After two hours of pre-dawn driving up rugged dirt roads into canyons and plateaus northwest of De Beque, a small caravan of bleary-eyed travelers arrived at a rocky outcropping overlooking Monument ...

Photojournalist Ami Vitale followed Przewalski’s horses—once declared extinct in the wild—on a 2,000-mile journey back to ...

MEDORA, N.D. — The first major roundup of wild horses at Theodore Roosevelt National Park in more than a decade will mark the beginning of a new era of managing the historic herd. The National Park ...

Cecilia Wilson of Blackhawk is fascinated by the horses she sees driving in more rural parts of Colorado. She’s been wondering for years: What’s the deal with these horses? Are any of them wild? “When ...

It was already snowing in the White Mountains when Jackie Hughes got a call from one of her cowboys last December. They’d caught five horses in a bait trap on the Apache Forest near Big Lake, but the ...

This post was updated April 22 at 9:23 p.m. It’s easy to lose sight of untouched nature in a city like Los Angeles. Helicopters and airplanes often look like birds, freedom from traffic often seems ...

When you’re out in the mountains, you’ve probably received occasional warnings of a black bear in the area. But when was the last time you actually saw one? Encounters are rare, but consider this: For ...

Driving over the cattle guards that mark the boundaries of the Las Vegas Valley, Southern Nevadans are likely to come across an equine friend or two. Or a herd of them. Wild horses and burros, ...