Meet “Cloud’s Encore” By Ginger Kathrens, The Cloud Foundation Pryor Mountain, Montana (The Cloud Foundation) – Well, what a trip. Knock me over with a feather on Monday afternoon, May 6th, when Effie Orser, Lauryn, and I spotted Cloud on a distant ridge and began hiking. When we climbed over a gentle saddle between...
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CHEYENNE, (American Wild Horse Preservation) – A federal court in Wyoming has approved a consent decree between the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) and the Rock Springs Grazing Association (RSGA) that will wipe out wild free-roaming horses from the Wyoming Checkerboard, a two-million acre swath of public and private land in the southern part...
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RAWLINS, WY (Protect Mustangs) – We are calling for extractive industry responsibility and environmental mitigation through the creation of a 50 million dollar Protect Wyoming Mustangs Fund. Native wild horses in Wyoming should not loose their habitat, their freedom and their families to pump more profit into BP American Production, Anadarko Petroleum, Devon Energy and...
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By Steven Long HOUSTON, (Horseback) – Federal Bureau of Land Management Wild Horse and Burro Division Chief Joan Guilfoyle faced a crowded room in Oklahoma City Monday. It was filled with a largely polite but angry crowd of wild horse advocates who had come to see the occasional meeting of BLM’s advisory board. They...
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Set for March 4-5 in Oklahoma City WASHINGTON, (BLM) – The Bureau of Land Management will webcast the National Wild Horse and Burro Advisory Board’s day-and-a-half meeting set for March 4-5 in Oklahoma City. The live webcast, accessible at http://www.blm.gov/live/, will stream online the proceedings of the Advisory Board, which meets Monday, March 4,...
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RENO, (Horseback) – The case of Laura Leigh v. Ken Salazar, U.S. Department of the Interior, et al continued in Federal Court in Reno, Nevada yesterday. Two years ago, Leigh, a photojournalist and reporter on assignment for Horseback Magazine, claimed viewing restrictions at the Silver King roundup of wild horses violated her First Amendment...
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By Laura Leigh on February 15, 2013 Going to Court Against BLM Wild Horse Education has three cases coming to federal court within the next month. Some of these cases were started over two years ago by Wild Horse Education founder and president, Laura Leigh, before she created the nonprofit. Leigh, a photojournalist, has...
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By Laura Leigh RENO, (Wild Horse Education) – The Diamond Complex roundup has ended removal operations today. Final numbers are being determined for return to the range after treatment with PZP-22, a birth control agent. 792 were taken into corrals. Originally 603 were planned for removal. That number is expected to be adjusted due...
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Photo by Laura Leigh RENO, (Wild Horse Education) - Today the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) issued a statement “Memorandum” in the wake of litigation brought by Wild Horse Education founder, Laura Leigh, to inhumane treatment of wild horses and burros. Leigh’s litigation has won numerous restraining orders and an injunction to against the...
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Advocates Allege Contractors Sell Protected Horses to Slaughter Photo by Terry Fitch WASHINGTON (January 24, 2013)–Wild Horse Freedom Federation (WHFF) released evidence exposing the Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM) wild horse long-term holding contractor selling wild horses to an alleged “kill buyer”. The BLM appears to be trafficking wild horses to slaughter through holding facilites....
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