wild horses

A federal judge is allowing a government roundup of wild horses in northern Nevada. In an order issued today, U.S. District Judge Larry R. Hicks lifted an injunction that blocked the U.S. Bureau of Land Management from rounding up the mustangs -- the agency halted the roundup on its first day when...

The hopes for creating the world's largest wild horse sanctuary have dwindled in the last month. Last fall, Madeleine Pickens, wife of oilman T. Boone Pickens, proposed buying or leasing a million acres of land out West to save the 30,000 some wild horses that the Bureau of Land Management is...

Madeleine and T. Boone Pickens, the billionaire couple who swooped in to New Orleans with a rented jet and saved hundreds of dogs and cats after Hurricane Katrina, announced this week they plan on saving 35,000 wild horses from potential slaughter by creating a new home for them. The horses --...