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Video: Outer Mongolia, Wild Horses and the Paradox of Horse Slaughter

Posted: May 19, 2013 by R.T. Fitch in Horse News, Horse Slaughter, Wild Burros, Wild Horses/Mustangs
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Source: 2013 American Equine Summit: R.T. Fitch

“It is ‘Feel Good Sunday’ and we are sharing with you the presentation that Terry and I made at the 2013 American Equine Conference 3 weeks ago this day.  It is posted, here, by special request as there is some humor to it but there are also gaps in the beginning as we edited out areas where I may have given away some of our undercover activity that will, hopefully, lead to litigation.  Please enjoy as we share our story about the horses of Outer Mongolia and in only 3 short weeks, in the future, Terry and I will be trekking on horseback across Tibet, the second largest horse culture in the world, and what we learn will be shared with you.  Keep the faith, my friends.!” ~ R.T.

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BLM Releases Environmental Assessment of Three Area Wild Horse Water Bail Trapping Roundup

Posted: May 17, 2013 by R.T. Fitch in Horse News, Horse Slaughter, Wild Horses/Mustangs
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Source: Elko Daily Free Press  (Unedited) – less byline

1.8 Million Acres and an alleged 1,500 horses are too many?
(120,000 acres per horse)
BLM already attacked the Antelope herd 2011~ photo by Terry Fitch

BLM already attacked the Antelope herd 2011~ photo by Terry Fitch

ELKO — The Bureau of Land Management is planning a wild horse roundup in the Antelope Valley using water bail traps.

The project area for this gather and removal of wild horses is from within and outside the Triple B, Maverick-Medicine, and the western and central portions of the Antelope Valley herd management areas. The gather is expected to begin after June 13, though specific dates have not been determined due to budget constraints and other higher priority gathers.

Total acreage within the project area is more than 1.8 million and the 2013 estimated population is 1,504 horses. The appropriate management level for the area is between 548 and 1,115 horses. With the lack of needed precipitation this past fall and winter, BLM expects there will be a lack of available water for the wild horses in the summer and fall months ahead.

This action is based on limited water and forage availability to adequately support the current population of wild horses and the result to range resources caused by a concentration on site specific areas.

Scoping began June 14, 2012. On Sept. 4, 2012, the BLM released a preliminary environmental assessment analyzing the impacts of this proposed horse gather to the human environment for a 30-day public comment period. The Wells and Egan Field Offices in Elko and Ely districts released a final environmental assessment finding no significant impact and decision record for the gather recently.

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Corolla Wild Horse Recovers after Rescue from Ocean

Posted: May 16, 2013 by R.T. Fitch in Horse News, Wild Horses/Mustangs
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By Jeff Hampton
The Virginian-Pilot

It was the first rescue of a horse by Corolla Ocean Rescue

A Corolla wild horse stallion walks along the ocean on May 2, 2013, just before getting into a fight with another stallion. (Courtesy of Betty Lane)

COROLLA, N.C. – A blind and aging stallion is recovering after a rip current swept him seaward and lifeguards carried out the coastal community’s first wild-horse rescue.

On May 2, two stallions battled for supremacy over a harem of mares, a common occurrence among the wild horses on the Currituck Outer Banks. Already blind in one eye, the older stallion injured his other eye during the fight, said Karen McCalpin, director of the Corolla Wild Horse Fund.

He ran into the ocean and was caught in a riptide that carried him away from the beach and more than a mile down the shore.

The stallion reached a sandbar where he was able to stand. Directed over the phone by herd manager Wesley Stallings, lifeguards used rescue buoys to push the horse from behind and gradually guide him to land, McCalpin said.

It was the first rescue of a horse by Corolla Ocean Rescue, Chief Sylvia Wolff said.

The stallion’s better eye has healed some, but he remains nearly blind, she said. After the rescue, he was named Amadeo, meaning “blessed by God.” But he will not return to the wild herd, she said.

“He’s going to be our responsibility for the rest of his life,” she said. “He can’t go back.”…(CONTINUED)

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NV State Proposal May Allow Groups to Manage Virginia Range Wild Horses

Posted: May 15, 2013 by R.T. Fitch in Horse News, Wild Burros, Wild Horses/Mustangs
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Source: Multiple

It will save the state “hundreds of thousands of dollars”

Virginia Range HorsesThe Nevada Senate is set to consider allowing the state to enter agreements with advocacy groups to manage wild horses in the state.

Members of the Senate Natural Resources Committee are considering AB264 Tuesday.

The bill originally prohibited unauthorized people from feeding or taking wild horses from state lands, but a proposed amendment is expected to be introduced at the bill’s hearing that would add a new dimension to the proposal.

The amendment would allow the state government to enter into agreements with advocacy groups to help manage the Virginia Range herds of wild horses.

Republican Assemblyman Jim Wheeler of Minden is proposing the amendment. He says it will save the state “hundreds of thousands of dollars” by letting advocacy groups get involved.

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The case of the missing mustangs; what happened to 1,700 wild horses?

Posted: May 14, 2013 by R.T. Fitch in Horse News, Horse Slaughter, Wild Burros, Wild Horses/Mustangs
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Source: NBC News

The government says Davis, who paid just $10 per head, was the biggest buyer ever of wild horses

By Lisa Myers and Michael Austin
NBC News

The semis would rumble down country roads packed full of wild horses. Truckload after truckload, sometimes 36 horses at a time, all with the same destination: a ranch in the small town of La Jara, Colo.

Records show that for years, the Bureau of Land Management sold and shipped more than 1,700 wild horses from its animal holding facilities to just one rancher. Now federal investigators are trying to figure out:  What did he do with all those mustangs? And did any of them ultimately end up being butchered in the slaughter plants of Mexico?

Wild horse advocates fear the worst. They want to know the truth about the fate of the horses and whether the U.S. government looked the other way as the federally protected animals seemingly disappeared…(CONTINUED)

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Video: Wild Horses: On the Trail to Freedom!

Posted: May 13, 2013 by R.T. Fitch in Horse News, Horse Slaughter, Wild Burros, Wild Horses/Mustangs
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2013 American Equine Summit: Ginger Kathrens

We will be featuring key presentations, everyday during this upcoming week.  The information contained within each is invaluable in fighting the horse-eaters and their propaganda.  Direct YouTube link for Ginger’s presentation is:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4jYcGc71c5s

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BLM Offers Free Wild Horse Manure to Public, Really

Posted: May 11, 2013 by R.T. Fitch in Horse News, Wild Burros, Wild Horses/Mustangs
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It’s Da Real Thing!

horse-manureThe Bureau of Land Management has been verbally dishing mega-tons of wild horse and burro manure to the American taxpayers for decades but now they are actually putting our money where their mouths are, literally.  Now the U.S. Public can actually lay their hands on the real thing from the equines that should not be captive but free on their rightful range.  That BLM is so very, very clever!

Horse Manure

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