The Bureau of Land Management on Tuesday announced $1,000 incentives for qualified adopters of captured wild horses and burros.
For each animal, qualified adopters will receive $500 within 60 days of the adoption date, then another $500 within 60 days ... Read More
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The Bureau of Land Management captured and removed more of America's wild horses from the range in Fiscal Year 2018 than in any year since 2002. The agency also sold more than the previous five years combined.
BLM removed 11,472 wild horses and burros during 2018 fiscal year, according to ... Read More
With so much public focus on protecting wild horses on the range and all horses from slaughter, few people realize that horses are hauled all over the country in double-deckers, a trailer deemed cruel by even the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
Previous legislation banned the use of double-deck trailers to transport ... Read More
Today is National Horse Protection Day: a time to recognize how greatly the horse has impacted our nation's history and culture and strive for a future without neglect, abuse and slaughter of horses.
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The Bureau of Land Management and U.S. Forest Service have announced a plan to remove more than 200 wild horses from the North Hills Joint Management Area northwest of Enterprise, Utah.
Details of a roundup to be held later in 2019 were not announced.
As part of an updated plan for ... Read More
RTF note: In the news story, you'll see objections to the measure from at least one lawmaker referring to wild horses as a non-native species. According to Dr. Ross MacPhee, curator at the American Museum of Natural History, who is pursuing ancient DNA research into the origins of the ... Read More