Category: Wild Horses/Mustangs

The Canadian Battle for Wild Horses (Part 2)

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SOURCE:  Habitat for Horses This is the second part of a three part series on Canada’s wild horse advocates’ battle with their equivalent to our BLM – the ESRD – Environment and Sustainable Resource Development Ministry.  As is mentioned in the first paragraph below, a great deal of […]

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Iron County Commissioners say it’s “a joke” for BLM to only roundup 200 wild horses

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by Debbie Coffey        Copyright 2014                   All Rights Reserved. While many taxpaying Americans think that it’s ludicrous for the BLM to round up even 1 of the few remaining wild horses and burros off of PUBLIC lands, the Iron County Commissioners (Utah) have their panties in a twist because the BLM is […]

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Update on Cloud in the Pryors

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  After Cloud’s brutal battle with Doc several weeks ago in the Pryors, Cloud was finally sighted, but reported injured.  R.T. traveled to Wyoming to look for Cloud with our dear friend, Ginger. R.T. sent this report this morning: “It took us all day but Cloud had moved his band up the […]

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Conspiring Against Wild Horses

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After reading an article from the Ely Times in Nevada (below), it seems that rancher Mike Stremler, who has been a mountain lion bounty hunter and the Chairman of the Nevada Board of Wildlife Commissioner’s Feral Horse Committee is at it again. Stremler wants the BLM to pay ranchers with water rights […]

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BLM Caves to Utah Welfare Ranchers

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By Brian Maffly| The Salt Lake Tribune Federally Subsidized Cow Farmers Claim more Rights than Public Wild Horses The federal Bureau of Land Management will likely clear most if not all the wild horses from a West Desert block of state land in July as part of a […]

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9th Circuit Condones BLM’s Destruction of Wild Horse and Burro Herds

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“The BLM has definitely done a great smear campaign on our wild horses.” stated Rachel Fazio, advocate attorney, “To be honest reading this opinion it is as if we never wrote any briefs or researched any law – and never mind the actual facts- it is as if we weren’t even involved in the litigation at all. Half of our claims they didn’t even deal with, they didn’t address the prohibition on “capture, harassment, branding and death” – they just focused on the removal language; they got out from under the Principally language by at the 11th hour claiming that the Twin Peaks HMA wasn’t a range, even though the Act does not permit the creation of an HMA, only the creation of a range, and that Dahl v. Clark actually found that designation of an HMA was done pursuant to the range provision of the Act (ie HMA= range) – and of course the wink and a nod on the long-term holding; its on private lands.”

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