By Brian Maffly as published on The Salt Lake Tribune Over the objections of animal welfare advocates, the Bureau of Land Management plans to initiate a controversial program of surgically sterilizing female wild horses, starting in Utah as soon as this month with the planned roundup of the […]
By Mike Lowe as published on The Portland Press Herald The track, which opened with thoroughbred racing in 1950, has struggled through years of financial hardship and will hold its last harness racing card on Nov. 28. Scarborough Downs will hold its last live harness racing event on […]
by Carol Walker, first published on Wild Hoofbeats, sponsored by Wild Horse Freedom Federation Mares and foal in a family that is no longer free, one day before being captured The Red Desert Complex roundup is finally over. This was a continuation of a roundup that began in […]
by Carol Walker, first published on Wild Hoofbeats, funded and sponsored by Wild Horse Freedom Federation Across the road, behind our observation point, we cannot see the trap or the run up to the trap from here at the Red Desert Complex Roundup. This is not meaningful observation. […]
Documented by Carol Walker and first published on Wild Hoofbeats , sponsored and funded by Wild Horse Freedom Federation I am at the viewing site for the Red Desert roundup – it will be the last day for this area in Antelope Hills. It is a balmy 31 […]
Witnessed and written by Carol Walker as first published on Wild Hoofbeats, sponsored and funded by Wild Horse Freedom Federation I am waiting at the trap site for the helicopters to bring horses in on Day 2 in the Antelope Hills Herd Management Area in the Red Desert […]
by Carol Walker as published on Wild Hoofbeats A gorgeous and proud buckskin stallion runs as fast as he can, away Yesterday, 20 wild stallions and 46 wild mares were released back into Stewart Creek in the Red Desert Complex in Wyoming. The day before 24 stallions […]
by Carol Walker as published on Wild Hoofbeats On day 5 we had a day off due to wind – I of course spent it with the horses, and saw a rainbow behind a family that I knew. I hoped it would be a sign. There is another […]
by Carol Walker as published on Wild Hoofbeats The family that got away It is another morning a mile from the trap site waiting for the helicopter to chase the wild horses in Stewart Creek Wyoming. Yesterday 84 horses were captured, no injuries or deaths. We hope that […]
by Carol Walker as published on Wild Hoofbeats Looking Glass, Leopard Appaloosa stallion On Day 2 of the roundup, the wind was so severe that the helicopters could not fly. So I headed out to see the horses one last time. It was bittersweet. It was wonderful as […]
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