Wild Horses and Burros: An Update Seen Through the Eyes of One Biologist
“In a desperate attempt to curb the devastating roundups many advocates are succumbing to the pressure of the BLM to utilize the PZP contraceptive on our wild horses.”
Court Grants Wild Horse Advocates Right to Intervene in State of Wyoming Anti-Mustang Lawsuit
Under the current Administration, the BLM has rounded up so many wild horses that the number of mustangs stockpiled in government warehouses (nearly 50,000) now exceeds the number that remain free in the wild (under 40,000). On Monday, January 5, 2015, the U.S. District Court for the District […]
BLM Issues Deadly Permit for Wolf Derby
Source: The Teton Valley News “The BLM’s self-righteous propensity to play God over the native creatures of our public lands stretches far beyond the destruction of our wild horses and burros but all the way to the very predators that would naturally regulate the herds, IF they even […]
ADVOCATES ASK FEDERAL COURT TO DISMISS UTAH RANCHERS’ ANTI-MUSTANG LAWSUIT
“Their lawsuit is an attempt to elevate ranchers’ private interests in grazing livestock on public lands above the public’s interest in preserving wild horses and the government’s mandatory duty to protect them.” SALT LAKE CITY, UT (October 22, 2014)…. Today, the American Wild Horse Preservation Campaign (AWHPC), The […]
Horseback Protest Targets BLM, but Environmentalists Say Whoa
By John M. Glionna as published in the LA Times “The sneering whine of self-serving profiteering is heard across the plains as a band of welfare ranchers plods along a trail to D.C. to protest an attempt to save the public land on which their private cattle graze […]
NEVADA RANCHERS SUFFER FROM SELF-DELUDED DROUGHT DENIAL
Press Release from Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility “The Blogosphere is still roiling over the New York Time’s article, written by Dave Philipps, dissing wild equines and cozening up to federally subsidized welfare ranchers who feel they are ‘entitled’ to turn a profit with their private cows on […]
Checkerboard Wild Horse Roundup Day 11: The Carnage Continues
Eye-Witness Report by Carol Walker ~ Director of Field Documentation for Wild Horse Freedom Federation “The rider throws a loop and catches the foal, who bucks when he feels the rope then as it grows taut he is thrown to the ground…” We are about 20 miles in […]
Opinion: Wild Horses, Deception and the Despicable Feds
OpEd by R.T. Fitch ~ president/co-founder of Wild Horse Freedom Federation This past week proved to be a very dark day in Dodge Almost a half a decade ago myself, my wife Terry and a team of competent, animal law attorneys huddled in conference calls and discussed multiple […]
BLM Stoops To Low Bargain Basement Fees for Public Lands
I thought it was bad enough when the BLM was charging $2 an acre for oil and gas leases, but now I see (from the Elko Daily news article below) that the BLM is leasing public lands for bargain basement fees of $1.50 an acre. And for NONCOMPETITIVE […]
Wyoming Gov Says Wild Horses Are Stealing from School Children
forward by R.T. Fitch – Pres/Co-founder of Wild Horse Freedom Federation Several Hundred Horses Guilty of Starving Millions of Government Subsidized, Private Welfare Cattle “If dumb could dumber it just occurred in the State of Wyoming as Governor Mead crawled into bed with the state’s welfare ranchers by […]
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