21 Alleged Stray Horses Killed in Wyoming
Unedited article from The Casper Star-Tribune “Have Wyoming’s Welfare Ranchers Raised the Bar on their Wild Horse War?” THERMOPOLIS — The U.S. Bureau of Land Management says it’s investigating the killing of 21 stray horses on federal and state land northwest of Thermopolis. A BLM spokesperson said the […]
“Data Trespass,” Wyoming’s Fancy Name for Ag-Gag
By Sue Udry, Dissent NewsWire | Op-Ed Jonathan Ratner tests water. He visits streams in Wyoming, takes samples and tests it for E. coli. He’s been testing streams for years, concerned that waste from Wyoming’s 1.3 million cattle is polluting streams. And it is. Ratner sends his results to the […]
Greedy welfare ranchers dictating public land use…Wyoming wild horse roundups to begin
PLAINTIFF Carol Walker, Dir. of Field Documentation for Wild Horse Freedom Federation writes: BLM is being “very vague even about when they will allow public observation, saying it depends upon weather, if it is on private land or not, and told us they will inform us the night […]
The U.N. and “Livestock’s Long Shadow”
Original Story by Debbie Coffey from the PPJ Gazette Wild Horses Degrading the Range: Neigh or more accurately, MOO! In 2006, the United Nation’s Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and Livestock Environment and Development (LEAD), supported by US AID and the World Bank, put out a 416 page […]
Wild Horses in Nevada Catch a Break
Update: SFTHH has just received a phone call that the Nevada Legislators did not pass the controversial bill AB329 which would have stripped wild horses and burros of their “wildlife” classification and left them without access to water in the one of the country’s most arid states.
Nevada Welfare Ranchers Cannot Compute the Wild Horse Debate
Don’t stop me if you’ve heard this one before.
A horse walks into a bar.
The bartender comes over and says, “Why the long face?”
Who knows, maybe the equine was a mustang that had just heard about AB329, the malodorous pile of legislation that should be drawing flies and instead is attracting bipartisan support from Nevada elected officials who should know better. An element of the legislation, which has already passed a vote in the Assembly by a wide margin, changes the definition of “wildlife” to included “any wild animal, wild bird, reptile amphibian, mollusk or crustacean naturally found in a wild state whether indigenous to Nevada or not and whether raised in captivity or not. The term does not include any horse or burro.”
Straight from the Horse's Heart 
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