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A news release published yesterday by Friends of Animals urges you to tell the BLM that you oppose the removal of wild horses from the Complex. Don’t do it. BLM already knows that. The problem is in the RMPs listed in Section 1.0 of the Draft EA and those documents are not up for review […]
Pancake Comment Period Almost Over — Western Horse Watchers Association
Well, they did it. The U.S. House Appropriations Committee approved the Fiscal Year 2021 Interior appropriations legislation doling out to the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) $102 million for its wild horse and burro program; which the agency said that it intended to use the funding to cruelly round up as many as 20,000 protected, […]
House Committee Votes to Hand BLM $102,000,000 to Steal Freedom and Families from 20,000 Federally Protected Wild Horses, Annually — Straight from the Horse’s Heart
by Katie Fite as published on CounterPunch.org The Bureau of Land Management has spent the pandemic churning out rapacious public land projects at breakneck speed. This includes egregious grazing decisions drastically increasing livestock numbers for powerful ranchers. After complaints, Idaho BLM Director John Ruhs responded that ranching was an essential service. At the same time, […]
Savagery in the Great Basin — Straight from the Horse’s Heart
by Grandma Gregg “BLM states biologically impossible annual wild horse population rates…” photo by Terry Fitch of Wild Horse Freedom Federation The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) recently posted their annual Wild Horse and Burro Herd Statistics. As in previous years, BLM’s report is full of obviously false, biologically impossible population growth data. WHY is […]
BLM AGAIN Releases Fraudulent Population Statistics for Wild Horses and Burros — Straight from the Horse’s Heart
Wild Horse Sell Out Plan Fiscal Year 2020 Appropriations awarded $21 Million to the Bureau of Land Management for the roundup, removal and long-term holding of 15,000-20,000 wild horses and burros in a single year from western public lands. Misleadingly billed as a “path forward,” this proposal is actually a path to destruction for America’s […]
via BLM to accelerate roundups and surgically sterilize America’s wild horses — Tuesday’s Horse
by Debbie Coffey as published on Wild Hoofbeats Comments Are Due by April 30. Please Submit Your Comments Today. Please Comment Today to Stop BLM’s Plans to Wipe Out 40% of Wyoming’s Wild Horses so Privately Owned Livestock Can Run Roughshod Over Public Lands The BLM wants to remove 4,000 wild horses from four Herd […]
by Duane Morris LLP The U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia recently rejected claims challenging actions by the U.S. Department of Interior, acting through the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), to remove wild horses from an area of federal land in Nevada known as the Caliente Complex. In 2008, BLM issued a resource […]
Published by Carol Walker on Wild Hoofbeats The Bureau of Land Management just announced plans to destroy three wild herds of horses in the Checkerboard Area of Wyoming’s Red Desert. These wild horses are federally protected and living on 2 million acres in southeastern Wyoming. The proposed Resource Management Plan would zero out the Salt […]
via BLM’s Final Solution for One Third of Wyoming’s Wild Horses — Straight from the Horse’s Heart
“The Fish Springs area in the Pine Nut Mountains east of Carson Valley, NV is home to several bands of wild horses…”
via Anger and Regret in Removal of Douglas County Wild Horses — Straight from the Horse’s Heart
By Assemblymember Marie Waldron, Patch Contributor Protecting a National Treasure This year I was principal co-author of AB 128 (Gloria), which requires any person purchasing a horse at auction, many of which are rounded up on public lands, to sign a sworn statement that the animal won’t be sold for slaughter. Since 1971, federal law […]
via Stopping Wild Horse Slaughter — Straight from the Horse’s Heart
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