Jack Gruber | Photojournalist

Helicopter pilot Jim Hicks of Cattoor Livestock Roundup flies and herds wild horses into a trapping pen during the Bureau of Land Management wildhorse helicopter roundup in the Eureka County, Nevada Black Mountain District. The government aims to reduce the wild-horse poplulation from 46,000 to 27,000 over a five year period.

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