The Cloud Foundation Wins Reprieve for Pryor Wild Horses

The Temporary Restraining Order was granted. See Press Release below. There is a further hearing set for September 28th in Billings, Montana. Learn more at The Cloud Foundation. THE CLOUD FOUNDATION PRESS RELEASE Temporary Retraining Order prevents September 2 Trapping and Removal COLORADO SPRINGS, CO - Susan P. Watters, United States District Judge, has ruled…

BLM to Sterilize Idaho’s Saylor Creek Wild Horses

THE CLOUD FOUNDATION PRESS RELEASE Drastic Plan threatens future of all wild horse herds in the West COLORADO SPRINGS, CO. (Oct. 20, 2015 — The Bureau of Land Management (BLM), long criticized for its inhumane helicopter roundups, massive, indiscriminant removals, and warehousing of America’s wild horses and burros, announced their intent to sterilize the Saylor…

BLM kills two while virtually wiping out Colorado’s West Douglas mustangs

Reported by Westworld WEST DOUGLAS HERD — COLORADO As the U.S. Bureau of Land Management sees it, last month's removal of 167 wild horses from a rugged, remote area in Rio Blanco County was a success, easing the strain on damaged range lands and substantially reducing a herd that had become too large to be…

BLM poised to eradicate last large wild horse herds in Wyoming

US Congressman, Raul Grijalva (D-AZ), supports listing of wild horses as endangered species THE CLOUD FOUNDATION PRESS RELEASE ROCK SPRINGS, WY (July 23, 2014) – The Cloud Foundation (TCF) with 280,000 followers, as well as numerous wild horse and animal advocacy groups, condemns the Bureau of Land Management’s scheduled roundup which will eliminate all wild…

Groups seek protection for North American wild horses under Endangered Species Act

PRESS RELEASE June 10, 2014 — Friends of Animals (FoA) and The Cloud Foundation have filed a petition with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to list North American wild horses on public lands as threatened or endangered under the Endangered Species Act (ESA) since the Wild Free-Roaming Horse and Burro Act (WHBA), which was…

Wild Horse advocates appeal court decision: Forest Service Fence threatens ongoing survival of Pryor Mountain Wild Horse Herd

THE CLOUD FOUNDATION PRESS RELEASE Historical and critical range fenced off by U.S. Forest Service endangers the herd’s genetic variability. COLORADO SPRINGS, CO. (April 23, 2014) -- On April 21, 2014, The Cloud Foundation (TCF), Front Range Equine Rescue (FRER) and noted equine photographer, Carol Walker, Director of Field Documentation for Wild Horse Freedom Federation…

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…

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 rejects offer of wind protection for coralled Wyoming Mustangs

THE CLOUD FOUNDATION PRESS RELEASE In late January Lisa Friday and Ginger Kathrens of The Cloud Foundation (TCF) met with BLM District Manager, Mark Storzer, in Rock Springs, Wyoming to discuss ways to protect the over 600 horses held captive in the 30-year-old corral facility. Harsh westerly winds regularly blast the corrals and the BLM…

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…