Tagged: Bureau of Land Management (BLM)

Secretary of Interior Ken Salazar says he will tighten regulations of the federal government's wild horse program, restricting the number of horses people can buy and making it easier for the government to prosecute buyers who sell mustangs to slaughter.

A southern Colorado man under investigation for his handling of protected wild horses has admitted to state regulators that he shipped animals out of Colorado in violation of brand inspection laws, officials said.

The Bureau of Land Management is under scrutiny for how it’s managing adoption and sales of wild horses—an iconic symbol of the West.