As Study Begins, the Animal Welfare Institute Calls on Bureau of Land Management to Halt Wild Horse Roundups
WASHINGTON, (AWI) – While the Animal Welfare Institute (AWI) welcomes the recent news that the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) has asked the National Academy of Sciences National Research Council (NAS/NRC) to review its National Wild Horse and...
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HOUSTON, (Horseback) – A longtime horse advocate involved with the federal Bureau of Land Management Wild Horse and Burro Program has blasted front line activists trying to stop massive roundups in the West. Nevada’s Willis Lamm, often labeled a bureau apologist, distributed a harsh screed today to those fighting to stop the agency’s recent accelerated “gather” of Mustangs...
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By R.T. Fitch, Photo of Times Photog in Trap Area by Terry Fitch
SUSANVILLE, CA (SFTHH) – For weeks the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) has kept the American public and press at extreme distances from the wild horse trapping operations at the Twin Peaks helicopter stampede, and before that at Tuscorora, Calico, and in Montana‘s...
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By Terry Farley, Photo by Leslie Peebles
Monday, I could not see inside the Cattoor family’s wild horse trap. With binoculars, I could see what went on just outside.
Men waved flexible whips attached to plastic bags, spooking mustangs into trailers. They also flipped the whips to prod the thick ends into mustangs’ flanks, or slam...
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By Steven Long, Photo by Leslie Peebles
HOUSTON, (Horseback) – When Horseback Magazine asked the federal Bureau of Land Management for a report on the number of horses suffering from laminitis after being stampeded by a roaring helicopter, we actually expected an answer. What we got instead was a tap dance.
“The proportion of horses that...
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Brit Film Crew Captures Close Quarter Video and Terrified Wildlife BLM Contractor Views as Livestock – http://link.brightcove.com/services/player/bcpid62612474001?bctid=585103088001
Latest Report From Twin Peaks – http://www.examiner.com/equine-advocacy-in-national/evidence-pours-to-show-that-wild-horses-were-terrorized-before-and-during-twin-peaks-roundup-1#comment-10978546
HOUSTON, (Horseback) The BLM has claimed it’s chase helicopter doesn’t stampede horses or get close to them. Again, photos sent to Horseback Magazine tell another story. Here’s the latest from the Twin...
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Sacramento, CA (Cloud) — The body of a wild horse foal was found near the site of the Twin Peaks roundup Wednesday by Craig Downer, wildlife ecologist and Cloud Foundation Board member, and Chrystie Davis, wild horse advocate. Davis, an experienced horsewoman, examined the foal for any broken bones. What she found was an...
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SAN FRANCISCO, (Grass Roots) - On August 10, 2010, Laura Leigh, filed a Motion For Reconsideration of Denial of Plaintiff‟s Order to Show Cause Re: Contempt brought against Ken Salazar, Secretary of the Department of the Interior, Bob Abbey, Director of the BLM and Ron Wenker, Nevada State Director of the BLM in Nevada District...
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By Steven Long, Photo by Rich Hill
HOUSTON, (Horseback) – Wild Horse advocates have long been under the impression that BLM prohibited airborne observation of its “gathers.” Not so says the agency’s Washington public information officer Melodie A. Lloyd after a query from Horseback Magazine.
A former commercial airline pilot tipped the magazine that it is...
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By Steven Long, Photos by Katie Fite
HOUSTON, (Horseback) – Tucked away in court documents relating to a lawsuit filed by journalist and artist Laura Leigh is a telling photograph by Western Watershed Biodiversity Director, Katie Fite. The photo is of a peaceful desert scene.
The photo shows a river about 60 feet wide with abundant...
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