2021 Free-Roaming Horse News
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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.
12-28-2021
Researchers
finally pinpoint the origins of the modern domestic horse
Cars or livestock:
which contribute more to climate change?
Lockman: The
effect of wild horses on sage grouse
THE FY2022 NEVADA
WILD HORSE RANGE WILD HORSE AND BURRO GATHER
Wild horses
roaming Spain are threatened by wolves and man
SRP lowers Salt
River water levels, reducing eelgrass for wild horses
11-26-2021
Australia: Prampi assassination plot approved
Kosciuszko brumby management plan finally gets approval
High country brumby debate rages on
Kosciuszko brumby myth based on many false assumptions
Sierra Club calls for end to livestock grazing on all wild horse
ranges
Compromise needed to find win-win solution for wild horse
populations
Snowy River alpine region at tipping point
BLM using different method to gather wild Challis horses
THE BUREAU OF LAND MANAGEMENT CONCLUDED THE OWYHEE COMPLEX WILD
HORSE GATHER
Ural Federal University: The Origin Of Modern Horses Resolved
10-3-2021
carova-residents-ask-commissioners-to-help-deal-with-wild-horse-tour-issues
Wild horses will be contained within specific parts of the
Kosciuszko
Public comment period opens for preliminary environmental assessment
Kosciuszko brumby numbers to be drastically cut under NSW government
plan
Scott Beckstead: Don’t believe BLM’s gaslighting about the Onaqui
herd of wild horses
Wild horse draft plan for Kosciuszko National Park
WILD HORSE ROUND-UP BEGINS OCT. 7 IN WYOMING
Letter: Wild horse roundup is a warning cry for the West
9-28-2021
BLM to round up half of Wyoming's wild horses
Why are wild horses dying in wrecks on South Reno's Veterans
Parkway?
Report: BLM turns a blind eye to cattle grazing impacts, blames wild
horses
Groups frustrated with BLM management of horses
Letter: Horse roundup letter was insulting, uninformed
9-18-2021
Northwest Colorado wild horse roundup ends with 70% of the herd
removed
How to manage wild horses? Many criticize BLM’s plans for state
herds
Wadden: A better way to manage wild horses
Who will take care of the Nokota horses when Frank is gone?
'Undermined': Frustration after wild horses released into wilderness
Activists fought rounding up wild horses. Then came drought and
climate change
‘Spiralling out of control’: NSW failing to remove feral horses
quick enough
Northern Nevada wild-horse roundup aims to move 600 animals
BLM proposes huge horse corral near Winnemucca
9-5-2021
Agency plans emergency wild horse gather
Border Patrol using wild mustangs
Wild Horse Roundup Continues In The Sand Wash Basin
Icelandair : Everything you need to know about Icelandic horses
BLM gather moves forward despite Polis and Reis’ attempts to freeze
65 horses gathered in Sand Wash Basin; further roundup delayed until
Friday
Wild Horse Roundup In Colorado Postponed Due To Rain
Activists fought rounding up U.S. wild horses. Then came drought and
climate change
BLM rounds up, removes hundreds of wild horses in Eastern Oregon, to
be put up for adoption
BLM Colorado ends wild horse roundup with 457 captured, plans
another with goal of 783
Concerned Delta Co. resident, BLM on Sand Wash Basin wild horse
gather
Return to Freedom Urges Haaland to Change Wild Horse Roundup Plan
BLM plans emergency helicopter roundup of 220 horses in drought-hit
Harney County
8-24-2021
Horse Roundups
Amid Drought Create Debate
Tribunal appeal calls for release of NSW Government reports on wild
horse management
Wild horse
roundups ramping up as drought grips the US West
8-18-2021
Mustang roundups
fuel deepening debate as drought grips West
Feinstein calls
for probe of capture, resale of wild horses
Letter: The
reality facing wild horses–starvation
Letter: West
Douglas Herd area facts
Op-Ed: Let wild
horses do their part to save the West
Controversy behind
wild horse roundups
Bureau of Land
Management urges wild horse, burro adoptions amid drought,
overpopulation
Wild horse
advocates see better way to control herd populations on the range
Report: Drought In
Western Colorado Forces Largest Wild Horse Roundup In State History
8-9-2021
Largest wild horse
roundup in Colorado history underway
Horse graves on
the steppes as Kazakhstan is battered by one of worst droughts in
living memory
BLM plans to take
in hundreds of wild horses in northwest Colorado
Ban on
transporting horses for slaughter tucked in infrastructure bill
Federal land
managers plan to round up 6,000 wild horses due to drought,
wildfires
COLUMN: More
people, feral horses cause issues
US plans 50% more
wild horse roundups amid Western drought
BLM plans
helicopter gather of about 450 wild horses east of Burns, adoption,
sale of most
BLM to round up
2,200 wild horses in northeast Nevada
7-31-2021
BLM plans
helicopter gather of about 450 wild horses east of Burns
BLM to round up
2,200 wild horses in northeast Nevada
86,000 wild
mustangs that roam the West are at the center of raging controversy
Emergency wild
horse gather of West Douglas Herd
7-28-2021
BLM reforms seek
to stop slaughter of wild horses
BLM to conduct
emergency roundup of wild horse herd
Utah Tourists
Seeking Wild Horses Will Not Find the Onaqui Horses on the Range
ISPMB Seeks
Public’s Health with Pushing for Government Study on Heber Horse
Herd in Arizona
Onaqui roundup
ends with 307 horses headed for adoption
HORSE CANADA
Article - Can Wild Horses Help Prevent Wildfires in the West?
ISPMB Pushes for
New Model for Effectively Managing Wild Horses on Public Lands
President Biden's
Wild Horse Roundups Bring Furious Surge in Advocacy
5-28-2021
Eurasian Horses Diverged from North American Horses One Million
Years Ago, DNA Study Shows
Our Campaign to Save the Onaqui Horses of Utah
More than 1,200 Groups, Business, & Individuals Call on Joe Biden
to Impose Moratorium on BLM’s Roundups of Wild Horses
Sen. Feinstein presses Haaland to investigate slaughter claims
Fort Polk horses likely descendants of ‘globally rare’ breed
Wild horses find new pastures in eastern Kentucky
Predictably, Wild Horses Are Still Suffering Due to Federal
Slaughter Ban
Hundreds of wild horses in Moffat County deal with a drought
BLM TO BEGIN WILD BURRO GATHER NEAR RIDGECREST
5-20-2021
Kosciuszko
brumbies outbreeding trapping program
ISPMB South Dakota
Forms Advisory Council for Heritage Center
Animal Welfare
Groups Commend Federal Lawmakers for Reintroducing Bill to Ban Horse
Slaughter
East Gippsland
Shire Council refuses to back brumbies cull after special vote
OPINION: New
Federal Policies Land America’s Wild Horses & Burros in the
Slaughterhouse
Court orders
Interior to rethink wild horse protections
BLM plans virtual
hearing on use of motorized vehicles, aircraft to manage wild
horses, burros
OREGON TO CUT WILD
HORSE POPULATION IN OCHOCO NATIONAL FOREST IN HALF
Researchers Find
That Wild Donkeys and Horses Dig Desert Watering Holes Vital For
Entire Ecosystem
N.M. Startup,
Wildlife Protection Management, Holds Tech Solution Patent for
Roundups and Culls
Oregon wild horse
herd will be cut in half under new Forest Service plan
As wild horse
populations skyrocket in West, advocates blast plan to remove 12K
animals
Range wars:
Tension mounts in the West over public lands grazing, wild horses
and ranchers
Ochoco National
Forest finalizes plan to slash number of wild horses
Governor Supports
Upcoming BLM Wild Horse Gather in Southwest Wyoming
Przewalski's
Horses: Last Wild Species Found Thriving in Chernobyl
4-2-2021
Proposed roundups target 3,500 wild horses in Wyoming
BLM seeks public comment on proposed wild horse gather in
southwestern Wyoming
Are horses our partners or our tools?
SJR3 — URGES REDUCTION OF FERAL HORSES AND BURROS IN THE GREAT BASIN
'Worth giving a chance' – Kaimanawa wild horses could face being
culled if not rehomed
Forest Service opens public comment for horse removal plan in White
Mountains
Reins of Hope: Missoula horse trainer takes in wild mustangs
2-23-2021
Documenting the horse in Indian history
Bureau of Land Management issues decision on wild horse gathers and
fertility control treatments
Wild Horse Advocacy Groups Urge Haaland to Promote Safe Management
Methods
Bernhardt's parting shot to wild horses
A WILD HORSE MANAGEMENT PLAN BENEFITS ALL STAKEHOLDERS
What is the Future of Horse Meat?
Palm Island's brumby management plan sparks controversy among horse
lovers
Study to look into influence of famed wild horses on Sable Island
BLM to thin wild horse herds in northwest Colorado
Wild horse hit, killed along highway near Navajo Nation
1-23-2021
Program managing wild horse population
What’s the key to long life for Outer Banks wild horses?
WILD HORSES: KEYSTONE HERBIVORES CRITICAL TO PUBLIC LAND MANAGEMENT
Wild Horses, Part of Romantic West, Are
Causing Havoc in Northeast California
BLM releases mustangs back into Idaho desert
Annual report on Shackleford Banks horses released
Majority of Shackleford Banks Horses Are Female, New Report Finds
Brumby numbers down, but not enough for Barilaro
Brumbies are destroying Kosciuszko National Park
Wild horse population crashes after devastating drought and
bushfires
1-12-2021
NSW Government supports more culls after survey finds 14,000 wild
horses in Kosciuszko National Park
Horse deaths under investigation on Apache-Sitgreaves National
Forest
$5k reward offered after 4 horses found shot, killed in northern
Arizona
To Keep the West Wild: New Docuseries Explores the Endangered Lives
of America’s Wild Horses
BLM names Alan Shepherd as new Deputy
State Director
Program to give Salt River horses birth control is a success
BLM COMPLETES WILD HORSE ROUND-UP IN NEVADA
BLM to gather and remove excess wild horses from Sand Wash Basin
Herd Management Area
NW China's rare wild horses get help to survive the winter