About 100 fewer horses than expected were rounded up via helicopter after national outcry and a plea from Gov. Jared Polis
Jennifer Brown
4:33 AM MDT on Sep 16, 202
Stella Trueblood stood on a platform above the corrals, her eyes quickly scanning through the dust as the wild horses were pushed through a chute toward a trailer. The mustangs that reached the semi truck would ship out of the Sand Wash Basin forever. Trueblood and other volunteers from the Sand Wash Basin Wild Horse Advocate Team — called SWAT — could save only 50 of the nearly 700 horses that were rounded up by helicopter in the high desert rangeland in far northwest Colorado.
“Third one back is a save! Pull it!” she shouted.
One at a time, as the wild horse advocates spotted a mustang on their “save list,” the animals were pulled by cowboys to a separate corral. And at the close of the roundup, the horses were released, trotting off into the landscape of sagebrush, juniper trees and red and tan cliffs...
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https://coloradosun.com/2021/09/16/wild-horses-sand-wash-blm/
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