The Cloud Foundation questions the need to develop seven new preserves in the mid-west and east (at an estimated initial cost of $96 million) when there are 19.4 million acres of designated wild horse and burro of rangelands that have been taken away from them since 1971.
by Steven Long, editor of Horseback Magazine HOUSTON (Horseback) The Bureau of Land Management confirmed today that Cloud, a wild horse beloved by millions of fans of the PBS series “Nature” is injured. Horseback Magazine asked Billings, Montana Field Manager Jim Sparks if the agency sent someone up […]
by Terry and R.T. Fitch Over the Labor Day Weekend of 2009 the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) bumbled an ill-conceived and mismanage round up of the world famous “Cloud’s Herd” of the Pryor Mountains in Montana. Ignoring their studies and the advice of experts they stampeded horses […]
Update on Pryor Mountain Herd auction from The Cloud Foundation All 57 either adopted or sold to good homes. 4 bands of Forest Service horses, 15 total including Floyd and Conquistador and his mare will be kept together at ranch of Laura Pivonka. Ember and Image get to […]
While Americans on holiday, Labor Day weekend round up decimates herd as winter arrives LOVELL, WY –September 26, 2009 – On Saturday at noon, 57 wild horses from the Pryor Mountain Wild Mustang Herd, made famous in part by the PBS Nature documentaries, will be auctioned off to […]
by R.T. Fitch in Horseback Magazine Author and activist R.T. Fitch and his wife Terry spent six days on Montana’s Pryor Mountain during the BLM roundup of the wild horses there. The following is his take on what transpired. MAGNOLIA, TX (Horseback) – Cloud, the world’s most famous […]
by R.T. Fitch and Elyse Gardner Elyse Gardner served as the “Humane Observer” for the horses during Cloud’s round up. Being a true professional, Elyse would ask pointed questions during the daily operations briefing conducted by the BLM and overseen by field agent, Jim Sparks. Daily she would […]
by “Mustang Jack” More Mustangate! I have been saying it all along! The BLM,US Forest Service,US Fish Game and Wildlife,and the United States Geographical Science service, donot have a specific formula to determine accurate AUM’s (Animal Unit Month).For those of you who do not know what an AUM […]
by R.T. Fitch Mustangate; Yet another chapter It appears that the more you study the BLM’s bumbled round-up of Cloud’s herd in the Pryor Mountains the more it just doesn’t look, taste or smell right. Every action, each flawed decision leaves an after taste of possible corruption, collusion […]
Considering the occurrences of the past week it is heart wrenching to view this preview of PBS’s upcoming premier of Emmy Award winning cinematographer Ginger Kathrens’s third Wild Horse installment, Cloud: Challenge of the Stallions.
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