The Trump administration is canceling a longtime partnership with the state of Colorado that uses prison inmates to train wild horses removed from federal rangelands to make the animals more suitable for public adoption.
The Bureau of Land Management confirmed it is ending the 30-year-old Wild Horse Inmate Program in the state by not renewing a contract with the Colorado Department of Corrections. The program includes housing more than 2,000 federally protected wild horses that will now need to be transferred to other holding facilities.
The contract concludes at the end of Tuesday, the last day of the current federal budget cycle.
“We are saddened by the discontinuation of this successful partnership and impactful program,” Andre Stancil, executive director of the state corrections department, said in a statement.
