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Bureau of Land Management contractors drive wild horses galloping toward a trap using helicopters. Wyoming rangelands have "checkerboard" ownership of adjoining public and private land complicating management of wild horse herds. Ranchers won a lawsuit to have them rounded up and removed.
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- MELISSA FARLOW
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- Contained in galleries
- Mustangs: Spirit of the Shrinking West_National Geographic magazine 2/2009
