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By MOLLY ABSOLON

You can still avoid the crowds and enjoy the West, but it takes some planning and a willingness to take roads less traveled.

Published Friday, May 14, 2021 by Elyse Kelly | The Center Square contributor (The Center Square) -- The U.S. Bureau of Land Management (BLM) has the governor of Wyoming's support to go forward with a wild horse gather in the southwestern part of the state. Wyoming's southwestern gather will manage herds across Carbon, Fremont, Lincoln, Sublette, and Sweetwater counties, according to a  press release from Governor Mark Gordon's office. The federal agency, which manages resources on 18 million acres in Wyoming, has  determined "that there are excess wild horses within the Adobe Town, Salt...

Governor Gordon voices support for wild horse gather in southern Wyoming By Greg Hirst on April 30, 2021 Mares returned from non-management areas Oct 18 (BLM Wyoming, Facebook) These areas lie on checkerboard lands (alternating parcels of public and private lands) in Carbon, Fremont, Lincoln, Sublette, and Sweetwater counties, the governor’s office said. Article continues below... Public comment closed Friday, April 30, for the BLM’s Environmental Assessment (EA) on the proposed wild horse gather, removal and non-permanent fertility control program. In that assessment, the BLM said the g...

by Traci Eatherton for Tri-State Livestock News While Biden has overturned a number of previous administrations’ policies, his plans for managing the 1971 Free-Roaming Wild Horse and Burro Act (The Act) are still up in the air. But environmentalist groups are leading the charge, hoping the new administration will boot the grazing competition on any public lands. More than 70 groups have sent a letter to the Biden Administration’s new Interior Secretary, asking that all livestock grazing allotments that overlap designated herd management areas (HMAs) be canceled. The letter, dated April 9,...