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ANDREW COHEN reporting for The Atlantic writes about appointee Joan Guilfoyle: It surely cannot be easy these days being Joan Guilfoyle, the (relatively) new director of the Bureau of Land Management's Wild Horse and Burro Program. On the one hand she works for a federal agency, the Interior Department, which is largely beholden to the… Continue reading Feds unnecessarily round up wild horses, complain about costs, recommend slaughter
The Standard-Examiner reports that on Monday, February 13, President Obama requested $1.1 billion in appropriations for the Department of the Interior's Bureau of Land Management in Fiscal Year 2013. BLM Director Bob Abbey reiterated the agency's mission in this statement: "Our public lands and resources are some of America's greatest assets, and under this budget… Continue reading Obama budget includes $1.1 billion for the BLM
FINAL HEARING SET In Defense of Animals et al v United States Department of the Interior et al PLEASE NOTE: UPDATED DATE AND TIME Friday, February 24, 2012 at 10:00 a.m. U.S. Federal Courthouse, Eastern District of California 501 I Street Courtroom #7 (14th Floor Judge Morrison England Jr.) Sacramento, California http://www.caed.uscourts.gov Rachel Fazio, acting… Continue reading Hearing in IDA’s Twin Peaks lawsuit set for February 24th
The American Wild Horse Preservation Campaign writes: If you signed the Wild Horse and Burro petition on the White House's "We the People" website, you have received the same canned response that we received from the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) director, Bob Abbey. We are as frustrated and disappointed as you are with this… Continue reading AWHPC Statement on the White House’s “Canned” Response to Wild Horse Petition
A large contingent of wild horse and burro preservation advocates are attending the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Advisory Board Meeting in Phoenix, Arizona, with high hopes of hearing something, anything, convincing them Director Bob Abbey will implement the reforms he promised in his agency's Wild Horse & Burro Program. Joined by throngs of online… Continue reading BLM fail to convince in Phoenix
Here's is what Brooke Boone of MyNews4 Reno reports: Controversy has been swirling around how the Bureau of Land Management rounds up wild horses. It's partly stemming from video and pictures of helicopters buzzing horses. The BLM found no wrong-doing over a controversial incident near Ely. But, it seems they are looking to change their… Continue reading BLM Director Makes More Empty Promises
Update: Tom Gorey of the BLM Responds “The BLM’s position — that we do not sell or send any wild horses or burros to slaughter — is stated clearly on our Quicks Facts page(http://www.blm.gov/wo/st/en/prog/wild_horse_and_burro/wh_b_information_center/Fact_Sheet.html) and on our Myths and Facts page http://www.blm.gov/wo/st/en/prog/wild_horse_and_burro/national/about/myths.html).” Read more at Horseback Magazine >> That is what pages on their website… Continue reading Updated: Congressman implicates the BLM in the slaughter of wild horses
WRITTEN BY MARTIN GRIFFITHS © Associated Press RENO, Nev. -- A contractor has been cleared of allegations of wrongdoing in connection with a videotaped Jan. 27 incident involving a wild horse that fell during a government roundup of mustangs from the range in eastern Nevada. U.S. Bureau of Land Management Director Bob Abbey said an… Continue reading Contractor cleared in Nevada wild horse incident
Cross-posted from Drovers Magazine online The Public Lands Council this week sent a letter to Director of the Bureau of Land Management Bob Abbey supporting BLM’s response to a prospectus submitted by Madeleine Pickens’ Saving America’s Mustangs Foundation (the Foundation) to build and establish an eco-sanctuary for wild horses. PLC President John Falen said the… Continue reading Public Lands Council opposes Pickens’ wild horse sanctuary
Gather includes site of Madeleine Pickens' proposed sanctuary rejected by Abbey Cross-posted from the Elko Daily Free Press Written by ADELLA HARDING ELKO — (Jan. 28, 2011) The Antelope Complex Gather in Elko and White Pine counties is “going great,” said Lesli Coakley, public affairs officer for the U.S. Bureau of Land Management’s Elko District.… Continue reading Antelope Complex roundup going great says the BLM
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