The Wind River roundup took about 7,600 wild horses off the reservation in 2023 and 2024.
Their disposition, not discussed in a report by WyoFile, is unknown. The writer said they were “trucked away.” Probably to Mexico or Canada.
An aerial survey in late 2022 found 5,500 animals on one million acres.
A biologist with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service put the estimate at 9,000 or more, for a stocking rate of nine wild horses per thousand acres.
That is what they were trying to eradicate: An outlier that defied the carrying capacity narrative, namely, that western rangelands can only support one wild horse per thousand acres (27,000 animals on 27 million acres).
The Virginia Range in Nevada, another counterexample, had a stocking rate of at least ten wild horses per thousand acres before the advocates got involved.
The Campaign Against America’s Wild Horses, a leader in mass sterilization and staunch opponent of principal use, was tasked with erasing that evidence.
The author did not indicate who paid for the roundup and if the decision to get rid of the horses had been influenced by outside interests such as hunting and ranching.
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