Release Date: 12/07/12 Contacts: Tom Gorey, 202-912-7420 Several Herds Get a Stay of Capture Others Will Lose Their Freedom The Bureau of Land Management today announced updates to its tentative fall-winter schedule for gathering wild horses and burros from overpopulated herds on drought-stricken Western public rangelands. Changes from the previous gather […]
By R.T. Fitch ~ volunteer president/co-founder of Wild Horse Freedom Federation Nevada to be Branded “Animal Cruelty State” in Court of US Public Opinion “Yesterday we ran a brief story with photos of a 3 week old foal being abused at a Nevada Department of Agriculture bait trap […]
Update by R.T. Fitch ~ volunteer president/co-founder of Wild Horse Freedom Federation Photos Show Ag Department Cruelty Reno Wild Horse Advocates are not only outraged by the Nevada Department of Agriculture’s war against the Virgina Range horses but also the documented cruelty exhibited with the manhandling of the […]
By JAN FALSTAD Billings Gazette “Leachman has blamed everyone else for not taking care of his horses…” BILLINGS – After the longest trial in Yellowstone County Justice Court history, a jury found Billings livestock breeder James Leachman guilty on Tuesday evening of all five counts of abusing his […]
11 News Grand Junction Colorado Once Alive on the Range Now Dead in BLM Hands A mystery is unfolding at a wild horse inmate program facility in Cañon City. Bureau of Land Management officials discovered 19 wild horses dead in a pen Monday. Several other horses in the […]
By Gary Goldstein of the Los Angeles Times “…a revealing, disturbing look at how political and corporate forces have seemingly undermined the freedom and safety of our nation’s equine population.” The documentary “Saving America’s Horses: A Nation Betrayed” unpacks the complex and, what may be for many, under-the-radar […]
Story by Brad Carl of Billings’ KULR8.com Graphic Images Shock the Courtroom BILLINGS – James Leachman, who operated a ranch on the Crow Reservation, has been charged with multiple accounts of animal abuse for five horses that he owned on his property. On Wednesday, the prosecution called in witnesses […]
Call to Action from American Wild Horse Preservation.org BLM Plans to “ZERO OUT” and Destroy Two Unique Wild Horse Herds Public Comment Deadline: December 7, 2012 Taking its marching orders from Wyoming’s powerful livestock industry, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is planning the second roundup in less than three […]
Posted in AmmoLand ~unedited Hunting Club Shows Disdain for Native Wild Equines Washington –-(Ammoland.com)- Safari Club International (SCI) defeated the animal rights group In Defense of Animals in a major court battle over management of feral populations of horses in accordance with federal law. On November 15, 2012, […]
as printed in the Colorado Springs Gazette Secretary of the Department of the Interior; “I’ll Punch You OUT!” U.S. Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar said Tuesday he “regrets” threatening to punch a Gazette reporter for asking him last week about problems in the government’s wild horse program. […]
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