As we advocate for wild horses and burros we have to take actions toward long term goals as well as short term actions.

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Preface to all actions: Actions that address policy fall into 3 different branches of government. More HERE that can help you understand that a bit about the “who and how” of advocating for change.

April,2026

Motorized Vehicle Use

The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) will host a virtual hearing on the use of motorized vehicles in the BLM Wild Horse and Burro Program The meeting is scheduled for April 29, 2026, 12-2 p.m. MT, and will be held using Microsoft Teams video conferencing technology.

CLICK HERE to register to provide oral testimony.

Written comments can be sent to BLM_HQ_MotorizedVehicleHearing@blm.gov. They must be submitted prior to 3 p.m. MT on April 29, 2026.

The slots to give testimony fill up fast. 

This year’s hearing is a chance to demand a real analysis document of public comments and reforms. More info HERE.

Red Desert Scoping Comments due May 4

The Bureau of Land Management has proposed a Herd Management Area Plan (HMAP) for five wild horse HMAs spanning the Red Desert of Wyoming:

• North Complex (Lander FO): Antelope Hills, Crooks Mountain, Green Mountain HMAs (~333,694 acres)
• South Complex (Rawlins FO): Stewart Creek, Lost Creek HMAs (~419,000 acres)

This is a scoping comment — meaning now is the time to tell BLM what it must analyze. Scoping is not about arguing outcomes. It is about ensuring the analysis is complete, honest, and legally defensible.

If you do not raise an issue in scoping, it may be harder to raise it later. Click HERE for more info.

SAFE Act

The slaughter pipeline is still open, and both domestic and once-wild equines remain at risk of being shipped over the border to die for human consumption. The SAFE Act would permanently ban horse, donkey, and mule slaughter in the U.S. and shut down the export pipeline—closing a loophole that continues to threaten titled wild horses and burros.

A WHE volunteer has issued a powerful plea to pick up the phone and call Congress now, before another session passes without action.

Not Burger Meat – Please Make the Call

Heber, AZ: Sign before Monday March 30. EXPIRED

Heber Wild Horse Territory is facing a dangerous mix of unpermitted corrals, questionable trap-like structures, and ongoing gunshot killings of wild horses while agencies remain largely silent.

Our attorneys are sending our next letter to the U.S. Forest Service on Monday, demanding answers, CAWS-compliant facilities, and a public process that respects both the law and the lives lost. This is your last chance to add your name before it goes out.

Please sign and share:
Heber WHT, AZ – Corrals, CAWS, and Silence from Leadership (expired)

Appropriations, 2027

Budget negotiations are just getting underway, with members of Congress sending their funding “wish lists” to key committees while we still have not seen the President’s formal budget request for this program. This early stage is when dangerous language can slip in—or be stopped—so it is critical that advocates speak up now, before numbers harden and deals are cut behind closed doors.

Updated article and action item to help gain enforceable welfare rules. 

A broken holding system

Our team continues to track the horses taken in the recent helicopter roundup at Antelope, following them into Palomino Valley Center. From weanlings with “hay belly” after being weaned too young and too fast, to disease outbreaks like strangles, these conditions show a program that fails horses after the helicopters leave.

We are calling for enforceable, national welfare rules—not voluntary “guidelines” that are ignored when inconvenient. Visit this article to send your letter and demand change:
Weaned Too Early – Facility Update

Fight Abuse

Abuses on an off the range continue.

The simplest (and least expensive) place to begin reform in the archaic BLM program would be to formalize a concise and enforceable welfare policy. Why is it so hard?

After years of litigation BLM (finally) began to implement a draft policy in 2015. The policy was supposed to go through a review and revision phase. Instead, in 2021, BLM just wrote the word “permanent” on the draft and called it “policy.”

Our eye-popping investigation (that required litigation) uncovered how BLM has dropped the ball. We urge you to read it HERE.

Please Call Congress (202) 224-3121.  Tell the operator who your representative is (or where you live if you do not know) and you will be connected to an aide in the office. 

Request an amendment to the funding bill for the Department of Interior to create a line item for funding to formalize an enforceable welfare policy for the BLM Wild Horse and Burro Program (normally the process is called Rulemaking). 

100% of respondents to our survey concerning wild horses and burros want a chance to participate through public comments. (More HERE)

You can help us bring this important work to the next level by adding your name HERE. 

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