Some are calling the practice 'barbaric' and cruel.' The Bureau of Land Management says the “vast majority” of roundups are conducted without severe incident or injury that causes death. Get the full story .
RENO, Nev. — Nearly a dozen wild horses have died in the first 10 days of a big mustang roundup in Nevada, deaths that a Las Vegas congresswoman is calling tragic proof of the urgent need to outlaw helicopters to capture the animals on federal land.
Leigh, who's been fighting roundups in court for more than a decade and advocates ending them altogether, said the contracted wranglers were trying to pressure the mustangs into the temporary trap coral when the horse leaped out and broke the leg. But the agency has resisted efforts to stop using helicopters, saying they're necessary to access remote herds.
The bureau says its latest roundup started July 9 in eastern Nevada between Elko and Ely because overpopulated herds are seriously damaging the ecology of the range.
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