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 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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By Laura Leigh, Horseback Magazine, President, Wild Horse Education
Yesterday, 11/29/2011, at the Calico Complex roundup in Northwestern Nevada a mare broke her neck on the panels.
THE CALICO COMPLEX, Nev (Horseback) – The young grulla mare’s death came after she was captured, separated from her family, processed, corralled, reprocessed and PZP treated. She was the...
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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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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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Photo by Terry Fitch>
WASHINGTON, (BLM) – The Bureau of Land Management today announced its tentative fall-winter schedule for gathering wild horses and burros from overpopulated herds on Western public rangelands. The gathers are needed to bring herd sizes into balance with other rangeland resources and uses, as required by Federal law and approved...
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Tom Gorey, BLM Public Affairs, Washington, D.C.
WASHINGTON, D.C. (BLM) – Under the 1971 Wild Free-Roaming Horses and Burros Act, the abuse of any wild horse or burro is pursued aggressively with the intention of prosecuting individuals to the fullest extent of the law. Regardless of whether a horse is wild (federally protected) or feral,...
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Alleged Inhumane Treatment Prompts Wild Horse Lawsuit
Feds found to be in violation of own humane standards
HOUSTON, (WHFF) – Wild Horse Freedom Federation (WHFF) filed a lawsuit and companion Temporary Restraining Order (TRO) against the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) in Federal Court in Reno Nevada on Wednesday, 8/24/2011. Through their Plaintiff, Laura Leigh, the...
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