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BLM Caves to Utah Welfare Ranchers

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By Brian Maffly| The Salt Lake Tribune Federally Subsidized Cow Farmers Claim more Rights than Public Wild Horses The federal Bureau of Land Management will likely clear most if not all the wild horses from a West Desert block of state land in July as part of a […]

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9th Circuit Condones BLM’s Destruction of Wild Horse and Burro Herds

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“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.”

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A Lone Voice from the Utah Desert: “Save our Wild Horses”

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Down and dirty; our Wild Horse Freedom Federation office line received a phone call yesterday that went something like this, “Howdy, my name is ‘John D. Taxpayer’ and I live in Utah where the dang cattlemen and crooked politicians are doing everything in their power to sweep the last of our state’s wild horses right off from the map and no one is listening to me. They need to stop and listen to the rest of us taxpayers who grew up with the horses and love the beauty they bring to our wild lands. Will you call me back, please? Will you listen to me? Can you help me so that I can help the horses? Please!”

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V. Eckhoff: Former Forbes Reporter + S. Forbes: Cow Farmer = FIRED?

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The word is out across the Blogosphere; Forbes’ equine “in your face” reporter Vickery Eckhoff was canned just days after writing an insightful article critical of the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) and their good ole boy “ Welfare Ranchers “and only hours before speaking to international equine professionals at this year’s Equine Advocates Annual Summit. What the heck gives?

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