By Steven Long
HOUSTON, (Horseback) – The Wall Street Journal’s Market Watch broke a story Wednesday certain to raise European eyebrows about the safety of American meat being exported from Canadian slaughterhouses. A report from the Canadian Horse Defense Coalition cites undercover surveillance and sloppy reporting, and perhaps falsification of birth records, health, and ownership...
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Humane Care and Management of America’s Wild Horses and Burros
By Bob Abbey is Director of the Bureau of Land Management
Thank you for your petition regarding the Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM) Wild Horse and Burro Program.
The BLM shares your commitment to the humane care and management of wild horses and burros. As described by...
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Court Grants AWHPC & Partners the Right to Intervene in Grazing Assn. Lawsuit Seeking to Wipe Out Wild Horses in So. Wyoming
Tuesday, November 2, 2011, the U.S. District Court in Wyoming granted the American Wild Horse Preservation Campaign (AWHPC) and our coalition partners,The Cloud Foundation (TCF) and the International Society for the Protection of...
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By Steven Long, Photo Courtesy James Kleinert
HOUSTON, (Horseback) – An award winning filmmaker and his attorneys have released a devastating video on You Tube showing apparent hypocrisy and lies on the part of the new director of the federal Bureau of Land Management director of the beleaguered Wild Horse and Burro Program.
Producer James...
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Children at Risk from Slaughter of US Horses
Chicago (EWA) – As Senator Max Baucus and the horse slaughter lobby make a concentrated effort to persuade Congress to reverse the 2007 defunding of USDA horse slaughter inspections, evidence is growing that the main consumers of US horse...
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Photo by Katia Louise
WASHINGTON, (AWHPC, WWP) – This morning, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) announced that it was withdrawing a controversial and unscientific plan to castrate free-roaming wild stallions and convert two viable wild horse populations in the White Mountain and Little Colorado Herd Management Areas (HMAs) in southwestern Wyoming to “minimally-reproducing†herds...
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RENO, (BLM) — Today U.S. District Court Judge Howard McKibben issued a decision in favor of
the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) which allows the BLM to proceed with the Triple Bgather to remove excess wild horses on Saturday, July 16.
“The BLM is pleased with the decision of the court that allows us to move forward...
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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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Protests planned against government sterilizing free roaming wild horses
Americans protest home-on-the-range die out
Photo by Terry Fitch
WASHINGTON (Cloud) – The Cloud Foundation is planning a series of nationwide protests against the Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM)’s decision to wipe-out two wild horse herds in southern Wyoming—using dangerous experimental sterilizations in the field. The Foundation opposes...
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The following prayer is being posted in honor of all of the Horseback readers who lost their horse recently. It was sent to us by one who lost their friend today.
The Editor
Feed me, give me water, and care for me, and when the day’s
work is done, give me shelter, a clean bed and a...
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