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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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
note at...
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By Steven Long, Photo by Laura Leigh
HOUSTON, (Horseback) – The federal Bureau of Land Management has talked a good game in recent months with its appointment of a veteran agency bureaucrat to head the division that controls U.S. wild horses and burros. During that period statements from Director Bob Abbey on down have promised...
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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
This commentary was written and posted today on the personal website of Horseback friend and photographer Laura Leigh, a true American Hero cut from the mold of Wild Horse Annie herself.
The Editor
Note: this site is my “blog.” The information site on “Wild Horses” is http://wildhorseeducation.org
Laura
Poster art by Fortunino Matania
“War Horse,” the...
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By Steven Long
Photo by Laura Leigh
HOUSTON, (Horseback) – The United States Department of Agriculture has an unusually stout influence over appointments to the Wild Horse and Burro Advisory Board of the federal Bureau of Land Management. The giant cabinet department that serves the needs of farmers and ranchers has veto power to appointments to...
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Analysis of BLM’s “Team Review and Response” to the “Triple B” Report
This analysis includes two documents released by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) titled
“Triple B Wild Horse Gather Team Review” and “Triple B Response to Recommendations.” This
analysis also includes observations of operations prior to, and post, the Triple B “gather.”
BLM “Triple B Wild...
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Photo by Laura Leigh, Horseback Magaine
BLM Review of Triple B Wild Horse Gather, Finds Overall Safe Practices, but Cites Incidents of Aggressive Handling
WASHINGTON, (BLM) – After reviewing instances of alleged animal abuse during the recently completed Triple B wild horse gather in Nevada, a Bureau of Land Management team has found that...
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Guilfoyle Hides Just as New Administration Science Policy Ignoring BLM Grazing Exposed on NPR
By Steven Long
HOUSTON, (Horseback) – The director of the federal Bureau of Land Management, Bob Abbey, found time to fly from Washington D.C. to Las Vegas to speak at a poorly attended meeting of pro-horse processing ranchers and slaughterhouse owner wannabes...
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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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