Latest science highlights wild horse over-population myth and mismanagement
Wildlife ecologist Craig C. Downer has just completed a study on wild horses in Oregon and their management on publicly owned land.
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Massive US spending bill contains good news for wild horses
The threat of wild horses being sold “without limitation” recedes, and there is no opportunity for slaughter plants to reopen on US soil.
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Wild horses: Are they being managed to extinction?
For wild horses in their natural environment, it really is survival of the fittest.
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The many powers of wild horses: Is it all in the genetics?
Through extensive selective breeding, desired characteristics and traits were greatly amplified while other known and unknown characteristics and traits were diminished and in some cases are likely lost in the new breeds.
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Call for horse grazing pilot study to explore wildfire mitigation
A pilot study seems logical if wild horses were carefully allocated into deer-depleted areas in and around remote forest areas with difficult terrain and access issues.
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Two major wild horse musters about to start, in Nevada and Utah
Musters scheduled around the same time as hearings on use of helicopters and motorized vehicles in wild horse management.
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Renowned wildlife ecologist and author endorses ‘Wild Horse Fire Brigade’
Bill Simpson gets together with Craig Downer to delve into the many issues swirling around America’s wild horses and burros.
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Are horses as smart as humans?
Some scientists have said that horses have the intelligence of 12-year old humans. Imagine how they feel as they are run ragged by helicopters and other inhumane herding techniques.
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Wild horses and resource management: Is government looking the other way?
Our natural resources (and very society) are now at risk by the inaction of some legislators and the willful wrongful actions of others.
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Senate committee moves to protect wild horses from slaughter
Senate appropriators have stood against horse slaughter and against allowing the BLM to kill wild horses.
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Wild horse roundups condemned as a ruinous strategy by HSUS boss
“Only when BLM goes all in on fertility control will the nation have a viable, fiscally sound, and effective strategy for humanely managing wild horses and burros.”
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Advisory board’s position on wild horses condemned, amid fears of many deaths
The BLM has failed over and over in its management of wild horses, says a leading advocate dismayed by the position adopted by a key advisory board.
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The three great myths about America’s wild horses
These days most grazing herbivores wild or domestic have lobbies based-upon an economic foundation.
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Avoid being manipulated by “selfish interests” in managing America’s wild horses, ecologist tells board
These same interests ‘put the squeeze’ on the wild horses/burros … then hypocritically come around to say they are concerned about the wild horses/burros.
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California wildfire disaster: New plan unveiled to save lives and natural resources
The US ecosystem is out of balance, which has led to forest fires becoming a growing problem impacting America and its citizens.
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Wild horses: “Mass slaughter is not an option that should even be on the table.”
Plan to slaughter wild horses would nullify 50 years of federal policy, says HSUS boss Wayne Pacelle.
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Evolution of wild horses and cattle and the effect on range damage
Most people who enter into the debate on the causes of the degradation of range-land and riparian areas have some gaps in their understanding as to the evolutionary origins and differences between wild horses and cattle.
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US House Rules Committee criticized for voting down horse amendments
“If this direction continues, Congress will only embolden a relative few intent on ridding our public lands of wild horses, altogether, for personal profit.”
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Total eclipse an unsettling experience for wild horses
“It seemed as though someone had flipped the light-switch off, stillness was instantaneously replaced by wild whinnies and hundreds of thundering hooves on all sides.”
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The deforestation of America: Wild horses lose out to cheap grazing and beef for China
In parts of the world forests have been intentionally burned to create more cheap grazing lands, and to some extent, that is already happening right here in America. When forests burn these areas are converted to range lands for decades, sometimes permanently.
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