Rather than refer to them as feral, it would be better to say that all the horses of the American West are wild. The Navajo horse is indeed quite special - bred for the unique environ and purposes of the Navajo Nation. We should be...
Rather than refer to them as feral, it would be better to say that all the horses of the American West are wild. The Navajo horse is indeed quite special - bred for the unique environ and purposes of the Navajo Nation. We should be...
Once again, cattle owners look to misinform the public placing wild horses in direct competition for land and water when they are not - both legally and literally. Overall, the numbers of cattle are far more and do much more damage to the land's their...
Some humanity is being shown to the wild horse herds left in Utah. The cattle ranchers have graciously (tongue in cheek) allowed the foals to get a bit older before they round them up and ship them off to who knows where...
There is a contentious stretch of land along the Texas / Oklahoma borders. For over a hundred years as the Red River - the boundary between the 2 states - has shifted, ranch families at times been left in limbo. Now the Bureau of Land...
The sparking point for the tensions with the Utah Cattlemen is actually over whether they wish to follow American laws or not after the round up of Cliven Bundy's cattle off Federal land in Nevada. Law enforcement say they are too afraid of the violence...
The Bureau of Land Management's recent call to find newer ways to destroy the wild horses of the American West have all kinds of opinion pieces floating about by those who interest lie with the cattle ranchers. They attempt to paint anyone who wants to...
So called "mercy killings" and sterilization of wild horses on the range is strictly forbidden by the 1971 Wild Free-Roaming Horses and Burros Act, as pointed out in the article below by Cloud Foundation executive director Ginger Kathrens. Yet that is exactly what the BLM's...
Wildlife biologist and long time advocate of the wild horses and burros in the West, Robert C Bauer is our guest writer today. He responds to the Washington Post's recent article on the BLM's request for solutions to management of the wild horses of the...
The media often prints misinformation about the wild horses of the American west. The travesty of using public lands by cattle for private gain is not brought up in this article. On a different note - please remember to keep the pressure up to stop...
Today, we have a guest writer - Robert Bauer. Mr. Bauer is a well-known wildlife biologist and long time advocate of the wild horses and burros in the West . He takes apart the justifications the BLM uses for the wild horse round ups. ~...