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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Wild horses far outnumbered humans on the Outer Banks a century ago. But beyond legends of long-ago Spanish shipwrecks, no one really knows how they got there. A 1926 article in the National ...

Editor’s note: This story is the first in a two-part series funded by the Aspen Daily News Journalism Fund, which supports in-depth, independent reporting on issues that impact our region. Part Two, ...

At a ranch in a remote portion of Siskiyou County, Sacramento State students Shelby Konarski and Cerys McLean spent part of their winter break studying a herd of wild horses that could play a key role ...

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 ...

Rachel Feltman: Wild horses are pretty rare outside of classic rock songs. Some of the most famous ones, like those on Assateague Island, aren’t actually wild at all. They’re the feral descendants of ...

The wildfires that used to burn each summer in the woods above the Spanish village of Barro have diminished to almost none since Lucia Perez started grazing wild horses there. “There used to be fires ...