The Bureau of Land Management’s State Office has extended its partnership with the Wyoming Department of Corrections for wild horse gentling and adoption. A new five-year contract will fund the care of up to 200 excess wild horses and burros at the Wyoming Honor Farm.

Since 1988, the BLM and the Honor Farm have worked together to train and adopt wild horses primarily from Wyoming’s public lands. Inmate trainers at the minimum custody facility demonstrate techniques such as catching a horse, advance and retreat, picking up feet, and beginning to ride during gentling clinics.

Two adoptions are held each year at the Honor Farm, where approximately 35 halter and saddle-started horses, as well as some wild burros, are available. The partnership aims to help both the horses and the inmates transition positively back into society through respect and trust-building exercises.