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 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 John LaConte as published on the Vail Daily “…holding facilities, like the roundups themselves, are often harmful to the health and well-being of these animals…” A Nov. 25 letter from 22 members of Congress, including House Representative Joe Neguse, urges House leadership to consider a more “humane […]
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 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 […]
By Mike Lowe as published on The Portland Press Herald The track, which opened with thoroughbred racing in 1950, has struggled through years of financial hardship and will hold its last harness racing card on Nov. 28. Scarborough Downs will hold its last live harness racing event on […]
by Carol Walker, first published on Wild Hoofbeats, sponsored by Wild Horse Freedom Federation Mares and foal in a family that is no longer free, one day before being captured The Red Desert Complex roundup is finally over. This was a continuation of a roundup that began in […]
by Carol Walker, first published on Wild Hoofbeats, funded and sponsored by Wild Horse Freedom Federation Across the road, behind our observation point, we cannot see the trap or the run up to the trap from here at the Red Desert Complex Roundup. This is not meaningful observation. […]
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