Mustang mares gathered from the White Mountain/Little Colorado ranges in Wyoming will receive a contraceptive and gathered stallions will return to the range intact under the Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM) revised plan for the contested gather.
In June, some wild horse advocates criticized the BLM when the agency announced that it would gather animals from the White Mountain and Little Colorado Herd Management Areas in Wyoming, and spay mares and castrate stallions to reach designated appropriate management levels (205-300 for the former and 69-100 for the latter). Sterile herds would reside on both ranges, said BLM spokeswoman Cindy Wertz.
