Comments Due by November 1, 2016 Your comments are needed today to tell the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) to drop plans to conduct an unnecessary and dangerous radio collar tracking study of wild mares in Wyoming. The agency wants … Read More
The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) just dropped plans to conduct “barbaric” sterilization experiments on wild mares in Oregon in response to a lawsuit by The Cloud Foundation and the American Wild Horse Preservation Campaign. But now it’s planning something … Read More
Comments Due by September 9, 2016 The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is again proposing to remove all wild horses from Checkerboard lands within and outside the Great Divide Basin, Salt Wells Creek, and Adobe Town Herd Management Areas (HMAs) … Read More
Please sign by August 3, 2016 On August 4, 2016, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) in Colorado will hold its annual public hearing on the use of motorized vehicles in wild horse management. While we are usually critical of … Read More
Danger is growing on Capitol Hill for America’s wild horses and burros. Public lands ranchers and their Congressional allies are pressing for the mass slaughter of 44,000 wild horses in holding and 40,000 considered to be “excess” on the range. … Read More
The BLM’s 2017 budget proposal spells disaster for our wild horses and burros. The agency wants to sterilize wild horses on the range, and hand off captured mustangs to state and local governments, while stripping the aimals of the the … Read More
Washington, DC (July 7, 2015). . . . Today the American Wild Horse Preservation Campaign issued the following statement regarding the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) announcement that it will spend $11 million over the next five years on eight … Read More
By Phil Taylor, E&E The Bureau of Land Management’s top official in charge of managing wild horses and burros this week stepped down from her post. Joan Guilfoyle, who became BLM’s division chief for wild horses in August 2011, will … Read More
The Nevada Department of Agriculture (NDA) had removed 19 horses (three family bands) that were currently in the state corrals, and the allies discovered that an established Nevada sanctuary, the Nevada B Mustang Sanctuary, had made plans to ship all … Read More
By Vickery Eckhoff, The Daily Pitchfork Livestock have been severely depleting public rangelands for decades. They do so by trampling vegetation, damaging soil, spreading invasive weeds, polluting water, increasing the likelihood of destructive fires, depriving native wildlife of forage and … Read More