Feds rein in sales of wild horses

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…

Wild horses are running out of room on and off the range

“Seeing these horses out in the wild and then seeing them in a holding pen, it will break your heart,” Carol Walker tells The New York Times. in an article by Dan Frosch, “I’d rather they be free than live with me.” Walker recently adopted three wild horses from the Bureau of Land Management and…

The lasso tightens around America’s wild horses

With 45,000 or so wild horses in federal control, the Bureau of Land Management selects a "pro-slaughter cattlewoman" to be the public's voice on its advisory board. ANDREW COHEN writes another excellent in depth article on the destruction of America's wild horses and the lethal bureaucracy that dogs their every step. As things stand, it…

Wild horse allies: BLM panel stacked against them

Via the Associated Press Scott Sonner writes: RENO, Nev. - (Feb. 12, 2012) Wild horse protection advocates are accusing the federal Bureau of Land Management of stacking a public advisory board with friends of cattle ranchers at the expense of mustangs, and warning that the panel is increasingly sympathetic to the idea of slaughtering excess…

Antelope Roundup: Mare Collapses after Helicopter Stampede

Cross-posted from Equine Advocacy Examiner Written by MAUREEN HARMONAY The BLM and its contractors have gone on record lately to vehemently protest the characterization of their wild horse roundups as "stampedes," with BLM spokesman Tom Gorey going so far as to tell Horseback Magazine's Steve Long that the use of the word is nothing more…

Wild horse debate gallops on (US)

We are tired and irritable here this bright Tuesday afternoon. There is so much drivel in this story. Not from the charming Bill Welch of USA Today. He just reported it (poor man). Here's how it starts, after the thin gray line. Link to full story at the end. I guess you should read the…

Wild horse management plan rekindles cattle grazing debate (US)

Cross-posted from the Reno Gazette-Journal BY MARTIN GRIFFITH | Associated Press | Story URL A new federal proposal to manage wild horses is rekindling debate over another fixture of the Western range: cattle. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar last week proposed moving thousands of mustangs to preserves in the Midwest and East to protect horse herds…