Wild Horses in the News
6-21-2022
U.S. House Members Zero in on Congressional Oversight Hearing to Hold BLM’s Wild Horse and Burro Program Accountable
"It’s time for a comprehensive legislative overhaul of the 1971 law and Congressional hearings that will help keep rogue operators at the BLM in check.” — Marty Irby, executive director at Animal Wellness Action
WASHINGTON, DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, UNITED STATES, June 21, 2022 /EINPresswire.com/ -- Today, Animal Wellness Action, the Animal Wellness Foundation, and the Center for a Humane Economy applauded U.S. Reps. Dina Titus, D-Nev., and Steve Cohen, D-Tenn., for their leadership and U.S. House Members Eleanor Holmes Norton, D-D.C., Ted Lieu, D-Calif., Albio Sires, D-N.J., Peter DeFazio, D-Oregon, and Salud Carbajal, D-Calif., who joined Titus and Cohen in sending a letter to the U.S. House Natural Resources Committee requesting an oversight hearing of the Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM) Wild Horse and Burro Program.
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U.S. House Members Zero in on Congressional Oversight Hearing to Hold BLM’s Wild Horse and Burro Program Accountable
"It’s time for a comprehensive legislative overhaul of the 1971 law and Congressional hearings that will help keep rogue operators at the BLM in check.” — Marty Irby, executive director at Animal Wellness Action
WASHINGTON, DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, UNITED STATES, June 21, 2022 /EINPresswire.com/ -- Today, Animal Wellness Action, the Animal Wellness Foundation, and the Center for a Humane Economy applauded U.S. Reps. Dina Titus, D-Nev., and Steve Cohen, D-Tenn., for their leadership and U.S. House Members Eleanor Holmes Norton, D-D.C., Ted Lieu, D-Calif., Albio Sires, D-N.J., Peter DeFazio, D-Oregon, and Salud Carbajal, D-Calif., who joined Titus and Cohen in sending a letter to the U.S. House Natural Resources Committee requesting an oversight hearing of the Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM) Wild Horse and Burro Program.
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5-20-2022
The Animal Wellness Podcast: Wild Horses and Their Mishandling By The BLM
When it comes to telling the truth about wild horses, the Bureau of Land Management comes up short. Leadership there seems determine to subjugate the well-being of the U.S.'s most iconic animal to the interests of cattle ranchers and sheep farmers.
Scott Beckstead, our director of campaigns, and Vickery Eckhoff, an investigative journalist who writes on western public land issues and politics and government disinformation, are the guests. They address our western native equine populations and how they are suffering so that Big Ag can have cheap access to public grazing lands. It's an issue that should incense anyone who cares about horses and who resents the triumph of corporate greed over the interests of the innocent and helpless. Listen here.
The Animal Wellness Podcast: Wild Horses and Their Mishandling By The BLM
When it comes to telling the truth about wild horses, the Bureau of Land Management comes up short. Leadership there seems determine to subjugate the well-being of the U.S.'s most iconic animal to the interests of cattle ranchers and sheep farmers.
Scott Beckstead, our director of campaigns, and Vickery Eckhoff, an investigative journalist who writes on western public land issues and politics and government disinformation, are the guests. They address our western native equine populations and how they are suffering so that Big Ag can have cheap access to public grazing lands. It's an issue that should incense anyone who cares about horses and who resents the triumph of corporate greed over the interests of the innocent and helpless. Listen here.
2-7-2022
Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09), a member of the Natural Resources Committee and of the Congressional Animal Protection Caucus, today wrote to Interior Secretary Deb Haaland and Bureau of Land Management Director Tracy Stone-Manning with his concern that federal policies for managing wild horses and burros retain outmoded and inhumane plans for mass roundups. Congressman Cohen urged officials to make use of effective fertility control vaccines and reassess the capacity of federal lands to sustain the iconic creatures. Read the entire letter here: https://cohen.house.gov/sites/cohen.house.gov/files/20220207%20Haaland%20Stone-Manning%20Wild%20horse%20and%20burro%20roundups.pdf
Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09), a member of the Natural Resources Committee and of the Congressional Animal Protection Caucus, today wrote to Interior Secretary Deb Haaland and Bureau of Land Management Director Tracy Stone-Manning with his concern that federal policies for managing wild horses and burros retain outmoded and inhumane plans for mass roundups. Congressman Cohen urged officials to make use of effective fertility control vaccines and reassess the capacity of federal lands to sustain the iconic creatures. Read the entire letter here: https://cohen.house.gov/sites/cohen.house.gov/files/20220207%20Haaland%20Stone-Manning%20Wild%20horse%20and%20burro%20roundups.pdf
2-8-2022
Rep. Dana Titus (D-NV) has introduced a bill to BAN BLM Wild Horse & Burro Program helicopter roundups! We will have action items on this great news soon!
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Rep. Dana Titus (D-NV) has introduced a bill to BAN BLM Wild Horse & Burro Program helicopter roundups! We will have action items on this great news soon!
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May 2021
The Sierra Club
As of May 2021, the Sierra Club has adopted a new Wild Horse and Burro Policy, including a directive that livestock be eliminated in lands designated for wild horses and burros. In April of 2021, WWP was a signatory (along with 70 conservation and wild horse groups) to a letter to Sec. Haaland asking her to remove all livestock from BLM Herd Management Areas. There is a growing consensus that eliminating livestock from wild horse areas is the fastest and most effective way to achieve improvements in ecological health on these lands. Read the release here.
The Sierra Club
As of May 2021, the Sierra Club has adopted a new Wild Horse and Burro Policy, including a directive that livestock be eliminated in lands designated for wild horses and burros. In April of 2021, WWP was a signatory (along with 70 conservation and wild horse groups) to a letter to Sec. Haaland asking her to remove all livestock from BLM Herd Management Areas. There is a growing consensus that eliminating livestock from wild horse areas is the fastest and most effective way to achieve improvements in ecological health on these lands. Read the release here.