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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United States Senator Mary Landrieu has called for a halt to BLM “gathers” in which scores of wild horses have been killed.
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http://thehill.com/special-reports/animal-welfare-july-2010/111513-wild-horses-symbolize-us- Landrieu Also Called for End to Horse Meat Trade http://thehill.com/special-reports/animal-welfare-july-2009/55639-animal-welfare-prevention-of-equine-cruelty-act-seeks-to-vanquish-us-ties-to-horsemeat-tradeeedom
Allegations have exploded that horses are laying dead in the field after “gather” and that a...
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WASHINGTON, DC (BLM) - Today the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) announced it is
extending the public comment period on its Wild Horse and Burro Program
Strategy Development Document to September 3, 2010. The extension will
provide members of the public with an interest in the management of
America’s wild horses and burros an additional 30 days to...
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How do you make 2000 horses disappear? Let BLM manage them.
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CHICAGO, (EWA) – As controversy swirls over the aggressive removal of horses from the range by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), a more fundamental question has arisen over what is happening to the horses it already has in holding. Over...
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Cloud’s Herd Photo by Terry Fitch
Cloud Foundation includes Forest Service in lawsuit
WASHINGTON, (Cloud) – On July 21 the Cloud Foundation, Front Range Equine Rescue and author/advocate Carol Walker filed an amended complaint in Federal District Court to add the U.S. Forest Service (USFS) to their current suit against the Bureau of Land Management...
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By Steven Long
HOUSTON, (Horseback) – When Laura Leigh, an author, artist, journalist, and litigant chased the BLM into the desert to observe wild horse capture after a federal judge told her she could do so, she wasn’t allowed to see horses – but she did see water.
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Judge Larry Hicks...
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Pro Slaughter Advocates on Side of Free Spending Federal Agency
CHEYENNE, WY (UOH) – The United Organizations of the Horse calls for compassion and the redoubling of efforts to gather and remove excess wild horses from the Owyhee Desert, and all other areas of the West where there are too many horses for the ecosystem to...
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By Vicki Tobin, Special to Horseback Magazine, Photo by Cat Fisher
CHICAGO, – Despite Judge Hick’s order on Friday, July 16, equine advocate, Laura Leigh, was denied access to the trap site for the Owyhee round up, one of three herd areas comprising the Tuscarora round-up. When questioned, the authorities responded that she was not...
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By R.T. Fitch, Straight From the Horse’s Heart, Special to Horseback Magazine, Laura Leigh photo by Terry Fitch
HOUSTON – (SFTHH) – This evening we received a phone call from artist and wild horse advocate Laura Leigh that she had not been allowed to travel to a Federal Bureau of Land Management trap site after a federal...
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SACRAMENTO, (IDA) – Today a lawsuit was filed to stop the Department of Interior’s Bureau of Land Management (BLM) from rounding up and removing nearly 2,000 wild horses and burros from the Twin Peaks Herd Management Area north of Susanville, California.
The roundup, slated to begin in August, is the second largest capture and...
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