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BLM to remove ‘excess’ wild horses from Utah’s beloved Onaqui herd

Critics blast feds’ never-ending cycle of roundups as inhumane, anti-science and wasteful.

(Tribune file photo by Rick Egan) A foal and its mother in the Onaqui wild horse herd, about 60 miles southwest of Salt Lake City, near Simpson Springs, Thursday, June 5, 2014. The Bureau of Land Management plans to remove about half the Onaqui horses this week in one of the most controversial roundups in years.