Wild horse wipeout in Wyoming’s ‘checkerboard’ delayed until October due to funding, staffing, legal woes

Wild horse wipeout in Wyoming’s ‘checkerboard’ delayed until October due to funding, staffing, legal woes

A showdown in the high desert over the presence of more than 3,000 free-roaming horses on 2.1 million acres of southwest Wyoming’s checkerboard region won’t happen for at least six more months, federal attorneys say. Hundreds of miles away from desert in Denver and Cheyenne courts, there was much uncertainty in late 2025 about what would become of the Salt Wells Creek, Great Divide Basin and a portion of the Adobe Town herds. Because they dwell …