Wild Horse Round Ups, Showing the Truth features Peter Coyote, Michael Blake (Author of Dances With Wolves) and Ginger Kathrens telling of the tragedy facing America’s Wild Horses & Burros from the Bureau Of Land Management.
Managing to Extinction is what is happening to our cherished symbol of Freedom, the American Wild Horse.
Wild horse advocate and Producer of ” Wild Horses and Renegades” James Kleinert and renowned rock band U2 have combined forces to produce a “call to action” public service announcement highlighting the horrendous eradication program waged against America’s native wild horses by the Obama Administration’s Bureau of Land Management (BLM). Straight from the Horse’s Heart is proud to be one of the exclusive websites that have been given the right to post this most moving and stirring piece of video art and music.
Phoenix, AZ (March 6, 2011)— The Cloud Foundation, Respect4Horses, The Habitat for Horses Advisory Council, Grassroots Horse, and American Wild Horse Advocates will hold a special press conference on the current state of America’s mismanaged wild horses and burros. Groups are calling for an immediate halt to all Bureau of Land Management (BLM) roundups that are destroying the last of America’s wild herds at enormous and escalating taxpayer expense. The media and the interested public are encouraged to attend this public press conference at the Phoenix Sheraton Downtown Hotel (340 N. 3rd street) from 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. on Thursday, March 10th.
ROCK SPRINGS, Wyo. – The Bureau of Land Management is planning to scale back its program to round up wild horses as the federal government looks to cut $2 million from the agency’s budget.
March 10th and 11th the Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM) Advisory Board will be meeting at the Sheraton Phoenix Downtown Hotel, 340 N. 3rd Street , Phoenix, AZ 85004 to further cloud the facts and accelerate the demise of our national icons in accordance with the whims of the special interests that make up the board. This meeting, with your help, will not go quietly into the night.
During the final days of the Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM) “scorched earth” wild horse eradication program on Northern Nevada’s public lands private cattle were being quickly herded onto the same range that native, wild horses were cruelly removed from just hours before.
Wells, NV – On Friday, Feb. 25 the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) abruptly canceled the controversial wild horse roundup in Northern Nevada known as the Antelope Complex, while the following day the agency released twenty chemically sterilized mares and two studs back onto their federally protected public lands, nine had been released earlier in the roundup.
The controversial Antelope Complex wild horse stampede was concluded on the 25th of Feb with nearly 1,400 federally protected wild horses removed from their rightful land with the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) releasing 20 chemically sterilized mares and 2 studs back to the HMA the size of Rhode Island on Feb 26th.
Raw Video by R.T. Fitch ~ Author/Director of HfH Advisory Council A Video is Worth a Thousand Words (Antelope Stampede 2/21/2011) BLM says their contractors do NOT stampede wild horses, you be the judge! (Raw) Minutes after being stampeded wild horses cruelly loaded into trailers (Raw) Related […]
Brutal captures and deaths of American wild horses are occurring on the range. This is not a fictional western gone bad but federal policy. The government tries to justify this cruelty with junk science and is sheltered in its actions by procedural barriers and judicial deference. For nearly four decades, federal contractors have been capturing wild horses and burros across the western United States under the guise of “management” pursuant to the Wild Free-Roaming Horses and Burros Act.[1] The horses are often chased down by helicopters, sometimes for miles through rough terrain in the heat of summer, lassoed, and forced to the ground and then into trailers.
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