Wild Horse Rally: Don’t Take My Balls

I'm like you. I thought, what? Does this mean what I think this means? It does. In polite horse circles it is referred to as gelding. In BLM circles it means bloody castration. In particular, the bloody castration of young males. PRESS RELEASE Las Vegans rally in sympathy with the young stallions under 4 years…

Calico aftermath: Humane observations

Documented by CRAIG DOWNER and ELYSE GARDNER ----- Excerpts from Humane Observer blog. Photographs (c) Elyse Gardner 2010. --- They didn't report the Pigeon Fever outbreak until two weeks after it was a known problem and advocates were on site at Fallon asking questions. And now BLM is saying the horses came in off the…

Celebrate George Knapp’s Murrow Award in Las Vegas

Written by ARLENE GAWNE Possibly no one in Nevada deserves more kuddos for turning the public eye on the plight of the wild horses and burros than George Knapp and his team of Matt Adams and Ian Russell. They have just been awarded the Regional Edward R. Murrow Award for their stunning documentary, Stampede to…

Pigeon Fever outbreak uncovered as BLM continues closed door policy

THE CLOUD FOUNDATION PRESS RELEASE For Immediate Release April 1, 2010 Newborn horses unaccounted for as BLM denies public observation of Calico wild horses and keeps up closed-door, business-as-usual protocol Fallon, NV (April 1, 2010)—The public questions the Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM) ability to care for the more than 1800 captured wild horses in…

BLM captures horses behind closed gates

The Big Story, Horseback Magazine >> National Press Barred From Roundup Exclusive Interview By Steven Long, December 28, 2009 HOUSTON, December 28, 2009 (Horseback) - When the Bureau of Land Management began their “gather’ of Wild Horse on private land on Monday, Horseback Magazine asked to go along on horseback with a reporter and photographer.…

Terry Farley says she will deliver for our wild horses (US)

Via Email from Terry Farley Stampeded by helicopters, slammed into metal pens, torn from families when their hearts and heads say safety is with the herd, our wild horses have been robbed of their homelands and forced to stand dull-eyed in pens, awaiting the slaughter that the Bureau of Land Management says will come. It's…

Lawsuit filed to halt huge wild horse roundup (US)

Mass roundup of Nevada Wild Horses Inhumane and Illegal, Suit Charges Washington, DC, Nov. 23, 2009 - In Defense of Animals (IDA) and ecologist Craig Downer today filed suit, in the federal U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, to stop the Bureau of Land Management's proposed massive roundup and removal of more than…