By : William E. Simpson II Native species American wild horses are vanishing from the American landscape at an unprecedented rate. Why? Under guidance from the Department of Interior (‘DOI’) Secretary Deb Haaland and executed by the Bureau of Land Management (‘BLM’), wild horses are being rounded up […]
by Dr. Don Moore as published on The Herald Times “Many have spent years of blood, sweat and tears to protect this herd, especially the Moores…” ~ R.T. Dear Editor: The Bureau of Land Management should never be allowed to arbitrarily select wild horse herds for roundup and […]
by Carol Walker as published on Wild Hoofbeats The Bureau of Land Management has announced its plans to roundup and remove an additional 6000 wild horses from our public lands citing drought as the reason behind declaring “emergency roundups.” With an emergency roundup, the Bureau of Land Management […]
Sources: Multiple The alleged emergency roundups that began Sunday and Monday target about 6,000 additional animals primarily in Nevada, Oregon and Colorado The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) has begun efforts to capture and remove 50% more wild horses than they originally planned this year on public land […]
Source: PEER.org 40 Million Acres Fail Minimum Federal Standards for Rangeland Health Washington, DC — President Biden’s goal of conserving 30 percent of our lands and waters by 2030 faces a major obstacle of the government’s own making – badly overgrazed federal range land. A minimum of 40 […]
Source: Peer.org Worst in West: Two-Thirds of Assessed BLM Allotments Badly Overgrazed Washington, DC — Federal rangeland in Nevada is being seriously damaged from overgrazing at a higher rate than any state in the West, according to a new analysis of U.S. Bureau of Land Management (BLM) data […]
By Priscilla Feral as published on The Salt Lake Tribune The Salt Lake City Tribune reported that the Bureau of Land Management ripped 435 wild horses from Utah’s Onaqui Herd Management Area after forcibly drugging them with fertility control for years. The agency spared the elder statesman of […]
by Mary Koncel & Charlotte Roe as published on The Washington Examiner Among the most amazing animals of the desert are wild burros. Yet in the past three years, the Bureau of Land Management has removed more than 5,000 of them from their federally designated habitat. This year, […]
by William E Simpson II as published on The Pagosa Daily Post “Congress finds and declares that wild free-roaming horses and burros are living symbols of the historic and pioneer spirit of the West…” According to a November, 2020, article in The Aspen Times, the US Bureau of […]
by William E. Simpson II as published on ValueWalk American Wild Horses Are Arguably Worse-Off Today A recent article at Reason, titled ‘Predictably, Wild Horses Are Still Suffering Due to Federal Slaughter Ban’ stated that, “Turns out that basing animal rights policy on the strong feelings of animal […]
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