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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… Continue reading BLM rejects offer of wind protection for coralled Wyoming Mustangs
THE CLOUD FOUNDATION PRESS RELEASE SALT LAKE CITY (October 30, 2012) – The Cloud Foundation opposes the recommendation of spaying wild horse mares in their native western rangelands. During its meeting in Salt Lake City today, the Bureau of Land Management’s Wild Horse and Burro Advisory Board recommended that the agency implement spaying wild horse… Continue reading BLM Advisory Board recommends sterilization of wild mares
While there are back-slapping reports going around about the BLM's successful placement of all 45 Pryor wild horses and foals put on display from a Pryor Mountains roundup via bait trap, these adoptions would not have occurred the way they did without the hard work, organization and determination of Ginger Kathrens, The Cloud Foundation and… Continue reading All 45 Pryor wild horses adopted out
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
THE CLOUD FOUNDATION PRESS RELEASE BILLINGS, Mont. (April 5, 2012) — Yesterday, BLM issued their Decision Record to permanently remove up to 40 young Pryor mustangs from their home in the mountains of southern Montana. The bait-trapping operation would begin no earlier than June 4th and could continue until September 30th. “Surprisingly, the removal decision… Continue reading BLM decision to remove young Pryor Mustangs issued
Wild Horse and Burro Advisory Board appointment draws a storm of protest WASHINGTON (March 1, 2012) – The Department of the Interior has received thousands of calls today in protest to the appointment of Callie Hendrickson, an openly anti-wild horse, pro horse slaughter woman from Colorado to the National Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Wild… Continue reading Interior Secretary blitzed by Americans protesting pro-slaughter appointee
Wild Horses Cost Taxpayers Virtually nothing on Federal Lands THE CLOUD FOUNDATION PRESS RELEASE COLO. SPRINGS, CO (Feb. 16, 2012) – The Obama Administration proposal to increase public land grazing fees from the regulatory minimum will do little to match the administrative costs of the program according to the Colorado-based, Cloud Foundation (TCF). The fee… Continue reading Obama proposes Public Lands Grazing Fee increase
CLOUD FOUNDATION PRESS RELEASE BLM on road to slaughtering wild horses in holding? COLO. SPRINGS, CO (Feb. 8, 2012) – The Cloud Foundation strongly protests the appointment of another pro-slaughter member to the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Wild Horse and Burro Advisory Board. On February 5, 2012, Secretary of the Interior, Ken Salazar, named… Continue reading BLM appoints second supporter of horse slaughter to National Wild Horse and Burro Advisory Board
THE CLOUD FOUNDATION PRESS RELEASE Cloud’s family and other wild horse families threatened BILLINGS, Mont. (Dec. 16, 2011) - The Montana Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Billings Field Office issued a Preliminary Environment Assessment outlining plans to strip at least half of the young wild horses from the Pryor Mountains in 2012. The BLM preferred… Continue reading BLM proposed removal targets youngest of famous Pryor Mountain Mustangs
THE CLOUD FOUNDATION PRESS RELEASE Famed Oregon wild horses still surrounded by controversy PORTLAND, Ore. (November 22, 2011) – The Cloud Foundation (TCF) and Craig Downer, plaintiffs in a case brought against the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), are encouraged to learn that Federal Court Judge, Patricia Sullivan, issued a ruling ordering defendant, the BLM,… Continue reading Federal Judge orders BLM to answer questions regarding roundup and removal of Kiger Mustangs
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