Faulty Email No Excuse Not to Use Scientific Data

By TRAVIS SANFORD ShareThis WASHINGTON (CN) – The Bureau of Land Management “may not simply remain studiously ignorant of material scientific evidence” just because an email error delayed its receipt of the evidence, a federal judge has ruled. The decision means District Court Judge Beryl Howell, will review a motion for summary judgment filed by [...]

WSJ Serves Up Tainted Journalism On Horse Slaughter: First the phone hacking scandal…now this?

First the phone-hacking scandal…now this? Wall Street Journal reporters Douglas Belkin and Nathan Koppel are in good company. On May 4, they published an article on horse slaughter so eerily similar to articles appearing in a variety of unrelated publications, even ol’ Rupert Murdoch himself might be left wondering. How did they all end up [...]

Federal Court Forces Interior Department to Consider Scientific Evidence Regarding Wild Horse Management

Judge Rejects Government Attempt to Ignore Expert Declarations on Negative Impacts of Plan to Castrate Wild Nevada Stallions For Immediate Release Washington, DC – May 10, 2012 – The U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia has rejected an attempt by the Interior Department’s Bureau of Land Management (BLM) to withhold and ignore critical [...]

Horse slaughter prohibition pushed; Senator Landrieu & Celebrities Headline “Horses on the Hill”

by jordan blum Advocate Washington bureau April 26, 2012 WASHINGTON — Sen. Mary Landrieu, D-La., teamed with celebrities Bo Derek and John Corbett on Wednesday to tout her horse slaughter ban legislation during a “Horses on the Hill” event. Landrieu has repeatedly pushed for a ban on slaughtering the animals for meat that is exported [...]

Who Shot Wild Horses In Nev., Calif.?

$10K Reward Offered For Info POSTED: 1:10 pm PDT April 30, 2012 RENO, Nev. — The U.S. Bureau of Land Management is investigating the shooting deaths of nearly a dozen federally protected wild horses and offering a $10,000 reward in connection with the four separate incidents reported in California and Nevada since the beginning of [...]

Nevada wild horse round-up corralled

By Jim Porter Sierra Sun, May 4, 2012 TRUCKEE, Calif. — The Wild Free-Roaming Horses and Burros Act grants the Bureau of Land Management jurisdiction over wild horses on federal lands. If BLM determines that an over-population exists on any given area, the agency must immediately remove excess animals so as to achieve “appropriate management [...]

Wild horse slaughter: The hoof stops here

By mae lee sun Writers on the Range First Published May 02 2012 01:01 am • Last Updated May 02 2012 01:01 am Horse slaughter is back on the table, so to speak. What amounted to a congressional ban against the practice ended when the 2011 Agriculture Appropriations bill reinstated federal funding for inspecting horses [...]

The Feds Unnecessarily Round Up Wild Horses, Then Complain About Costs

By Andrew Cohen, TheAtlantic.com, May 2, 2012 After ridding Western lands of thousands of wild mustangs at the request of corporate interests, the Bureau of Land Management now is worried about the price of its programs. Wild horses run as they are gathered in the West Desert of Utah, outside Tooele. / Reuters It surely [...]

Sacramento Bee Exposes Wasteful & Deadly Federal Predator Kill Program

Finally, a major newspaper has exposed the indiscriminate, costly and deadly war on wildlife waged by the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Wildlife Services Decision. In “The killing agency: Wildlife Services’ brutal methods leave a trail of animal death,” the Sacramento Bee delves into the terrible waste and devastation wreaked on animals and the environment by [...]

BLM offering reward for wild horse slayings

RENO — The U.S. Bureau of Land Management is investigating the shooting deaths of nearly a dozen federally protected wild horses and offering a $10,000 reward in connection with the four separate incidents reported in California and Nevada since the beginning of the year, agency officials said Monday. The most recent killings involved one horse [...]

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