The Bureau of Land Management Lays Out the Plan to Manage Wild Horses and Burros to Extinction By Debbie Coffey and Carol Walker, Wild Horse Freedom Federation 4/30/18 The BLM has submitted a report to Congress “Management Options for a Sustainable Wild Horse and Burro Program” with […]
By George Wuerthner as published on The Wildlife News The Idaho BLM is implementing what is sometimes called “targeted grazing” with livestock in an effort to reduce large wildfires. The theory is that if livestock graze enough of the “fuel”, then large wildfires like the 600,000 Murphy Complex […]
From Wild Horse Freedom Federation The Bureau of Land Management just released its plan to Congress for managing wild horses and burros on our public lands. The options offered in this report would not lead to sustainability but instead would lead directly to the extinction of wild horses […]
by Chris Madson as published on HATCH America’s public domain was saved from the excesses of business by visionaries America’s public domain was saved from the excesses of business by visionaries. It was set aside for all the people. That’s how it should remain. It was the culmination […]
By Erik Molvar as published on The Hill Welfare Ranching is EXACTLY that!!! Recently, the Hage family of central Nevada has become the poster boy for ranchers supposedly victimized by federal law enforcement. But far from being victims of a repressive federal bureaucracy, the Hage family demonstrates the […]
When these “working” wild horses & burros “retire,” will they end up in the slaughter pipeline? Will there be little oversight of the final disposition of these transferred wild horses and burros? Source: BLM Transfer of Excess Wild Horses and Burros to Federal, State, and Local Government Agencies […]
NOTE: The link to documents in the BLM notice below isn’t working. Here is a working link to the planning documents: https://eplanning.blm.gov/epl-front-office/eplanning/planAndProjectSite.do?methodName=renderDefaultPlanOrProjectSite&projectId=93501&dctmId=0b0003e880e86803 News Release Utah State Office FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: April 20, 2018 Media Contact: Lisa Reid (435) 743-3128 BLM seeks public comment of Environmental Analysis for Wild […]
A special feature article on Straight from the Horse’s Heart: (Photo: BLM) Beatys Butte is a Herd Management Area (HMA) of wild horses in SE Oregon. With 437,000 acres, the AML, the appropriate management level of allowed wild horses on that acreage, is set at 100-250. The program […]
Source: The Wild Horse Conspiracy Kiger Mustang HMA, Oregon 10/2017. Photo copyright Craig C. Downer 2017 Craig C. Downer, wildlife ecologist, has issued a report, including research by Marybeth Devlin, on 5 wild horse herds and Herd Management Areas in Oregon. These include the South Steens HMA, Kiger […]
By Charlie Booher as published on Wildlife.org “The status quo still isn’t working for our wild horses and burros, the ecology on the range, or the American taxpayers” When Congress passed the omnibus appropriations bill last month, legislators included a mandate for the Bureau of Land Management to […]
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