AWHC Survey Results

In an effort to continue our education mission, AWHC sent candidates running for federal and statewide office in Nevada, California, Utah, Colorado, New Mexico, and Oregon a survey to determine their stance on protecting wild horses and burros, as well as population and land management....

2018 BLM Advisory Board Meeting: More Scapegoating - More Mismanagement

2018 National BLM Wild Horse and Burro Advisory Board Meeting:

More Scapegoating -  More Mismanagement

Between October 9-11, 2018  the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) held its Wild Horse and Burro...

BLM Euthanizes 32 Wild Horses During Oregon Roundup

The Warm Springs Herd Management Area (“HMA”) Roundup completed on October 23, 2018. The Bureau of Land Management (“BLM”) rounded up and removed 846 horses, 41 burros, and 2 mules. The agency reported that 32 horses died during this roundup.

BACKGROUND

The Warm...

Join our virtual sit-in against the USFS mustang slaughter plan

October 24, 2018... Today, we’re organizing a rally at the U.S. Forest Service Region 5 headquarters in Vallejo, California to protest the roundup of wild horses from the Devils Garden Wild Horse Territory and the pending sale of captured horses for slaughter. Even if...

The Devil's Garden Wild Horses

The U.S. Forest Service is conducting a massive helicopter roundup of 1,000 federally-protected wild horses in the Devils Garden Wild Horse Territory, a 300,000-acre public lands area within the Modoc National Forest near Alturas, California. The intent of the...

Fact vs. Fiction: Truth About the Devils Garden Wild Horses

FS Claim: The horses are destroying the environment.

Truth: In making this claim, the FS omits any mention of the vastly larger number of livestock authorized in Devils Garden. This link shows forage allocations in the Garden – which includes two new grazing allotments...

What We're Doing: Devil's Garden Wild Horses

By now you’ve probably heard about the situation in California, as a thousand federally-protected wild horses are being rounded up from the Devil's Garden Wild Horse Territory in the Modoc National Forest. Hundreds of these iconic mustangs are in danger of being sold without limitation on...

Wyoming Livestock Lawyer Appointed at DOI

(October 18, 2018) Yesterday, the Associated Press announced the appointment of Wyoming attorney Karen Budd Falen as deputy solicitor for the U.S. Department of the Interior (DOI). She will provide legal council for the DOI and primarily, the Secretary of the Interior, Ryan Zinke. This should be...

Frequently Asked Questions about the Devil’s Garden Wild Horses

A: The U.S. Forest Service is in the process of rounding up and removing 1,000 federally-protected wild horses from the Devil’s Garden Plateau Wild Horse Territory, a 300,000-acre public lands area in Alturas, California.

The Forest Service claims...

Devils Garden Roundup: October 2018

19 horses were rounded up andd removed from the Territory on this day.  Total number of horses captured: 932. 14 horses have died or been euthanatized,  and 3 mares miscarried during this helicopter capture operation.  

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Warm Springs Roundup Begins in Oregon

The BLM began the roundup and removal of wild horses from the Warm Springs HMA in Oregon on October 2, 2018.  The BLM intends to subject 100 of the captured mares to the risky and invasive sterilization experiments that AWHC, the Cloud Foundation and the Animal Welfare Institute have filed...

Owyhee Complex Roundup 2018

The 1.1-million acre Owyhee Complex is located within both the Elko and Winnemucca Districts of the BLM and encompasses the Snowstorm Mountains, Little Owyhee, Rock Creek, Owyhee, and Little Humboldt Herd Management Areas (HMAs).  The Complex has been the site of...