The US Bureau of Land Management unlawfully called for the elimination of wild horses from over 1 million acres of federal lands in southwestern Wyoming, an animal rights group said in a federal lawsuit.
The decision would eliminate 1,003 horses from Salt Wells Creek, 875 from Great Divide Basin, and significantly reduce the 1,693-horse population in Adobe town, Friends of Animals said in its complaint filed Monday in the US District Court for the District of Wyoming.
The agency has been sued before for its wild horse management in Wyoming. In May, conservation groups said that the BLM authorized the ...
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