.

Federal land managers have signed agreements designed to improve the management of wild horses and burros in a large swath of land around where Nevada, California and Oregon meet.

Federal land managers launched an effort Monday to update their count of wild horses roaming parts of northwest Nevada and southwest Oregon, garnering rare praise from horse protection advocates.

A Nevada district attorney is considering whether to file criminal charges against federal land managers who are accused by animal rights activists of mistreating wild horses in a roundup.

The Nevada Department of Wildlife is siding with federal land managers against a lawsuit that seeks to block the removal of 2,500 wild horses from the range north of Reno.