Bad Ranchers, Bad Cows
by Vickery Eckhoff as published in The Daily Pitchfork A newly published study offers photographic proof of what ranchers have long denied: the extent to which livestock grazing damages public lands. (Part III of a series on ranchers in the media) Livestock have been severely depleting public rangelands for decades. […]
BLM Jumps in Bed with Welfare Ranchers while Flipping-Off 35,000 Tax Payers
OpEd by R.T. Fitch ~ president/co-founder of Wild Horse Freedom Federation Private Welfare Cattle Stay, Protected Wild Horses Go Well they did it, we have been writing about it and forecasting an illegal and slanted decision influenced by a handful of bully, welfare rancher and the Bureau of […]
Ranchers are Scapegoating Wild Horses, says BLM Scientist
Press Release from the Equine Welfare Alliance Ranchers Want Our Public Lands for Their Livestock, and Want the Govt. to Stick It to Wild Horses and Taxpayers EWA (Chicago) – The Cloud Foundation and Wild Horse Freedom Federation today released BLM livestock data for Beaver County and Iron […]
Utah ranchers plan to illegally roundup wild horses starting on Thursday
Even though BLM’s Juan Palma caved in to illegal threats made by the Iron County Commissioners for wild horse roundups by private citizens and told them he’d have a plan for removal in place by Friday, the Iron County Commissioners (with support from Iron County Sheriff Mark Gower) […]
Utah County Commissioners Back Cattle Ranchers Versus Native Wild Horses
Source: by Tracie Sullivan of TheSpectrum.com Cow Keepers Can’t Comprehend “Multiple Use” Concept CEDAR CITY — In a move that was praised by local ranchers, Iron County Commissioners voted unanimously Monday to send a letter to the Bureau of Land Management in support of livestock owners who use […]
South Dakota Blizzard Kills Thousands of Cows ; How About Wild Horses in Long Term Holding?
Source: CNN.com “Americans Left in the Cold Over Status of Captured Wild Horses in BLM Concentration Camps” (CNN) — Like in a scene from an apocalyptic parable, dark carcasses of cows and steers lie motionless in silent clusters across swaths of South Dakota. An early blizzard caught ranchers […]
SFTHH Exclusive: “Predictions”
Guest OpEd by Vicki Tobin ~ VP of Equine Welfare Alliance “Our predictions are now a reality that can’t be ignored” Predictions come in many forms. Some from a gut feeling or wishing it were so. For equine advocates, they were based on evidence and scientific fact. We […]
BLM SAYS IT CANNOT TRACK CATTLE ON ITS LANDS
Information supplied by PEER.org Blames Lack of “Seamless Data” for Excluding Livestock from Range Assessments BLM: “The (Welfare) cows ate my homework!” Washington, DC — The U.S. Bureau of Land Management (BLM) says it was an absence of “reliable data”—and not politics—that caused it to exclude consideration of […]
It’s Official: BLM’s Welfare Cattle Program Killing Western Public Lands, Wild Horses Not Guilty
A new federal assessment of rangelands in the West finds a disturbingly large portion fails to meet range health standards principally due to commercial livestock operations. In the last decade as more land has been assessed, estimates of damaged lands have doubled in the 13-state Western area where the U.S. Bureau of Land Management (BLM) conducts major livestock leasing.
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