Source: The Republic.com “The BLM is forcing a crisis by stockpiling over 50,000 wild horses in holding facilities while pursuing the same failed management strategies” RENO, Nevada — Federal land managers say the drought is prompting plans to remove an unspecified number of wild horses from a large […]
Guest OpEd by Bonnie Kohleriter “I just work on wild horse and burro stuff” This past week the nation got a glimpse of the leadership for the Wild Horse and Burro Program within the Department of Interior (DOI). NBC aired a Today program, “ Wild, but not Free,” […]
Source: Elko Daily Free Press (Unedited) – less byline 1.8 Million Acres and an alleged 1,500 horses are too many? (120,000 acres per horse) ELKO — The Bureau of Land Management is planning a wild horse roundup in the Antelope Valley using water bail traps. The project area […]
Source: NBC News The government says Davis, who paid just $10 per head, was the biggest buyer ever of wild horses By Lisa Myers and Michael Austin NBC News The semis would rumble down country roads packed full of wild horses. Truckload after truckload, sometimes 36 horses at a […]
Source: By Dave Philipps as published in The Gazette.com Wild horse advocates believe they illegally went to slaughter After months of false starts, state authorities have opened a formal criminal investigation into Tom Davis, a southern Colorado wild horse buyer who admitted to breaking state laws while shipping […]
Source: By Allison Sherry ~ The Denver Post Mainstream Article, once again, skewed against wild horses and burros… WASHINGTON — New Interior Secretary Sally Jewell said Tuesday that she is still undecided about how to handle a burgeoning? wild horse and burro population that is eating more than […]
Source: Written by Mark Robison as published on RGJ.com The discrepancy seems to come about mostly from the counting of baby deaths. The number of horse deaths at the BLM’s Palomino Valley wild horse facility is vastly underreported, according to rendering receipts uncovered by a Freedom of Information […]
Source: By Nancy Lofholm of the Denver Post Spaying mares in the field would amount to “mutilation.” GRAND JUNCTION — The Bureau of Land Management has no new wild-horse roundups planned for the remainder of this year and, in that lull, will be researching a new population-control measure — […]
This is a trend that needs to be built upon!! According to a recent AP article it appears that Nevada politicians are pulling pages right out of Ripley’s Believe It or Not for America’s free roaming wild horses and burros by passing a resolution in their honor. The […]
Source: By Brett French of the Billings Gazette “Good Info from Dr. Kirkpatrick, Skewed view given by reporter!” “The management of wild horse herds and flourishing urban deer populations is so politically charged that science often gets pushed aside, said Jay Kirkpatrick, of the Billings-based Science and Conservation […]
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