Horses at Colorado prison need new homes as vocational training program ends

A 30-year-old program giving 30 incarcerated individuals in Colorado an opportunity to care for wild horses is coming to an ...
The Colorado Sun

Wild horses held at Colorado prison complex cost the federal government $23 million over five years

The BLM is not renewing its contract for the wild horse program at the prison in Cañon City, citing the high cost ...
Longmont Times-Call

Colorado has a wild horse problem. Could its expanded birth control darting program be a model for the West?

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 ...
Daily Camera

Wild horses are pitted against grazing cattle in a battle for survival across the West (Opinion)

Colorado does not have a wild horse problem as a recent Denver Post headline states. The real issue lies with the meat industry’s grip on our public lands. The federal government authorizes ranchers ...
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Colorado judge strikes down BLM's wild horse adoption program, saying it violated federal law

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 adopters to flip ...
The Grand Junction Daily Sentinel

Polis signs bison, wild horse bills

Gov. Jared Polis on Thursday signed a bill that designates wild bison in Colorado as big game wildlife, meaning people can no longer shoot them without a license. Also Thursday he signed another ...