KETCHUM, Idaho (AP) — A small group of activists in a south-central Idaho resort community are protesting the Bureau of Land Management's capture and relocation of wild horses across the western United States.
Elissa Kline was among nearly a dozen protesters who gathered in Ketchum earlier this week. Kline, who lives in Hailey, held a large photo of two horses from an Owyhee county herd leashed with ropes.
The protesters are calling on the BLM to place a moratorium on the roundups, including a two-month capture of about 2,500 wild horses from public and private lands in northern Nevada that began Monday.
Federal officials said the roundup is needed because the 850 square miles of land is overpopulated and could become unlivable to wildlife and livestock within four years.