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SALT LAKE CITY — A federal effort to permanently remove 480 wild horses from western Utah also includes a plan to surgically sterilize more than a dozen mares that will be returned to the range. The procedure, which has never been performed before on wild horses under the purview of the Bureau of Land Management, was done on mares occupying a national wildlife refuge in Nevada with success, federal officials say. But some wild horse advocates are condemning both the Confusion herd gather and the planned surgeries for next spring or summer, asserting the method is both unwarranted and cruel....

Deseret News Effort seeks to sterilize some wild mares Share this story Steve Griffin, Deseret News SALT LAKE CITY — A federal effort to permanently remove 480 wild horses from western Utah also includes a plan to surgically sterilize more than a dozen mares that will be returned to the range. The procedure, which has never been performed before on wild horses under the purview of the Bureau of Land Management, was done on mares occupying a national wildlife refuge in Nevada with success, federal officials say. But some wild horse advocates are condemning both the Confusion herd gather and...

Agriculture your username December 11, 2020 American Wild Horse Campaign and Robert Hammer, a data analyst and wildlife photographer specializing in horses, filed a complaint in the District of Columbia on Thursday asking for injunctive and declaratory relief from the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) and Department of the Interior’s efforts to sterilize wild horses.  Reportedly, the Wild Horse Act allows the government agencies to round up wild horses in Utah’s Confusion Herd Management Area (HMA) and “permanently sterilize mares through ovariectomy via colpotomy.” The plaintiffs argu...

Feds’ Utah horse sterilizations draw two lawsuits alleging inhumane treatment Five horses died during a recent roundup, including three euthanized for poor health. (Steve Griffin | Tribune file photo) This Sept. 15, 2015, file photo shows wild horses runing in their pen as they are cared for in the Bureau of Land Management's off-range corral, located on a 32-acre private ranch in Axtell, Utah. A roundup that ended this week of horses from the Confusion herd near Milford gathered 304 horses for purposes of sterilizing mares using a controversial medical procedure to reduce the popula...