As published by E&E News
The Bureau of Land Management has appointed Utah Republican Rep. Chris Stewart's former chief of staff as the agency's new deputy director of programs and policy.
Brian Steed, who served as Stewart's chief of staff since 2013, has already started the job, according to sources. He ... Read More
News and Noteworthy
Late Friday, a federal court handed a coalition of wild horse advocates another legal victory by finding the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) in Idaho had violated several federal laws in its plan to convert the wild free roaming horse population in the Saylor Creek Herd Management Area (HMA) in ... Read More
Late Friday, the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit overturned a plan by the U.S. Forest Service to shrink the size of the Devil's Garden Plateau Wild Horse Territory in Northern California by 23,000 acres. The agency must now immediately ensure that federal protected ... Read More
In an unusual step, the U.S. Forest Service will release 53 mares captured during last year's Devil's Garden Plateau Wild Horse Territory and passed over for adoption onto their home range.
The mares, treated with a fertility control vaccine, are set to be released on Oct. 3 at Emigrant Springs, north ... Read More
As published by The Hill
By David Horowitz
Thanks to the greed of tiny but powerful industry lobby, congressional Republicans are about to legalize the slaughter of America’s wild horses - and commit political suicide in the process. Polls show that 80 percent of men, 90 percent of women and 86 ... Read More
The Bureau of Land Management on Monday began a bait trap roundup of wild horses about 60 miles north of Ely, Nevada, as part of a 10-year fertility control pilot study.
BLM's goal: capture all of the wild horses in the Water Canyon portion of the Antelope Herd Management Area, then ... Read More