Updated: BLM auctioning American icons in online Mustang sale

UPDATE: Learn how you can help at Laura Leigh's blog. What would you pay for a living, breathing, irreplaceable part of America's history and heritage in the form of an iconic Mustang? The bidding starts at $125.00 for wild horses such as this 15-year-old Calico mare, Necktag #0832. She, and many, many others, are for…

Request for Investigation Filed with FBI to Stop Calico Wild Horse Transport

Request for Investigation Filed with FBI to Stop Calico Wild Horse Transport The ‘Erin Brockovich of America’s Mustangs’ fights to return Nevada Wild Horses to Freedom Reno, NV (June 21, 2010)—Cindy MacDonald, research expert and American Herds blogger has filed a request for investigation with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) this afternoon to prevent…

Adopt a Calico Mustang. Must Act by June 15th.

Adopting a Calico Mustang may be One Thing You Can Do to Help Cross-posted from Equine Advocacy Examiner Written by MAUREEN HARMONAY While efforts to secure the return of the Calico mustangs to their rightful ranges have been unsuccessful to-date, it is still possible to protect the safety of individual horses before they are dispersed…

Former BLM Chief Baca backs NV Wild Horse Preserve plan

Cross-posted from the Silicon Valley Mercury News Written by MARTIN GRIFFITH | © Associated Press | June 5, 2010 RENO, Nev.—A former U.S. Bureau of Land Management director has endorsed a proposed wild-horse preserve in Nevada, saying it makes more sense than Interior Secretary Ken Salazar's plan to send mustangs to the Midwest. Jim Baca,…

Wild horse sanctuary proposed north of Gerlach

Cross-posted from Reno Gazette-Journal Written by FRANK X MULLEN JR. | May 31, 2010 "A Nevada rancher and a wild horse advocacy group have proposed creating a mustang sanctuary in the desert hills 160 miles north of Reno and have asked the Bureau of Land Management to release 1,700 captive horses into the sanctuary's care.…

Wild horses: No respite for Calico Mustangs, Remembering “Mouse”

Cross-posted from The Examiner.com Excerpts from article written by MAUREEN HARMONY News goes from bad to worse for captive Calico horses May 24, 2010 Any hope that the surviving captive wild horses from Nevada's Calico Mountains would be returned to freedom was dashed today, when Federal Judge Paul Friedman ruled against the plaintiffs Terri Farley,…

Wild Horse Red Rocks April 25 Rally Report

Advocates Tell the BLM: Don't Take My Balls Written by ARLENE GAWNE April 26, 2010 Every wild horse volunteer knows how hard it is to steal a bit of time from the demands of career and family and stand up for those wild herds that desperately need our protection. Yet 30 people showed up this fine spring morning, Sunday, April 25, 2010, in…

Wild horse protesters in Carson City demand the truth from the BLM

Cross-posted from the Nevada Appeal February 21, 2010 By SANDI HOOVER Dozens of wild horse roundup protesters lined Carson Street in front of the Legislature from Fifth Street to the Capitol Saturday, waving signs as motorists blared horns in support. The Truth Rally, sponsored by the Alliance of Wild Horse Advocates, was organized, said Bonnie…

iFH calls for Presidential Pardon of Calico Mustangs

OBAMA: FREE THE CALICO MUSTANGS We call on you to call on behalf of the Calico Mustangs. Your calls, letters, email and faxes are working! Please keep it up. Public Viewing of Incarcerated Mustangs Denied Despite the enormous cost to the American taxpayers and the controversial nature of the roundup, the BLM and the Department…

BLM denies public access to captured Calico Mustangs during processing

Americans are wondering what BLM is hiding as processing of nearly 1900 wild horses begins in Nevada. Protests continue to save an American icon as President Obama heads West THE CLOUD FOUNDATION PRESS RELEASE Colorado Springs, CO (February 17, 2010) — The Cloud Foundation objects to the Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM) severe limitations placed…