What does the election of Trump mean to America’s Horses

Updated 11:26 am by VIVIAN What does the it mean for America's horses that Donald Trump was elected President? What will change? What will not change? In order to get anything done in Washington DC, Americans first of all need to take their country back from corporate control or at least establish some sort of…

Pickens’ wild horses murdered while wild horse enemy Salazar given special appointment by Hillary

What the heck is going on? Why do America's wild horses have such bitter enemies? Is it really about the land? Or perhaps it's about water rights. One of the country's top journalists, George Knapp, who has been investigating the wild horse and burro issue in Nevada for years, turned in a story that reports…

Take Action: BLM wild horse roundups continue

PLEASE NOTE: The following are excerpts from an Opinion Piece written by JACK FERM and published by THE INDEPENDENT of Utah at sunindependent.com. We invite you to read the entire article. CALL TO ACTION AT THE END OF THIS POST Did you know there are fewer than 25,000 wild horses roaming public lands? Obama knew…

Still no prosecution of Tom Davis, former Interior Secretary Salazar’s Mustang slaughter merchant

by STERLING BURNETT Ph.D Cross-posted from Heartlander Magazine Despite Slaughter of Wild Horses, No Prosecution of BLM or Rancher Involved Just two weeks after Ken Salazar was selected by President Barack Obama to become the 50th Secretary of the Interior in 2009, the Bureau of Land Managment (BLM), an agency within the Department of Interior…

Horse Watch: Interesting Links

Read. Talk. Monday, Monday all day long. WILD HORSES The horse news making the rounds the most since last week is still about those 1,700 American Mustangs (there are certainly a lot more than that) sold for slaughter via then U.S. Interior Secretary Salazar and his friend and/or employee, past and/or present, Tom Davis. If…

Obama nominates oil and gas playmate Sally Jewell to replace Salazar

SOURCE: KFWB NEWS TALK RADIO 980 WASHINGTON (Feb. 6, 2012) -- President Barack Obama on Wednesday nominated outdoor business executive Sally Jewell to lead the Interior Department. Obama said Jewell, president and chief executive at REI, has earned national recognition for her support of outdoor recreation and habitat conservation. He also noted her experience as…

Lawmakers press for answers on sale of wild horses

Cross-posted from ProPublica WRITTEN BY DAVID PHILIPPS (Jan. 31, 2013) -- Two congressmen wrote to the Department of Interior this week to demand information on the progress of its investigation into whether more than 1,700 federally protected wild horses sold to a Colorado man may have been illegally sent to slaughter. The investigation was triggered…

Tom Udall’s name added to the mix for Interior post

WRITTEN BY EMILY HEIL Cross-posted from the Washington Post's "In the Loop" So much for a short list. Add another name to the possible candidates for Interior secretary, a post that will be vacant when Ken Salazar departs the agency in March: Sen. Tom Udall (D-N.M.) We hear Salazar suggested Udall as a potential replacement,…

Interior Secretary Salazar to leave by end of March; returning to Colorado

DOI PRESS RELEASE WASHINGTON, DC (Jan. 16, 2013) -- Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar announced today that he will return to his home state of Colorado, having fulfilled his promise to President Obama to serve four years as Secretary. Secretary Salazar has informed President Obama that he intends to leave the Department by the…

Interior Secretary moves to tighten rules re sale of wild horses

Cross-posted from ProPublica.com Co-Published with the Colorado Springs Gazette WRITTEN BY DAVID PHILIPPS Secretary of Interior Ken Salazar says he will tighten regulations of the federal government's wild horse program, restricting the number of horses people can buy and making it easier for the government to prosecute buyers who sell mustangs to slaughter. Salazar laid…