CHICAGO, (EWA) – The Cloud Foundation and Front Range Equine Rescue have filed a lawsuit and a request for an injunction in Federal Court in Washington, DC to prohibit the Bureau of Land Management from removing horses from the Pryor Mountain Wild Horse Range, and to stop the unprecedented round up of the Pryor Wild [...]
Archive for August, 2009
Don’t let BLM destroy national treasure in Pryors
Posted: August 31, 2009 by R.T. Fitch in Horse News, Wild Horses/MustangsTags: BLM, cloud's herd, Cruelty to animals, Equine, Horse, pryor mountains, Wild Horse, Wild Mustang
by guest writer, Robert H. Clark While living in Bridger in the mid to late 1990s, I discovered the wild horses in the Pryor Mountains. I have lived with and photographed them ever since. I have met people from all over the world who come to the Pryors just to see these horses and their [...]
Government Accused of Land Grab in Fight Over Rangeland in the West
Posted: August 30, 2009 by R.T. Fitch in Horse News, Wild Horses/MustangsTags: BLM, cloud's herd, Equine, Horse, pryor mountains, round up, Wild Horse, Wild Mustang
By Bonnie Erbe, Thomas Jefferson Street blog And you thought the Wild West lost its punch at the turn of the 19th century. Well, think again. There are still wars going on over land and water, much as they did in the late 1800s. Only this time, it’s not cowboy vs. cowboy, it’s people vs. [...]
Siezed horses making strides in recovery
Posted: August 27, 2009 by R.T. Fitch in Horse News, Horse RescueTags: Arabian horse, Cruelty to animals, Equestrian, Equidae, Equine, Horse, horse abuse, Horse Neglect, Horse Rescue, Veterinarian
By Lynette George BONHAM, TX — The future looks much brighter for horses rescued earlier this month from a Fannin County pasture. Now, their rescuers are asking for the public’s help in healing and adopting the animals. After receiving a call about the welfare of the horses, investigators from the Fannin County Sheriff’s Office and [...]
Brits use wild horses to promote biodiversity
Posted: August 27, 2009 by R.T. Fitch in Horse News, Wild Horses/MustangsTags: Equine, Horse, Kent Wildlife Trust, Konik, Tarpan, Wild Horse, Wild Mustang
Wild horses have been let loose to roam around and help sustain an environmentally important nature reserve in Kent. The Konik horses, which are the closest living relatives of the extinct Tarpan, a wild forest horse that lived in Britain during Neolithic times, have been released at Wraik Hill near Whitstable. Kent Wildlife Trust, which [...]
The One Dollar Horse
Posted: August 26, 2009 by R.T. Fitch in Horse Slaughter, The Force of the Horse, Wild Horses/MustangsTags: BLM, Bureau of Land Management, Equidae, Equine, Habitat for Horses, Horse, Horse Slaughter, Wild Horse, Wild Mustang
by Jerry Finch (August 25, 2009) I’ve spent the last few days going over some very old articles that I wrote long ago. It’s simply sad to realize that nothing has changed, that all the words, the arguments, the bills submitted in Congress and the massive letter writing campaigns have amounted to nothing more than [...]
