Update: Reps. Carlos Curbelo, R-Florida, and Michelle Lujan Grisham, D-New Mexico, have also signed on as original co-sponsors of the wild horse amendment. Both the Interior and Agriculture Appropriations bills have been packaged into a larger appropriations bill called a “minibus,” which is attached to HR 3354.
Reps. Dina Titus, D-Nevada, Peter ... Read More
News and Noteworthy
As published by KSTU-FOX 13
SALT LAKE CITY -- Wild horses bring out the romance and the longstanding divisions at the heart of the American West, and that dynamic was clear as the Bureau of Land Management, the State of Utah, and a number of private ... Read More
As published by Deseret News
SALT LAKE CITY — Rick Danvir with the Western Landowners Alliance told a crowd of several hundred people Wednesday that he was lucky in his early association with the wild horse of the West, working on ... Read More
A senior Interior Department official, Aurelia Skipwith, deputy assistant secretary of Interior for fish, wildlife and parks, on Wednesday called for euthanasia and lifting sales restrictions for wild horses and burros, according to The Salt Lake Tribune. Skipwith was speaking at an invitation-only meeting with speakers including Interior Secretary ... Read More
Update: Statement from Return to Freedom.
As published by The Salt Lake Tribune
A senior Interior Department official called Wednesday for lifting restrictions on sales and euthanasia for wild horses and burros to rein in run-away costs associated with managing growing herds roaming the West’s public rangelands.
The ... Read More
As published by The Associated Press
SALT LAKE CITY--Federal scientists and mostly rural interests are gathering at a wild horse conference in Utah that mustang-protection advocates maintain is a thinly veiled effort to promote increased roundups and eventual slaughter of tens of thousands of ... Read More