🚨 This week at the Devil's Garden, CA, wild horse roundup 🚁 The Devil's Garden Plateau Wild Horse Territory in California spans 258,000 acres. Despite this vast expanse, the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) Forest Service has set an unscientifically low Appropriate Management Level (AML) of just 206–402 horses—essentially limiting the population to 0.0008 horses per acre. A 2024 population census estimated around 723 wild horses in and around the territory. On October 28, 2024, the USDA For

🛑 Right now, the U.S. Forest Service is capturing more wild horses like these in a helicopter roundup at Devil’s Garden Wild Horse Territory in Northern California. Our sanctuary gave these 10 geldings and two mares from Devil’s Garden a safe new home in 2019, following another in what has become a series of annual roundups there. In 2016, USFS estimated that there were 2,246 adult wild horses on the 258,000-acre territory located just north of Alturas, Calif., mainly on Modoc National Forest l

The U.S. Forest Service on Tuesday was set to begin a helicopter roundup of 350 wild horses on the Devil’s Garden Plateau Wild Horse Territory in Northern California. No capture numbers have yet been posted. The 258,000-acre territory located just north of Alturas in Northern California, mainly on Modoc National Forest, is a clear example of federal agencies stubbornly trying and failing to manage wild horse numbers solely by capture and removal: In 2016, USFS estimated that there were 2,246 adu