News and Noteworthy

Dear Friends, There’s much that we can learn from the natural world when we pause and pay attention. Those who find the presence of wild horses inconvenient diminish them as an “invasive species” or “feral.” Driven by money or politics, critics ignore that horses evolved on our continent, emphasizing instead how, after ... Read More
December 23, 2016AnnieFannie
As published by The Record Courier Nearly 600 wild horses are wandering the Pine Nut Mountains, and their numbers are increasing an average of 17 percent a year, documents released by they Bureau of Land Management reported on Thursday. According to the initial report, the horses are having an adverse ... Read More
December 22, 2016AnnieFannie
  As published by Craig Daily Press Craig — The Bureau of Land Management has suspended until Jan. 3 the bait-trap operation used to gather wild horses in Sand Wash Basin. 34 young horses gathered during the Sand Wash Basin wild horse bait and trap operation have been ... Read More
December 22, 2016AnnieFannie
  To sign Return to Freedom's anti-roundup petition, please click here. Seven studs, three mares, two foals were captured on Wednesday as the Bureau of Land Management continued a four-day helicopter roundup in Eastern Nevada. The BLM plans to remove about 100 wild horses from public and private lands inside and outside ... Read More
December 22, 2016AnnieFannie
  As published by Courthouse News Service Baton Rouge, LA (CN) — Horse-lovers have already saved 50 of them, but a Louisiana conservation is suing the Army for its plan to remove hundreds more free-roaming horses — some of them descended from herds brought by Spanish conquistadores — from Fort ... Read More
December 21, 2016AnnieFannie
  To sign Return to Freedom's anti-roundup petition, please click here. Thirty-one wild horses were captured on Tuesday as the Bureau of Land Management began a four-day "emergency" helicopter roundup in Eastern Nevada. The BLM plans to remove about 100 wild horses from public and private lands inside and outside ... Read More
December 21, 2016AnnieFannie