AUGUST 28, 2012
The Snow King Resort, Jackson Hole, Wyoming
WASHINGTON, (HSUS) – The Wild Horse Symposium celebrates five years of partnership between The Humane Society of the United States, the Annenberg Foundation, and the Bureau of Land Management to advance contraceptive technology from research to widespread management of wild horse and burro herds. Symposium...
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Groundbreaking Case Heard on the Merits; Parties Await Decision
SACREMENTO, (In Defense of Animals) – A hearing in the groundbreaking wild horse lawsuit challenging the roundup and removal of nearly 1,579 wild horses and 159 burros from the Twin Peaks Herd Management Area (HMA) in northeastern California, in 2010, was heard on Friday, February...
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BLM Trap site adoption a success at Stone Cabin
Story and Photo by Laura Leigh, Horseback Magazine
RENO, (Wild Horse Education/Wild Horse Freedom Federation) – On February 18, 2012 the Bureau of Land Management offered the public an opportunity to adopt horses directly from their home range. The event was held adjacent to the...
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By Steven Long
HOUSTON, (Horseback) – The tin ear of the federal Bureau of Land Management is clearly so out of tune to the desires of the American public and so in tune with the wants of corporate agriculture, hunting interests, and natural resource exploitation that the agency, and its titular head, Interior Secretary Ken...
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Wildlife managers join The Humane Society of the United States in support of action
WASHINGTON, (HSUS) — Wildlife managers, along with The Humane Society of the United States, applaud official registration of the first contraceptive vaccine for horses. The HSUS had sponsored the move by the Environmental Protection Agency after more than two decades of...
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By Gordon Cowan, Attorney
Editor’s Note: On Valentine’s Day morning a Reno lawyer was stunned to receive an opinion from California’s Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals announcing he had prevailed in a case against the federal government. But it wasn’t just any lawyer, it wasn’t just any case, it wasn’t just any plaintiff. It was...
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Wild Horse Advocate Laura Leigh Wins on All Counts in Ninth Circuit Case
By Steven Long
Photos, Laura Leigh and Gordon Cowan
Ninth Circuit Decision Has Resonance With Free Press Groups
HOUSTON, (Horseback) – In a Nevada case with far reaching First Amendment implications, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has struck down a ruling by a...
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Editor’s Note: The litigation was funded by Wild Horse Freedom Federation, www.wildhorsefreedomfederation.org
FOR PUBLICATION
UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS
FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT
LAURA LEIGH,
Plaintiff-Appellant,
v. No. 11-16088
KEN SALAZAR, Secretary, U.S. D.C. No.
Department of the Interior; BOB ý 3:10-cv-00597-
ABBEY, Director, Bureau of Land LRH-VPC
Management; RONALD WENKER, OPINION Nevada State Director of Bureau
of Land Management,
Defendants-Appellees. þ
Appeal from the United States...
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Story and Photo by Laura Leigh, Horseback Magazine
RENO, (Horseback) – The BLM is offering what they call a ”trap site adoption” at the Stone Cabin/Saulsbury roundup operation. On Feb. 18th, approved adopters can adopt a horse from the BLM corrals set at the holding area adjacent to the contractors temporary facility.
No animals will...
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Never Too Young to Make a Difference
Never Too Young To Make a Difference!
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By Lacey Jo Edge
Cloud Photo by Terry Fitch, Horseback Magazine
WASHINGTON, (Unwanted Horse Coalition) – If you think someone as young as 13 years old could never make a difference, let me convince you otherwise. For a long...
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