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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… Continue reading Take Action: BLM wild horse roundups continue
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… Continue reading Still no prosecution of Tom Davis, former Interior Secretary Salazar’s Mustang slaughter merchant
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… Continue reading Horse Watch: Interesting Links
Cross-posted from The Gazette WRITTEN BY DAVE PHILIPPS After months of false starts, state authorities have opened a formal criminal investigation into Tom Davis, a southern Colorado wild horse buyer who admitted to breaking state laws while shipping hundreds of federally protected wild horses to an unknown fate out of state. Last week, the Conejos… Continue reading Colorado sheriff opens wild horse investigation
Cross-posted from Colorado Spring Gazette by Dave Philipps Tom Davis has not been charged nor investigated Two state agencies dropped the ball when it came to prosecuting a southern Colorado wild horse buyer who admitted to breaking state laws while shipping hundreds of federally protected wild horses. The buyer, Tom Davis of La Jara, has… Continue reading Wild horse buyer goes uncharged due to state oversight
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
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… Continue reading Interior Secretary moves to tighten rules re sale of wild horses
Cross-posted from the Pueblo Chieftain WRITTEN BY MATT HILDNER ALAMOSA — District Attorney David Mahonee said Thursday he had opened an investigation into whether a La Jara man who buys wild horses from the federal government had illegally shipped the animals across the state line. Mahonee, who had just returned from vacation, declined to discuss… Continue reading DA opens investigation into Davis’ sale of wild horses to slaughter
We will highlight the salient points of this report by the Associated Press via Seattlepi.com: U.S. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar's office said he regrets threatening to hit a Colorado reporter who asked about problems in the government's wild horse program. In audio posted by The Gazette newspaper of Colorado Springs, reporter Dave Philipps is heard… Continue reading Salazar regrets threatening to hit reporter
Investigative reporter Dave Philipps is doing what most journalists used to do, report in the public interest. On September 28, 2012, he released a report via Pro Publica relating to a wild horse and burro issue that is garnering a high degree of interest and not a little excitement around wild horse protection circles: Are… Continue reading Are BLM selling wild horses directly to slaughterhouse dealers?
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