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The Bureau of Land Management manages and protects wild horses and burros on 26.9 million acres of public lands across 10 Western states as part of its mission to administer public lands for a variety of uses.
Source: Bureau of Land Management
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The Bureau of Land Management held a two-day wild horse and burro adoption event this past weekend at the Doña Ana County Fairgrounds in Las Cruces, which featured 80 animals up for adoption of which 74 were adopted.
The Bureau of Land Management manages and protects wild horses and burros on 26.9 million acres of public lands across 10 Western states as part of its mission to administer public lands for a variety of uses. The Wild Horse and Burro Program’s goal is to manage healthy wild horses and burros on healthy public rangelands.
Adoptions and Sales
The BLM works to place excess animals into private care through its Adoption and Sales Programs as well as successful partnerships with organizations across the nation. Many have found it personally challenging and rewarding to adopt or purchase a wild horse or burro. It is a chance to care for, and then own, a part of America’s heritage.
The BLM has placed nearly 290,000 wild horses and burros into private care since 1971. Many of those animals have become excellent pleasure, show, or work horses.
Learn more about:
- Adoption Program
- Sale Program
- How to adopt or purchase a wild horse or burro
- Adoption Incentive Program
- Wild horse and burro adoption and sale events
- Off-range corral adoption and purchase locations
- Visiting and adopting or purchasing from a public off-range pasture
- Frequently asked questions
Inhumane Treatment and Illegal Sale
The BLM provides information to equine sale and auction facilities regarding the illegal sale of untitled wild horses and burros. If you observe or have factual information that a federally protected (untitled) wild horse or wild burro has been treated inhumanely or illegally sold to slaughter, please contact the BLM at wildhorse@blm.gov or at 866-468-7826 with your name, contact information, and specific information about what you saw or know. If possible, please include the freeze mark and/or photos.
