The U.S. Forest Service will hold a public meeting July 11 in Alturas, Calif., to answer questions about its plan to capture and remove 1,000 wild horses from the Devil’s Garden Plateau Wild Horse Territory.
The meeting will be held at 4 p.m. at the Forest Supervisors Office, 225 West ... Read More
News and Noteworthy
Dear Friends,
It’s time for us all to roll up our sleeves and go to work for wild horses.
We’re likely just days away from the House Appropriations Committee taking up wild horse and burro management as part of the Fiscal Year 2019 Interior appropriations bill. Last year, the same committee voted ... Read More
The Bureau of Land Management has released an updated roundup schedule that shows the removal of 5,925 wild horses between now and October – including 2,670 from Wyoming’s Red Desert – along with a troubling plan to revive dangerous sterilization research.
The planned roundups would bring the total ... Read More
The Senate Appropriations Committee on Thursday approved the Fiscal Year 2019 Agriculture Appropriations bill that includes language defunding horse slaughter inspections for another year.
This stop-gap measure has helped us keep slaughter plants closed as we work to pass the SAFE Act to permanently ban horse slaughter and the transport of ... Read More
The U.S. Forest Service on Tuesday completed a roundup of 148 wild horses in the Cold Creek area of Wheeler Pass Joint Management Area, about 30 miles northwest of Las Vegas.
The "emergency" roundup was conducted because drought conditions in the area have resulted in a lack of forage and declining ... Read More
By Deanne Stillman
As published by The Revelator
When 16th century conquistadors crossed the ocean from the Old World to the New, their ships often became stranded along the equator at a place where the winds stopped blowing. To lighten their load, they would throw their horses overboard. Eventually the sails ... Read More