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Interior Secretary Blitzed by Americans Protesting Pro-Slaughter Appointee

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Update March 2, 2012: Wild Horse and Burro Advisory Board appointment draws a storm of protest

The Cibola-Trigo Environmental Assessment

Courtesy of The Cloud Foundation

The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) manages wild burro herds at disastrously low numbers throughout the West. One of the few viable burro herds lives in the immense Cibola-Trigo Herd Management Area (HMA) in southwestern Arizona along the Colorado River-a 600,000 acre area.

Salazar Continues Pro-Slaughter Appointments to Wild Horse and Burro Advisory Board

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BLM on road to slaughtering wild horses in holding?

Judge Tells Advocates Lawsuit Was Worth It

wild horse helicopter roundup

Lawsuit Filed to Stop BLM's Wild Horse Castration Plan

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Plaintiffs Decry BLM's Plan to Turn Wild Horses into "Ranch Animals"

Pancake Complex Roundup

From The Cloud Foundation, www.thecloudfoundation.org   

Update December 15, 2011: Read here about a lawsuit filed to stop the Pancake Complex roundup.

Update Oct. 31, 2011: The period for submitting comments to the BLM regarding the Pancake Complex roundup is now over.  

Original report: Nevada wild horse herds are on the chopping block in FY 2012 with roundups scheduled to begin in the dead-of-winter... again!

Sheldon Wild Horses in Trouble

wild horses in SheldonFrom the American Wild Horse Preservation Campaign of which Animal Law Coalition is a proud member:

Comments Due November 8, 2011

NAS Study to be a Whitewash?

wild horses in captivityAs the Bureau of Land Management's tentative schedule for the rest of 2011 and 2012 indicates, the agency continues its aggressive roundups and removals of America's wild horses and burros from the range.

Candidate Perry Akin to Palin?

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Op-ed by Steve Long, editor/publisher of Horseback Magazine 

More Horses to be Removed from Cloud's Herd

CloudThe BLM has announced the beginning of a plan to remove more wild horses from the internationally acclaimed Cloud's Herd in the Pryor Mountains.

The herd was decimated by BLM just 2 years ago in 2009 when the horses were stampeded by helicopters and 52 wild horses were permanently removed from the range.