Labor day marks the end of summer and soon the Senate will go back into session: the heat is on.

Over the summer we saw how BLM will use funding; acceleration of roundups, enlarging holding facilities, continuing to subsidize a backdoor to slaughter. BLM has provided no plans for management, oversight, or fiscal responsibility to the taxpayer that continues to foot the bill.

This summer WHE took legal action against oil and gas as well as against expanding mines. WHE also filed foundation documents for further legal action against inhumane treatment. Inhumane treatment of our wild horses and burros does not only happen at roundups, it happens when BLM fails to protect the resources our wild ones need to survive.

>> One of the legal actions WHE participated in this summer stopped the expansion of a huge gold mine that would destroy water sources in an area wild horses have already died at due to a lack of water.

Protecting the wild horse begins with protecting the wild.

For years WHE was the only organization to regularly attend roundups; we were the only ones there except a handful of days each year. To this day WHE is the only organization to ever take BLM to court over abuse; we won every case.

Our team works very hard; they have laid a foundation to take abuse hearings back into the courtroom. Onsite, our trained team works to prevent the suffering of each and every wild one.

>> This summer our team has gotten citations against inappropriate conduct strengthening future litigation and, in one instance, helped to get a water source opened in the sweltering heat. 

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