Wyoming Wild Horse
Bureau of Land Management National Web Page
National Wild Horse & Burro Program: Please visit the Department of the Interior's Web site ( http://www.doi.gov/horse/ ) for current information about the BLM's wild horse and burro adoption and sales programs. Or, for adoption information by phone, please call 1-866-4MUSTANGS. ... [Read More]
State of Wyoming - General Wyoming Information
I In the far and mighty West,Where the crimson sun seeks rest,There's a growing splendid State that lies above,On the breast of this great land;Where the massive Rockies stand,There's Wyoming young and strong, the State I love! Chorus Wyoming, Wyoming! Land of the sunlight clear!Wyoming, Wyoming! Land that we hold so dear!Wyoming, Wyoming! Precious art thou and thine!Wyoming, Wyoming! Beloved State of mine! II In the flowers wild and sweet,Colors rare and perfumes meet;There's the columbine so pure, the daisy too,Wild the rose and red it springs,White the button and its rings,Thou art loyal for they're red and white and blue, III Where thy peaks with crowned head,Rising till the sky they wed,Sit like snow queens ruling wood and stream and plain;'Neath thy granite bases deep,'Neath thy bosom's broadened sweep,Lie the riches that have gained and brought thee fame. IV Other treasures thou dost hold,Men and women thou dost mould,True and earnest are the lives that thou dost raise,Stren ... [Read More]
BLM Information: Implementation of New Wild Horse and Burro Authority as Directed by Congress
The Bureau of Land Management is resuming its sales of wild horses and burros affected by a new Federal law after revising its bill of sale and pre-sale negotiation procedures, BLM Director Kathleen Clarke announced May 19. These changes will strengthen the agency's efforts in finding good homes for the animals that must be sold. The BLM is also working to persuade all three U.S. horse processing plants to refuse to buy any BLM freeze-branded horses sold under the new law (Public Law 108-447). Today's action ends the BLM's temporary suspension of sales, which took effect April 25, 2005, in response to two incidents involving the commercial processing of horses that had been re-sold or traded after being bought from the BLM. ... [Read More]
Press Release - BLM Announces Sale of Wild Horses to Horse Group in California
Bureau of Land Management Director Kathleen Clarke today announced a sale of 13 wild horses to Lifesavers Wild Horse Rescue, a California-based group dedicated to wild horse protection. The wild horses, all mares, were sold under a new law (Section 142 of Public Law 108-447) that Congress passed in December 2004. The new law directs the BLM to sell wild horses and burros that are more than 10 years old or have been unsuccessfully offered for adoption at least three times. The BLM announced its first sale of wild horses on March 1; that sale involved 200 mares and went to Wild Horses Wyoming, LLC, a southeastern Wyoming company committed to wild horse preservation. ... [Read More]
BLM Information: Implementation of New Wild Horse and Burro Authority as Directed by Congress
PICTURES OF HORSES SOLD TO WILD HORSES WYOMING ... Photographs of some of the two hundred horses sold to Wild Horses Wyoming, which is committed to the long-term care of these animals. ... [Read More]
State of Wyoming - General Facts About Wyoming
Great herds of buffalo once grazed on the rolling hillsof Wyoming, giving rise to one of the state's best known citizens,William F. "Buffalo Bill" Cody. Today in the town he founded,Cody, near Yellowstone National Park, is an enormous museumdedicated to Buffalo Bill and the West he loved and helped settle.Near the turn of the century, Buffalo Bill took his Wild West Showto Great Britain and the European continent to give audiences abrief glimpse of the cowboys, Indians and other characters wholived in America's west during Wyoming's early days. ... [Read More]
Press Release - Members Appointed to National Wild Horse and Burro Advisory Board
The BLM and the Forest Service re-established the National Wild Horse and Burro Advisory Board in 1998 to provide input and guidance for the management of wild horse and burro herds on Western rangeland it administers. The BLM and the Forest Service manage these animals in compliance with the 1971 Wild Free-Roaming Horse and Burro Act, as amended. Nearly 39,000 wild horses and burros roam public lands in the West, and the law mandates their protection, management and control in a way that ensures a healthy, viable free-roaming herd population within the limits of available public land resources. The BLM gathers excess animals and places them in good homes. After one year, qualified adopters may acquire a title for the animals. For more information on the Wild Horse and Burro program and the national advisory board, visit www.wildhorseandburro.blm.gov . ... [Read More]
TELEVISED WILD HORSE ADOPTION ON SEPTEMBER 7
Nevada horses may be picked up at the National Wild Horse and Burro Center at Palomino Valley, just 20 miles north of Reno-Sparks, Nevada, or they will be transported to one of the following BLM-managed facilities: Elm Creek, Nebraska; Milwaukee, Wisconsin; Washington, Pennsylvania; Cross Plains, Tennessee; Piney Woods, Mississippi; or Pauls Valley, Oklahoma. Saddle horses must be picked up at Rock Springs, Wyoming. ... Are you a person who's interested in what's new and what's cutting edge? Set aside September 7 and participate in one of the newest ways to adopt a wild horse: a competitive bid, televised wild horse adoption. ... [Read More]
BLM National Wild Horse and Burro Program - Adoption Requirements
Every wild horse or burro is different. They come in all shapes and sizes, and each animal has its own personality. They are of no particular breed, although some exhibit characteristics associated with certain breeds. A typical wild horse stands about 13 to 15 hands high (52- 60 inches) and weighs about 700 to 1,000 pounds. Wild burros average 11 hands high (44 inches) and weigh about 500 pounds. Because the BLM only recently removed them from public lands, wild horses and burros put up for adoption are not accustomed to people. As an adopter, your challenge will be to develop a trusting relationship with your wild horse or burro. How can I qualify to adopt a wild horse or burro? ... [Read More]
Wyoming: Services to the States (The American Folklife Center, Library of Congress)
Saddling a wild horse, ca. 1900. Photo courtesy of the American Heritage Center, University of Wyoming. Part of the cultural documentation found in Wyoming's Local Legacy projects . ... [Read More]
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