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Hundreds of wild horses are being rounded up in the state this summer. The Bureau of Land Management says there鈥檚 not enough food and water on the range to sustain the horses. Activists are concerned about the animals鈥� health during the roundup.

More than 2,000 Wyoming oil and gas leases will be reconsidered for their impacts to the climate, as part of a settlement approved in federal court last week.

This spring, 145 wild horses died of an equine flu at a federal holding facility in Colorado. A review by an animal welfare team found that the Bureau of Land Management failed to comply with federal policies that might have helped contain the outbreak.

A wild horse advocate says the move marks 鈥渁 significant shift towards humane on-range management of wild horses and away from cruel, costly helicopter roundups.鈥�

As wildfire season begins in earnest across parts of the Mountain West, firefighting agencies will also be battling the tightest labor market in decades and a housing affordability crisis. A Bureau of Land Management spokesperson at the National Interagency Fire Center, doesn't expect staffing to be an issue. She says that while fire seasons are becoming "fire years," the real focus is juggling and balancing the teams鈥� schedules.

A new analysis finds the Bureau of Land Management has been renewing grazing permits on millions of acres of public lands without performing environmental reviews.

A Bureau of Land Management online wild horse and burro auction opened Tuesday. The so-called Online Corral will stay open through Feb. 22. It鈥檚 different from past auctions because the BLM has changed its Adoption Incentive Program to try and make sure the animals make it to good homes instead of a slaughterhouse.

The Bureau of Land Management is once again reviewing land use as it鈥檚 related to the sage grouse. This is the latest move to protect the bird as its numbers continue to dwindle, pushing to closer to an endangered species listing.

The Biden administration has moved to crack down on violent domestic extremists over the past year. But it's given the Bundy family 鈥� whose militant actions presaged the Capitol insurrection, and who continue to illegally graze cattle on public lands 鈥� a pass.

The Interior Department's moving the Bureau of Land Management's headquarters back to Washington, D.C., while establishing a Western HQ in Colorado. On Tuesday, BLM Director Tracy Stone-Manning shared details on how that'll work.