The writer of the article below claims “There’s a wild horse problem in New Mexico…” however, this person apparently didn’t bother to look up any data to back up her claims, since even according to the Bureau of Land Management’s wild horse population estimates, there are only 168 […]
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“A Senate Joint Memorial wants the U.S. Department of Interior to better manage a growing wild horse population even if that means euthanasia and unrestricted sales to people who might haul the animals off to meat-packing plants in Mexico…”
Dave Tomlin, Ruidoso News “members are not matters of public record and are entitled to confidentiality…” State attorneys for the New Mexico Livestock Board have asked District Judge Dan Bryant to order the Wild Horse Observers Association to name all of its members in Lincoln County. The Board’s […]
Dianne L Stallings , Ruidoso News “Wild Horse Advocates fear new provisions could lead to the elimination of wild herds…” Local advocates for wild horse herds in New Mexico piled into a bus at 3:30 a.m. Thursday and headed to Santa Fe to voice their views on an […]
Ruidoso News report The judge in the Alto wild horse case has extended the temporary restraining order that bars the state Livestock Board from selling or separating the dozen mares and foals they seized in August. The extension has little practical effect, since the Board long since shipped […]
by Dianne L Stallings, Ruidoso News “My biggest advice to the community is that our stance is that these horses are wild,” The Alto “wild” horse herd was delivered quietly back to Lincoln County Tuesday, ending a month’s battle between herd advocates and officials with the New Mexico […]
By Dave Tomlin / Ruidoso News, N.M. (TNS) as published in the Albuquerque Journal “How does the Livestock Board distinguish this herd from the Placitas herd in the Court of Appeals case?” As the lawyer for the New Mexico Livestock Board stood before him last week, District Judge […]
Dianne L Stallings, Ruidoso News ““Per the judge’s encouragement, they have agreed to release the horses to someone in Ruidoso…” A discussion about returning 12 members of the wild horse herd of Alto is underway between officials with the New Mexico Livestock Board and members of a group […]
By Dianne L. Stallings as published on The Santa Fe New Mexican “n 2014, a horse from the herd labeled as a nuisance was sold at auction for $42.59 by a business already charged with several counts of misdemeanor animal cruelty. Documents indicate he probably was sent to […]
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