Excerpt from the book “Straight from the Horse’s Heart” by R.T. Fitch A Christmas Story for the Wild Ones Reprint from December 11, 2010: He checked the time again. Not an easy maneuver as he had to take his right glove off, shove up the left cuff of […]
By Eric Mitchell and Claire Crosby as published on Blood Horse Major track owner concerned over horses being sent to slaughter The Stronach Group is endorsing a call from People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals to ban the sale of North American Thoroughbreds to South Korean racing […]
By Bill Simpson as published on the Mail Tribune Over the course of the past 50-years, since the passing of the 1971 Free Roaming Wild Burro And Horse Protection Act (1971), the management of wild horse herd management areas have undergone many changes resulting from political and economic […]
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Submitted by “Ace“, the Twin Peaks Wild Stallion and personal friend of Grandma Greg’s I often warmly think about the “good old days” when hundreds of we wild ones roamed free… “It’s ‘Feel Good Sunday’ and I awoke, today,…
By Nicole Rivard as published on PagosaDailyPost.com “…upwards of 2 million cattle graze public lands, not to mention, sheep — compared to a measly 79,568 wild horses” I commend the Pagosa Daily Post for including a piece about the plight of America’s wild horses. However, Friends of Animals, […]
By Erik Molvar as published on The Wildlife News There’s an organized campaign underway to get wild horses off America’s western public lands, and the livestock industry is both its primary salesman and beneficiary. It’s all about the money and expanding the livestock industry’s stranglehold on western public […]
By Scott Beckstead and Marty Irby as published on The Boulder Weekly “We Americans are inspired by our wild horses…” We marvel at the sight of them living wild and free on our public rangelands, of stallions fighting for their family bands, of newborn foals learning to stand […]
The Washington Post Magazine recently ran a misleading story on wild horses, focusing attention on anti-federalist ranchers in Nevada and the big money behind them. By failing to look beyond the superficial personality conflicts, and missing the real and important public lands issues, this article does its readers a disservice.
By Andrea Lans “I was just really impassioned, realizing as a horse person, I didn’t know that was happening with the helicopter roundups and the mass holding,” TOPANGA, Calif. — “Black Beauty” tells the timeless coming-of-age story of a wild horse and the human she forms a deep, […]
By Brian Maffly as published on The Salt Lake Tribune Over the objections of animal welfare advocates, the Bureau of Land Management plans to initiate a controversial program of surgically sterilizing female wild horses, starting in Utah as soon as this month with the planned roundup of the […]
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