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.