by Elise Rich as published on KMOX.radio.com A herd of wild horses has been roaming the Ozark hills for nearly 100 years It’s believed the ancestors of the Shannon County wild horses go back to the Great Depression era, with farmers releasing their horses in search of better […]
By Mark Price as published on The News & Observer One of the oldest wild horses roaming North Carolina’s Outer Banks had to be euthanized, according to the Corolla Wild Horse Fund The horse, known as Captain, was suffering from “emaciation” due to a series of health problems […]
by Charlotte Roe and Mary A. Koncel as published on The Washington Examiner “The 88,000 wild horses and burros are dwarfed in the millions by cattle and sheep…” William Perry Pendley, acting chief of the Bureau of Land Management, is warning of a fearsome herd. Wild horses and […]
If you follow us on Facebook at, Fort Polk Horses of Kisatchie, you may know that much has transpired since our last email. To briefly recap, we left off on the heals of the August round up and we had just received word of September round up. The events […]
by Josh Peter a published on USA Today “an estimated 7,500 thoroughbreds a year are slaughtered for human consumption…” FORNEY, Texas — Mike McBarron stepped out of the 96-degree heat and into a shed on his feedlot after loading 37 horses onto a truck. They were headed to […]
Unedited Press Release (Less Headline) The Bureau of Land Management’s Wild Horse and Burro National Advisory Board is meeting in Washington this week. Board Chairman Fred Woehl says there are 90,000 wild horses and donkeys on federal lands. Woehl said that’s three times more than the areas can […]
Today is the day; BLM appointed special interest representatives will gather in what is called The Wild Horse & Burro Advisory Board in Washington D.C. to forward their agendas to remove, mutilate and/or slaughter the last remaining federally protected wild horses and burros that graze on their rightful […]
by Carol J. Walker, Director of Field Documentation for Wild Horse Freedom Federation First published on Wild Hoofbeats I attended the Fifteenmile Wild Horse Roundup last week in a remote and obscure Herd Management Area outside of Worland, Wyoming. Very few people I know had even heard of […]
By Scott Sonner, Source: Multiple Congressional Democrats are demanding the Interior Department produce an overdue report on plans to manage wild horses roaming federal lands in the West after the head of its public lands agency told reporters it will take $5 billion and 15 years to get […]
by Jonathan Thompson as published on High Country News Species extinction, near-constant wildfire and widespread drought are a few dangers William Perry Pendley might consider instead In mid-October, William Perry Pendley, the acting director of the Bureau of Land Management, warned environmental journalists at a conference in Fort […]
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