Source: Tuscon News “We recognize how lucky we are to still have this amazing natural resource in our backyard and despite facing many human-caused challenges, the Tonto National Forest remains one of the most magnificent pieces of “wild” we have left in Arizona.” SALT RIVER – The Cactus […]
Source: American Wild Horse Campaign Over the weekend, the House and Senate Appropriations Committees restored language to the 2017 Omnibus spending bill that opens the back door to killing potentially thousands of wild horses and burros. The language amends the Wild Free Roaming Horses and Burros Act by […]
Once wild horses at Indian Lakes Rd. facility in Fallon, NV (photo: Debbie Coffey) Get ready to jump on the wagon for a BLM PR blitz… Edited Press Release Source: BLM RENO, Nev. —The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) will host two free public tours of the Indian […]
Open Letter by Author Terry Farley “BLM’s wild horse and burro math is statistically bizarre…” As a journalist, I first interviewed BLM Wild Horse and Burro Program staffers in 1976, shortly after I moved to Nevada. Since then, I’ve followed the program’s death spiral. Those who say wild […]
The drug PZP can be administered by darts (pictured) or through a hand-delivered jab stick. (Photo by Phil Taylor, E & E Reporter) Source: Elkodaily.com Commentary by Michael Ray Harris (Michael Ray Harris is the director of the Wildlife Law Program for the animal advocacy organization Friends of […]
By Catherine Holland as posted on AZFamily.com EAST VALLEY (3TV/CBS 5) –The Cactus Fire burning along the Bush Highway near the Salt River is threatening the herd of wild horses living in that area of the Tonto National Forest.[ORIGINAL STORY: Brush fire breaks out along Bush Highway near Salt […]
Wild horse & burro advocate Bonnie Kohleriter gives her opinion below about an article in Range Magazine written by Rachel Dahl, a sixth generation Nevadan. Dahl worked as a campaign manager for the former Sen. John Ensign and served on his Senate staff by managing his Carson City […]
By George Wuerthner as published on Wildlife News “…these conservation groups conveniently ignore and fail to inform their membership and media of the multiple ways that livestock production harms wildlife, and ecosystems, no doubt while receiving big donations for their silence. They are, thus, directly culpable for helping […]
by Debbie Coffey, V.P. & Dir. of Wild Horse Affairs, Wild Horse Freedom Federation All Rights Reserved. Copyright 2017 On the Bureau of Land Management’s new website, on the Program Data page for the Wild Horse & Burro Program (under the Wild Horse and Burro Sales to Private […]
by Heather Richards as published on The Casper Star Tribune “Let me make one thing clear: The Interior Department is in the energy business,” A leaked draft of a new priority list from the Bureau of Land Management recently put energy development front and center among the agency’s […]
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