SOURCE: ktvb.com Just over two weeks ago, the Soda Fire sparked and quickly grew to more than 283,000 acres. The massive wildfire devastated habitat for a number of wildlife species throughout Owyhee County, and it tore through three Wild Horse Herd Management Areas.(Photo: Paul Boehlke / KTVB) OWYHEE […]
SOURCE: KATC.com Horses at Kisatchie National Forest by Katie Lopez Amy Hanchey has been fighting for months to make sure the hundreds of wild horses that roam Kisatchie National Forest in north Louisiana stay there. “There are generations of horses that are truly wild and lived in that […]
(photo from West Douglas: BLM) Press Release for immediate release Lawsuit Filed to Halt BLM’s Scheduled Roundup and Removal of Wild Horses from Northwestern Colorado’s Herds Roundup Threatens to Zero out the West Douglas Herd Washington DC – (Sept. 6, 2015) – Late Friday afternoon, a lawsuit was […]
by Grandma Gregg “A four year old mare broke her neck and died after running into a panel while sorting at the capture site on September 1, 2015.” Per the BLM website: One page says they captured 101 wild horses and their other page says they captured 91. […]
Utah BLM proposes sterilizing stallions on the Frisco HMA (managed by Cedar City Field Office) and the Conger HMA (managed by Fillmore Field Office), supposedly so they can find out the “impacts of sterilizing a portion of male horses in the population and how treatment impacts their behavior […]
The meeting will be live-streamed at http://www.blm.gov/live/. This meeting will be about BLM’s plans for STERILIZATION and CREATING MINIMALLY REPRODUCING HERDS of the already mostly non-viable remaining herds of wild horses & burros. It has been OVER 3 YEARS since the public became aware that Tom Davis […]
The BLM claims it will return 200 out of the 300 wild horses rounded up from 3 HMAs. (Note that Sands Basin “maintains” only 70 wild horses, and Black Mountain “maintains” only 80 wild horses. These are NOT viable herd numbers to begin with.) BLM claims that 100 […]
SOURCE: Equine Advocates Susan Wagner, President & Founder of Equine Advocates, was featured on the TV program, REAL HORSE RESCUES, with Susan Kayne. In Part 2, Susan talks about wild horses, and introduces two wild horses living on the sanctuary: Hayden, from the Pryors, and Nelson, from Nevada. […]
SOURCE: The Desert Independent Editorial By Robert Winkler Publisher of The Desert Independent No WELFARE rancher wants wild horses competing with his cows for forage on the public land he is getting on the cheap, so the horses gotta go. Because the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) comes […]
In reading the BLM “news” release below, I had a couple of thoughts: 1) There should be NO LIVESTOCK FENCING ON PUBLIC LANDS. Why should structures for a PRIVATE BUSINESS be allowed on public lands? 2) The “terrible truth” is that if there wasn’t livestock fencing on public […]
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