BLM held hostage by Iron County Commissioners

Compliance with Iron County ultimatum to remove wild horses sets a dangerous precedent throughout the West THE CLOUD FOUNDATION PRESS RELEASE COLORADO SPRINGS, CO. (April 7, 2013) -- The Cloud Foundation (TCF), a national wild horse advocacy organization, is shocked at the BLM’s apparent agreement to comply with Iron County Commissioner’s ultimatum: "Remove Wild Horses…

BLM breaks promise to Congress and public to protect wild horses

BLM budgets millions for helicopter contractors to round up last of the wild horses and solicits for sterilization of mares and stallions in the wild THE CLOUD FOUNDATION PRESS RELEASE COLORADO SPRINGS, CO (Feb. 8, 2014) -- For twenty years Ginger Kathrens, Executive Director of The Cloud Foundation, has documented wild horses for PBS/Nature’s award-winning…

Nevada lawsuit exposes underbelly of the Public Lands grazing disaster

THE CLOUD FOUNDATION PRESS RELEASE COLORADO SPRINGS, CO. (Jan. 17, 2014) -- A lawsuit brought by the Nevada Association of Counties (NACO) and the Nevada Farm Bureau (NFB) against the federal government claims wild horse overpopulation creates serious environmental concerns for horses, wildlife, and the ecology of rangelands, yet makes no mention of the glaring…

Operation Badlands: Full speed ahead

THE CLOUD FOUNDATION PRESS RELEASE Help still needed to insure historic horses do not go to slaughter. COLORADO SPRINGS, CO. (Sept. 25, 2013) -- The Cloud Foundation (TCF) and Legacy Mustang Preservation (LMP) are proceeding full speed ahead with Operation Badlands, an effort to insure that none of the historic mustangs being rounded up at…

Genetic Report on Pryor Mountain wild horse herd disappointing

Report card reveals diminished variability in world famous herd of wild stallion Cloud THE CLOUD FOUNDATION PRESS RELEASE COLORADO SPRINGS, Co. (Sept. 16, 2013) -- For over thirty years, the genetics of the Pryor Mountain Wild Horse Herd have been tracked by foremost equine geneticist, E. Gus Cothran. His first revelations linking the herd to…

Ft McDermitt unbranded wild horses saved

Team effort secures a future for slaughter bound mustangs CLOUD FOUNDATION PRESS RELEASE RENO, Nev. (August 23, 2013) -- On Wednesday US District Court Judge, Miranda Du, lifted a Temporary Restraining Order (TRO) which allowed for the sale of 149 unbranded wild horses captured by the Fort McDermitt Paiute and Shoshone Tribe in northern Nevada.…

Judge grants TRO to stop sale of wild horses

Order could delay tomorrow’s sale of nearly 500 horses at Fallon Livestock Exchange JOINT PRESS RELEASE RENO, Nev, (August 16, 2013) -- A federal court judge in Reno, NV has granted a coalition of wild horse advocacy and conservation groups a Temporary Restraining Order to block the sale of unbranded horses at a slaughter auction…

Feds stand by as unbranded, federally protected wild horses captured, sent to slaughter auction

Roundup Proceeds on Tribal Grounds Despite Federal “Stop Work” Order; Documents Implicate Feds in Horse-Laundering Scheme AMERICAN WILD HORSE PRESERVATION, RETURN TO FREEDOM, THE CLOUD FOUNDATION PRESS RELEASE Winnemucca, NV (August 12, 2013) -- Late yesterday, the U.S. Forest Service (USFS) notified a coalition of wild horse advocacy and conservation groups that it was “issuing…

Campaign launches to protect Badlands Mustangs from going to slaughter

Theodore Roosevelt National Park to Remove and Sell over 100 Wild Horses CLOUD FOUNDATION PRESS RELEASE COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (Aug. 9, 2013) – Over 100 young wild horses living in the Theodore Roosevelt National Park in the North Dakota Badlands will be rounded up with a helicopter at the end of September and auctioned off…

USDA/Forest Service shuts down public observation at controversial wild horse roundup

UPDATE: Bob from Let 'Em Run left a comment to this post that: "Lacy J Dalton has informed me that Dean Heller’s office informed her that the roundup has been postponed for 90 days." FEDS WILL CAPTURE AND DELIVER HUNDREDS OF WILD HORSES TO SLAUGHTER AUCTION IN SECRET Wild Horse Preservation Campaign and The Cloud…