The wild horse challenge cannot be solved unless wild horse reproduction is managed on the range.
|
|
Wild horse advocates have balked at the Bureau of Land Management&aposs insistence that wild horse populations are too high.
|
|
How does the iconic status of the wild horse complicate or sustain their protected place in the B.L.M.'s wild horse program and in the country's aim to help them?
|
|
The Wild Horse and Burro Program is a sinking ship and it is incumbent that the agency make real changes to ensure that the wild horse and burro program stays afloat.
|
|
It sports the historic Wild Horse Stampede rodeo each year.
|
|
But this wild horse can't be dragged in any way.
|
|
The BLM has been running the wild horse program for decades.
|
|
Wild horse welfare groups argue that the crisis is largely invented.
|
|
This week, officials from two wild horse facilities, the Corolla Wild Horse Fund and Cape Hatteras National Seashore, announced that their horses were safe following the storm that has left large portions of North Carolina under water.
|
|
In a phone interview from a wild horse area near Eureka, Nev.
|
|
Both Front Range Equine Rescue and the American Wild Horse Campaign believe that a birth control vaccine for horses called Porcine Zona Pellucida (PZP) is one of the more humane ways to help control the wild horse population.
|
|
The horses tested reside inside BLM's Wild Horse Corral Facility in Hines, Ore.
|
|
Trying to make that rent has pushed the wild horse program into crisis.
|
|
Critics want the government to instead use birth control to manage wild horse populations.
|
|
It works and has for centuries, the Corolla Wild Horse Fund wrote on Facebook.
|
|
On one level, the vote to allow wild-horse killing is easy to understand.
|
|
WILD HORSE COUNTRYThe History, Myth, and Future of the MustangBy David Philipps316 pp. Norton. $27.95.
|
|
"You've got to tame the wild horse and get a saddle on it," she said.
|
|
Wild horse advocacy groups have blasted the plans and are preparing for a legal fight.
|
|
The federal government's Wild Horse and Burro Program is broken, leaving thousands of animals to starve.
|
|
This week was declared "Wild Horse Week" by Washington's Mayor Bowser to coincide with the biannual Wild Horse and Burro Advisory Board meeting in the District, and it seems the perfect time to ask the BLM to embrace this non-lethal and highly effective management approach.
|
|
I tamed and rode my first wild horse before a stable-owner explained how the process worked.
|
|
The most expensive part of owning a wild horse, Ms. Santagata said, is paying for experienced trainers.
|
|
They'd sit quietly, intensely focused as I tried to sneak up on a wild horse and ride it.
|
|
At the headquarters, a granite sculpture—a man taming a wild horse—acknowledges the difficulty of that task.
|
|
Henry trying to get on a wild horse, but getting bucked off, was shot by a horse wrangler.
|
|
"This is a mass killing of these animals," Grace Kuhn with the American Wild Horse Campaign tells PEOPLE.
|
|
That's why the American Wild Horse Campaign (AWHC) is calling foul about where these horses might end up.
|
|
Galicia's Wild Horse Roundup Runs Headlong Into Modernity Tech's Damaging Myth of the Loner Genius Nerd She's 98.
|
|
The wild horse was also showcased at the Sydney Olympics in 2000 as a significant part of Australian heritage.
|
|
For a case in point, consider the Wild Horse and Burro Programme of the Bureau of Land Management (BLM).
|
|
The wild horse herds need to be thinned for their own good lest they starve - so the argument goes.
|
|
Meanwhile, the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) estimates that the nationwide wild-horse population grows by 15-20% a year.
|
|
They're trying to corral a "wild horse," as one source close to the President describes him, into a singular direction.
|
|
The Black Hills Wild Horse Sanctuary just kept sending my mom the paperwork, so she just kept filling it out.
|
|
" The American Wild Horse Campaign called last week's vote a "death sentence," and Sheila Schwadel, of the Pine Nut Wild Horse Advocates, said "we are disturbed to hear that our representatives are right now engaging in back room deals to destroy wild horses and burros while lying to the public saying they oppose 'slaughter.
|
|
"We&aposve never seen it like this," said Simone Netherlands, president of the Arizona-based Salt River Wild Horse Management Group.
|
|
Any romance of such an adoption was quickly negated by the reality of training a wild horse while working full time.
|
|
I'm half wild horse and half cock-eyed alligator and the rest o'me is crocked snags an' red-hot snappin' turtle.
|
|
Wild horse and burro management is a nuanced and emotional issue that requires more than a one-size-fits-all solution.
|
|
That kind of balance could be a boon not just for the wild horse program but for the entire Western ecosystem.
|
|
" Meanwhile, the front page of the American Wild Horse Campaign website reads: "Trump Administration Moves to Slaughter America's Mustangs: Tell Congress No!
|
|
The Wild Horse Saloon, a dark and smoky room connected to a legal brothel, is the only sit-down restaurant for miles.
|
|
In August, Mr. Peled will take the cello he calls "a wild horse ready to run" on a road trip across America.
|
|
But not all ranches bring in Fortune 500 companies who pay upwards of $10,000 to watch a cowboy tame a wild horse.
|
|
"It's a bait and switch," said Suzanne Roy, director of the American Wild Horse Campaign, a group that has lobbied against roundups.
|
|
Under its Wild Horse and Burro Program, these animals are herded by helicopters for hundreds of miles over rugged terrain into pens.
|
|
This arrangement comes with a hefty price tag — currently 60 percent of the BLM's annual budget allocated to wild horse and burro management.
|
|
In September, the advisory board toured a wild horse herd area in Nevada that had not been grazed by cattle in eight years.
|
|
Margaret Tiffany / my mom Champagne Lady is a genetic rarity, according to the founder of the Black Hills Wild Horse Sanctuary, Dayton O'Hyde.
|
|
"They have an institutional knowledge of where it's high, dry and safe," said Meg Puckett, herd manager for the Corolla Wild Horse Fund.
|
|
Finally, tell us more about what you think: How does the Wild Horse Program benefit both the horses and the inmates who participate?
|
|
"Ultimately it comes down to the direction of Congress," Alan Shepherd, a Wild Horse and Burro specialist at the BLM told VICE News.
|
|
Adoptions have not kept up with removals, and removals have not kept up with natural growth of wild horse populations on the range.
|
|
When he was badly injured by a wild horse, Brock was told it would be a 26-day hike to the nearest doctor.
|
|
" Brieanah Schwartz, government relations and policy counsel of the American Wild Horse Campaign, said the procedure is "very rarely used on domesticated mares.
|
|
Appling was recruited by Pickens to cook at her Mustang Monument Wild Horse Eco-Resort, a 900-square-mile dude ranch in rural Nevada.
|
|
Willis Lamm, a spokesperson for the Alliance of Wild Horse Advocates, said "the BLM has really screwed up," and blamed Congress for funding issues.
|
|
The House Natural Resources Committee's subpanel on federal lands will host a hearing on the Bureau of Land Management's wild horse and burro program.
|
|
We believe wild horse protection is synonymous with good management and we hope for a more proactive and protective posture from the agency's leadership.
|
|
"Springs are drying up that have never dried up," said Cindy Wright, co-founder of Colorado conservation group Wild Horse Warriors for Sand Wash Basin.
|
|
Fossil evidence suggests that Eurasian wild horse populations were collapsing at the onset of domestication, and their counterparts in the Americas were already long extinct.
|
|
The former governor of the industrial state of Nuevo Leon is known as "El Bronco," or wild horse, for his strong personality and outlandish statements.
|
|
Watch this related video, and then in the comments section, write to us about your best idea on how to solve the wild horse problem.
|
|
"Literally they are these national icons, yet they're being hunted down by helicopters," says Suzanne Roy is the campaign director for American Wild Horse Preservation.
|
|
"If we don't get this controlled, it's just going to get worse," said Alan Shepherd, the on-range branch chief for the wild horse program.
|
|
Op-Ed Contributor We have a wild horse problem — and it's having a devastating impact on these majestic animals that so many of us love.
|
|
As if his team losing the World Series in Game 7 wasn&apost bad enough, "The Wild Horse" returned home to find he&aposd been robbed.
|
|
Last year a group of mostly western senators and members of Congress asked the BLM to outline different scenarios for bringing wild-horse numbers under control.
|
|
Suzanne Roy is executive director of the American Wild Horse Campaign, an advocacy organization dedicated to preserving wild horses and burros in viable free-roaming herds.
|
|
During the lean years TRI relied in part on cash from another of Mr Gilman's businesses: the brothel, called Mustang Ranch, that houses the Wild Horse Saloon.
|
|
Meanwhile, the wild-horse population is on course to double every four years (the NAS found little evidence that wolves or mountain lions keep herds in check).
|
|
From Roach in Witcher 3 to Epona in The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, horse companions are special and iconic parts of some video games.
|
|
The head of the Bureau of Land Management's wild horse program, Dean Bolstad, tipped up his cowboy hat and looked out at the animals from a hilltop.
|
|
The gray curtains parted and a video of a rearing wild horse played, framing mannequins wearing some of the clothes that had just appeared on the runway.
|
|
With too many animals on public lands and too many on the public's hands, the federal wild horse management program is short of money and palatable solutions.
|
|
And the costs and frictions of having so many animals on the government's hands — 49,000 at last count — have pushed the whole wild horse program toward collapse.
|
|
Both Front Range Equine Rescue and the American Wild Horse Campaign legally challenged the agency's project in 2016, and it ended up not going through with it.
|
|
If seeing a wild horse is the Original Spectacular Encounter, surely having one approach you in the middle of an island at dusk is a Religious Experience.
|
|
In the 1950s, both burros and wild horses were hunted by ranchers whose vegetation they munched on, and their populations dipped, according to the American Wild Horse Campaign.
|
|
Two parcels that were opposed for leasing by the American Wild Horse Campaign because wild horses and burros live on the land were also among those that sold.
|
|
John S. Shealy is a Louisville, Kentucky-based psychologist who has written much about meditation and mindfulness, an act he and countless others liken to taming a wild horse.
|
|
In the Senate next week, a subcommittee of the Energy and Natural Resources Committee will hold a hearing on the administration's handling of the wild horse and burro program.
|
|
Nearly all of the fertility control now happening on wild horse ranges is done by local volunteers, often retirees, who have learned to wield dart guns in the field.
|
|
Allen Rutberg is director of the Center for Animals and Public Policy at Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine at Tufts University and a long-time wild horse contraception researcher.
|
|
The couple met in South Dakota, Mr. Langford's home state, when Ms. Candela, a photographer, was hired to take pictures at a wedding held on a wild horse sanctuary.
|
|
There are two furious beasts in "The Mustang," one a hulking man in a jumpsuit stamped with the letters D.O.C., and the other the wild horse of the title.
|
|
The National Wild Horse and Burro Advisory Board on Friday recommended the bureau consider euthanizing the animals that cannot be adopted, or selling them to companies that might slaughter them.
|
|
The group targeted a horticulture center at the University of Washington; a federally owned wild horse corral in Susanville, California; and a horse slaughterhouse in Redmond, Oregon, among other properties.
|
|
Several wild horse advocates told BuzzFeed News that the problems with birth control and adoptions have to do with the way they have been administered, not with the concepts themselves.
|
|
Floodwaters came rushing into the plant area "like a wild horse," reaching a height of two meters in the deepest places, said the Weiqiao statement on its official Wechat account.
|
|
Within hours, the captured mustangs had been sorted, loaded onto trucks to be stamped with an identification number and sent to the Bureau of Land Management's wild horse storage system.
|
|
The current population has tripled the designated "appropriate management level" of 27,000 set by the BLM, which considers wild horse and burros impacts on rangeland, water, wildlife habitat, and human uses.
|
|
Areas of opportunity for the management council to take to task, something I would like to see come to fruition, is the wild horse issue on our public lands as well.
|
|
TRUMP OFFICIALS WALK BACK PLANS TO STERILIZE WILD HORSES: The Trump administration is walking back its plans to sterilize wild horse populations in Oregon after receiving pushback from animal rights groups.
|
|
Corolla Wild Horse herd manager Meg Puckett told OBX Today that during the worst of the storm, they would huddle together with their butts to the wind to keep themselves stable.
|
|
The American Wild Horse Campaign, an advocacy group, said in a statement criticizing the bureaus's new adoption program that the agency should employ other population control measures, such as fertility methods.
|
|
On the edge of the wild horse range in Challis in central Idaho, Jackie Ingram, a rancher, has shared 168,700 acres of public land with the mustang herds for 46 years.
|
|
Gillian Lyons, wild horse and burro program manager for the Humane Society of the United States, said members of the public were quick to criticize the idea of killing the wild animals.
|
|
"We don't have enough staff to do all the grazing permit renewals, and sage grouse habitat monitoring, and wild horse management, and oil and gas leasing, and transportation planning," one employee wrote.
|
|
In fact, that wild horse was so iconic that it was featured in one of the all-time motion picture masterpieces called "A Man and a Woman" ("Un homme et une femme").
|
|
The Corolla Wild Horse Fund, which manages the resilient beauties, posted a series of photos after the storm showing several of them seemingly unbothered as they munched on grass in the rain.
|
|
The order was made by the Bureau of Land Management's National Wild Horse and Burro Advisory Board (burro is a type of horse), which is an agency with the Department of the Interior.
|
|
It created a system of national wildlife refuges, established protective mechanisms for wild and scenic rivers, protected wild horse and burro populations on public lands, and limited adverse human impacts on endangered species.
|
|
" Under the new program, qualified adopters are eligible to receive $500 "within 60 days of adoption of an untrained wild horse and burro" and another $85033 "within 60 days of titling the animal.
|
|
If we could each just keep that fact in the front of our minds and in the center of our hearts at all times, we'd be giving that wild horse some much needed rest.
|
|
Rounding up wild horses with helicopters and removing most of them for adoption is a strategy whose success depends on the whims of the horse adoption market, and works against wild horse reproductive biology.
|
|
Another research group from Colorado State University, the National Park Service and USDA's National Wildlife Research Center showed remarkably similar data from wild horse field trials with a different contraceptive vaccine (known as GonaCon).
|
|
In less than 10 years' time, the wild horse population on America's public lands and the Navajo Nation are expected to double in size with a rapidly depleting landscape to support that enormous population numbers.
|
|
The ranchers, wild horse advocates, animal-rights groups, the Bureau of Land Management, private ranchers who get paid to take care of wild horses, and the wild horses themselves all have competing interests and goals.
|
|
Although Yang Qingpei, 27, was arrested in relation to the killings in the village of Yema — "wild horse" in Chinese — little was publicly known on Friday, 83 hours after the bodies were discovered, about what happened.
|
|
Consequently, the grapes are much less expensive than Napa fruit, and their appellation, Wild Horse Valley, has none of the built-in selling power that comes with being able to put Napa Valley on the label.
|
|
Running Wild, also from 2017 and starring Sharon Stone — who also coproduced — depicts a wild horse advocate, whom Laura Leigh believes is loosely based on her, as an evil villain trying to shut down a horse rehabilitation program.
|
|
Until the West understands the need for predators, the bureau is likely to be stuck in the same trap, too focused on wild horse numbers when it should be focused on how to make these horses truly wild.
|
|
The bureau has struggled to limit wild horse populations since Congress passed a law in 1971 protecting the wild horses and burros that roam patches of public land in 10 Western states, and whose numbers increase naturally every year.
|
|
But if other issues conspire to divert public attention from horse-killing, the 6900 percent annual growth rate shown by wild horse populations on public lands would refill BLM's holding facilities to current levels in a mere three years.
|
|
They are better off staying in their natural habitat than they would be if humans intervened to whisk them away, said Meg Puckett, herd manager of the Corolla Wild Horse Fund, which protects horses roaming in the Currituck area.
|
|
Duquette, who is rarely without his cowboy hat and a cowboy shirt embroidered with the Protect the Harvest or Lucas Oil logo, has spearheaded Protect the Harvest's efforts to change the messaging around wild horse management from cruelty to benevolence.
|
|
While enjoying a day at Assateague Island beach, located off the coast of Maryland, an older man in a Speedo decided he would attempt to pet a wild horse that was roaming the area, despite signs that advised against doing so.
|
|
Ginger Kathrens, a longtime wild horse advocate who sits on the bureau's advisory board, cast the lone vote against killing the horses in storage, saying she favored increasing adoptions and finding places to put horses back out on the range.
|
|
Siding with the U.S. Bureau of Land Management and three conservation groups, the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals found the federal agency has discretion to decide whether removal is required where wild horse populations reach above appropriate management levels.
|
|
That is more than three times what the bureau deems a sustainable level, said Jenny Lesieutre, who, as the Wild Horse and Burro Public Affairs Specialist for the Bureau of Land Management in Nevada, promotes the program at the ranch.
|
|
Congress approved a $21 million increase in the wild horse program's budget for this year, with the stipulation that the money would be released only when the bureau submitted a five-year plan that includes increases in both roundups and fertility control.
|
|
Removing the language would allow the Bureau of Land Management to reduce the wild-horse population to a sustainable level, and provide horseowners with a viable economic means of conveying ownership of their animals rather than releasing them onto the range or shipping them abroad.
|
|
According to the Corolla Wild Horse Fund, which oversees the herd, the horses are able to sense the storm from a change in air pressure and know exactly what to do when it approaches: move to higher ground and group together under sturdy trees.
|
|
They will move to higher ground and gather under sturdy oak trees to shelter from the storm, said the Corolla Wild Horse Fund, which manages the herd and sends a similar reminder during major hurricanes due to the outpouring of concern for the horses.
|
|
The American Wild Horse Campaign and the Cloud Foundation, along with two individuals, filed a separate federal lawsuit in Oregon on September 21 claiming the government project violates the First Amendment because it does not allow outside groups to adequately observe the proposed experiment.
|
|
According to The Verge, the National Wild Horse and Burro Advisory Board of the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) recently recommended that 45,000 wild horses and burros be sold and/or killed by a range management group currently holding the animals in government-run holding facilities.
|
|
"I do have a concern about the larger numbers that they&aposre pulling off, and then a bigger concern about the BLM under this administration using all kinds of excuses to pull off horses," said Suzanne Roy, executive director of the American Wild Horse Campaign, an advocacy organization.
|
|
As a former congressman and governor from the West and a scientist and advocate who share more than a quarter century of engagement with the wild horse issue, we do not believe there is any chance that the public will allow killing of healthy wild horses on this scale.
|
|
Breaking the stalemate that has stymied progress on the wild horse and burro issue for decades unleashes a real opportunity to manage our federally protected herds as envisioned in the 1971 Wild Free-Roaming Horses and Burros Act – but only if the BLM has the will to take the reins.
|
|
There, researchers from Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine at Tufts University, The Humane Society of the United States and the University of Toledo presented data from field trials showing that two doses of a contraceptive vaccine (known as PZP) delivered several years apart can block wild horse pregnancies for five years or longer.
|
|
And it could get worse: Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke is also pushing to end the ban on selling these animals for slaughter for food in Mexico and Canada; at the same time, Mr. Zinke wants to cut funding for fertility control — the only scientifically recommended, humane tool available to manage wild horse herds.
|
|
To reduce the number of gathers and the flow of animals into holding, improve the health of the range long-term and find its way out of its perpetual wild horse crisis, the BLM must develop and put into practice locally tailored long-term plans to manage wild horses and burros with fertility control.
|
|
Last week, in Elko, Nevada, at a board meeting of the National Wild Horse and Burro Advisory Board—a nine-member group that makes recommendations to the US Bureau of Land Management—a vote was taken about a surplus of wild horses that were relocated to holding facilities to make way for additional grazing land for cattle.
|
|
I asked them to investigate the issue, and their response came with a warning: You might get electrocuted on the spot by the sticker shock because that American wild horse — if you can get it — will set you back for up to $135,000, and you will have to wait between three and six months for delivery.
|
|
This looming crisis prompted the ASPCA, The Humane Society of the United States, and Return to Freedom Wild Horse Conservation to craft a unique approach that will shift the agency's energy and resources away from the costly, ineffective roundup and remove strategy employed for decades in favor of technologically advanced fertility control methods that save public funds, allow herds to roam freely on the range, and protect them from the gruesome fate of mass killing in the fields or sale to slaughter.
|
|
Josh HawleyJoshua (Josh) David HawleyOvernight Energy: GOP senators push bill to move most federal agencies out of DC | DOJ sues California to stifle cap-and-trade program with Quebec | Cutting wild horse population to cost BLM billion Hawley, Blackburn push bill to move most federal agencies out of DC Hillicon Valley: Zuckerberg would support delaying Libra | More attorneys general join Facebook probe | Defense chief recuses from 'war cloud' contract | Senate GOP blocks two election security bills | FTC brings case against 'stalking' app developer MORE (Mo.) and Marsha BlackburnMarsha BlackburnMelania Trump makes first solo visit to Capitol Hill House passes third bill aimed at preventing foreign election interference Senators ask State Department to expedite visa for Kurdish commander should he visit US MORE (Tenn.) would move a major federal agency to each of their states.ADVERTISEMENT
|
|
Josh HawleyJoshua (Josh) David HawleyOvernight Energy: GOP senators push bill to move most federal agencies out of DC | DOJ sues California to stifle cap-and-trade program with Quebec | Cutting wild horse population to cost BLM billion Hawley, Blackburn push bill to move most federal agencies out of DC Hillicon Valley: Zuckerberg would support delaying Libra | More attorneys general join Facebook probe | Defense chief recuses from 'war cloud' contract | Senate GOP blocks two election security bills | FTC brings case against 'stalking' app developer MORE (Mo.) and Marsha BlackburnMarsha BlackburnMelania Trump makes first solo visit to Capitol Hill House passes third bill aimed at preventing foreign election interference Senators ask State Department to expedite visa for Kurdish commander should he visit US MORE (Tenn.), would move a major federal agency to each of their states.
|
|