Independent Review Too Late for Wild Horses and Burros?
COLORADO SPRINGS, (Cloud) - The Cloud Foundation fully supports the independent review of the Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM) mismanagement of America’s Wild Horses and Burros by the National Academy of Sciences (NAS), but only if it is coupled with an immediate moratorium on all wild horse...
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By Steven Long, Photos by Terry Fitch, TWIN PEAKS, CA (Horseback) – A heavy police presence protected America and the federal Bureau of Land Management wild horse chase contractor from four journalists and no anti-BLM activists at the “gather” held today at Twin Peaks, according to Horseback Magazine’s R.T. Fitch at the site. There were two reporters...
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By R.T. Fitch, Photo of Times Photog in Trap Area by Terry Fitch
SUSANVILLE, CA (SFTHH) – For weeks the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) has kept the American public and press at extreme distances from the wild horse trapping operations at the Twin Peaks helicopter stampede, and before that at Tuscorora, Calico, and in Montana‘s...
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By Terry Farley, Photo by Leslie Peebles
Monday, I could not see inside the Cattoor family’s wild horse trap. With binoculars, I could see what went on just outside.
Men waved flexible whips attached to plastic bags, spooking mustangs into trailers. They also flipped the whips to prod the thick ends into mustangs’ flanks, or slam...
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By Steven Long, Photo by Leslie Peebles,
HOUSTON, (Horseback) – A new scandal involving veterinarians working for the federal Bureau of Land Management is emerging in the wake of a report from the independent Humane Society Veterinary Medical Association. The report was authored by Dr. Eric Davis. The national Examinar, a consortium ofonline citizen journalists broke...
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By Steven Long, Photo by Leslie Peebles
HOUSTON, (Horseback) – When Horseback Magazine asked the federal Bureau of Land Management for a report on the number of horses suffering from laminitis after being stampeded by a roaring helicopter, we actually expected an answer. What we got instead was a tap dance.
“The proportion of horses that...
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Story and Photo by Leslie Peebles
TWIN PEAKS, CAL, (Special to Horseback) – In the north east corner of California, near Susanville, there is a piece of land that is so vast and expansive that it seems it may go on forever. Standing there a soothing sense of peace comes over you as the only...
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PORTLAND, (Cloud) —The Stinkingwater wild horse herd of Southeastern Oregon is slated for a near complete removal in a summer helicopter roundup scheduled to begin today. Concerned citizens in Oregon and across the country have been calling for a stop to this unnecessary and costly action. The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) proposes to roundup...
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The Humane Society of the United States Issues Statement on Latest California Wild Horse Roundup
Photo by Laura Leigh
WASHINGTON, (HSUS)—The Humane Society of the United States is issuing the following statement in response to the U.S. Bureau of Land Management’s recent roundup of wild horses near Susanville, Calif.:“The Humane Society of the United States strongly...
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Series by Lisa LeBlanc ~ Chief Investigative Reporter, Straight From the Horse’s Heart, R.T. Fitch
Photo by Leslie Peeples
Arriving at the Litchfield Holding Facility at around 6:00 a.m., just before dawn, we were briefed by ‘Jeff’, a uniformed BLM representative on the rules of conduct. Most pointed: Disruptions or jeopardizing of safety would discontinue regular...
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