The Bureau of Land Management is set to begin on Sept. 11 a helicopter roundup to capture and remove 149 wild horses from the Muddy Creek Herd Management Area in Utah. The roundup is expected to last about six days.
BLM cites “declining rangeland health, overpopulation and continued drought conditions” as ... Read More
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Congress goes back to work today -- and so must wild horse advocates.
Members of the Senate and House of Representatives will begin holding Conference Committee meetings on Interior and Agriculture appropriations for Fiscal Year 2019, and the lives of wild horses and burros, as well as those of domestic equines, ... Read More
The Bureau of Land Management ended an "emergency" bait-and-trap roundup of 801 wild horses -- 308 studs, 300 mares, and 188 foals -- at the Nevada Wild Horse Range in Nye County, Nevada.
Thirty-one wild horses were put down during the roundup -- all for what BLM says were preexisting injuries.... Read More
The Bureau of Land Management was set to begin an "emergency" bait-and-trap roundup of about 300 wild horses in the Boone Spring area of the Spruce-Pequop Herd Management Area in northeast Nevada due to what the agency says is a lack of water and forage.
"Boone Spring currently has minimal to ... Read More
The Bureau of Land Management announced on Wednesday that it intends to go forward with performing spay surgeries on wild mares despite its research partner, Colorado State University, pulling out of a study in Oregon.
Return to Freedom adamantly opposes costly, unproven sterilization surgeries for wild mares and jennies ... Read More
The White House and members of Congress have called for streamlining regulations related to the landmark National Environmental Policy Act. The law requires government agencies, including the Bureau of Land Management, to lay out options considered during the land-use planning and environmental review process and consider the consequences of their actions. ... Read More