May 19, 2020 Exploding feral horse population leaves BLM with staggeringly expensive problems For each animal the agency is able to place in private care, it sees $24,000 in holdings. The BLM says it has around 50,000…
May 23, 2019 Make comments now supporting BLM spayed wild mare feasibility study The BLM reports (as of March 2018) that there are over 80,000 wild horses on American rangelands. The AML is 27,000, which means that…
March 21, 2019 Feds will pay people $1,000 to adopt untrained wild horses and burros “Given the extensive overpopulation, wild horses and burros routinely face starvation and death from lack of water. The high number of excess wild horses…
January 4, 2018 Six important facts about feral horses on the range The wild horse dilemma is a very emotional issue. Horse lovers, want to expand their habitat, and ranchers and wildlife managers want to contract…
December 22, 2017 Why is Congress ignoring the appalling wild horse crisis? Not only are horses and burros increasingly vulnerable to massive starvation, the ever-expanding population is destroying precious habitat that other wildlife, including the most…
September 30, 2017 Growing wild horse population may imperil Utah’s sage grouse Those declining numbers, says BLM spokeswoman Lisa Reid, put the agency in conflict with its own sage grouse management directives intended to boost the…
September 27, 2017 Wild Horses in Crisis: Photos from the Rangeland Many special interest groups lay blame on the presence of other livestock on the range for its depletion. But in some of the cases…
June 1, 2017 New BLM wild horse plan addresses ‘unsustainable’ attempts to manage excess animals Good management of wild horses means treating them as what they are, livestock. Bison, once found in the millions on the wild prairies of…
February 10, 2017 Beaver County, Utah sues BLM for shirking wild horse management duties The failure to keep horse numbers in check “has caused serious damage to public and private rangeland, created a threat to the health and…
January 13, 2017 Animal rights groups fight policies necessary to remedy wild horse disaster An estimated 55,000 wild horses roamed public U.S. rangelands as of March of last year, more than double the federally advised number. As natural…
