Associated Press - October 23, 2009 12:35 PM ET
GREEN RIVER, Wyo. (AP) - Federal officials have approved another wild horse roundup in Wyoming in a continuing effort to reduce wild horse numbers to more manageable levels.
Bureau of Land Management managers on Monday approved a wild horse gathering operation from the remote Fifteenmile Herd Management Area near Worland. The 83,000-acre area is located within Washakie, Big Horn and Park counties in north central Wyoming and includes rolling hills, rugged canyons and badlands, and a portion of the Bobcat Draw Wilderness Area.
Horses were last gathered in the area in 2004.
The BLM plan involves capturing and removing 200 wild horses. That would leave from 70 to 160 horses in the wild.
Federal biologists counted 232 horses in the area in February 2008.
Information from: Casper Star-Tribune - Casper, http://www.trib.com
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