2019 Free-Roaming Horse News
The news and information in this section will be from varying
sources. Not all sources are equal, and horse sense will be used to
comment on the news or information as needed. Please don’t hesitate
to do your own research as well. Better informed, better decisions.
12-18-2019
Couple plans wild horse CAFO near
Flowell
Wild horse trapping dogs planning
commissioner
Bureau of Land Management
releases horses back onto Challis range
Spending Bill Sets Stage for
Eradication of America’s Mustangs
Wild horses treated and released
Wild horse numbers boom in
Kosciuszko National Park under controversial new legal protections
BLM conducting wild horse roundup
throughout Washington, Iron counties
Wild horses blamed for ecological
disaster
BLM plans to relocate 25 wild
horses
12-12-2019
Push to accelerate capture
130,000 mustangs draws fire in Congress
BLM traps 21 Fish Springs horses
Younger Devil’s Garden wild
horses for sale with limitations
Push to accelerate wild horse
capture draws criticism
Push on Mustang Captures Draws
Fire
Wild Horse Sanctuary celebrates
40 years of rescues
Wild horses require a practical
solution
New rules for managing wild
horses, burros on horizon
12-07-2019
BLM seeking public input on new
fertility vaccine for wild horses
Wyoming residents concerned about
proposed horse facility
BLM rounds up more than 900
horses
Sand Wash Basin adds new signs,
hopes to add fencing in near future for wild horses
11-25-2019
BLM TO CONDUCT THE SEAMAN AND
WHITE RIVER HERD AREAS WILD HORSE GATHER IN EASTERN NEVADA
BLM gathered nearly 300 wild
horses from Central Idaho in effort to trim population
Wild horse gather concludes in
Challis
On Virginia’s Eastern Shore, wild
horses are an asset, not a headache
TIME TO BRING WILD HORSE
POPULATION UNDER CONTROL
Donna Brothers: PETA Is A Bully
Wild horse gather in eastern
Nevada halted after 294 removed
BLM seeks public comment on
proposal to gather wild horses
BLM chief’s wild horse fixation
distracts from the real threats to public land
Marr Plan Wild Horse Motorcade A
Success
Controlling wild horse, burro
numbers will take $5B, 15 years
Knowing Nevada: "Don't Fence Me
In" - The Journey through our public lands
The BLM is paying people $1,000
to adopt wild burros and horses from a state prison
Fifteenmile horses settle in at
Rock Springs facility
BLM Announces Banner Year for
Wild Horse and Burro Adoptions and Sales
DEMS IN CONGRESS DEMAND UPDATE ON
INTERIOR WILD HORSE PLANS
10-27-2019
Dems in Congress Demand Update on
Interior Wild Horse Plans
Controversy ensues over film
screening on wild horses, public land issues
Wild horse roundup planned for
Challis area
Horses’ fate best left up to
nature
No deal on Fish Springs horses
SENATE PANEL APPROVES FUNDS FOR
WILD HORSE INITIATIVE
Is slaughtering wild horses a
necessity? Tribes wrangle with controversial issue
Official: Solving wild horse
problem will take $5B, 15 years
BLM Head Reiterates Focus On
Removing Wild Horses, Burros From Western Lands
14 animals adopted at Carson City
inmate training program
Wild horses to be captured in
central Idaho to reduce herd
Wild horse roundup planned for
Challis area
BLM Announces Banner Year for
Wild Horse and Burro Adoptions and Sales
Controversy ensues over film
screening on wild horses, public land issues
10-16-2019
Inmates tame Nevada’s wild horses
Abandoned Chernobyl villages
could save a rare species
What are wild burros doing to
Death Valley?
Modoc National Forest prepares
for wild horse adoptions
Battle to rein in feral horses
continues
Even India has wild horse problems.
BLM CONCLUDES GATHER OF EXCESS
WILD HORSES NEAR CALIENTE
Indy Environment: A wild horse
plan in Congress, backed by animal welfare groups, angers advocates
BLM finishes gathering excess
wild horses near Caliente
Modoc posts final update on wild
horse gather
Controversial plan to fix
wild-horse problem has D.C. backing
America’s cattle industry could
obliterate its mustangs
BLM to begin wild horse gather at
Fifteenmile
10-1-2019
Wild horse bill: National Groups
call it progressive, local advocates says it's a "disaster."
Salt River wild horses receiving
birth control
Agency OKs wild horse roundup in
south-central Idaho
Roundup of Hundreds of Wild
Horses Planned in Wyoming
Belarus, Netherlands to expand
cooperation in forestry sector
Salt River horses face hunger and
disease as debate continues over their future
Running Wild: A USA Today
Investigation-from 3-26-2017
BLM conducts wild horse gather in
Carbon County
28 wild horses drowned off Outer
Banks in ‘mini tsunami’ created by Hurricane Dorian
09-23-2019
Wild horses have long kicked up
controversy, and foes say they have solution
Councillor resigns over
‘difference of values’
Group warns of contagious
bacterial infection in Salt River wild horses
More than 200 wild horses
gathered so far on Devil's Garden project
Wild Horse Overpopulation is Dire
Park to resume birth control of
wild horses
Next round of wild horses
gathered from the Modoc National Forest
Plans laid to trap, re-home
brumbies
Wild horses removed from Utah
land prepared for BLM's adoption/sale program
The lost plan to save the West's
wild horses
Wild horse herds reach 'devastating
levels' across the West
9-8-2019
Letter to the Editor: Spirit of
the Wind Foundation is a fraud
Wild Horse Gathering by BLM in
September
Outer Banks wild horses to ride
out hurricane, as they've done for 500 years
The horses have not been there for five hundred years! It is
genetically impossible. Without management and horses bringing new
genetics to the small islands the horses would have inbred and died
out. And that is a fact. Another fact is there was no Spanish
Colonial horse breed 500 years ago, or even 200 years ago. Most of
the common knowledge about free-roaming horses is myth and untrue.
More than 100 horses are being
hoarded by a nonprofit in Puget Sound
All Is not well with nonprofits that are supposed to be rescuing
horses either domestic or wild. Some are con jobs!
BLM to capture 600 wild burros
near Beatty, will put them up for adoption
Brumby management to commence in
Kosciuszko National Park
Critics: Culling method risks
inbreeding of the horse herd at Theodore Roosevelt National Park
All of the free-roaming horses in the American West will become
inbreed unless they are managed.
“It was originally thought that an effective population size of at
least 50 was necessary to avoid short-term inbreeding depression,
but empirical work suggests that if maintenance of fitness is
important, effective population sizes much larger than 50 are
necessary. Theoretical studies suggest that the figure could be
closer to 5,000 for several reasons. First, new genetic variation
from mutations is added to a population more slowly than originally
thought (Lande, 1995). Mutations with large effects tend to be
detrimental and are removed from the population by natural
selection, so the overall mutation rate does not accurately predict
the infusion of new genetic variation. Second, the effects of
inbreeding depression are likely to be more severe in stressful
environments (Jiménez et al., 1994; Pray et al., 1994). Finally,
slightly deleterious mutations may accumulate in smaller populations
and lead to a decline in fitness (Lynch and Gabriel, 1990;
Charlesworth et al., 1993; Lande, 1994).” From Using Science to
Improve the BLM Wild Horse and Burro Program: A Way Forward,
page 149 (pdf version)
9-2-2019
Harvard Law School Launches
Animal Law And Policy Clinic
Government plan to manage wild
horse populations comes under fire
BLM awaits OK on slightly altered
fertility plan for wild horse mares
Wild horse that grew thin is
taken to rescue farm on the Outer Banks
How the fight over brumbies is
making the NSW Liberals and Nationals go feral
8-26-2019
The Mojave Desert's donkeys are
turning up dead
BLM to allow viewing of wild
horses
Wyoming's first Wild Horse
Highway dedicated near where the iconic heard roams
Those horses are feral, not wild
Virginia Range horse management
contract reached
Proposed plan would oust brumbies
from Barmah
8-17-2019
Possible end to birth control
program for wild horses could trigger cull in Alberta
A Few Thoughts by John Nalivka:
The wild horse saga – grazing management and economics gone awry
Wild ponies removed from Theodore
Roosevelt National Park to thin herd, auctioned off
All the pretty horses: Wild
ponies slated to be removed from Theodore Roosevelt National Park
Wild-horse roundups kick up
questions about handling herds
Wild burros to be gathered from
Seven Springs Ranch using ‘bait trap’
Roundups revive debate over how
to limit ever-expanding wild horse populations
Bigfoot Saves the Wild Horses of
America
Visitors see horses running wild
at Return to Freedom on docent-led tour
1,200-plus horses to be rounded
up in eastern Elko, White Pine counties
BLM concludes helicopter portion
of Pine Nut Mountain wild horse roundup
Mustangs on Wild Horse Mesa carry
centuries-old genes
Officials release strategy for
reducing wild horse population by approximately 80% in North Hills
BLM gathering wild horses near
Caliente complex
Up to 100 wild horses to be
gathered and removed by BLM
7-26-2019
BLM to Resume Pine Nut Mountain
Wild Horse Gather
Horses trained not to be scared
by drones
New Incentive Program Aims To
Find Homes For Oklahoma's Wild Horses
NEVADA’S WILD HORSE POPULATION
HITS ALL-TIME HIGH
BLM seeks bids for off-range
corrals within Utah
Proposed surgery to sterilize
Oregon wild horses raises hackles
Ponies swim at Chincoteague in
annual Virginia tradition
BLM hosting Aug. 2 public hearing
on wild horse management in Colo.
Chincoteague Pony Swim Has Rich
History
For Wild Horses Accustomed To
Humans, Fertility Control Can Work
Speedo-Clad Tourist Kicked in
Groin After Ignoring 'Don’t Touch the Horse' Sign at Maryland Beach
Leader of epic White Sands horse
rescue operation reflects on months-long roundup 25 years later
BLM says move will save taxpayers
millions, but environmental groups bristle at decision
BUREAU OF LAND MANAGEMENT SHAKEUP
MAY HELP PREVENT OVERSIGHTS
Senator McSally Addresses Wild
Burro Problems
BLM concludes wild horse gather
BLM Concludes Triple B Complex
Wild Horse Gather
Federal Wild Horse Management
system “Crippled to point of catastrophic failure”
7-16-2019
Pseudoarchaeological claims of
Horses in the Americas
A must read!
BLM to relocate headquarters from
DC to Grand Junction, CO
Lawmakers to tackle growing wild
horse and burro problem
BLM TO CONDUCT WILD HORSE GATHER
IN EASTERN NEVADA
Shackleford Banks horses 2018
annual findings report released
7-12-2019
Feds won’t kill wild horses in
West to reduce overpopulation, official says
A Simple Solution, Sell the Excess Horses!
The Feds don’t have to kill any horses to start solving the
problem. They can sell the horses with a free and clear
tittle. Yes, it is likely most of those sold would end up a kill
plants. Don’t want them sent to a kill plant? Buy them and save
them. After the first sale the Wild Horse and Burro Program could
immediately plan additional gathers without out receiving more
funding. In 4 to 6 years the on range population could be brought
to AML and bring in more funding by selling the horses as
gathered. Instead of renewing off range pastures, sell the horses
for even more income and savings. The Wild Horse and Burro Act of
1971 needs changed to a management plan for the free-roaming horses
on the public lands and drop all protections for horses removed from
the range. In 1971 the free-roaming horses didn’t need saved, they
needed a management plan. Almost 50 years later and they still do!
Administration won’t use lethal
measures on wild horses in 10 Western states
Feds Seek Ways to Combat
Overpopulation of Wild Horses
Officials examine ways to limit
wild horse population growth
Officials Examine Ways to Limit
Wild Horse Population Growth
Remains of Ancient Neanderthal
Horses Found in Iran’s Qazvin
7-7-2019
4 rare wild horses born in
Xinjiang
6-30-2019
The first riders of wild horses
Bill To Ban Horse Slaughter On A
National Level Introduced in Senate
Feds Gear Up for More Wild Horse
Roundups
6-24-2019
An Irresponsible, Emotional Act
The Mystery of Horse
Domestication Deepens
The horses brought back to the new world are not the same as their
ancestors who migrated from the Americas. They are genetically less
diverse.
Supervisor says number of burros
in Black Mountains a 'crisis'
Guest opinion: Utahns should
demand protection of wild horses
6-22-2019
Wild horse and burro adoption
event in Hamilton is under quarantine
Advocates seek more protections
after driver hits, kills wild horse
21 rare wild horses born in
China's Xinjiang
The Wild Horse and Burro Act of 1971 was basically an attempt to
rewild horses, whose natural habitat is grasslands, on the arid
lands of the West. It hasn’t worked and repackaging it will not be
successful. The free-roaming horses of the West need a management
plan based on reality!
BLM Seeks Bids for Off-Range Wild
Horse and Burro Corrals
Assateague horses love a
'pic-a-nic' basket. But save them from deadly human, pet food
What's being done about the fatal
shooting of wild horses in Heber-Overgaard?
New facility for wild horses to
be built in Carbon County
Wildlife advocates oppose
euthanizing wild horses and burros
A wildlife advocate needs to understand the wildlife they are
advocating for as well as nature, range management and how they
affect each other. These are not wildlife advocates.
6-9-2019
Residents demand investigation
into killing of federally protected wild horses in Heber, Arizona
Wild horse population tops
88,000, plus 50,000 in corrals
Over 100,000 head of horses and burros need sold with a free and
clear tittle!
6-1-2018
Wild horse advocates take a
local, practical approach
76 Horses Roaming Assateague
Island, National Park Service Population Census Finds
Locals demand action after wild
horses killed by suspected speeders on Mount Charleston
Wild Idaho horses: How the BLM
maintains horses after destructive 2015 fire
Wild horses released to their
former range
Wild horse summit: Seeking common
ground
Finding common ground to base a reality based management plan for
free-roaming horses and burros will be hard, but even harder will be
getting Congress to appropriately fund it and pass legislation to
support it.
Wild horses released in Owyhee
County
TOC board member: I'm for animal
rights – and horse racing
BLM to Gather Wild Burros Near
Empire and Porter Springs
Letter to the Editor from Rep.
Chris Stewart, Sen. Mike Lee: It’s time to take back the reins
Congress makes the rules governing free-roaming horses and sets the
budget, they need to become responsible horse owners or be charged
with animal neglect just as any other person or organization would
be!
Letter to the Editor: It’s time
to hold the BLM to account
Far to many wild horse advocates are like this one who is speaking
without a clue to what he is talking about. By definition, the AUM
is the amount of forage needed by an “animal unit” (AU) grazing for
one month. AML is appropriate management level, one horse for one
year, he has that right. To compare AUMs to AMLs the AUMs need to
be divided by 12(months for 1 year) instead of multiplied by
2. Where does the 2 come from? Probably from a cow and calf being
included in an AUM. You want free-roaming horses and have them,
just leave the management to those that have the knowledge and
experience!
Letter to the Editor: A response
to Chris Stewart’s and Mike Lee’s letter on wild horses
No thinking skills in this letter! The
approximate twenty percent growth rate has been proven time after
time the world over.
BLM Revives Proposal To Sterilize
Oregon's Wild Horses
Save Kosciuszko group warns of
fatal collisions with brumbies
5-2-2019
Ancient DNA reveals two lost
lineages of horses—but not their elusive origins
Modern Horses Faster Than Their
Ancestors
GIVE WILD HORSE AND BURRO
MANAGEMENT PLAN A CHANCE
Starving brumbies 'carving away'
NSW park
Boice to revisit fire-brigade
horses
Bill Simpson noted the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in
California recently recognized wild horses as native species to
North America. So are alligators, but they don't belong in the
mountains of Northern California. Neither do unmanaged free-roaming
horses!
LETTER: Many Issues Facing Wild
Horse Management
Some horse advocates buck at new
plan to save wild mustangs
Ag groups support proposal to
manage wild horses and burros
4-15-2019
Two Letters to the Editor
Craig Downer claims to be a wildlife biologist so he should know the
lower Salt River free-roaming horses are not in their natural
habitat. Instead they are an invasive species on the lower Salt
River. Horses did evolve on the grassland of North America, and
grasslands are their native habitat. Most of his points are about
as valid.
Many so called wild horse advocates really don’t have a clue about
free-ranging horses, cattle or range management. Cattle are removed
from over grazed areas, unmanaged free-ranging horses are not. Give
the horses more acreage and all you are doing is creating a bigger
problem with more horses needing removed in the future.
Brumbies cull: Battle over plan
to kill hundreds of wild horses in Victoria
4-11-2019
Republicans praise Sisolak for
handling of wild horse issue
KIDSPOST: Ozark horses have free
rein to roam
Konik horses introduced to the
Danube Delta
Konik horses are a breed developed from common domestic horses and
are not a recent descendant of some imaginary European wild horse!
Red Bluff Round-Up taking action
as L.A. aims to make bull-riding a thing of the past
We need to stop the feel good fixes like making bull-riding a thing
of the past and begin dealing with real issues like climate change,
over population meeting our future energy needs and learning how to
get along with one another.
Nevada resumes fertility control
for free-roaming horses
Wild horses, public land remain a
tough balancing act
Barmah brumby numbers to be cut
by Parks Victoria in four-year plan
Calls for better data on
Kimberley wild horses amid secrecy over aerial culls
Group protests mass removal of
Utah's wild horses
Guest opinion: Protecting wild
horses will take a wild idea
Wild ponies placed in pen after
Chincoteague visitors ignore warnings to stay back
4-2-2019
Wild horses in North Carolina’s
Outer Banks welcome first baby of season
Horses roam free in Miyazaki’s
verdant hills
More homes needed to adopt wild
Kaimanawa horses
Wild horse muster will go ahead
Riptide, Chincoteague ponies band
penned after visitors ignore warnings
Solution to wild horse
overpopulation
3-18-2019
Advocate contends wildlife
warnings needed on US380
Statement on control of feral
horses in Singleton Training Area
3-12-2019
THE GOVERNMENT WILL PAY YOU
$1,000 TO ADOPT A WILD HORSE
BLM offers cash to wild horses
adopters
Plea for homes for up to 80 wild
Kaimanawa horses from annual muster
Wild about horses: Locals to get
second chance to adopt Little Book Cliffs horses
3-9-2019
Should the BLM remove ‘excess’
wild horses in southeastern Utah? Comment period open.
BLM authorizes wild horse
gathering in North Hills near Cedar City
Wanted: More Pastures for West's
Overpopulated Wild Horses
Charity urgently looking to
rehome 70 wild horses from Kaimanawa Ranges
3-6-2019
BLM Seeks Bids for New Off-Range
Pastures
Protected wild horses chew
ever-closer to Canberra's water sources
Kosciuszko camping site remains
open despite warnings about dangers of wild horses
As Herds Grow, BLM Boards Wild
Horses On Private Land
Assateague Census Finds
Pregnancies, Presumed Deaths
BLM, FOAL partnership helps land,
horses
Weather postpones Pine Nuts wild
horse roundup
Singleton Army Base brumby cull
an 'open-slather slaughter', horse advocacy group says
They got the job done!
2-14-2019
4 more dead horses found near
Heber
Namibia: Govt Clings to
Custodianship of Wild Horses
BLM seeks nominations for Wild
Horse, Burro Advisory Board
Tribes respond to horse
controversy
2-9-2019
Wild horses in Placitas searching
for new home
Colville Tribes respond to horse
controversy
Wild horse management group
volunteers claim they were shot at over the weekend
2-3-2019
Vern Buchanan Continues the Fight
to End Slaughtering Horses for Human Consumption
NC senator introduces bill to
protect Corolla's wild horses
Unwanted cats and dogs are killed by the tens of thousands. We need
a market for horses or treat them the same way.
BLM to remove about 575 horses
from Pine Nut Mountains
Apache-Sitgreaves National
Forests
1-27-2019
Mass equine deaths in Australia
in 42C heatwave
The so called wild horse advocates want to save the free-roaming
horses so they may die like these. Wise up and allow the people who
know how to manage the free-roaming horses.
1-25-2019
Four dead horses create many more
questions
Australia's Heatwave Responsible
for Deaths of Horses, Camels
Wild Horse Advocates pay attention, this is what happens when
free-roaming horses and camels are not well managed!
CBC approves feral horse
aerial-capture contract, increased bounty for tribal members
If enough good horse runners are left (????) this is a tried and
true method of managing free-roaming horses.
OPINION: THE FEDS ARE CAPTURING
WILD HORSES, AND IT’S FISCALLY IRRESPONSIBLE
There is a better way. Gather them and sell them free and
clear. Or even give them away.
1-23-2019
‘Shocking Stuff’: Dozens of
Horses ‘Perished’ in Australian Heatwave
It is natures way.
Shocking pictures show dead
horses at dried-up waterhole in central Australia
Horses perish near Santa Teresa
1-20-2019
CBC votes against wild horse
aerial capture contract
Salt River wild horses receiving
birth control to manage herd numbers
Province, Tsilhqot'in to assess
Chilcotin wild horses for wildlife conflicts
The U.S. Forest Service could
bypass federal restrictions and sell wild horses for slaughter
Hearing to focus on Modoc wild
horses
New pen in California may allow
sale of wild horses for slaughter
WILD HORSES-Forest Service mulls
sales that could lead to slaughter
Lawsuit filed over Tribal roundup
of horses in Palomino Valley
US judge bars slaughter of Nevada
horse in tribal roundup
B.C. biologist worries government
plans Chilcotin horse cull
1-5-2019
Wild horse population is booming,
but is re-wilding or slaughter a solution?
Slaughter would be a solution. Rewilding just creates a bigger
problem. Look at what is happening on public lands, Indian lands,
in Australia and at Oostvaardersplassen, a 14,800-acre man-made
nature reserve(Slaughter
of starving wild horses divides the Netherlands - NBC News).
Wild mustangs find sanctuary in
the peaceful countryside near Edwardsville
Just horses.
ADOPTION INCENTIVES COULD CURB
WILD HORSE POPULATION
Colville Tribes plans to remove
feral horses from their reservation
An example of why rewilding doesn’t work!
PIONEERING WITH EPSTEIN: Care,
time best horse sense
Even just decent hands with horses in the west, both past and
present do not break a horses spirit, but they do have to make a
living. There is nothing wrong with the way this lady does it(as
far as I know), but I am sure she has never made aliving from
training horses the way she does. No one would be able to afford to
have her train a horse.
Local rescue takes in wild horses
rounded up in California
Infection threatens
Chincoteague's wild horses