by R.T. Fitch, president/co-founder of Wild Horse Freedom Federation Finally, a bit of good news for our wild horses and burros; yesterday, November 20th 2017, the Senate Appropriations Committee released a draft version of their Interior Appropriations Bill with wording that maintains the current protection of our wild […]
By Parker Heinlein as published on the Bozeman Daily Chronicle “Zinke has apparently been tasked with dismantling every environmental safeguard he can…” When Ryan Zinke was appointed Secretary of the Interior, I had no idea he was such a poser. It bothered me a bit that he seemed […]
source: TNK ““He busted through like Rambo and opened up the end of the stalls…” Macon Martin, 16, is being called a hero after his quick thinking saved the lives of 14 Clydesdale horses. The family home, located about 60 miles east of Atlanta, Georgia, was struck by […]
by Annette McDermott as published on Western Values Project “…he is shaping the BLM to overwhelmingly favor the oil and gas industry at the expense of Western public lands…” This week has seen leaders in the land seizure movement gaining traction at the Interior Department. Brian Steed, the […]
Source: Bloomberg The fight over preserving public land during the Trump era is taking a strange, angry twist in Montana’s Crazy Mountains. Both sides are armed. In Park County, Mont., North Fork of Horse Creek Road with a “No Forest Service Access” sign. Photographer: THOMAS PRIOR FOR BLOOMBERG […]
Join us for Wild Horse Wednesdays®, for a special show on Friday morning, Nov. 17, 2017 Listen to the archived show (HERE!) This show will be archived so you can listen to it anytime. Our guest is Carey Gillam, an investigative journalist, a former senior correspondent for Reuters’ international […]
By Chris D’Angelo as published on The Huffington Post “You can’t make this stuff up.” WASHINGTON — A week after taking over the Department of the Interior, Ryan Zinke inquired about redesigning the agency’s flag, according to internal emails HuffPost has obtained. The department flag is emblazoned with a […]
Our nation is at a critical juncture and America’s wild horses and burros are in the crossfire. Following the troubling news that the President’s budget request for 2018 would strip federal protections for wild horses and burros and put over 80,000 healthy wild horses at risk for slaughter, wild horses are now in danger more than ever before. We were deeply troubled to discover that dangerous language that would reopen the door for horse slaughter was quietly inserted into the U.S. House’s massive spending bill for next year’s budget.
Not only has the Bureau of Land Management paid Drummond Land and Cattle Co. almost $24 million to warehouse our wild horses on their long term holding pasture, but Pioneer Woman Ree Drummond has used photos of wild horses on most of her Pioneer Woman product packaging and […]
by William E. Simpson as published on HorseTalk One of the favorite tools used by the cattle industry to push competing grazing animals off the lands they covet is that of supporting outright myths and also funding questionably designed studies and then promoting the highly questionable results. Throughout […]
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