Government’s Wild Horse Plan in Wyoming Survives Court Challenge

The US Bureau of Land Management defeated three separate federal court challenges to its updated wild horse management plan in southwest Wyoming over the alleged elimination of more than 1,000 horses in the area.

Friends of Animals and the other conservation groups had a “ubiquitous defect” in their arguments when they conflated the agency’s amendment to its resource management plan with a final horse removal decision, the US District Court for the District of Wyoming said Wednesday.

Instead, the agency legally adjusted the plan, covering a patchwork of public lands in a 2 million acre zone, under the Wild Horses ...