SOURCE: The Week Why the Interior Department desperately needs beat reporters The federal agency’s treatment of wild horses has been scandalously poor. But you wouldn’t know it from reading the newspaper. by Andrew Cohen The wild horses need all the help they can get, too. […]
By Andrew Cohen as published at The DoDo.com “‘Feel Good Sunday’ finds us sharing the thoughts of a friend, a friend not only to us but also to the wild horses and burros of the United States. Over the years he has written and shared his thoughts on […]
Last week, a federal judge in New Mexico cleared the way for domestic slaughterhouse operators to again kill and render horses on American soil. Monday night, the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Denver stayed that ruling, at least temporarily, so that it could evaluate whether the Obama Administration unlawfully permitted those operators to resume the brutal practice without first complying with all relevant environmental regulations.
By Andrew Cohen as published in The Atlantic Secretary Jewell seems to be willfully ignoring a report by the National Academy of Sciences. Why? Nearly seven months into her tenure as Secretary of the Interior, Sally Jewell last Thursday at last made her first extended public comments about […]
Source: Andrew Cohen as published in The Atlantic “Current practice of removing free-ranging horses from public lands promotes a high population growth rate,” the report concluded In his February speech nominating her for the position of Secretary of the Interior, President Obama noted that Sally Jewell’s aptitude test […]
Source: by Andrew Cohen as published in The Atlantic A federal judge in Wyoming is now reviewing a dubious agreement between local ranchers and the BLM that would eliminate millions of acres of wild horse habitat. Say you were sitting in a law school classroom taking an exam, […]
Andrew Cohen – Andrew Cohen is a contributing editor at The Atlantic and legal analyst for 60 Minutes. He is also chief analyst and legal editor for CBS Radio News and has won a Murrow Award as one of the nation’s leading legal analysts and commentators. More Meet […]
When outgoing Sen. Ben Nelson (D-Neb.) announced last month that he was pushing to reduce America’s national deficit by reducing “welfare ranching” in America’s heartland, so quiet was the political response in Washington that you could practically hear the crickets chirping along the Potomac. Undaunted, Sen. Nelson last Wednesday went one step further, announcing that he has introduced an eminently level-headed “Fair Grazing Fee” bill, designed to require the various agencies of the executive branch to charge market-level grazing fees for private ranchers who are running livestock on public land.
In March 2011, Lisa Friday’s video camera made a difference. On a late winter day, Friday visited a herd of wild horses penned at the Bureau of Land Management’s Butterfield/Herrimen holding facility in southwest Utah. What she saw there, and what she lawfully recorded, was appalling. “Never in my entire life have I seen animals in such squalor,” she said this past weekend from her home in Virginia. “There was no place for any horse to escape.”
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