Interior Wins Final Dismissal of Nevada Horse Roundup Dispute

A wild horse advocacy group lost its challenge to an Interior agency’s plan to gather wild horses and burros in northeast Nevada.

Judge Miranda M. Du of the US District Court for the District of Nevada ruled Feb. 20 that Wild Horse Education’s fifth amended complaint, over an environmental assessment from 2017, was mooted by a horse management plan the Bureau of Land Management finalized last year.

• The agency wasn’t motivated by the litigation to adopt the 2025 plan, which established new appropriate management levels across a total of 2.8 million acres as the challenged environmental assessment was about to ...