Source: New York Times By Christopher Solomon You might not guess from looking at him that Rob Wielgus was until recently a tenured professor of wildlife ecology. Wielgus likes to spend time in the backwoods of the American West that lie off the edge of most tourist maps, and […]
THERE WOULD LIKELY BE WATER FOR WILD HORSES ON THIS HMA IF PRIVATELY OWNED LIVESTOCK WEREN’T USING IT UP. In the BLM Press release below, the BLM states “With a current population of approximately 2,160 wild horses, valuable resources have been depleted, affecting the health of those animals.” […]
Source: The Wildlife News By George Wuerthner In a March 26th Times News article, Karen Launchbaugh, a University of Idaho range professor, propagandized misleading ideas about livestock grazing. Like nearly all range professor, Ms. Launchbaugh, sees her job as promoting livestock grazing. I know because I studied range […]
Source: Pacific Standard How Welfare Ranchers Take Taxpayers for a Ride Ranchers on BLM land have 94 percent of their grazing costs covered by taxpayers. And they target wild horses for removal in order to preserve the rangeland that makes this financial windfall possible. (Photo: Franck Fife/AFP/Getty […]
Join us for Wild Horse Wednesdays®, this Wednesday, March 21, 2018 5:00 p.m. PST … 6:00 p.m. MST … 7:00 p.m. CST … 8:00 p.m. EST Listen to the archived show (HERE!) You can also listen to the show on your phone by calling (917) 388-4520. This show […]
Source: Buffalo Field Campaign Buffalo in the Gardiner Basin, in the vicinity of Yellowstone’s trap. BFC photo by Stephany Seay. Update from the Field: Wild Buffalo Running Out of Safe Places Yellowstone is gearing up to capture wild buffalo in the Gardiner Basin. Park employees were seen putting […]
Join us for Wild Horse Wednesdays®, for a special show on Friday, Jan. 19, 2018 4:00 p.m. PST … 5:00 p.m. MST … 6:00 p.m. CST … 7:00 p.m. EST Listen to the archived show (HERE!) You can also listen to the show on your phone by calling […]
Researcher Marybeth Devlin has corrected the misinformation in an OpEd in the Daily Caller, found HERE. This inaccurate OpEd, titled “It’s Five Minutes To Midnight: The Wild Horse And Burro Tragedy,” more aptly should’ve been titled “It’s Five Minutes to Bullshit: Let’s Ignore The Livestock Grazing Tragedy on […]
ACTION ALERT! by Debbie Coffey, V.P. & Dir. of Wild Horse Affairs, Wild Horse Freedom Federation The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) changed the Seaman and White River wild horse Herd Management Areas into Herd Areas in 2008. Now, this proposed BLM Environmental Assessment (EA) is a 10 […]
photo: Western Watersheds Project Please sign this petition HERE. SOURCE: Petitions.whitehouse.gov We the people ask the federal government to Call on Congress to act on an issue: Livestock Grazing on Public Lands Rectify the Heavy Impact Created by T.B. on November 23, 2017 Sign This Petition Needs 99,602 […]
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