photo: Caitlin Tobias/Flickr “BLM’s Winnemucca district manager Gene Seidlitz told the Gazette-Journal…’my staff and I have to be rested, well-nourished and accommodated to the bare minimum so we can ensure health, security and safety at the event.’ The ‘bare minimum’ apparently means ‘a 24-hour service bar […]
SOURCE: PEER.org
Forward by R.T. Fitch ~ Pres/Co-founder of Wild Horse Freedom Federation
“For the past several days I have been in a tizzy over the glamorization of the abusive and destructive horse racing ‘industry’ and last night several advocates reined me in and headed me back towards to wild horses and burros. Sorry, but when it comes to our equines I see no silos.
Crybaby, welfare, subsidized ranchers have been in the news, as of late, for suing the BLM for not, allegedly, upholding the letter of the law by stripping federally protected wild horses from their rightful public range. It’s all about entitlement and greed and what do the likes of these ‘ranchers’ do when things don’t go their way…they break the very laws that they have pledged to uphold.
The “nuisance” BLM is rounding up and removing more wild burros, with a population already at critically endangered low numbers here in the U.S. The BLM issued another Categorical Exclusion (CX). It seems that the BLM is doing more CXs than ever. The GAO issued a report in […]
by Grandma Gregg I don’t know about you, but I know in my heart that the 78 horses referred to in the Public Notice below were MY wild horses that had strayed off the Little Owyhee HMA, but were still on public land when they were captured by […]
“the only way for unvaccinated animals to catch equine influenza is to be around it” photo by Marjorie Farabee, Dir. Wild Burro Affairs, Wild Horse Freedom Federation SOURCE: havasunews.com BLM issues alert on equine influenza by KIM STEELE The best advice Darla Wright can give to the […]
The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) streamlines “uses” like mining that use huge amounts of water (while there is a drought in the West), yet cites the need to remove wild horses and burros to maintain a “thriving ecological balance.” Just one mine in Nevada, Barrick Gold’s Goldstrike […]
Please submit a comment in your own words, asking that the minimum rate per acre for oil and gas leasing be MUCH higher than $2 an acre, and ask the BLM to remove caps established by current regulations on civil penalties that may be assessed under the Federal […]
Information provided by The Cloud Foundation The BLM is seeking your comments on their proposal to remove “up to 25” young horses from the range starting this year. Cloud and Encore – photo by Carol Walker of Wild Horse Freedom FederationBackground: The Pryor Mountain Wild Horse Range (PMWHR […]
OpEd by Marjorie Farabee ~Director of Wild Burro Affairs at Wild Horse Freedom Federation Time is short; comments must be received by 5pm May 2, 2015 at BLM_AZ_KFOweb.@blm.gov or cbenson@blm.gov The burros have never had it easy with our government agencies. The fox is guarding the hen house […]
by Debbie Coffey, V.P. & Dir. of Wild Horse Affairs, Wild Horse Freedom Federation. Copyright 2015. All Rights Reserved. The BLM recently announced its new selections for the BLM National Wild Horse & Burro Advisory Board. BLM’s new pick for the category of veterinary medicine is: Julie M. […]
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