Gov. Jared Polis calls for delay in wild horse roundup after 142 die in federal facility in Cañon City – By Olivia Prentzel (Colorado Sun) / May 19, 2022
The federal facilities are “ill-equipped” to take hundreds of more wild horses, the governor wrote in a letter to the Bureau of Land Management Thursday.
Gov. Jared Polis is asking federal officials to delay rounding up wild horses off Colorado’s rangelands and consider a “more cost effective and humane” plan after 142 horses have died from the equine flu while penned up in a federal facility in Cañon City.
“The facilities and procedures are ill-equipped to take on the hundreds of additional horses scheduled to be removed from the range,” Polis said Thursday in a letter to the Bureau of Land Management.
The governor asked the agency to review its current procedures and that any roundups in the coming months be re-evaluated.
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