From: Utah Public Radio By: Taylor Halversen [caption id="attachment_31376" align="alignleft" width="300"] Preservationists in Wyoming claim the BLM's scheduled roundup of wild horses is illegal. -blm.gov[/caption]Wild horse maintenance has been an inciting topic in Utah over the summer months. However, the issue extends beyond state borders with the...
From: KBZK [caption id="attachment_31372" align="alignleft" width="299"] Simone Netherlands[/caption]RIVERTON, Wyo. - Wild Horse advocates gathered outside of the student center building at Central Wyoming College on Monday to protest the Bureau of Land Management's treatment of and plans for Wild Horses across the West. Simone Netherlands, representing Respect...
From a short piece by Roy Exum yesterday: "According to one source, USDA inspectors performered 38 inspections of randomly-chosen horses on Thursday night at the celebration and 21 were disqualified." If this is true, then the sources of this article are not telling the truth....
It could very well be that the Dept. of the Interior is actually very happy that cattle ranchers and wild horse advocates are pointing fingers at each other. With all the controversy going on, it would be much easier to remove wild horses, reduce the...
From: KMTR By: Kat Wolcott EUGENE, Ore. -- Two recent Oregon Supreme Court decisions are expanding animal rights. In one case, Judges ruled that animals could be considered victims. That could make for longer sentences for those who neglect or abuse their pets. They also ruled in...
This article is kind of old, but it is Sunday...
From: Billings Gazette By: Susan Olp [caption id="attachment_31336" align="alignleft" width="295"] The statue of William S. Hart sits east of the Yellowstone County Museum, near the Billings Logan International Airport, in Billings.[/caption]A statue of a cowboy and his horse that sits east of the Yellowstone County Museum...
The war on wild horses - it is all over the news recently. dozens dead in a Kansas holding pen, the fight to keep the horses on the range in Wyoming, wild horses being round up and shipped off to Mexico for slaughter and now...
Anyone in the region who wants the horses to remain on the lands should go to the meeting in Riverton this Monday. ~ HfH From: Billings Gazette By: Trevor Graff CASPER, Wyo. — The Bureau of Land Management is delaying the removal of wild horses from checkerboard...
From: Shelbyville Times-Gazette By: Jason Reynolds Fifty-nine Congressional sponsors of the PAST Act are renewing their call to the USDA to actively inspect horses at The Celebration. [caption id="attachment_31324" align="alignleft" width="300"] Horse inspection for soring[/caption]The representatives sent a letter on Aug. 7 to Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack....