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Death count up to 26 in NV wild horse roundup

The Columbian
Published: January 29, 2010, 12:00am

RENO, Nev. (AP) — Wild-horse advocates have criticized federal land managers after the deaths of 26 mustangs so far in a government roundup on the range north of Reno — up from nine deaths a week ago.

The U.S. Bureau of Land Management today reported four more deaths stemming from its roundup in the Calico Mountain Complex.

Agency spokeswoman JoLynn Worley says three horses have died at the roundup site and 23 have died at a Fallon holding facility where the horses have been taken since the roundup began Dec. 28.

Activists say the BLM’s roundup methods are “brutal” and violate the intent of a 1971 federal law protecting the horses.

Worley says the agency has 40 years of experience of conducting roundups and has learned the safest way to conduct them.

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