<div id="subtitle">Activists express concern over rising death count in Nevada wild horse roundup</div><div><p>Wild-horse advocates have criticized federal land managers after the deaths of 26 mustangs so far in a government roundup on the range north of Reno — up from nine deaths a week ago.</p><p>The U.S. Bureau of Land Management today reported four more deaths stemming from its roundup in the Calico Mountain Complex.</p><p>Agency spokeswoman JoLynn Worley says three horses have died at the roundup site and 23 have died at a Fallon holding facility where the horses have been taken since the two-month roundup began Dec. 28.</p><p>Activists say the BLM's roundup methods are "brutal" and violate the intent of a 1971 law Congress enacted to protect the horses.</p><p>Worley says the agency has 40 years of experience of conducting roundups and has learned the safest way to conduct them.</p><img src="http://admatch-syndication.mochila.com/images/ad.gif?aid=68065471&bid=informcom" /></div><div id="copyright"><div>

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