The two worst stretches of drought came in 2003 and 2013 — but what is happening right now appears to be the beginning stages of something even more severe. As we head […]
Sign on: Drought, Remove livestock
Drought 2022 (the fight begins now)
Congress has ignored on-range management of wild horses again in the budget bill. Corporate greenwashing has made it easy for your representatives to stay uniformed and simply expand population growth suppression through […]
Drought, Vegetative Fuel, Remove the Horse, Increase the Cows (maps)
With BLM dropping population numbers for wild horses and burros and citing drought as a driver to continue the assault against wild horses, we thought we would republish an article from earlier […]
Drought (Summer 2021, Wild Horse Country)
The single greatest threat to our wild horses and burros is habitat loss and fragmentation. Our ranges are not open spaces managed for a “thriving natural ecological balance.” Our western ranges are […]
Drought 2021 (update, the cows need to come off before one wild horse is removed!)
Summer in the West is intense as the mega-drought moves through the better part of the last decade and climate changed induced “fire seasons” increase. Drought is not listed as an unexpected […]
Early Fire Season and Drought (traveling in wild horse country)
In the West we are entering fire season early. Weather reports this week in wild horse country are already adding “fire warnings” to their reports. Dry conditions, low humidity and wind, create […]
Strategic Advocacy: Drought
Wild Horse Education (WHE) is a tool building organization founded by on range journalist/advocate Laura Leigh. Leigh never intended on creating an organization, she intended to change the reality she found when […]
Drought: Propaganda Nightmare
Today a piece was circulated on wild horses and “drought in the West” through the Associated Press. This piece is a propaganda nightmare. This type of reporting is extremely dangerous while Congress […]
Run Down
Summer is a busy time of year in wild horse advocacy. Our inbox is full of notes from readers feeling a bit scattered and frantic. Summer roundups bing a sense of urgency […]
Roundups Accelerate as BLM Approves More Gifts to Livestock
BLM announces a massive increase in roundups through the fiscal year. You can download the new schedule HERE: FY21 Proposed Wild Horse and Burro Roundup Schedule and Fertility Control Schedule BLM Press […]
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