Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Colorado could take a more proactive and permanent role in managing the wild horse herds that roam the Western Slope under a bill in the state legislature.

SAND WASH BASIN — Robin Wadhams reviews the list of wild horses that still need to be darted this summer before she sets up for target practice. Each mare has a name: Angel, Bisbee, Calamity, Dust ...

Two mustangs were euthanized because of pre-existing leg injuries and a mare broke her leg while being herded A weeklong roundup of wild horses in western Colorado ended Wednesday with the capture of ...

The Bureau of Land Management on Wednesday concluded its July bait-and-trap operation in the Sand Wash Basin Herd Management Area in Northwest Colorado, with 38 wild horses removed from their habitat ...

COLORADO, USA — A federal judge in Colorado has overturned a controversial Bureau of Land Management (BLM) program that paid people $1,000 to adopt wild horses — a program critics say encouraged ...

DENVER — A 30-year program in which Colorado inmates trained wild horses and burros to ready them for adoption is coming to an end after a federal agency declined to renew a contract, according to the ...

Thanks to the efforts of people like Leiah Burnham, horse lovers next weekend will get the chance to take home a Colorado-born, once-wild but now trained horse in a Bureau of Land Management adoption ...

State and federal leaders in Colorado are trying out a new approach. A series of new state laws comes with an aim of elevating the state’s role in managing the 1,400 wild horses within its borders.

Wild horses roam the Sand Wash Basin Herd Management Area near Maybell on July 22, 2025. (Photo by RJ Sangosti/The Denver Post) “It’s a tragic kind of failure of the system,” said Scott Wilson, the ...