After NBC News wrote about the Bureau of Land Management featuring a photo of a coal bed at the top of their website, the BLM changed it… to now feature this photo of an oil & gas pipeline. by Debbie Coffey, V.P. & Dir. of Wild Horse Affairs, […]
by Kim Smith as published on OneGreenPlanet Right now, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is conducting a five-year study on wild mares in the Adobe Town Herd Management Area (ATHMA) of south-central Wyoming with the help of the University of Wyoming’s Department of Ecosystem Science and Management. […]
This map shows the Gold Bar Mine area, the approximate HMA (in solid red) and HA boundaries(in broken red lines), the approximate Mt. Hope Mine Project area and well field, and the approximate combined Gold Bar Mine and Mt. Hope Mine 10′ water drawdown area (in blue). The […]
Story by Scott Sonner ~ Ace AP reporter “We’re pleased that the courts continue to dismiss attempts by these grazing interests to use the judicial system to rewrite federal law that Congress designed to protect wild horses…” Wild horse advocates in Nevada scored a victory Monday in an […]
Healthy horses on the range in the Checkerboard area. Photo: Carol Walker In 2016, 25 burros (that we know of) died of a rare virus at this BLM facility. http://sanpetemessenger.com/2016/11/02/dead-burros-in-axtell-contracted-rare-virus/ BLM’s Axtell, UT, holding facility is on a ranch owned by retired BLM employee Kerry Despain, who ran […]
Source: The Navajo Times ~ (this is an excerpt, see below) With multiple efforts to reduce the number of wild horses on the Navajo Nation, officials are considering a hunt. The Navajo Nation Department of Fish and Wildlife asked hunters and sportsmen for their support for a hunt […]
Source: wildhoofbeats.com Adobe Town Family by Carol Walker, Dir. of Field Documentation for Wild Horse Freedom Federation Please Comment by April 4, 2017 on the Checkerboard 2017 Roundup The BLM was unable to roundup wild horses from Salt Wells Creek, Adobe Town and Great Divide Basin in 2016 […]
Source: Multiple “The Safeguard American Food Exports Act — would bar horse slaughter in the U.S. and ban horse shipments to Mexico” Advocates for horses worry that U.S. restrictions against slaughtering the animals in this country soon could come to an end, and one Missouri lawmaker says he […]
“Happy Birthday Dayton O. Hyde!” Black Hills Wild Horse Sanctuary founder and author, Dayton O. Hyde will celebrates his 92nd birthday today, March 25. Hyde’s life journey is a story of challenges and successes that began in Michigan and took him across the West. From rodeos, conservation battles, […]
“Wild Horse Freedom Federation Meets Salt River Wild Horse Management Group“ It’s been a long time coming but finally the planets came into alignment and the circumstances coincided so that Terry and I could visit our long time friend, Simone Netherlands and many of her local friends and […]
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