BLM Persists in Its Attack on Wild Horses in the Wyoming Checkerboard

(March 28, 2017)  The management of the wild horses on the Wyoming Checkerboard is a story about persistence.  On the one hand, there’s the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) that’s determined to eliminate them to appease ranchers who want the land to graze...

What will the President’s budget mean for wild horses and burros?

So what will the President’s budget mean for wild horses and burros? The short answer: we don’t yet know.

(March 18, 2017) . . . The President’s budget was released earlier this week.  If passed by Congress, the budget will mean massive funding cuts for many federal...

Update on Utah Colt Chased Relentlessly by Helicopter

On Monday, March 6, photographer Kimerlee Curyl traveled on behalf of the American Wild Horse Campaign to the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Delta (Utah) Corrals to check on the wild horses who were captured in February at the BLM's helicopter roundup in the Cedar Mountain Herd Management...

Utah Bid to Takeover Management of Wild Horses Dies in the Senate

Photo by Kimerlee Curyl Photography

Update (March 12, 2016): The Utah legislative session has ended and H.C. R. 22, the  resolution aimed at state takeover of management of federally-protected wild horses, has died.  It passed the House...

Officials Plan Capture Of Wild Horses In Central Idaho

Editors Note: This is progress. In 2009, the BLM used helicopters to capture 366 wild horses and permanently remove 144 of them from their homes on the range. Three years later, the BLM used helicopters  to remove 150 wild horses from the range. Now five years later, after a PZP...

Cedar Mountain Roundup, February 2017

February 20, 2017

The roundup was post-poned today due to weather conditions. However 81 wild horses were shipped to the Delta Wild Horse and Burro Facility. 

There was one death reported. According to BLM: A 2 year-old bay...

Bad Reviews For New Anti-Animal Welfare Film

Anti animal welfare industry group Protect the Harvest's new propaganda film to promote slaughtering America's wild horses has received scathing reviews.

Protect the Harvest is a group that fights to defend horrific puppy mills, the shockingly cruel practice of horse soring and works to...

Reveille Roundup: February 1, 2017

Day 3: February 1, 2017

This morning we were allowed to view the horses that were captured over the previous days as they were being loaded for transport to the Ridgecrest corrals. No injuries or issues were witnessed during this process.

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Why are these Nevada wild horses being rounded up?

January 30, 2017

*Read our reports from the range.

While the huge BLM Sulphur roundup in Utah is ongoing, the agency will launch another assault on wild horses beginning today in the Reveille Herd...

Utah Congressman drops plans to sell off public lands amidst outcry from hunters

February 2, 2017

Outcry from hunting and conservation groups has caused Utah Congressman Jason Chaffetz to drop a bill that would have authorized the federal government to sell off 3.3 million acres of public lands in ten Western states. Yesterday, Chaffetz tweeted...

BLM Lays Groundwork to Eliminate Wyoming Wild Horses

February 2, 2017

The BLM has  announced that it will begin to capture wild mares in Wyoming this month for the purpose of affixing radio collars around their necks to study their movement in the Adobe Town HMA.

This research was originally planned for the Red Desert Complex but was...

Citizens standing up for wild horses in Nevada

January 27, 2017

Yesterday, January 26, 2017, was an example of what can happen when people stand up and speak out for wild horses. More than 60-70 wild horse advocates from northern Nevada attended the Bureau of Land Management's (BLM's) local Resource Advisory Council (RAC)...