Managing wild horse herds is almost impossible task

It’s difficult to feel much sympathy for a federal agency that has been as ineffective as the Bureau of Land Management has been in protecting and managing wild horses over the past four decades. Yet it needs to be acknowledged that the BLM was given a task by Congress that’s nearly impossible to do without [...]

Wyoming Castration Plan Lawsuit Documentation (July 2011)

  On July, 25, the American Wild Horse Preservation (AWHPC) joined the Western Watersheds Project (WWP), a leading environmental group, filed suit to stop the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) from rounding up every wild horse it can find in the White Mountain and Little Colorado Herd Management Areas (HMAs), permanently removing an estimated of [...]

Environmental & Wild Horse Organizations File for Injunction to Block Wyoming Wild Horse Roundup

Scientist & Experts Weigh in Against Mass Mustang Removal & Sterilization Plan Washington, DC (July 29, 2011). . . Today the American Wild Horse Preservation Campaign (AWHPC), a national coalition, and Western Watersheds Project, a leading environmental organization and filed a motion with U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson requesting a Temporary Restraining Order (TRO) [...]

Wyoming to intervene in horse roundup lawsuit

Associated Press, July 28, 2011   CHEYENNE, Wyo. – Gov. Matt Mead will oppose a lawsuit filed by environmental groups trying to block the U.S. Bureau of Land Management from proceeding with a plan to round up and castrate hundreds of wild stallions in the southwestern part of the state, his office said Thursday. Steve [...]

Wild Horses Are (Again) Losing Their Home On The Range

The Atlantic (Jul 28 2011) by Andrew Cohen. It’s been a hot, stormy summer on the Red Desert range in southern Wyoming, around Rock Springs and the state’s southern boundary with Colorado, where Interstate 80 takes long-haul truckers and tourists through one of America’s least hospitable landscapes. The desolate land even includes Sweetwater County, one [...]

Week 2: Triple B Complex Roundup

BLM Proves Real-Time Cameras Are Possible: BLM Tweets and Uploads Photos From Trap After legal efforts to block the roundup did not meet with success (information on the lawsuit available here), the Bureau of Land Management is began the Triple B roundup on July 20, 2011. The action will permanently remove 1,700 wild horses from [...]

Take Action TODAY: Protect Wild Horses in Oregon’s Murderers Creek

THE COMMENT PERIOD FOR THIS ALERT IS NOW CLOSED. The BLM is seeking public comments on a planned roundup and removal of 100 wild horses from a small and unique mustang population living in the Malheur National Forest in Oregon.

Groups challenge Wyo. wild horse round up in court

By BEN NEARY Associated Press Posted: 07/26/2011 01:08:28 PM PDT CHEYENNE, Wyo.—Environmental groups want a federal judge in Washington to block the U.S. Bureau of Land Management from proceeding with a plan to round up and castrate hundreds of wild stallions in southwestern Wyoming. The BLM plans to use helicopters to gather nearly 900 wild horses [...]

Two Mustangs in Pryor Range Killed by Drunk Driver

Tragic news in from the Pryor Mountains: Two well-known mustangs – Admiral and Kapitan/Climbs High – were killed this week by a drunk driver. Read filmmaker Ginger Kathrens’ tribute to these noble wild horses on The Cloud Foundation website here. National Park Service statement on the deaths follows here. Bighorn Canyon Press Release Release Date:     [...]

Understanding the BLM’s Mismanagement of Our Public Lands . . . . . Beginning with the “AUM”

The BLM’s routine inequitable allocation of public land resources to benefit livestock at the expense of America’s free-roaming wild horses and burros is a fundamental problem with the federal wild horse and burro management program. The agency consistently allocates from 3 to 50 times more resources to privately-owned livestock than to federally-protected wild horses and [...]

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