Comments closed July 13
Stop wild horse removals from Wyoming's Red Desert
Bureau of Land Management · Antelope Hills Herd Management Area, Crooks Mountain Herd Management Area
- What
- The BLM plans to round up and remove wild horses from five Wyoming herds, shrinking free-roaming populations.
- Where
- Antelope Hills Herd Management Area, Crooks Mountain Herd Management Area, Green Mountain Herd Management Area, WY
- How much
- Wild horse herds in the Antelope Hills, Crooks Mountain, Green Mountain, Lost Creek, and Stewart Creek areas face removal under new management plans.
- Decided
- Comments closed July 13, 2026. No decision document is on file yet.Date from BLM ePlanning project page ↗, read July 8, 2026.
Where these four lines come from
- WhatOur plain-English read of the BLM NEPA Register DOI-BLM-WY-R050-2026-0012-EA ↗. Check it against the agency’s own words under Case.
- WhereThe places and states the notice names, as PLAN read them.
- How muchThe first sentence of our What’s at risk read of the notice; the whole read is under Case.
- DecidedJuly 13, 2026, from BLM ePlanning project page, its public participation period ↗. Read July 8, 2026. The decision document is the one on file in PLAN’s record.
- Read from PLAN’s record November 9, 2026.
What the proposal said, and what the decision did
No figure from the proposal has been checked against the decision on this fight yet. What the record does hold is the issues ledger below.
No decision document is on PLAN’s record for this fight yet. When the agency’s decision lands, what it answered goes here.
PLAN's read: high threat
The BLM plans to round up and remove wild horses from five Wyoming herds, shrinking free-roaming populations.
What’s at risk
If this goes through
Our plain-English read of the official notice ↗. Check it against the agency’s own words below.
In the agency’s own words
The Bureau of Land Management Lander and Rawlins field offices propose to update Herd Management Area Plans (HMAP) for the Antelope Hills, Crooks Mountain, Green Mountain, Lost Creek, and Stewart Creek herd management areas (HMAs), referred to as the Red Desert Complex. The field offices also intend to gather excess wild horses from the HMAs.
The groups on this fight
4 groups predicted likely to care in Wyoming
Predicted likely to care is a guess from the group's sourced work in Wyoming, with no link to this decision. Give straight to them; nothing routes through us.
- Western Watersheds Project
Predicted likely to care · a guess
Adobe Town WSA, Wyoming: Co-plaintiff in the federal appeal challenging BLM's plan to cut the Adobe Town herd management area roughly in half as part of the largest wild horse removal ever attempted in the Wyoming checkerboard.
- Wyoming Outdoor Council
Predicted likely to care · a guess
Red Desert (Wyoming BLM), Wyoming: Leading opposition to BLM's 2025 reopening of the just-finalized Rock Springs RMP, with program director Alec Underwood arguing the Golden Triangle and Big Sandy Foothills are too special to lease and develop.
- Wyoming Wilderness Association
Predicted likely to care · a guess
Adobe Town WSA, Wyoming: Organized citizen outings at Skull Rim to build opposition to BLM lease parcels around Adobe Town Rim and has pressed the agency to shrink lease sales touching the WSA and surrounding lands with wilderness characteristics.
- Yellowstone Forever
Predicted likely to care · a guess
Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem, Wyoming: A nonprofit partner of Yellowstone National Park.
Every group above is on STAND for Public Lands, with its court record, its filings and who backs it.
Who signs it
The notice names no signer PLAN could read. PLAN names a decision-maker only when the document names one.
The ground
The window has closed, so there’s no watch to set on it here.
In court on this ground
No court case we track is over Lander Field Office and Rawlins Field Office.
Who holds the vote
PLAN’s record doesn’t tie a member of Congress to this fight yet. The scorecard grades the votes and bills that decide public lands; nothing joins a vote or a bill to this decision, so there’s no member to name here without guessing.
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