When black horses fly and pumpkins gleam, may luck be yours on Halloween.

If you want to take a trip to herds with ghost towns or learn about October 31, 1864, when the state with more wild horses than all others combined was granted statehood, click HERE. 

For many of us, we do not need ghost towns or horror movies to feel scared. Reality is scary enough.

Regularly scheduled roundups may not be happening (with the exception of over 500 burros at Centennial in CA and Bullfrog in NV), but other things are continuing to slam into the world of wild horses and burros: holding facilities at Canon City in CO and Ewing in IL are closing leaving thousands of of wild horses in limbo, plans to expand livestock and mining continue to be approved and there is no transparency in a shutdown leaving questions unanswered about the fate of our wild ones and public lands.

Not everything has stopped. Our government is set to make public lands ranching a number one priority(presumably to appease the political uproar over importing more beef from Argentina as less than 3% of beef used in the American economy comes from public lands, but the big political powerhouses of the industry use public lands for grazing). Oil and gas lease sales are pushing further into critical habitat for wildlife and wild horses in Wyoming. Mining in the heart of wild horse and burro country continues to expand.

Devils Garden wild horses are sitting in corrals as the weather begins to turn awaiting the census flight that will be presented to the court to determine how many can go back to the range. Each day we have to wait for government employees to return to work is another day these wild ones are at risk of injury in captivity.

But we are not letting “the grass grow under our feet” as we wait. WHE continues to take action.

WHE are continuing to file briefing in the courts that remain open. 

We are taking the fight to protect the historic Stone Cabin and Saulsbury wild horses to the Ninth Circuit. We have just gotten on file for the next battle to protect the Pancake Complex building on our win. We are filing, very shortly, to protect the unique Carter Reservoir Mustangs. We just filed to protect the Tassi-Gold burros. Our team is sending a flurry of briefing as we turn the obstacle of the shutdown into an opportunity to move ahead on the legal front. 

This Halloween if you enjoy a good scare you do not have to look much further than the daily headlines in the news! Stay safe from things that go “bump in the night.”