Serving the Platte Valley since 1888
Serving the Platte Valley since 1888
Decisions affirm federal government’s plans for horses in the ‘checkerboard’ region, where the feral equines’ presence is particularly controversial. An appeal has already been filed.
WHITE MOUNTAIN—“That’s a lot of horses,” lamented Cheyenne resident Robyn Smith from a high-desert ridgeline.
It wasn’t her first exasperated exclamation. “Argh, oh crap,” was her immediate reaction to learning a federal judge had given the Bureau of Land Management the OK to proceed with plans to fully remove two wild horse herds from the landscape in southwest Wyoming.
A retired architect donning a “Return to Freedom” ball cap that featured a bucking mustang, Smith proudly described herself as a wild horse advocate. On this crisp Thursday morning in the hill country north of Interstate 80, s...
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