Tag: USDA

BLM’s National Wild Horse & Burro Advisory Board meeting Sept. 23-24 via Zoom Video Conferencing and live-stream

If you can stomach another perfect example of “regulatory capture,” you can watch the Bureau of Land Management’s National Wild Horse & Burro Advisory Board meeting – stacked with appointed board members favoring livestock grazing interests (not the interests of wild horses & burros on public lands). The […]

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Court: Feds Failed to Fully Assess Risks of Killing Thousands of Animals a Year in Idaho

Source: Western Watersheds Project “USDA’s Wildlife Services should have more carefully considered its proposed predator-killing activities’ impacts on the environment…” BOISE, Idaho— In a powerful rebuke, a federal judge ruled U.S. agency that kills thousands of animals a year in Idaho failed to adequately analyze the environmental risks of shooting, […]

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Agreement Paves Way for Export of U.S. Horses to China

Source:  bloodhorse.com Ky. Agriculture Commissioner Quarles praises resumption of equine exports to China. Terry Branstad and Zhi Shuping after signing of an accord that allows the resumption of U.S. equine exports to China.  Kentucky Agriculture Commissioner Ryan Quarles (center) and KTA-KTOB executive director Chauncey Morris (left of Quarles) […]

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