by Craig C. Downer, Wildlife Ecologist and Author
MINDEN, NV, (Downer) – This stirring and amply illustrated, 300-page book fully justifies America’s magnificent wild horses and burros while countering the biased machinations against them. Written by an ecologist who grew up observing these animals in the West, it presents new evidence concerning their history and...
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Youth under the age of 18 have the unique opportunity to participate in the first “Voice For The Horse Children’s Writing Competition ~ Subject Wild Horses”. Participants must include with their written essays an answer to this question: What do you think the horses would be telling you if they...
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By Laura Leigh
This commentary was written and posted today on the personal website of Horseback friend and photographer Laura Leigh, a true American Hero cut from the mold of Wild Horse Annie herself.
The Editor
Note: this site is my “blog.” The information site on “Wild Horses” is http://wildhorseeducation.org
Laura
Poster art by Fortunino Matania
“War Horse,” the...
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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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Guilfoyle Hides Just as New Administration Science Policy Ignoring BLM Grazing Exposed on NPR
By Steven Long
HOUSTON, (Horseback) – The director of the federal Bureau of Land Management, Bob Abbey, found time to fly from Washington D.C. to Las Vegas to speak at a poorly attended meeting of pro-horse processing ranchers and slaughterhouse owner wannabes...
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THE WEST, (Joint Media Release) – Conservationists hailed the introduction of the Rural Economic Vitalization Act (H.R. 3432) in Congress today, a bill that would allow federal grazing permittees to voluntarily relinquish their grazing permits back to the managing federal agency in exchange for compensation paid by a third party. The bill was introduced...
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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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