BLM expands removal plan for young Pryor Mustangs
Cloud and family after release from BLM capture in 2009 ~ photo by Terry Fitch
BILLINGS, Mont. (April 5, 2012)—Yesterday, BLM issued their Decision Record to permanently remove up to 40 young Pryor mustangs from their home in the mountains of southern Montana.
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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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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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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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Photo by Laura Leigh, Horseback Magazine
HOUSTON, (Horseback) – A 2008 internal BLM memo discussing a plan to euthanize as many as 50,000 wild horse in holding has again surfaced and is in the process of going viral on the Internet. When Horseback first saw discussion of the reports in email posts they had...
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Photo by Laura Leigh
WINNEMUCCA, NEV (BLM) – The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Winnemucca District concluded the Tri-State Calico Complex wild horse and burro gather on Monday, Jan. 9. The preliminary numbers for the animals gathered are 1,203 excess wild horses and 142 excess wild burros gathered from the HMAs, located...
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BLM to Begin Pancake Complex Wild Horse Gather
ELY, Nevada (BLM) – The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Battle Mountain District, Tonopah Field Office and the BLM Ely District, Egan Field Office will begin the Pancake Complex Wild Horse Gather on or about Thursday, Jan. 12, 2012. The BLM will...
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Story and Interview By Steven Long, Photo by Laura Leigh, Horseback Magazine
New Video From Horseback’s Laura Leigh
Production note from Laura Leigh to Horseback Magazine regarding new video:
Working on another video but wanted you to note on the one from the Fourth: Tri-State Calico Complex Roundup 2012. Raw edit
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