Northern Nevada- Virginia Range.

Horses are in fact indigenous to North America(as they are descended from the wild horses eohippus and pliohippus that lived in North America before the last ice age which have since been extinct) and actually horses aren’t the ones damaging the environment it’s the cattle that graze the public lands that are doing the damage as wild horses graze only the tops of the grass and since they can’t fully digest the seeds they are able to disperse the seeds back into the soil from their manure while cattle on the other hand use their tongues to rip the grass roots and all while grazing and they are one of the leading emissions of greenhouse gases also while their are more than 727,000 heads of cattle on 155 million acres of the 245 million acres of managed public land by the Bureau of land management while there are only 27,000 wild horses and burros restricted to 27 million acres of shared public land(shared with cattle) also wild horses when moving they use well woven paths instead of trampling the native plants and underbrush while cattle trample through native plants and underbrush. Also there is scientific evidence that Wild horses are in fact native to North America as they originate from the wild horses that once roamed North America millions of years ago that went extinct during the last ice age and was actually reintroduced by the Spanish as the original wild horses in North America traveled across the Bering land bridge Links to the sources: How Wild horses are good for the ecosystem: americanwildhorsecampaign.org/wild-horses-and-ecosystem Fossil and DNA evidence: pgl.soe.ucsc.edu/horses.html How Wild horses are being scapegoated: americanwildhorsecampaign.org/media/scapegoating-wild-horses-0 How the Bureau of Land Management is mismanaging our wild horses: americanwildhorsecampaign.org/media/another-government-report-shows-corruption-and-mismanagement-within-federal-wild-horse-burro How cattle graze vs wild horses: sites.google.com/a/owu.edu/overgrazing/the-match-up-horses-vs-cattle/land-damage Cattle’s effect on sage grouse populations: fwp.mt.gov/binaries/content/assets/fwp/conservation/wildlife-reports/sage-grouse/updated_smith_et_al_2018_effects_grazing_nesting_sg.pdf Cattle effect on greenhouse gas and methane emissions: www.pbs.org/newshour/amp/show/cow-burps-are-a-major-contributor-to-climate-change-can-scientists-change-that How horses are beneficial for the environment: www.middletonplaceequestriancenter.com/blog/how-horses-help-the-environment#:~:text=A%20wild%20horse%20can%20break,water%20source%20in%20the%20wintertime.

Mustangs are protected and you cannot approach them after a certain distance. Encounters are different, but filming and other activities are heavily regulated.