• Government rounds up wild horses in Tooele County

  By John Hollenhorst
  Northern Utah’s biggest wild horse roundup in nearly a decade is underway in Tooele County. It comes at a time of increasing controversy over tens of thousands of wild horses being kept in federal corrals.

• I-Team: Bold Plans to Save Wild Horses

  George Knapp, Chief Investigative Reporter

  The wife of Texas billionaire T. Boone Pickens is riding to the rescue of Nevada’s wild horse herds. Madeleine Pickens has a bold plan that would not only save the horses, but would get taxpayers out of a jam as well. CLICK HERE TO READ MORE AND VIEW VIDEO

Dealing With the Wilds | A Wild Mustang Story
By: Mollie Zobel
I walk down the rows between the metal pens. The new spring grass crunches under my feet. My fingers trail along the metal railing, rust flaking off at my touch. Neighs of horses calling to one another ring in the air, the snort of a wary horse, the nicker of a mare calling to her foal, the piercing scream of a stallion. I make my way over to the trade booths, their signs proclaiming, “Wild Horse and Burro Adoption”, and pick up pamphlets on adopting mustangs. I know it’s for their own good. The herds have to be monitored so that they can exist and have enough grazing land. It’s not like they’re being killed! I walk back to the horses, the pamphlets stuffed into my back pockets.

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The Wild Victory | A Story of a Mustang Horse
By: Lisa Clement
For five years, the neighbor’s mare ‘Shawnee Dancer’ watched me at our adjoining fence. A proud Mustang of glowing white, she was the queen of the ragged group of five odd horses that lounged, swishing and stomping flies in the summer sun, and huddled together in winter storms. Dark buckskin marking covered the right half of her head and was the only color on her compact body. It looked as if mud had dried on her coat. The other side of her white head held a pale blue eye rimmed with a quarter inch of black, like eyeliner had been perfectly applied.
Her mane and tail flowed long, and somehow, she managed to keep remarkably clean considering her utter neglect. Day in and day out, the group milled around on the tiny manure filled lot. They were tossed some hay at least once a day, and occasionally the farrier or vet would come along.
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