News and Noteworthy

  The Bureau of Land Management is seeking nominations for three seats on the National Wild Horse and Burro Advisory Board. Nominations are due Feb. 10. For more information, including guidelines for submitting a nomination, please click here. The independent Advisory Board's task to provide "advice concerning the ... Read More
December 30, 2016AnnieFannie
Horse History Jay Kirkpatrick
  To sign Return to Freedom's anti-roundup petition, please click here. Seventeen wild horses were captured on Wednesday as the Bureau of Land Management concluded a helicopter roundup in Eastern Nevada. In all, 74 wild horses were permanently taken off the range: 29 mares, 27 studs and 18 foals. None died. Captured ... Read More
December 29, 2016AnnieFannie
Return to Freedom
  To sign Return to Freedom's anti-roundup petition, please click here. Fourteen wild horses were captured on Tuesday as the Bureau of Land Management resumed a helicopter roundup in Eastern Nevada after a four-day winter weather delay. The BLM plans to remove about 100 wild horses from public and private ... Read More
December 28, 2016AnnieFannie
December 27, 2016AnnieFannie
Horse (AMNH)
  Bureau of Land Management press release The Bureau of Land Management Lander Field Office is requesting public input prior to analyzing a proposed wild horse gather in the North Lander Wild Horse Complex. The North Lander Complex is located in southeast Fremont County and is made up of the Conant ... Read More
December 26, 2016AnnieFannie
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