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Wild Horses Continue to Overpopulate Public Lands

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Wild horses from the Sand Wash Basin will not be delivered to trainers participating in the Meeker Mustang Makeover after an unknown illness has killed 85 horses in the last five days at a government holding facility in Cañon City.

Officials are working to identify the cause of the contagious disease sweeping through the Colorado holding facility.

The Colorado state office of the Bureau of Land Management is working to learn what killed 67 wild horses kept at its Canon City Wild Horse Facility, about 300 miles from Utah.

Wild horses from the Sand Wash Basin will not be delivered to trainers participating in the Meeker Mustang Makeover after an unknown illness has killed 85 horses in the last five days at a government…

As of April 28, test results are pending after 85 horses have died.

Sixty-seven wild horses, including horses that were removed by the Bureau of Land Management from an area south of Rangely last year, have died at a holding facility in Cañon

Wild Horses Continue to Overpopulate Public Lands

Bureau of Land Management officials reported Tuesday the death of 67 wild horses at the Cañon City Wild Horse facility from a mystery disease outbreak that began Saturday.