BLM is planning roundups in West Douglas Herd Area and Piceance-East Douglas Herd Management Area, both in northwestern Colorado.
BLM gave just a two-week comment period about these proposed roundups, and the deadline is Saturday – Valentine’s Day.
Read information from the Cloud Foundation – http://www.thecloudfoundation.org/take-action/action-alerts/448-take-action-colorado-wild-horse-herds-in-jeopardy – and American Wild Horse Preservation Campaign – http://act.wildhorsepreservation.org/p/dia/action3/common/public/?action_KEY=19386 – for more information and to send comment letters.
BLM info: http://www.blm.gov/co/st/en/fo/wrfo/wrfo_wild_horses.html
BLM scoping notice: http://www.blm.gov/style/medialib/blm/co/information/nepa/white_river_field/fy15_scoping_and_comment.Par.11525.File.dat/doiblmcoN0520150023ea_scoping%20doc_1.29.15a.pdf
Spring Creek Basin Mustangs 
TJ, Piceance had a roundup 4? 5? years ago. Weren’t mares treated with PZP then, or no? Is there a group who monitors the Piceance herds?
Your question might be better answered by someone from the Cloud Foundation or by Dona Hilkey, who follows and documents the Piceance-East Douglas (and West Douglas?) mustangs. She may be trying to get a group started? Find her on Facebook.
BLM seems to mostly ignore the Piceance-East Douglas and West Douglas herds (except when it comes to roundups). It has been trying to zero out the West Douglas herd since before I started this journey almost eight years ago. Less than a month into my advocacy, I was walking out of a canyon in Little Book Cliffs with a group of people, and a BLM person told me that BLM was trying to zero out West Douglas because – get this – it was “too geographically difficult” to manage wild horses there. Being so new to the issue, I kept my mouth shut, but this is what I was thinking: “Um, are we looking at the same terrain? How could it be more *geographically difficult* than this?!”
Piceance-East Douglas and West Douglas are gorgeous, wonderful wild horse ranges, but – oh, right – there’s all that oil-and-gas activity. And we know from firsthand experience that ranchers want the horses out so more cattle can go in. I guess it’s not “too geographically difficult” to run domestic cattle in those areas? Hmm.
TJ, thank you for that response. You always have a way of explaining things in a language I can understand. 😉
I looked at the HMA map to see where these horses live. Are they near the Sand Wash Basin mustangs?
Yes, they’re just southish of Sand Wash Basin, westish-southwestish of the town of Meeker. Piceance-East Douglas Herd Management Area is even bigger than Sand Wash Basin – around 190,000 acres, if memory serves. The horses are just gorgeous!