Tag: Bureau of Land Management

Two More Wild Horses Killed; BLM Goes Silent

Wild Horse Shootings Swept Under the Rug? May 14, 2014 Emails from 2 BLM employees:  1)    Winnemucca confirms they have been investigating: “We have been investigating the two horses killed along Highway 447, MM 49, for the past week. Doing a lot of outreach with the community and […]

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Comment: BLM Bible Springs Wild Horse EA; Bogus

An Open Letter and Comment form Grandma Gregg “True to form, the BLM is attempting to hoodwink the American public and justify their efforts to rip wild horses from their rightful land by conveniently “forgetting” to mention in their Bible Springs Complex Environmental Assessment that wild horses have […]

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BLM Caves to Utah Welfare Ranchers

By Brian Maffly| The Salt Lake Tribune Federally Subsidized Cow Farmers Claim more Rights than Public Wild Horses The federal Bureau of Land Management will likely clear most if not all the wild horses from a West Desert block of state land in July as part of a […]

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9th Circuit Condones BLM’s Destruction of Wild Horse and Burro Herds

“The BLM has definitely done a great smear campaign on our wild horses.” stated Rachel Fazio, advocate attorney, “To be honest reading this opinion it is as if we never wrote any briefs or researched any law – and never mind the actual facts- it is as if we weren’t even involved in the litigation at all. Half of our claims they didn’t even deal with, they didn’t address the prohibition on “capture, harassment, branding and death” – they just focused on the removal language; they got out from under the Principally language by at the 11th hour claiming that the Twin Peaks HMA wasn’t a range, even though the Act does not permit the creation of an HMA, only the creation of a range, and that Dahl v. Clark actually found that designation of an HMA was done pursuant to the range provision of the Act (ie HMA= range) – and of course the wink and a nod on the long-term holding; its on private lands.”

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