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Editor’s note: This story was updated at 6:45 p.m. to include a response from the Bureau of Land Management’s national office.

Scott SonnerAssociated Press RENO, Nev. — Sen. Dianne Feinstein is calling on federal land managers to conduct an investigation to determine how many of the

RENO, Nev. (AP) — U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein is calling on federal land managers to conduct an investigation to determine how many of the wild horses captured on public lands

KNBN NewsCenter1 July 28, 2021 WASHINGTON, D.C. — Steps are in place to protect the health and safety of adopted wild horses and burros through the U.S. The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) announced on Wednesday the Wild Horse and Burro Adoption Incentive Program, which will certify the individual who plans on adopting the animals will not knowingly sell or transfer the horses or burros for slaughter or processing into commercial products. “We are committed to the health and safety of adopted wild horses and burros,” said Nada Wolff Culver, BLM Deputy Director for Programs. “While th...

Kathleen Parker The Washington Post The Bureau of Land Management’s annual helicopter roundup of wild horses and burros in the desert Southwest, set to begin in mid-July, is beginning to look like a frontier standoff between animal advocates, legislators and horse adopters of dubious intent. The issue is familiar: Wild horses get in the way of cattle ranchers who want to control more public lands for their own herds, claiming that the horses harm the landscape. As compared to, say, the millions of domestic livestock that decimate arid public lands with high-density grazing? T...