Tag: Forest Service

Horse advocates want to save Heber herd

SOURCE: azcentral.com by  Brenna Goth, The Republic Mustangs canter across land in the Apache-Sitgreaves National Forests. The U.S. Forest Service says that there are several hundred horses in the area and argues that the population isn’t wild and needs to be controlled. (Photo: Photos by Tom Tingle/The Republic) HEBER-OVERGAARD […]

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This Land Not Really Ours

By SHERMAN FREDERICK as published in the LAS VEGAS REVIEW-JOURNAL “With the BLM and Forest Service out of control and playing God as they mismanage our wild equines into oblivion, this OpEd sincerely struck home and indicates that it is not just wild horse and burro advocates who […]

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Don’t Fence Cloud’s Herd In!

The Custer National Forest awarded a contract on August 6, 2010. It calls for the building of new, bigger, stronger, longer fence to prevent the Pryor Wild Horse Herd from grazing on their mid-summer through fall pastures atop their mountain home. The first question I am always asked is “Why?” To answer honestly, I am not sure what is pushing this kind of expensive and unwanted project. But, to even try to answer the question requires a bit of a history lesson.

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