Today (5/31/2011): House Appropriations Committee Adopts Amendment to Defund USDA Inspections of Horse Slaughter Plants

UPDATE (5/31/11, 6:30 p.m.): Your calls did it! The House of Representatives  Appropriations Committee voted 24 to 21 in favor of Congressman Jim Moran’s amendment to the 2012 Agriculture Appropriations Bill to defund USDA inspections of  horse slaughter plants. Without funding for federal meat inspections, horse slaughter plants cannot operate in the U.S. The Appropriations [...]

Congressman Honors Cloud Legislation introduced to celebrate wild horses and burros

WASHINGTON (May 30, 2011) – Congressman Raul Grijalva, D-AZ, submitted a Resolution in the U. S. House of Representatives recognizing the birthday of the Pryor Mountain wild stallion, Cloud—for his role in enhancing the appreciation of all wild horses and burros in the American West. “This majestic stallion has become the most famous wild horse [...]

Nevada Residents: Thank Senators for Killing Anti-Mustang Bill

Legislation that would have deprived mustangs of their right to access life-sustaining natural water sources sent back to committee. Nevada residents: Please thank the Senators who acted responsibly by declining to vote for this potentially catastrophic bill.

BLM Lists EHV-1 Response Strategies

Bureau of Land Management (BLM) mustangs have so far been unaffected by the recent neurologic equine herpesvirus-1 (EHV-1) outbreak sweeping through Western states, according to a statement issued by the agency on May 26. The agency continues to monitor the outbreak, and has asked the public to contact local BLM offices about outbreak-related restrictions before [...]

Pauls Valley horse facility site of contraception experiment

BY CARRIE COPPERNOLL, NewsOK.com (May 30, 2011) . . . The Bureau of Land Management is starting a sterilization program to taper the wild mustang population in the West. The goal is to reduce the need for horse roundups and adoptions. For now, officials at the adoption center in Oklahoma are testing the sterilization program. [...]

Burro Awareness: Beyond the Roundups, Keeping Burros on the Range

Seeing and Appreciating Burros in the Wild Even though the U.S. Interior Department’s Bureau of Land Management (BLM) has reduced the size of America’s burro population to fewer than 5,000,there are still places to go in this country where you can see these historic and stalwart desert survivors living as their ancestors have done for [...]

BLM asked to keep wild horses safe from virus

Associated Press (May 26, 2011) RENO, Nev. — Concerned about the threat of a catastrophic outbreak of a herpes virus among wild horse herds in the West, national animal advocates on Thursday called on the federal government to keep potentially infected domestic horses away from mustangs and burros on public lands. The Humane Society of [...]

Wild Horses in Winds of Change Screening in Colorado

Powerful new, award-winning documentary on wild horses and their plight screening June 3 in Littleton, Colorado WILD HORSE FILM SCREENING AND FUNDRAISER

Are roundups the solution to wild horse overpopulation?

ABC 7 San Francisco (May 23, 2011) Read & View Online Here. RENO, Nevada (KGO) — The population of wild horses is exploding. Their history traces back to the Spanish explorers who first settled the west. The country’s largest herd roams 800,000 acres along the California/Nevada border north of Reno. And although the government says [...]

Burro Awareness: The Tragedy of Roundups

When the Interior Department’s Bureau of Land Management (BLM) conducted its first wild horse and burro census in 1974, an estimated 15,000  wild burros roamed the West. Today, fewer than 5,000 are left.  Like their cousins the wild horses, burros in the Western United States have been rounded up en masse, usually to make room [...]

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