Policy

Eyewitness Report: BLM Adoption Event in Okeechobee, FL

Recently an AWHC volunteer attended one of the Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM) satellite adoption events in Okeechobee Florida. She recounts the experience below.

(March 1, 2022) The BLM adoption event in Okeechobee, Florida was quite a sad event for me to observe.  

I was startled to learn that the 55 mustangs and 12 burros who arrived in Florida were in Utah just the day before, where the temperatures were below 0 degrees. 


Abused BLM Burros Find Home at California Sanctuary

(February 16, 2022) As part of AWHC’s Adoption Incentive Program (AIP) investigation, our staff monitors over 20 kill pens across the U.S. Recently, we came across two Bureau of Land Management (BLM) burros posted for sale at a notorious kill pen in Oklahoma. These burros looked defeated. Their heads were dropped, their ears were lowered, and it looked like they had cuts on their bodies.


Latest Changes to BLM’s Wild Horse Adoption Incentive Program Insufficient to Prevent Slaughter 

Group that helped expose program as a pipeline to slaughter for scores of wild horses and burros says cash payments for adoption must end 


Analysis: Hundreds of Millions of Tax Dollars Flow to Livestock Industry to Round Up and Warehouse Wild Horses

For nearly five decades, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) has been rounding up wild horses and burros with helicopters, stampeding them into traps, and stockpiling them in holding facilities.


Report: A Death at the Delta Wild Horse Holding Facility

(January 21, 2022) By Melissa Tritinger

I just watched a horse die. Panicked, afraid, desperate for escape: terror-filled emotions trapped both the horse and myself in those moments. 


Federal wild horse roundup plan called a billion-dollar boondoggle

Washington, DC (January 5, 2022) - The nation’s leading wild horse protection organization, the American Wild Horse Campaign, issued the following statement today in response to the U.S.


AWHC welcomes new Director Stone-Manning and calls for reforms to the BLM’s mismanaged Wild Horse and Burro Program

Leading wild horse advocacy NGO welcomes new Director Stone-Manning and calls for reforms to the BLM’s mismanaged Wild Horse and Burro Program


Concerning Changes to Wild Horse and Burro Euthanasia Policy

(September 10, 2021) A new Bureau of Land Management (BLM) policy establishes protocols for the euthanasia of wild horses and burros. These policies are implemented immediately and without a chance for comment or input from the public. Worse still, policies are internal guidelines that influence the agency’s work internally and are not legally enforceable, unlike laws or regulations.


Have You Adopted a Devil’s Garden Mustang from the Forest Service between 2018-2021? We Need Your Help.

The American Wild Horse Campaign (AWHC) is investigating the U.S. Forest Service’s completion of compliance checks before transfer of ownership (title) for any Devil’s Garden horses adopted from the Double Devil Wild Horse Corrals on the Modoc National Forest (MNF).


BLM to build largest U.S. Wild Horse Prison in Nevada

Advocates raise humane and environmental concerns over industrial-scale feedlot. 

RENO (September 3, 2021) —  Today, the nation’s leading wild horse protection organization, the American Wild Horse Campaign (AWHC) expressed outrage at a Bureau of Land Management (BLM) proposal to build a large-scale industrial agricultural facility in Nevada that will house thousands of federally-protected wild horses and burros removed from western public lands.