wild horses

The chief of the Tsilhqot'in Nation says he is concerned about the toll the region's abundant wolf population could have on wild horses and endangered caribou this winter.

A group of wild horses graze in an empty lot in the shadow of Saint Paul's Episcopal Church, left, and St.

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.

Wild horses on the vast rangelands of Wyoming can continue to roam free, for now, after the U.S. government's Bureau of Land Management postponed a planned roundup, horse advocates said on Tuesday.

A bill that would have prevented the state engineer from approving water rights for wild horses in Nevada has died in a Senate committee.

Wild horses - symbols of the American West that receive protections from the federal government - would have less standing than mollusks when it comes to Nevada water law under a measure that seeks to deny mustangs and burros status as wild animals.

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.

Horse protection advocates are back in court in Reno to try to block federal roundups of wild horses after the government quietly gathered nearly 400 mustangs last week at a national wildlife refuge on the Nevada-Oregon line.

On a stretch of barrier island without paved roads, some of the last wild horses in the eastern United States are seeing their world get smaller each year.A boom in vacation homes in the last 25 years in this remote place has seen the descendants of colonial Spanish mustangs confined to a 7,500-acre sanctuary on the northern tip of North Carolina's ...

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.