By Steven Long, Photo by Terry Fitch
HOUSTON, (Horseback) – Respected naturalist Craig Downer issued a year end challenge to the federal Bureau of Land Management to curtail plans to further deplete the storied herd of Pryor Mountain Mustangs in Montana. The herd is known worldwide through three PBS “Nature” documentaries by filmmaker Ginger Kathrens.
During...
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By Laura Leigh, Founder and President, Wild Horse Education
WildHorseEducation@gmail.com
Editor’s Note: At least 160 horses died last year when the federal Bureau of Land Management launched it’s “gather” at the Calico comples where wild horses once had undisturbed sanctuary. Bands of horses were broken up never to see each other again.Humanitarian, journalist, and photographer Laura...
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AWHPC Statement on the White House’s “Canned” Response to Our Wild Horse Petition
Photo by Laura Leigh
If you signed the Wild Horse and Burro petition on the White House’s “We the People” website, you have received the same canned response that we received from the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) director, Bob Abbey.
We are as...
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Photo by Terry Fitch>
WASHINGTON, (BLM) – The Bureau of Land Management today announced its tentative fall-winter schedule for gathering wild horses and burros from overpopulated herds on Western public rangelands. The gathers are needed to bring herd sizes into balance with other rangeland resources and uses, as required by Federal law and approved...
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Federal Judge “Deeply Concerned” Over BLM Defense
HOUSTON, (WHFF) – Reno Nevada Federal Judge Howard McKibben has granted a temporary restraining order against the continuation of documented helicopter pilot conduct at the Bureau of Land Management’s Triple B wild horse roundup in Eastern Nevada. Citing his authority to enjoin an agency’s conduct where their actions have...
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By Steven Long, Photo by Laura Leigh
HOUSTON, (Horseback) – The American Association of Equine Practitioners has issued a long awaited report that is critical of the federal Bureau of Land Management’s use of helicopters to stampede wild horses. In fact, in their recommendations, they told the agency to back off.
“While the task force thought...
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Photo by Laura Leigh
WASHINGTON, (BLM) – The Bureau of Land Management is requesting public nominations to fill three national Wild Horse and Burro Advisory Board positions, which are set to expire on Jan. 8, 2012. Nominations are for a three-year term and are needed to represent the following categories of interest: wild horse and...
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Photo by Laura Leigh,
Groups call for moratorium on wild horse roundups;
seek immediate suspension of summer helicopter stampedes to prevent tiny foals from being chased and separated from mothers
ELY, Nevada (ASPCA) – The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, the nation’s oldest animal welfare organization, and the American Wild Horse Preservation Campaign...
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By Steven Long, photo by Terry Fitch, HOUSTON, (Horseback) – Within hours of an adverse ruling for wild horse advocates attempting to halt a Navade “gather” and stampede in the heat of summer, a federal appellate court has granted a temporary restraining order. The federal Bureau of Land Management will be unable to proceed with it’s...
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Group urges real-time cameras, temperature restrictions, more fertility control; Summer gather operations could resume in days
Photo by Laura Leigh,
WASHINGTON, (HSUS) – \— The Humane Society of the United States released a report it recently submitted to the Bureau of Land Management, calling on the agency to make several critical improvements to its...
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