#corrals

“Hourglass Corral” House, Cycladic Island of Milos, Greece,

Part of “Voronoi’s Corrals “

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3 large corrals approved for western US wild horse roundups | National News

The government currently holds about 50,000 horses in off-range corrals and pastures at an annual cost of about $50 million.

About 95,000 remain on the range. That is “more than triple the number of animals the land can sustainably support in balance with other public resource values, including wildlife, recreation, livestock grazing, energy resource development and others,” the bureau said Wednesday.

With virtually no predators, the horse population can double every four to five years, the agency said. Agency officials have said the appropriate number of horses roaming free — called “appropriate management level,” with the acronym AML — is about 27,000.

The new corrals would be built on private land and operated by contractors near Canon City, Colorado; Sutherland, Utah and Wheatland, Wyoming. An existing corral near Axtel, Utah would be expanded. The agency hasn’t provided any cost estimates.

State and county officials in Utah, Wyoming and Colorado also support expanding holding capacity.

“The creation of contracting for off-range corrals is a critical first step in the achievement of AML on the public lands,” the Utah Public Lands Policy Coordinating Office said.