Horse breaks leg during Bureau of Land Management gather on Western Slope [Video]

GRAND JUNCTION, Colo (KDVR) — A couple of weeks ago, the Bureau of Land Management in Colorado completed a wild horse gather in the Little Book Cliffs near Grand Junction that resulted in one horse getting injured and subsequently being euthanized.

The gather began on Sept. 11 and ended on Sept. 18, and the BLM invited the community to come out and watch. Among the onlookers were a couple of European filmmakers who shot video of an incident that happened on the last day of the roundup. They offered it to The Cloud Foundation, a nonprofit that advocates for wild horses and opposes the practice of using helicopters to round them up.

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“Wild horses are flight animals. And having a helicopter fly down from the sky and herd them in various directions, it’s a recipe for disaster,” said Kerry Ferguson, executive director of The Cloud Foundation.

The video shows a helicopter rounding up …