The on-again, off-again and heavily litigated roundup and elimination of more than 3,000 free-roaming horses from about 2.1 million acres of southwestern Wyoming is looking increasingly unlikely in 2025.

Over the course of the last few months, the Bureau of Land Management’s plans have been OK’d administratively, but then appealed, delayed and found to be illegal by the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals. The federal agency wasn’t fully deterred, however, and had scheduled the roundups for Oct. 13, triggering a Friends of Animals lawsuit aimed at stopping BLM from proceeding.

This week, more plaintiffs joined the fray with yet another lawsuit, seeking to block the 2025 removal operations, which will eventually eliminate the Salt Wells Creek Herd, Great Divide Basin Herd and northwestern porti

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