{"id":129169,"date":"2025-08-01T08:37:39","date_gmt":"2025-08-01T16:37:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/?p=129169"},"modified":"2025-08-01T08:37:39","modified_gmt":"2025-08-01T16:37:39","slug":"tenth-circuit-rejects-blm-plan-to-manage-wild-horse-populations-as-arbitrary-and-capricious","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/08\/01\/tenth-circuit-rejects-blm-plan-to-manage-wild-horse-populations-as-arbitrary-and-capricious\/","title":{"rendered":"Tenth Circuit Rejects BLM Plan to Manage Wild Horse Populations as Arbitrary and Capricious"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Wild Horses Act places wild horses\u2014symbols of the West’s pioneer spirit\u2014under federal protection and management. In southern Wyoming though, these herds largely live on \u201ccheckerboard land, in other words, lands that alternate between public and private ownership, creating a checkerboard effect. After its enactment, wild horse populations exploded, leading to damaged habitats.<\/p>\n

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The Wild Horses Act places wild horses\u2014symbols of the West’s pioneer spirit\u2014under federal protection and management. In southern Wyoming though, these herds largely live on \u201ccheckerboard land, in other words, lands that alternate between public and private ownership, creating a checkerboard effect. After its enactment, wild horse populations exploded, leading to damaged habitats.<\/p>\n

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The Wild Horses Act places wild horses\u2014symbols of the West’s pioneer spirit\u2014under federal protection and management. In southern Wyoming though, these herds largely live on \u201ccheckerboard land, in other words, lands that alternate between public and private ownership, creating a checkerboard effect. After its enactment, wild horse populations exploded, leading to damaged habitats. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":129170,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-129169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-law-com"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/xira.com\/p\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/legal-news-W7Bfi4.jpg?fit=768%2C505&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129169"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129169\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":129179,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129169\/revisions\/129179"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/129170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}