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FILE--In this June 9, 2010, file photo, a mare nurses her foal in the Pryor Mountain Wild Horse Range near Pryor, Mont. Animal rights advocates are suing the federal government in a bid to make a Montana mustang population the first group of wild horses to be protected under the Endangered Species Act. Attorneys for Friends of Animals said Wednesday, April 4, 2018, that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service had failed to act on a petition filed last June seeking protections for the population of about 155 horses along the Montana-Wyoming border. (Casey Riffe/Billings Gazette via AP, file)

FILE--In this June 9, 2010, file photo, a mare nurses her foal in the Pryor Mountain Wild Horse Range near Pryor, Mont. Animal rights advocates are suing the federal government in a bid to make a Montana mustang population the first group of wild horses to be protected under the Endangered Species Act. Attorneys for Friends of Animals said Wednesday, April 4, 2018, that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service had failed to act on a petition filed last June seeking protections fo…

April 4, 2018

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Group seeks federal protection for Montana mustangs
April 4, 2018 3:47 p.m.

Group seeks federal protection for Montana mustangs

BILLINGS — Animal rights advocates announced a lawsuit against the federal government on Wednesday in a bid to make a Montana mustang population the first group of wild horses to be protected under the Endangered Species Act.