BLM Nevada Holding Hearing on Vehicle Use in Wild Horse Mgmt

The BLM is seeking public input on the use of motorized vehicles and aircraft in wild horse management and monitoring on public lands in Nevada. EDITED PRESS RELEASE The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) will conduct a public hearing to discuss the use of motorized vehicles and aircraft in wild horse and burro monitoring and management on…

Who’s grazing public lands infographic by Vickery Eckhoff

We have been asked by a wild horse advocate to share this far and wide, so here we are. And it is certainly well worth viewing and using. The link we received was in .png format. We converted it to a .jpg which is a smaller file and downloads more quickly. What's particularly good about…

What cattle production has to do with disappearance of wild horses

Cross-posted from One Green Planet by KATE GOOD The routine roundup of American wild horses is a practice that has a long and corrupt history. From the time the great West was settled, wild horses have posed a threat to agriculture, after all, large herds of horses take up land and they do like to…

BLM to pull 200 horses from Utah’s west desert

Cross-posted from Salt Lake Tribune by BRIAN MAFFLY The federal Bureau of Land Management will likely clear most if not all the wild horses from a West Desert block of state land in July as part of a newly approved plan to remove 200 wild horses from Utah rangelands this year. The Interior Department this…

New BLM Director called to uphold federal Law to protect Wild Horses as ranchers threaten illegal roundups

THE CLOUD FOUNDATION PRESS RELEASE Washington, DC (April 8, 2014) -- Today, as the U.S. Senate confirmed Neil Kornze as the director of the Interior Department Bureau of Land Management (BLM), the American Wild Horse Preservation Campaign, its parent organization Return to Freedom and coalition partner The Cloud Foundation called upon the new BLM director…