Source: Los Angeles Times “County commissioners in the rural American West possess the daunting authority of Afghan warlords, it’s been said. They wield their power by demanding federal agencies do their bidding in the vast expanse of public lands in which the counties are embedded.” By STEPHEN TRIMBLE County […]
BLM Announces Plan to Destroy the Onaqui Mountain Wild Horse Herd in 2019 By Carol J. Walker, Director of Field Documentation, Wild Horse Freedom Federation Yesterday the BLM issued a press release on its Decision Record for the Onaqui Mountain Wild Horse Herd in Utah. The BLM says […]
While allowing only 40-60 wild horses, the BLM will allow these numbers of privately owned livestock on public lands (remember that the BLM counts a cow/calf pair as only one animal, so the cattle numbers will double). 40-60 wild horses is not a high enough number for a […]
Join us for Wild Horse Wednesdays®, Wed., July 18, 2018 6:00 p.m. PST … 7:00 p.m. MST … 8:00 p.m. CST … 9:00 p.m. EST Listen to the archived show (HERE!) You can also listen to the show on your phone by calling (917) 388-4520, or call in to […]
Report of the Axtell Wild Horse and Burro Feedlot Annual Tour By Carol J. Walker, Dir. of Field Documentation for Wild Horse Freedom Federation On Thursday July 12 I was able to tour the Axtell, Utah BLM Holding Facility and see some of the wild horses that had been rounded […]
Please Comment by July 12 on the BLM’s plans to remove 90% of the Onaqui Herd in Utah This Fall By Carol Walker, Director of Field Documentation, Wild Horse Freedom Federation The Bureau of Land Management has issued a plan to remove 90% of the wild horses currently […]
Horses eat as officials from the BLM’s Wild Horse and Burro Program show the 32-acre off-range corral Monday, Sept. 14, 2015, in Axtell, Sanpete County. The property is owned and operated by Kerry Despain and his family. (Photo: Scott G Winterton, Deseret News) It seems that the BLM’s […]
By Laura M. Holson as published in The New York Times Paleontologists recently determined that a skeleton discovered during a landscaping project belonged to a horse from the Pleistocene Era. The horse had arthritis when it died. It is possible, too, that it had bone cancer in one […]
By Meteor Blades as published on The Daily KOS “…there was heavy lobbying in favor of reducing the monument’s acreage by the owner of the nation’s only remaining uranium mill. …” Secretary of Interior Ryan “Dinky” Zinke has made it a point to declare that energy concerns had […]
Note: The BLM has set the AML (Appropriate Management Level) for the Conger HMA in Utah (170,993 acres) at ONLY 40-80 wild horses – not even a viable herd number. How many stallions are they going to geld? (Photo: BLM) From BLM News Release: BLM to begin […]
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