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Yearling filly, Yara (Pilar & Stillwater), watches her watchers in the Sykes area of the Pryor Mountain Wild Horse Range. The RMP Decision has been released regarding the management of the Pryor herd. The adopted amendment to the Billings Resource Management Plan (RMP) is a loss for the Pryor Mountain wild horses and a disregard …
Photo: William E. Simpson II — Wild horses calmly graze in front of approaching 38,000-acre Klamathon Wildfire. The issue around wild horses is not a one-liner or a quick study for anyone. Innocent wild horses are literally dying at the hands of bad actors as you read this, so I ask that you excuse my …
Jackson Mtn wild horse family. Photo used with permission from Laura Leigh, Wild Horse Education. The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is developing the Jackson Mountains Herd Management Area Plan (HMAP), which will set long-term management policies for this herd. Their proposal includes sterilizing up to 25% of the mares, surgically implanting IUDs, and removing …
By: William E. Simpson II The devastating grass and brush fueled wildfires in Los Angeles we are all witnessing may be just a glimpse of the upcoming summer in the western United States, unless we start doing something new and cost-effective. Funding and doing more of what hasn’t worked is a guarantee for failure. And …
In July 2024, we called on you to speak out against the Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM) Management Evaluation Report for the Pancake Complex in Eastern Nevada. The report outlined several troubling management proposals, including the castration of 138 stallions to create a “non-reproducing” component of the herd. Together, with your support, we strongly opposed …
Three relatively small Herd Management Areas (HMAs) in Northern California — Carter Reservoir, Buckhorn, and Coppersmith — are caught in the crosshairs of the Bureau of Land Management’s aggressive roundup operations. Carter Reservoir is a tragic example of how BLM goes about destroying a wild horse herd. Once part of a sprawling 284,915-acre area of …
YREKA, CA, UNITED STATES, September 7, 2024 /EINPresswire.com/ — Based on a true story and actual events, Horse of Nature is set in the middle of the remote Cascade Siskiyou Mountains near the Oregon/California border, where the tiny town of 400 people called Henley Hornbrook exists. In 2018, a deadly wind driven wildfire tore through …
YREKA, CALIFORNIA, USA, July 10, 2024 /EINPresswire.com/ — The Little Book Cliffs herd area in the state of Colorado is located to the north of the populated town of Palisade, and to the northeast of Clifton, Fruitvale, and Grand Junction Colorado. These towns are extremely vulnerable to catastrophic wildfire. Any large landscapes of managed wildfire …
The Bureau of Land Management is asking for public input on its Massive Extermination Plan for the wild horses in southern Wyoming. This is a direct assault – to permanently get rid of, or zero out, all wild horses to accommodate the Rock Springs Grazing Association’s private livestock on our public lands. HMAs affected include …
Helicopters will take to the air on or around July 1 to stampede, capture, and remove almost 3000 wild horses in the North Lander Wild Horse Complex in WY. This will be the largest roundup this year – following other large roundups like that in the East Pershing HMA (Dec. 28, 23 – Feb. 9, …