By Kelsey Gee and Bill Tomson
Oklahoma's governor is expected to sign a new bill permitting horses to be slaughtered in the state to produce meat for human consumption, the latest salvo in a national debate over how to deal with wild and abandoned horses.
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By Jaime Hayden, Fox Reno
Even though the economy seems to be picking up, it has claimed one casualty in the form of the biggest wild horse adoption center.
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By Jeff Munson, Carson Now
A herd of wild horses removed from an area off of Deer Run Road last month were purchased Saturday at a Bureau of Land Management adoption in Carson City.
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By Pat Raia, The Horse
Wild horse advocates will get the first option to purchase horses collected from Nevada's Virginia Range by that state's Department of Agriculture under an agreement struck between the agency and Return to Freedom, Inc. (RTF), a California-based wild horse advocacy group and sponsor of the American Wild Horse Preservation Campaign.
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By Andrew Cohen, The Atlantic
Say you were sitting in a law school classroom taking an exam, or you were on a panel of experts talking about ethics in government, or you were the Inspector General of the Interior Department or a member of Congress, or you were just a plain old citizen who still believes that public officials ought to be honest brokers in conflicts between competing interests -- and the following hypothetical were posed to you. What would you think? What would you say? What would you do?
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By Suzanne Roy, Special to the Huffington Post
Wild horses capture the American public's imagination like no other animal. The image of magnificent mustangs running wild on the vast Western range embodies the best of America - our independent, free and untamed spirit. America's mustangs are even protected by an act of Congress that recognizes them as "living symbols of the historic and pioneer spirit of the West" that "enrich the lives of the American people."
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By Michelle Hamilton, Farm Talk
Parsons, Kansas — Renewed interest in a decades-long controversy regarding horse slaughter emerged at the Bureau of Land Management’s Wild Horse & Burro Advisory Board meeting at the Oklahoma City Sheraton earlier this month.
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By CBS San Francisco
RENO (CBS/AP) — The state of Nevada has signed a cooperative agreement with wild horse protection advocates allowing longtime critics of mustang roundups to have the first chance at purchasing state-captured animals that otherwise might end up at the slaughterhouse.
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By Mark Robison, RGJ.com
The claim:
The Bureau of Land Management was justified in removing a family of wild horses off Deer Run Road near Carson City.
By Willow Belden, Wyoming Public Media
Wild horse advocates say a proposed natural gas project in south-central Wyoming could negatively affect herds in the area.
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By Jeff Munson, Carson Now
The Bureau of Land Management will hold an adoption on March 23 for several wild horses recently removed from the outskirts of Carson City.
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By David Danelski, The Press-Enterprise
A wild horse advocacy group is criticizing the U.S. Bureau of Land Management for deciding to separate and auction off a family of eight mustangs recently lured into corrals near Carson City, Nevada.
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