BLM Email for Desatoya Mountain Tour on May 31, 2012

From: BLM_NV_CCDO_DesatoyaEA [mailto:BLM_NV_CCDO_DesatoyaEA@blm.gov] Sent: Saturday, May 12, 2012 12:40 PM Subject: RE: Comments in PEA Desatoya Mts Project Dear Interested party. A month or two ago you provided comments on the Desatoya Mountains Habitat Resiliency, Health, and Habitat Restoration Environmental Assessment (EA).  In response to a request for a site visit to the project area, [...]

BLM Long-Term Pasture Tour on June 9, 2012, outside of El Dorado, KS!

The following is the email sent by the Bureau of Land Management on Friday, March 23, 2012:   Hi Y’all.  We have this year’s tour date and location finalized!!!   The tour will take place on Saturday, June 9, 2012, from 10am – 4pm, about 45 minutes east of El Dorado, Kansas. (El Dorado is approximately [...]

NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES REVIEW: PUBLIC DOCUMENTS

The following documents have been provided to AWHPC, upon request, by the National Academy of Sciences. They are part of the public file for the Wild Horse and Burro Program review, which is currently underway. 26_Conant_etal_EastCoastFeralHorses_AnimGenet2011 27_Jenkins_How_Science_Works_2004 28_Bartholow_Economic_Benefit_of_Fertility_Control_2007 29_Nevada horses and burros 30_PZP Papers 31_BLM_Handbook_H-4700-11 WHB Mgmt Handbook_2010 32_BLM_Handbook_H-4750-3 Wild Horse Training Handbook_1991 33_BLM_Handbook_H4760-11 Conducting [...]

NYU, Nov. 16, 2011 Forum: Managed to Extinction?

NYU Forum Managed 2 Extinction_40thAnniversary

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 [...]

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 [...]

The Humane Society of the United States Calls for More Transparency and Humane Treatment at Wild Horse Gathers

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Group urges real-time cameras, temperature restrictions, more fertility control; Summer gather operations could resume in days (July 13, 2011) — The Humane Society of the United States released a report it recently submitted to the Bureau of Land Management, calling on the agency to make several critical improvements to its standard operating [...]

AWHPC Flyer for Download

Burro Awareness: Celebrating & Learning about These Steadfast Desert Survivors

Wild Burros (Equus asinus) Plight of Burros in the U.S Tragedy of Burro Roundups Beyond the Roundups   An Overview As of 2010, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) reported that 4,673 burros were left on our lands managed by the agency. Worse, the agency has set a target population below 3,000! By BLM’s own [...]

A National Injustice: The Federal Government’s Systematic Removal and Eradication of an American Icon

Bruce Wagman & Lisa McCurdy, Ecology Law Quarterly Brutal captures and deaths of American wild horses are occurring on the range. This is not a fictional western gone bad but federal policy. The government tries to justify this cruelty with junk science and is sheltered in its actions by procedural barriers and judicial deference. For [...]

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