Newly cloned Przewalski horse destined for San Diego Zoo Safari Park

SAN DIEGO — A once endangered species of wild horse has been successfully cloned — again. A Przewalski’s horse, sometimes called “the Last Wild Horse,” was born at ViaGen Pets & Equine’s cloning facility in Texas on Feb. 17 and will soon be moved the San Diego Zoo Safari Park. That’s according to an announcement…

Saving the Nokota horses: Linton rancher running out of time, land and money

Since the 1800s, the war ponies of Sitting Bull roamed western North Dakota. By Kevin Wallevand | Inforum » LINTON, N.D. — Long before settlers came to North Dakota, something else migrated across the Great Plains: Wild horses. The horses would become the great war ponies of Lakota Chief Sitting Bull. Descendants of those ponies, known…

Wild horse nonprofit acquires 3,335 acres of Bently Pine Nut land

By Kurt Hildebrand | Record-Courier » THE acquisition of 3,335 acres of Bently land across the Pine Nut Mountains by The American Wild Horse Campaign makes the nonprofit one of the major grazing rights holders in Douglas County. “The Bently Foundation has long supported the Campaign, as have Camille and I personally,” Christopher Bently said…

New DNA analysis reveals untold story of horses in America

Horses first evolved in the Americas around 4 million years ago. • Via Inverse via The Conversation » FEW places in the world are more closely linked with horses in the popular imagination than the Great Plains of North America. Romanticized stories of cowboys and the Wild West figure prominently in popular culture, and domestic…

Biden fulfilling Trump’s cruel policy on wild horses

The record-breaking roundups of iconic Western mustangs are a gift to ranching and mining interests. » Via The Intercept by Christopher Ketcham THE BIDEN ADMINISTRATION was supposed to have been a reprieve from the Trump years, but for conservationists who want the wild horses of the American West to live long and prosper, this didn’t…

There are tens of thousands of actual wild horses in Nevada

OPINION | The Nevada Independent | By KRIS THOMPSON | 1 March 2023 THE only thing David Colborne got right in his recent opinion-editorial entitled “Sorry everyone, Nevada still does not have wild horses” is that wild horse preservation and wild horses are extremely popular among Nevada voters. This popularity extends across party lines, across Northern and…

Letter: The BLM’s wild horse roundups are cruel and unnecessary

This is a good example of a Letter to the Editor. It was published by Steamboat Pilot & Today. Letter to the Editor “The Bureau of Land Management investing in healthy wild horse herds and wildlife habitat in Sand Wash Basin” was the headline for a recent guest column by the BLM. This agency conducts…

Authorities do not know who is shooting and killing Utah’s wild horses

• Via NPR (5 Minute Listen) Dozens of free-roaming horses have been found shot dead on remote Utah rangeland. No one knows who is shooting the horses or why. Transcript SCOTT SIMON, HOST: In a remote patch of rangeland bordering the Navajo Nation in Utah, hundreds of horses roam wild. But lately, some of them…

Five horses from the Fish Springs Herd captured by BLM

MINDEN, NV (Feb 1, 2023) — Five horses from the Fish Springs Herd were captured by the Bureau of Land Management over the last week, reports The Record-Courier. The horses Noel, Smoky, Bolt, Blaze and Bunny, consisted of two young stallions, a mature stallion and two mares, according to the Pine Nut Wild Horse Advocates.…

North Dakota officials plead with Theodore Roosevelt National Park to keep wild horses

Gov. Doug Burgum asked park officials to work in collaboration with the state to find a solution that would allow the horses to stay while protecting the park's ecosystem. » Take Action up until 11:59 pm tonight, 31st January 2023. Details at end of post. BISMARCK — Gov. Doug Burgum, the state’s tourism director and…