Three Fingers Roundup: July 26, 2016
The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Vale District has announced a plan to round up 100 wild horses in the Three Fingers Herd Management Area (HMA) beginning as early as July 26,...
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July 14, 2016
Last night, just after midnight on the floor of the House of Representatives, U.S. Rep. Jared Polis (D-CO) rose to defend America’s wild horses from the Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM’s) dangerous and destructive mass sterilization plans.
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Guest Blog post by Eileen Skahill of WildSoul Photography Colorado
July 6, 2016
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These horses are (to me, of course) a unique group and my connection to them, and fear for their future, on so many...
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July 5, 2016
We love our supporters. Wild horse advocates are passionate, opinionated and willing to do whatever it takes to help mustangs and burros. We appreciate you, and wouldn't be able to...
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By Simone Netherlands, President of the Salt River Wild Horse Management Group
Re-published from the Salt River Wild Horse Management Group's Facebook post.
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June 23, 2016
If we ever questioned what public lands ranchers and their political allies in Congress really have in mind for America’s wild horses and burros, the answer was abundantly clear yesterday’s House Natural Resources Federal Lands Subcommittee on the Bureau of Land...
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June 21, 2016
As if last week’s appropriations action wasn’t bad enough, this week will see a stacked oversight hearing by the House Natural Resources Federal Lands Subcommittee, which appears to be aimed at laying the groundwork for lifting the prohibition on slaughtering America's...
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UPDATE (MARCH 22, 2017): The budget language to "immediately" transfer wild horses to state and local agencies and to strip these animals of their federal protection was amended to prevent commercial slaughter. However, as adopted by both the House of Representatives and the Senate Interior...
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May 30, 2016
Nevada Governor Brian Sandoval pressing the federal government to increase livestock grazing on public lands after one wet winter in his state. At the same time, Gov. Sandoval is threatening to sue the federal government for more wild horse roundups,...
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May 26, 2016
Chris Stewart, Republican Congressman from Utah, wants to overturn federal management of wild horses and turn it over to the states. If successful, he will turn back the clock more than four decades to a time when local authorities and ranchers were running mustang herds into...
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May 21, 2016
Field biologist Erick Lundgren of Phoeniz Arizona was camping along a river in the Sonoran desert like he had for years when he noticed something odd: dug wells. Curious to find the culprit of these wells, he secured a small grant with Arizona State University to...
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