Pancake, June 2024. Moving forward.

For those of us at WHE, May was a month packed full of activity. From on range monitoring, investigations, engaging in input periods and working on the various litigation WHE has active in the system, kept us burning the midnight oil all month.

We want to thank those of you that took action. Those of you that have signed our letters help us demonstrate public support for the actions we take to help wild horses and burros. Those of you that were able to carve out some time from your daily lives to participate in the process (as an individual) help demonstrate direct public interest in wild horses and burros. The spotlight is on and we thank you.

Together, we can create change. For decades the wild horse and burro program has not allowed public participation in management planning or in the creation of an enforceable welfare policy.

Product of roads that are too rough, trailer floors that are dirty, driving too fast and … a roundup that never needed to happen (Surprise, fiscal 2024)

In May, our teams have filed numerous briefs in active cases at Blue Wing, Antelope and Stone Cabin.

Another way to say that:

•  We filed briefs to gain fair participation in on range management planning.
•  We filed briefs to protect our First Amendment Rights to access roundups and holding facilities.
•  We are addressing serious issues where the BLM has skirted basic public process and has failed to justify removals.
•  Took a stand for burros as we fight the only case in the nation to address on range, off range and transparency issues for wild burros.
•  We stand firm in litigation that livestock can no longer be allowed to pressure/intimidate BLM into simply removing horses without ever creating management plans or justifying removals.

On the heels of the victory at the Pancake Complex where the Court recognized that a removal plan is not a management plan, and that any removal must fully analyze the impact, our team is hard at work defining and expanding our fight for justice in the courts.

In addition to reporting from facility tours (like the one at Winnemucca), our team is continuing a deep-dive investigation into the system of holding. A comprehensive report is being drafted and we will publish soon.

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Above: Tour of Broken Arrow on Indian Lakes Rd. in Fallon on May 31. Full facility report coming soon. (Antelope North horses above)

Throughout the month of May you took a stand alongside our team.

Your participation during the Motorized Vehicle Hearing was both informed and heartfelt. You suited up and spoke out against abuses. BLM has still not provided any analysis of comments or findings. We will keep you posted.

Many of you have sent us copies of the comments you created for Scoping of the Herd Management Area Plan (HMAP) for Blue Wing. It might feel as if you did not say everything you wanted to (due to the “out of the blue” announcement, lack of data and guidance provided by BLM and the short time frame to craft your comments). We want to let you know that all of you put together, did an amazing job.

So much has happened in May and we are working on additional updates and articles as we head into the final countdown before the summer helicopter roundup season begins. Our roundup team is finalizing schedules so we can continue to bring you, not just daily reporting from the roundup, but in-depth analysis and action. WHE still remains the only organization to ever directly address abuse and the lack of an enforceable welfare standard in the courtroom.

We thank you for your support and patience. We may not have the staff to keep up with constant mailers or posting on social media, but will try as hard as possible to keep you informed where and when it matters. However, we do have the will and focus to take on the big tasks in the fight to protect and preserve our precious wild ones and the land they stand and we won’t give up.

We have another week of rapid fire legal briefs to get done and will update you as soon as humanly possible.

Onward. ~ from all of us at Wild Horse Education.

We need your help to continue to document, expose, work toward reform with lawmakers and litigate. Our wild ones deserve to live free on the range and free from abuse.

Thank you for keeping WHE on the frontline in the fight to protect and preserve our treasured wild ones.