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rondog
11-02-2015, 00:18
I know there's a lot of serious hunters here that roam all over this state - just wondering if any of you have ever seen any of these wild mustangs running free that are supposed to be so thick in Colorado? Keep reading about them in the paper and wondered.....

TheGrey
11-02-2015, 00:26
Wild horses are protected by the Wild Horse act of 1971. BLM controls the herds; when they get too big they adopt them out.

wyome
11-02-2015, 01:28
Seen em in Wyoming.....

rondog
11-02-2015, 01:29
Wild horses are protected by the Wild Horse act of 1971. BLM controls the herds; when they get too big they adopt them out.
Yeah, but where are they? Any regular normal folks ever see them in the wild?

blm28
11-02-2015, 06:42
It's been several years ago, but saw a heard of 20 to 30 in area 2. North west part of the state.

henpecked
11-02-2015, 08:04
There is a herd west of meeker and a few south of rangely

Hummer
11-02-2015, 10:54
I've walked and worked among wild horses in several areas of NW CO. Take most any BLM or forest road in the dry land areas around Rangely and west of Meeker to find them. Their poop mounds can be visible from some distance and are an indicator of horses in the area. An easy place to see them is in Coal Canyon north of I-70 off the Cameo exit in the Little Bookcliffs Wild Horse Area. I go there every spring looking for Chukars and early spring migrant birds.

While I like seeing the horses it's sad to watch the emaciated animals in areas where their population is too high for the range forage. Over populated horse herds do tremendous damage to the vegetative and native wildlife resource. As feral, non native animals their numbers need to be controlled, and eliminated in some areas. Next to domesticating for riding, their highest use would be for pet food. Housing them in corrals at the annual cost of tens of million$ is a terrible misuse, IMO.


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bobbyfairbanks
11-02-2015, 19:22
I rode a mustang from Colorado to Motana this summer and she was a gr at horse. I would hate to see good ponies going to slature, however I 100% agree with the above post

rondog
11-02-2015, 20:17
Thanks all, I was just wondering if anybody had really ever seen any. I don't get out much.....

sniper7
11-02-2015, 23:11
Saw some several years ago in NW Colorado. My dad saw a bunch last year in Wyoming when he was heading out fishing, I forget where at exactly though.

JohnnyDrama
11-10-2015, 12:10
I've seen them in the Bookcliffs east of Grand Junction.

tmjohnson
11-13-2015, 13:25
Go to the San Luis Valley, go to Fort Garland and turn south on black top road. You will eventually come to a little town of San Luis. Take black top west toward Manassa. Wild and feral horses are thick as cockroach's. Just stop and use a good pair of binoculars or spotting scope and you will see plenty of horses running wild

CapLock
11-14-2015, 12:20
I've seen them near death valley in California. If they can live there they can live any where.