Tag: National Academy of Science

Groups seek protection for North American Wild Horses under Endangered Species Act

“Misclassification of wild horses as a non-native species is politically, not scientifically driven,” June 10, 2014 – Friends of Animals (FoA) and The Cloud Foundation have filed a petition with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to list North American wild horses on public lands as threatened or endangeredunder the Endangered Species Act […]

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Report: WILD HORSE POPULATION GROWTH

Research Collaboration by: Kathleen Gregg Environmental Researcher Lisa LeBlanc Environmental Researcher Jesica Johnston Environmental Scientist April 25, 2014 INTRODUCTION The recent National Academy of Science (NAS) report on the Wild Horse and Burro Program determined that the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) has no evidence of excess wild […]

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Western Wild Horses Shipped to Oklahoma

Unedited Source: Reported by: Janna Clark for Fox23.com “It’s tragic. So many animals killed. Babies vanish…” The government is spending your money — millions — to protect wild horses and bring them to Oklahoma. But it’s how those horses got here that’s causing concern. Horses you can see as […]

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BLM Wild Horse Petting Zoo

While we can be thankful that Rich and Jana Wilson of the Deerwood Ranch seem to be kind, to genuinely like the horses on their private property, and to make an effort to give many tours to visitors – and don’t have $1,200 a night tipis on their […]

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George Knapp: The BLM is Not Listening

Source: George Knapp as published on Las Vegas City Lights The BLM’s virtually unstoppable plan to round up the few wild horses that remain in Southern Nevada comes less than two weeks after the wild horse program was described as abysmal failure in a study conducted for the […]

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