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In partnership with the BLM, Utah State University Extension’s 4-H “Mustang Camp: Healthy Lands and Healthy Horses” has been helping youth explore what it really means to care for shared landscapes in the American West.
I grew up in the Northeast and never had a horse of my own but took lessons once a week and got around horses any chance I got. As I got a little older, I learned about the Bureau of Land Management’s Wild Horse and Burro Program and realized my dream of having a wild horse could really happen!
One of the ways the BLM manages this fast-paced herd growth is through bait-trap gathers. These types of gathers normally consist of setting up one or more pens on public lands and baiting horses or burros to enter the pen with food, water or some other treat, such as salt.