Get involved- ask congress to examine the Wild Horse and Burro program Before the rules change
The science also deserves a public, evidence-based review. The National Academies’ 2013 review did not conclude that every BLM appropriate management level, or AML, is invalid. It did recommend that AMLs be based on consistent, scientifically supported models, monitored and validated with better data, and established through an open process that stakeholders can understand. Congress should ask BLM to show how those recommendations are reflected in current herd-level decisions before it gives the agency broader or faster tools.
We filed a Antelope rounup Emergency injunction and why it matters
On November 4, we filed an emergency notice with the Department of the Interior and BLM Nevada to stop the helicopter gather scheduled to begin November 16. It asks BLM to halt the roundup until it completes the environmental review it has not done.
2026 - a year of Standing up for America’s Wild Horses
As I look back on 2026, I realize just how much I have accomplished this year. Thousands of miles traveled, countless hours in the field, late nights researching government records, public rallies, heartbreaking moments, and battles that are far from over.
FY2026 North Complex Round Up
Nevada — FY2026 North Complex Wild Horse Roundup
Day 1 Observation Report
The North Complex consists of the Dogskin Mountains, Flanigan, and Granite Peak HMAs, approximately 30 miles north of Reno, Nevada. The established AML is just 101–157 wild horses.
Beyond the roundup series #4:Thousands Removed. Hundreds of Records Unreconciled: Questions About the 2023 Antelope Roundups where are 800 Mustangs?
very wild horse removed from public lands deserves an accountable record. The public should be able to follow that horse from capture through holding, adoption, sale, release, or death.
After comparing BLM's published 2023 Antelope North and South gather reports with a BLM “Gathered Animals” report run October 6, 2026, I found a substantial difference that needs an explanation.
Public comment due For East Pershing Gather Plan Due by November 1st
Public comments matter because they put your concerns, evidence, and proposed alternatives into the official record before an agency makes a decision.
For wild horses, comments can ask agencies to explain their population estimates, evaluate access to water and forage, consider genetic diversity, review livestock allocations, and examine alternatives to removals or fencing.
A public comment is more than a vote for or against a proposal. The strongest comments identify a specific problem, explain why it matters, and ask for a concrete change. Personal observations, photographs, and reliable research can help reveal impacts an agency has overlooked.
Comments do not guarantee the outcome we want, but they give the public a documented voice and help hold decision-makers accountable.
If we want decisions about our wild horses to reflect what happens on the ground, we need to speak up—and make that information part of the record.
Beyond the roundup series # 3: What the Clan Alpine records reveal- When horses are removed from the range their journey continues and so should our scrutiny
Accountability must follow the horses
For Wild Horses Lives Matter, protecting wild horses means following what happens on the range, during capture, in holding, and after adoption or sale.
A roundup’s final day should never be the final day we ask what happened to them
Beyond the Roundup series #2: BLM Records List 181 Wild Horse Deaths, Most in Holding
A review of 2,534 BLM horse records identifies 181 recorded deaths, including 149 in holding. WHLM examines the causes, later outcomes, and records needed for accountability. East Pershing
What Happens After the Roundup: Inside BLM's 2024 Triple B and Maverick-Medicine Roundup numbers
The Bureau of Land Management runs helicopter gathers across its Herd Management Areas, removing wild horses from the range in the name of "appropriate management levels." What happens to those animals afterward rarely gets much public scrutiny.
The Carrying Capacity Illusion: Exposing the Systemic Underestimation of Wild Horse Forage on Public Lands
The assertion that western public lands can only support one wild horse per thousand acres is not a scientific or ecological reality; it is an administrative fiction. The BLM's own allotment data consistently shows that these lands produce enough forage to support stocking rates of five, ten, or even twenty wild horse equivalents per thousand acres.
2026 Roundup Costs: More Than $3.3 Million Contracted to Remove 6,235 Wild Horses
Nine roundups are included in these figures: five marked complete, two ongoing, and two pending. The prices vary dramatically. Lahontan has the lowest listed unit cost at $371.26 per animal, while Saylor Creek is the highest at $921.70 per animal—nearly 2.5 times as much for each animal targeted.
Genetic Vulnerability of the Jackson Mountains Wild Horse Herd: Sterilization and Inbreeding Concerns
The debate over the Jackson Mountains HMAP highlights a fundamental tension in wild horse management. The BLM relies on the ability to artificially manage genetics through translocations (the metapopulation approach) to justify maintaining small, highly managed herds with sterilized components. Conversely, advocates and conservation geneticists warn that driving effective population sizes well below the minimum viable thresholds especially in a herd with documented historical inbreeding creates an unacceptable risk of genetic collapse, transforming a wild, self-sustaining population into a heavily engineered, artificial herd.
Capture myopathy in Wild Horses-
Helicopter roundups don’t just terrify wild horses—they trigger a deadly, hidden crisis. When pushed beyond their physical limits, a prey animal's natural 'fight-or-flight' response can turn fatal, leading to a devastating condition known as capture myopathy. Discover the science behind this preventable tragedy and why the true mortality toll of roundups is often hidden from the public...
America isn’t America Anymore
For wild horse sanctuaries and rewilding organizations, the Trump administration's grazing policies represent a coordinated effort to close the door on conservation-based land management. By redefining federal grazing rights to exclusively serve "production-oriented" commercial livestock, and by actively restocking allotments that conservation groups paid to retire, the administration is ensuring that federal rangelands remain dedicated to the beef industry. This severely limits the ability of sanctuaries to expand their life-saving operations and effectively outlaws the use of federal grazing leases for wild horse rewilding efforts.
BLM Seeks Initial Input on Analysis of Wild Horse and Burro Management Tools PUBLIC COMMENT OPEN UNTIL JULY 2 2026
the BLM is developing a Programmatic Environmental Assessment (PEA) that analyzes a range of wild horse and burro management actions addressing excess animal populations (i.e., gathers, removals, and population growth suppression techniques) and the typical effects of those actions on the human environment. Following the final publication of the BLM’s decision, other BLM offices would utilize the analyses contained within the PEA to incorporate the general findings of the effects analysis into their own site-specific NEPA analyses, allowing for more specified analyses while also providing a base from which general effects common to the large majority of these types of actions are already summarized. It should be noted that this PEA will not authorize any on-the-ground activities. Rather it provides the basis for future analyses that will authorize these activities.
wILD hORSES LIVES MATTER/VOTE OR DONATE
This GiveBack Weekend we'll donate $1 to Wild Horses Lives Matter for each person that votes for you EVEN IF THEY HAVE VOTED BEFORE and $2 for every person that donates to you.
Who is “Wild Horses Lives Matter”
Knowledge must be shared, not siloed.
Law. Range science. On-the-ground experience.
We win when strategy replaces ego.
Why has BLM kept winning?
Because an under-informed public is easier to manage.If advocates truly understood how narrow legal protections are and how much discretion BLM has, the fight would shift from “save these horses” to “change the system.”
That’s where real power begins.
BLM Is Taking Public Comments on the North Complex Wild Horse Gather Plan: Our Horses Need Us to Speak Now
This is why public comments should ask BLM to do more than repeat the same cycle: gather, remove, hold, and return again later. The National Academies’ 2013 review of BLM’s Wild Horse and Burro Program recognized public concerns that AMLs may be too low to maintain genetically healthy herds and that horses experience stress during gathers and in holding facilities. It also found that, at the time of review, many BLM population-monitoring procedures were not rigorous, were inconsistently documented, and did not quantify uncertainty. The current EA uses a 2024 aerial survey and projects the 2026 population using an assumed growth rate, but the public should ask BLM to clearly disclose uncertainty, confidence intervals, foal assumptions, mortality assumptions, and how those estimates translate into removal targets.
Jackson Mountains Wild Horse Herd Management Area Plan Preliminary Environmental Assessment public comments due
The Jackson Mountains wild horses cannot submit comments. We must do it for them.
Please take a few minutes today to submit your comment, then share the comment link with friends, family, photographers, adopters, rescue supporters, and everyone who believes wild horses deserve humane treatment and a fair future on the range. The more specific, respectful, and heartfelt our comments are, the stronger the public record becomes.
public comments due tomorrow for OMB Control No. 0596-NEW, titled Management of Wild Free-Roaming Horses and Burros.
The Forest Service is requesting public comment on a new information collection request, OMB Control No. 0596-NEW, titled Management of Wild Free-Roaming Horses and Burros. The notice covers five new forms related to purchasing, selecting, maintaining, caring for, inspecting, and transferring title for wild horses and burros removed from National Forest System lands. Comments are due May 26, 2026