Animal advocates and the federal government are working to settle a lawsuit over the removal of wild horses from the Tonto National Forest.
The Salt River Wild Horse Management Group filed suit against the U.S. Forest Service after it released a public notice that it would remove wild horses from the national forest.
Attorney William Miller is representing the horse activists.
“We’re hoping that the horses stay in their habitat as is and that is what we are going to fight for," he Miller. "We’d prefer not to have the lawsuit. We’d prefer to settle it.”
Miller said said he is in confidential settlement discussions with the Forest Service.
