By George Knapp , Matt Adam as published on LasVegasNow.com “You take the hatred of horses aside, there is no good reason why anybody should be opposed to this here, or anywhere else,” LAS VEGAS – A California businesswoman who invested $25 million in creating a tourist attraction […]
Story by I-Team’s George Knapp on LasVegasNow.com A dozen or more wild mustangs at a preserve in Elko County died of thirst after someone disabled all of their water sources. A reward of $100,000 is being offered for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the persons […]
SOURCE: Elko Daily Free Press “It seems wild horse advocates aren’t the only American taxpayers having problems with BLM employees overstepping their authority. This story is being posted for a few laughs, since this is supposedly the Bureau of Land Management, and a BLM ranger didn’t seem to have GPS or […]
ELKO, Nev. —An Elko County commissioner and longtime critic of environmental restrictions on federal lands says a proposed eco-sanctuary for hundreds of wild horses in northeast Nevada will damage the range and could put some ranchers out of business.
LAS VEGAS — With all the financial trouble Nevada is in, you might think state lawmakers would welcome a project that will bring millions of dollars to the state and attract tourists from around the world.
Mrs. Pickens, wife of Texas billionaire T. Boone Pickens, caused an uproar when she proposed the Bureau of Land Management let her fence off more than 500,000 acres of federal land to create a sanctuary for wild horses near a 14,000-acre ranch she bought in October.
Madeleine Pickens’, wife of Texas billionaire T. Boone Pickens, spoke before the Elko County Commission, last Wednesday, in an effort to clarify her intentions to turn her recently purchased 14,000 acre ranch into a wild horse sanctuary only to be rebuffed by a heavily “prejudicial thumbs” down.
Wild horses and burros are being systematically destroyed in the USA by the government agency, Bureau of Land Management, (BLM) and the powers that be and the public at large are turning a blind eye. Despite the fervent and passionate work of thousands of committed animal rights activists, the mainstream media remains on the sidelines, mute.
By Maureen Harmonay ~ Equine Advocacy Examiner BLM Helicopter Stampede Casualties Continue to Mount An independent observer who recently returned from scouting the Herd Area in north Elko County, Nevada where the Owyhee portion of the Tuscarora Gather took place has photographic evidence that one of the wild […]
WASHINGTON, D.C. July 27, 2010 – The American Wild Horse Preservation Campaign (AWHPC), which is supported by a coalition of more than 40 public interest, historic preservation and horse advocacy organizations, today supplemented the ongoing Department of Interior Office of Inspector General (OIG) review of the Bureau of Land Management (BLM)’s wild horse and burro program. AWHPC filed a complaint outlining the BLM’s negligence in the conduct of the Tuscarora roundup in northeastern Nevada.
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