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Wild Horses

Facing National Scrutiny, BLM Struggles to Explain Wild Horse Program

Suzanne Roy | Posted 05.15.2013 | Green
Suzanne Roy

As the NBC story points out, even though wild horses are protected by an act of Congress, they have powerful enemies. The power of the people is what's needed now to overcome the special interests allied against America's mustangs.

BLM Digs in Heels Over Costly Approach to Wild Horses Despite Sequester

Suzanne Roy | Posted 04.04.2013 | Green
Suzanne Roy

If a budget is a statement of priorities, then what are we to make of the Bureau of Land Management's (BLM) recent decision to sign a $6 million contract with a company that provides helicopters for wild horse roundups while cutting back spending at the largest wild horse adoption facility in the country?

Government and Industry Are Colluding to Eliminate America's Wild Horses -- Will Sally Jewell Stop Them?

Suzanne Roy | Posted 05.20.2013 | Green
Suzanne Roy

The ranchers who influence the Bureau for Land Management (BLM) policy view wild horses as competition for cheap, taxpayer-subsidized livestock grazing on public lands. They want them gone, and the BLM has been only too happy to comply.

U.S. BLM Emphasizing 'Compassion And Concern' For Wild Horses

AP | SCOTT SONNER and MATTHEW DALY | Posted 04.03.2013 | Denver

RENO, Nev. -- The U.S. Bureau of Land Management is issuing new policy directives emphasizing "compassion and concern" for wild horses on federal land...

Sale Of Wild Horses To Be Limited

AP | SANDRA CHEREB | Posted 03.06.2013 | Denver

CARSON CITY, Nev. — Sales of wild horses and burros will be restricted under new rules announced Friday by the U.S. Bureau of Land Management af...

Horse Power

Jill_Greenberg | Posted 12.11.2012 | Arts
Jill_Greenberg

The horse project is not only an homage to the physique of these sexy beasts but also an exploration of the paradoxical gender identities cast onto this unique animal. We see them as masculine, strong, muscular, even phallic.

What Happened To The Wild Horses Bought From The Gov't?

ProPublica | Dave Philipps | Posted 09.29.2012 | Denver

By Dave Philipps, ProPublica The Bureau of Land Management faced a crisis this spring. The agency protects and manages herds of wild horses tha...

Federal Agency's Horse Castration Plans On Hold

AP | By MARTIN GRIFFITH | Posted 12.25.2011 | Green

RENO, Nev. -- Federal land managers have agreed to postpone their precedent-setting plan to castrate hundreds of wild stallions in eastern Nevada pend...

Face It: They Break Horses, Don't They?

Michele Willens | Posted 01.30.2012 | Green
Michele Willens

I was somewhat intrigued by an urgent shout-out I received from my friend, the actress Wendie Malick (Lost in Cleveland, Don't Shoot Me) about the upcoming 40th anniversary of the "Wild Roaming Horses and Burros Act." Never heard of it either?

Woman Saves 60 Horses From Their Deaths

Posted 11.19.2011 | Denver

In the last week of August, Elizabeth Lecoq-Currier drove past a pasture of 60 horses in Crested Butte that she soon found out were bound for the slau...

Judge Takes BLM To Task Over Wild Horse Roundup Misconduct

AP | By SCOTT SONNER | Posted 10.31.2011 | Denver

RENO, Nev. -- A federal judge in Nevada is taking the U.S. government to task for misconduct by a helicopter contractor during one of the biggest must...

Wyo. Horse Roundup Plan Shifts To Birth Control

AP | BEN NEARY | Posted 10.06.2011 | Denver

CHEYENNE, Wyo. — Backing away from a plan to castrate wild stallions that has incensed environmental groups, the U.S. Bureau of Land Management ...

Sheryl Crow Lends A Hand To Protecting Wild Horses

AP | Posted 09.07.2011 | Denver

RENO, Nev. — Singer, songwriter Sheryl Crow says she'll donate part of the profits from an upcoming concert in Wyoming to a wild horse protectio...

'Potential For A Catastrophic Outbreak' Of Horse Virus

AP | By SCOTT SONNER | Posted 07.26.2011 | Green

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...

Feds Scale Back Costly Wild Horse Roundups

AP | MATTHEW DALY | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green

WASHINGTON — The government said Thursday it will scale back costly roundups of wild horses that some critics contend are inhumane. The U.S. Bu...

House Votes To Cut BLM Budget Over Wild Horse Roundups In West

AP | SCOTT SONNER | Posted 05.25.2011 | Denver

RENO, Nev. — The U.S. House approved an amendment on a voice vote Wednesday that would cut the Bureau of Land Management's budget by $2 million ...

VIDEO: Wild Horse of Vieques Love to Eat Mangoes and Play on the Beach

Andy Plesser | Posted 05.25.2011 | Travel
Andy Plesser

Horses love mangoes and in Vieques in the summer there are so many that they rot in streets. Sometimes friendly humans bring mangoes to horses as a...

VIDEO: Feeding the Wild Horses Organic Mangoes

Andy Plesser | Posted 05.25.2011 | Travel
Andy Plesser

There is such an abundance of mangoes on the island in July and August, that we simply can't eat them all, so we gather the rotting ones from the gr...

Wild Horse Roundup Set To Begin In NW Colorado

AP | Posted 05.25.2011 | Denver

MEEKER, Colo. — Helicopters began rounding up wild horses Monday in northwestern Colorado over the objections of animal advocacy groups. The U....

Wild Horse Advocacy Groups File Lawsuit

AP | JUDITH KOHLER | Posted 05.25.2011 | Denver

DENVER — Animal advocacy groups have sought an injunction to stop a roundup of wild horses in northwestern Colorado that's scheduled to begin Mo...

Green News Report: October 14, 2010 (Audio)

Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen

TWITTER: @GreenNewsReport. The 'GNR' is also now available on your cell phone via Stitcher Radio's mobile app!. IN TODAY'S RADIO REPORT: Obama li...

Billionaire's Wife Saves Wild Horses

AP | MARTIN GRIFFITH | Posted 05.25.2011 | Impact

RENO, Nevada (AP) - Madeleine Pickens, the wife of Texas billionaire T. Boone Pickens, has bought a sprawling Nevada ranch to serve as a wild horse sa...

Wife Of Oil Tycoon Helps Save 174 Wild Horses From Slaughter

AP | MARTIN GRIFFITH | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green

RENO, Nev. — With the financial backing of a California winery owner, activists on Saturday purchased almost all 174 horses up for sale at a sta...

Speak Up for Wild Horses; Send a Letter via Pony Express

Wayne Pacelle | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
Wayne Pacelle

Over the past few weeks, tens of thousands of you have contacted the federal Bureau of Land Management, encouraging the agency to impose an immediate ...

Were Mohammed Incarnate Today...BLM Beware!

Sheila Shayon | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
Sheila Shayon

Wild horses and burros are being systematically destroyed in the US by the government agency, Building Land Management, (BLM) and the powers that be and the public at large are turning a blind eye.