A wild horse roundup that was scheduled to last for a month in Wyoming ended in only two weeks after the Bureau of Land Management removed more than 1,600 animals from the range, officials said.

The agency’s 2025 wild horse gather in the Adobe Town Herd Management Area started July 15 and was scheduled to last through Aug. 15, but concluded by Aug. 2, the agency said on its website. Adobe Town is a remote area in the Red Desert of southwest Wyoming.

“Chronic wild horse overpopulation in fragile ecosystems endangers overall land health, with the possibility of permanent, irrecoverable damage to important resources and impacts to other wildlife populations,” the Bureau of Land Management said on its site. “Recent infrared aerial surveys have shown wild horse populations exceed the establis

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