Rep. Sue Wallis Claims Chemically Tainted Horsemeat Will Be Okay to Eat
By Steven Long
HOUSTON, (Horseback) – A second term Wyoming state representative would build a horse “processing plant” that would kill up to 20 horses per day in her state despite federal prohibitions against slaughtering chemically tainted horses for food.
Last year, the European Union...
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House Increases Funding For Failed Program Riddled With Controversy – Senate Poised To Seal The Deal – Can They Be Swayed?
CHICAGO, (EWA) – The out-of-control direction the BLM is taking the Wild Horse & Burro Program spells the imminent extinction of America’s wild and free-roaming iconic herds in the West.
The Senate will vote sometime...
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UHC Seeks to Expand National Speaker Program
WASHINGTON, D.C. – December 14, 2010 – The Unwanted Horse Coalition’s (UHC) National Speaker Program has been up and running since early 2009 with approximately 100 speakers in the database. This program provides equine events around the country with UHC volunteers to speak about the issue of unwanted...
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A New Years Message
on behalf of Cloud & the Mustangs
COLORADO SPRINGS, (Cloud) – Winter arrived with a fury in Cloud’s Montana home. When Makendra Silverman, intern Lindsey Kasl, and I arrived in early December the mountain was cloaked in white from top to bottom.The snow-clogged road onto Sykes Ridge was impassable. Even the paved...
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WASHINGTON (UHC) - The Unwanted Horse Coalition’s (UHC) Operation Gelding program continues, with participation spread across the United States. The program, which was launched in late August 2010 with the help of seed money from the American Association of Equine Practitioners Foundation and the UHC, is designed to offer funding assistance to organizations, associations,...
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HOUSTON, (Horseback) – The federal Bureau of Land Management confirmed that it knows the identity of an employee who wrote a seemingly threatening note from a BLM email address.http://www.blm.gov/nv/st/en/fo/elko_field_office/blm_programs/wild_horse_and_burro/owyhee_rock_creek/facilities_reports/gunnison_viewing_rules.html
“Viewing of animals is by appointment only, weekly on Tuesdays 10 am – 2 pm. This is necessary for security and availability of SWAT Team...
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WESTMINSTER, MD (Animal’s Angels) – Animals’ Angels has announced their second annual Light the Sky event on December 11.
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2010. The Light the Sky event is a way of supporting Animals’ Angels investigations for the upcoming year.
AA continues to be an exceptionally effective animal welfare and investigative group, with much of...
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CHEYENNE, Wyo (United Horsemen) - Dr. Temple Grandin, one of Time Magazine’s 2010 most influential people, recently confirmed to speak amongst other national presenters at the Summit of the Horse event Jan. 3-6, 2011 in Las Vegas at the South Point Hotel, Casino & Spa.
According to Representative Sue Wallis of Wyoming who is the...
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R.T. Fitch photo by Steven Long
HOUSTON, (Horseback) – Horseback Magazine’s persistent queries into the practices and lack of transparency at the federal Bureau of Land Management is getting under the skin of at least one highly placed official.
Don Glenn, the chief of the agency’s Wild Horse and Burro Program fired off a note to...
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By Steven Long
HOUSTON, (Horseback) – The federal Bureau of Land Management will not lose the services of its $140,259 Wild Horse and Burro Program director, Don Glenn, for even a minute to attend a planned slaughter “summit” in Las Vegas.
Glenn’s name was among those of several high government officials who were called to the...
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