Suzanne Roy Letter: The failure of wild horse policy

Grey Mustang Stallion by Randy Harris. See randyharrisphoto.com.

IN MY VIEW Letter: The failure of wild horse policy By Suzanne Roy / Published Jul 15, 2016 at 12:02AM — The Bend Oregon Bulletin The headline for The Bulletin’s June 28 editorial is absolutely right and deserves some all-caps emphasis: “Wild horse policy is NOT working.” This statement is true and has been for… Continue reading Suzanne Roy Letter: The failure of wild horse policy

Feds rein in sales of wild horses

Wild Horses rounded up by federal agency Bureau of Land Management. Google image.nded up by federal government agency, Bureau of Land Management. Google image.

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS CARSON CITY, Nev. –- Sales of wild horses and burros will be restricted under new rules announced Friday by the U.S. Bureau of Land Management after an investigation into the sale of more than 1,700 horses to a Colorado livestock hauler who supports the horse meat industry. "It is a response to… Continue reading Feds rein in sales of wild horses

Critics object to roundups of Murderers Creek herd

Murderers Creek Wild Horse, E. Oregon. Photo: AWHPC.

REPORTED BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS JOHN DAY — Critics have launched a campaign against the federal government’s plan to reduce a herd of wild horses in the mountains of Eastern Oregon. The 250 mustangs in the Murderers Creek herd near John Day in Grant County could be reduced in roundups over the next decade to… Continue reading Critics object to roundups of Murderers Creek herd

Federal Court forces Interior Dept to consider scientific evidence regarding Wild Horse management

Cloud Wild Stallion Herd Photo by Tamara Gooch.

THE CLOUD FOUNDATION PRESS RELEASE Judge Rejects Gov’t Attempt to Ignore Expert Declarations on Negative Impacts of Plan to Castrate Wild Nevada Stallions Washington, DC – May 10, 2012 – The U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia has rejected an attempt by the Interior Department’s Bureau of Land Management (BLM) to withhold and… Continue reading Federal Court forces Interior Dept to consider scientific evidence regarding Wild Horse management

Wyoming to intervene in wild horse roundup lawsuit

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS reports: CHEYENNE, Wyo. (Jul. 28, 2011) –- Gov. Matt Mead will oppose a lawsuit filed by environmental groups trying to block the U.S. Bureau of Land Management from proceeding with a plan to round up and castrate hundreds of wild stallions in the southwestern part of the state, his office said Thursday.… Continue reading Wyoming to intervene in wild horse roundup lawsuit

Silver King Tragedy: Story of Braveheart

Cross-posted from American Wild Horse Preservation Campaign By SUZANNE ROY In the early morning of Wednesday, October 6, 2010, amid the vast landscape of the Silver King Herd Management Area in southeastern Nevada, a mustang family lost everything in a BLM helicopter roundup. I looked down from a hill above the entrance to the capture… Continue reading Silver King Tragedy: Story of Braveheart