Posts Tagged ‘ burros ’

Historic burros will die off if drug causes sterility WASHINGTON (Protect Mustangs)–Americans are outraged to learn the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has approved a second pesticide. for native wild horses when extreme roundups since 2009 have removed the majority of wild horses from public land. Today more thank 50,000 are stockpiled in government holding facilities....
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By Steven Long HOUSTON, (Horseback) – Earlier in the week a photo journalist and an observer were arrested and held by the federal Bureau of Land Management security at a Yuma County, Arizona wild burro “gather” on which the videographer was taken to the hospital suffering heat prostration. The man had been held in...
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By Steven Long, Editor, Horseback Magazine Kathleen Hayden Photo Special to Horseback Online by Deborah Hurley HOUSTON, (Horseback) – The Reno lawyer who successful blew the doors wide open for media access to Bureau of Land Management “gathers” and stampedes has been closely watching an Arizona case in which an older woman, Kathleen Hayden,...
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By Steven Long Photo by Laura Leigh, Horseback Magazine HOUSTON, (Horseback) – Federal law enforcement ran afoul of a federal court ruling Sunday in an incident involving agents of the Bureau of Land Management and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service when they detained two observers, including a videographer filming a wild horse “gather”...
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Photo by Steven Long, Horseback Magazine AUSTIN, (TPWD) – The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department (TPWD) is continuing to explore the feasibility of non-lethal alternatives to manage the feral burro problem at Big Bend Ranch State Park. Since the mid-2000s, TPWD’s State Parks Division has explored non-lethal options such as live trapping to remove the...
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By Steven Long HOUSTON, (Horseback) – Three years ago when former Texas Parks and Wildlife parks director Walt Dabney issued a moratorium stopping shooting of wild burros in the vast Big Bend Ranch State Park animal advocates quieted down. index of phone lookup The shootings were halted after a flurry of bad press in...
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Dear Mr. Young,   With less than 5,000 wild burros remaining nationally, irreversible consequences will ensue if you continue shooting these hardy, humble little animals on sight. reverse directory They are part of our national heritage and deserve their place on our soils. Science shows and no one disputes the origination of wild horses...
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29 Desert Bighorn Sheep Released at Big Bend Ranch State Park State Was Shooting Burros To Make Way for Sheep ALPINE (TPWD) – Twenty-nine desert bighorn sheep bolted out of transport trailers and straight up into the Bofecillos Mountains along the Rio Grande at about 3 p.m. today. The 24 ewes and five rams...
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