Pick Up the Phone for Wild Horses and Burros Updated Action after committee vote 7/9. The Appropriations bill has passed out of the House sub-committee a will now head for committee vote […]
Pick Up A Phone (Vote on Budget heading to full floor in House)
Burros (their habitat is under massive threat)
In the US we have less than 8000 wild burros on all of public lands today. These burros are the descendants of burros brought in to do the dirty work for mines […]
Markup Hearing Tomorrow on House Appropriations Bill, 2021
The draft of the House Appropriations bill for 2021 is out. You can access the entire Interior 2021 draft HERE. Under this draft the BLM will be awarded $102,620,000 for the wild […]
Baby Feet (Range Creek Roundup Update)
The Range Creek roundup in Utah continues. You can view roundup update reports from our volunteers HERE. Roundups in July and August are particularly hard to watch from the standpoint of welfare […]
Removing the Symbol of Freedom (as the nation celebrates July 4th)
Editorial: Laura Leigh, founder of Wild Horse Education As our nation celebrates Independence Day, the fourth of July, we are removing our symbol of freedom from the range. It should come as […]
Range Creek Roundup (Observer Reports)
About twenty miles northeast of Price, Utah, the Range Creek Herd Management Area (HMA) roundup began on July 1. The HMA is about 55,000 acres and the AML (stocking level for wild […]
“Killing Wild Horses” Is Back (White House Unified Agenda)
On July 1 the White House released the Unified Agenda of Regulatory and Deregulatory Actions. The preface to the regulatory change is extremely vague and does the opposite of “clarifying” any regulation: […]
Oversight (an opportunity in the Pendley nomination)
The nomination of William Perry Pendley to serve in the permanent position of Director of the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is not a surprise. Pendley has served as acting head of […]
Breaking! Miller Fire Hits Eagle Complex (Update: Mahogany Fire Hits Cold Creek)
The Miller Fire, about 30 miles northeast of Pioche, Nev., is currently estimated at 5,600 acres with zero containment. Full containment is anticipated by Saturday, July 4. The fire was first reported […]
Humane Handling (it’s not just about the roundup)
The Wild Free-Roaming Horses and Burros Act of 1971 established the mandate that wild horses and burros were to managed, humanely, and preserved for future generations. When we talk about “humane management […]
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