News and Noteworthy

  As published by Ruidoso News With the dust finally settling on the New Mexico Legislature’s 2017 session, most of the bills and memorials dealing with wild horses died in committee. The dead include House Bill 446 called Wild Horse in Statute and the accompanying House Memorial 102, Protection of ... Read More
March 28, 2017AnnieFannie
  As published by Elko Daily Free Press ELKO — The Bureau of Land Management will host its annual meeting of the three Nevada Resource Advisory Councils April 4-6 at the Elko Convention Center. The 15-member Nevada RACs advise the Secretary of the Interior, through the BLM state director, on ... Read More
March 28, 2017AnnieFannie
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  As published by Las Vegas Review-Journal WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump signed a bill Monday that kills a federal rule dictating planning on public lands in Western states — including 47.5 million acres in Nevada. There to witness the signing was Humboldt County Commissioner Jim French, a retired wildlife biologist, ... Read More
March 27, 2017AnnieFannie
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  Sutter, a 31-year-old palomino stallion who lives at Return to Freedom’s American Wild Horse Sanctuary near Lompoc, Calif., will become the first horse born wild on the range inducted into the Horse Stars Hall of Fame. The EQUUS Foundation selected ... Read More
March 24, 2017AnnieFannie
  As published by The Associated Press Cheyenne, Wyo. (AP) — A federal judge in Cheyenne has ordered the U.S. Bureau of Land Management to re-evaluate plans for a wild horse roundup in central Wyoming. U.S. District Judge Nancy Freudenthal told the BLM on Monday to reconsider how the roundup ... Read More
March 21, 2017AnnieFannie
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Wild Horse Nation Green – lots of it! On this St. Patrick’s Day here at Return to Freedom’s American Wild Horse Sanctuary, there’s green on the rolling hills where wild horses are standing with tails swishing in the sunshine, green in the oak forest ... Read More
March 17, 2017AnnieFannie