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…

Little horse sense in public funding debate of mustang eco-sanctuary study

DYLAN WOOLF HARRIS, reporting for the Elko Daily Press writes concerning the next step for Madeleine Pickens' proposed eco-sanctuary in NE Nevada. Some of the statements made by the people he includes in his article seem to lack basic horse sense, and you wonder where these people come from. Harris starts his article, "Public funds…

Hearings set re: Pickens’ plan for wild horse eco-sanctuary

ELKO, Nev. — The U.S. Bureau of Land Management plans a series of open houses in northern Nevada in the coming weeks to field public comment about proposals to create a wild horse eco-sanctuary in Elko County. Madeleine Pickens, the wife of oil tycoon T. Boone Pickens and founder of the group Saving America's Mustangs,…

Elko commissioner opposes Pickens’ wild horse sanctuary

This type of thinking makes me shake my head in wonderment. How does it hurt the U.S. economy for range destroying cattle to push range restoring wild horses off public lands? Thousands of federally protected wild horses and burros have lost their homes, family bands and freedom to benefit thousands of head of cattle that…

First horses arrive at Madeleine Pickens Mustang Monument ecosanctuary

At long last Madeleine Pickens has wild horses for her ecosantuary, Mustang Monument. Last week the first of what Pickens hopes will eventually be thousands of mustangs living wild and free arrived at the sprawling ranch. The wild horses were original to Paiute tribal land and had been removed to cut numbers. I'm going to…

Public Lands Council opposes Pickens’ wild horse sanctuary

Cross-posted from Drovers Magazine online The Public Lands Council this week sent a letter to Director of the Bureau of Land Management Bob Abbey supporting BLM’s response to a prospectus submitted by Madeleine Pickens’ Saving America’s Mustangs Foundation (the Foundation) to build and establish an eco-sanctuary for wild horses. PLC President John Falen said the…

Antelope Complex roundup going great says the BLM

Gather includes site of Madeleine Pickens' proposed sanctuary rejected by Abbey Cross-posted from the Elko Daily Free Press Written by ADELLA HARDING ELKO — (Jan. 28, 2011) The Antelope Complex Gather in Elko and White Pine counties is “going great,” said Lesli Coakley, public affairs officer for the U.S. Bureau of Land Management’s Elko District.…

Madeleine Pickens responds to BLM rejection of her wild horse sanctuary

Mrs Pickens responds to the BLM rejection of her wild horse sanctuary plans which she has been working to put together since 2008. The BLM issued its rejection with a late placed press release via Bob Abbey, full of the usual disingenuous opinions. It appears that Abbey did not even have the courtesy to contact…

BLM rejects Pickens wild horse rescue plan

Yet another plan rejected by the BLM to provide sanctuary for wild horses and burros who have been rounded up from their protected lands and robbed of their freedom while federal holding pens are bulging with them: MARTIN GRIFFITHS reports for the Associated Press: The federal Bureau of Land Management is rejecting a proposal from…

Tournament of Roses Parade float honors America’s Mustangs

Written by MADELEINE PICKENS We are excited to announce an opportunity for our amazing supporters to vote for our Saving America’s Mustangs’ float in the Tournament of Roses’ Viewers’ Choice category! Voting opens at 8:00am PST on 1.1.11. Please keep this information available to show your support. We would love to have this honor, because…