Friends of Animals announced on Monday that it has filed suit in U.S. District Court against the BLM for its plan to eliminate wild horses from more than one million acres of public lands in the southwestern Wyoming.
The complaint alleges that nothing in the WHB Act allows the BLM to respond to requests from private landowners to remove wild horses from public lands.
Nevertheless, such requests are common in the scoping and document review phases of wild horse gather projects in ePlanning, with ranchers and ranching advocacy groups among the most vocal.
Section 1334 in the statute authorizes the agency to remove free-roaming horses that stray from public lands onto privately owned land.
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Western Horse Watchers Association 