Wild Horse, Burro Advisory Board to Meet in Colorado

The board will meet Oct. 18-19 in Grand Junction to discuss wild horses and burros residing on public lands.
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The Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM) National Wild Horse and Burro Advisory Board will meet Oct. 18-19 in Grand Junction, Colorado, to discuss wild horse and burro overpopulation on public lands and the impacts the animals are having on the range.

The meeting will be live-streamed from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Mountain Time at blm.gov/live.

“The rapid growth rate and chronic overpopulation of the West’s wild horses are already affecting the health of the animals and the resources on which they and many other species depend,” said Acting BLM Director Michael Nedd. “To be effective in solving this challenge, we must work together to explore a wide variety of solutions to an unsustainable situation.”

Today, the BLM estimates that about 73,000 wild horses and burros reside in 10 Western states—a record number since the 1971 Wild Free-Roaming Horses and Burros Act was passed—and almost three times the number the habitat can sustainably support in conjunction with other land uses

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