BLM rounding up wild horses after wildfire

BOISE – Nearly 350 wild horses in danger of starving will be rounded up by the Bureau of Land Management.

The Saylor Creek herd has been without adequate food since a wildfire blackened the horses’ range in southern Idaho.

The Clover Fire was extinguished earlier this month, and since that time Bureau employees have been working to repair a water pipeline to provide the horses with water.

The horses have been living on a patchwork of unburned islands in the 300-square-mile blackened region.

The horses will be put in temporary corrals, with some being offered for adoption and others being kept until they can be returned to the range, bureau officials said. The roundup was set to start today.