June 2016 Report by: Jesica Johnston, Environmental Scientist and Grandma Gregg, Environmental Researcher Photographs by Jesica Johnston Introduction I wish I was in the high desert with our wild horses and burros this very minute … but, I am sitting here at the computer and trying to think […]
Report Compiled by: Jesica Johnston, Environmental Scientist Lisa LeBlanc, Environmental Researcher Kathy Gregg, Environmental Researcher Photographs by Jesica Johnston “FEW AND FAR BETWEEN” Introduction Wild horses and burros are different from their domestic cousins. Wild equines have to continually learn and adapt to the constantly changing environment directed […]
“Independent Field Reporters, Kathy Gregg and Jesica Johnston, have been back to Twin Peaks HMA on behalf of our wild equines. Their report, below, is both beautiful and heart rending in the way in which it is presented. Many thanks to these intrepid reporters and please spread the word […]
“The BLM has definitely done a great smear campaign on our wild horses.” stated Rachel Fazio, advocate attorney, “To be honest reading this opinion it is as if we never wrote any briefs or researched any law – and never mind the actual facts- it is as if we weren’t even involved in the litigation at all. Half of our claims they didn’t even deal with, they didn’t address the prohibition on “capture, harassment, branding and death” – they just focused on the removal language; they got out from under the Principally language by at the 11th hour claiming that the Twin Peaks HMA wasn’t a range, even though the Act does not permit the creation of an HMA, only the creation of a range, and that Dahl v. Clark actually found that designation of an HMA was done pursuant to the range provision of the Act (ie HMA= range) – and of course the wink and a nod on the long-term holding; its on private lands.”
Twin Peaks Report from Kathy Gregg, Environmental Researcher and Craig C. Downer, Wildlife Ecologist, A.B., M.S., Ph.D. Candidature Photographs by Craig Downer There are no “excess” wild horses and burros on their legally designated land. Although a very few wild horses and burros were seen, the best way […]
Exclusive report from “Grandma” Gregg, Environmental Researcher and Jesica Johnston, B.A., M.A in Biology and Environmental Planning “The forage has grown back from last summer’s fire and there is an abundance of food…” Last weekend several experienced wildlife observers with binoculars and long-distance camera lens thoroughly combed 77 […]
The Twin Peaks HMA court case is “alive and well” and the hearing has been set for August 29th, 2013 at 2:00 p.m. in Pasadena, CA at the 9th Circuit courthouse located at 125 South Grand Avenue, Pasadena CA. Directions can be found on the 9th Circuit website […]
Open Letter from Wild Horse Freedom Federation to the BLM To: BLM_CA_Eagle_Lake_FO_Email@blm.gov, kcollum@blm.gov and d65wilso@blm.gov Wild Horse Freedom Federation submits the following comments: Wild Horse Freedom Federation is urging no action (Alternative B) until a complete EA in compliance with NEPA or an EIS is submitted for public review. […]
Submitted by “Ace“, the Twin Peaks Wild Stallion and personal friend of Grandma Greg’s I often warmly think about the “good old days” when hundreds of we wild ones roamed free… “It’s ‘Feel Good Sunday’ and I awoke, today, to find a letter from a captured, yet now […]
This plan signals the end of California’s last viable herd The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Eagle Lake office is proposing to remove 600 wild horses plus burros from the Twin Peaks HMA. They are claiming that there are currently 950 horses on the 800,000 acre HMA. A […]
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