The Bureau of Land Management on Monday set out on one of the largest Wyoming roundups in recent memory, aiming to corral and remove 2,715 wild horses and reduce the state’s biggest herds by as much as 90%. The combined herd area is home to 3,035 horses.
Chandra Rosenthal, director of Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, a conservation organization, said the agency’s own records indicate that cattle are the overriding cause of land degradation in the West.