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Coppersmith Herd Management Area
Coverage of Coppersmith Herd Management Area in the Nexus archive.
- Judge pauses BLM plans to relocate Northern California wild horses
A federal judge halted the Bureau of Land Management's 2025 plan to remove wild horses from three herd management areas in Northern California and Nevada, citing insufficient analysis of overpopulation claims under the Administrative Procedure Act and the Wild Free-Roaming Horses and Burros Act. The judge ruled the BLM's actions were arbitrary and capricious due to flawed assumptions about sustainable horse populations.