Feds Sued Over Failure to Update Illegal Wild Horse Removal Plan

The Bureau of Land Management was accused in a new lawsuit of unlawfully planning to remove all wild horses from more than 1.3 million acres in Wyoming based on a land use amendment that a federal appeals court previously struck down.

The conservation group Friends of Animals said the wild horses set for permanent removal are protected by the federal Wild Free-Roaming Horses and Burros Act, and BLM initiated its plan without withdrawing a prior removal decision that unlawfully failed to include independent agencies or public input.

The petition filed Tuesday in the US District Court for the District of ...