Wild Horses

The Wild Free-Roaming Horses and Burros Act of 1971 gave the Department of the Interior's BLM and the Department of Agriculture's USFS the authority to manage, protect, and control wild horses and burros on the nation's public rangelands to ensure healthy herds and healthy rangelands.

Federal protection and a lack of natural predators have resulted in thriving wild horse and burro populations that grow in number yearly. The BLM monitors rangelands and wild horse and burro herds to determine the number of animals, including livestock and wildlife, that the land can support.

Each year, the BLM gathers excess wild horses and burros from areas where vegetation and water could become scarce if too many animals use the area.

For more information on the BLM's Wild Horse and Burro Program, please call toll-free 1-866-4MUSTANGS.

More Information

• Adoption Application (PDF)
• Adoption Photographs
• Adoption Requirements (PDF)
• Oregon's Wild Horse Corral Facility
• Herd Management Areas in Oregon's Burns District
• The Kiger Mustang
• National Wild Horse and Burro
• History of the Wild Horse and Burro Program
• Oregon Adoptions: (541) 573-4439/4424
• Washington Adoptions: (509) 536-1200

2008 Adoption Schedule

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KIGER MUSTANG up for raffle! (PDF)

Each year the BLM Burns District donates a wild horse to the Eastern Oregon University Foundation for raffle, with all proceeds going toward the Harney Futures Scholarship fund. This year’s mustang is a yearling filly from the Kiger Herd Management Area in southeast Oregon. BLM’s Wild Horse Wranglers will train the Kiger filly until she goes to her new home.

Drawing for the filly will be held September 7 at the Harney County Fair in Burns, Oregon. Need not be present to win.

Kiger mustangs are highly sought out from horse lovers across the U.S. Since the Herd Management Area is only gathered once every 4 years, this is a special opportunity to get your own Kiger mustang! No other horse in America is quite like the Kiger Mustang found on Steens Mountain in southeastern Oregon. Most wild horses are of mixed influence and characteristics while the Kiger Mustangs possess many characteristics of the original Spanish Mustang. They are indeed a unique breed of wild horse.

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Click here if you’re interested in getting in on this chance of a lifetime raffle. Tickets are $5 each or 5 for $20.