AWHC in the news
Wild horses, buffalo and politics get touchy on the Wind River Indian Reservation
By Russel Albert Daniels, Billings Gazette
December 22, 2021
A couple of years ago, Patti Baldes’ phone rang. “Patti? The buffalo are out,” said someone from the Wind River Reservation’s Tribal Fish and Game Office. “Are they yours or are they Jason’s?”
“They’re probably mine,” Baldes recalled saying. Hers, in that they belonged, like she does, to the Northern Arapaho Tribe. Jason Baldes, Patti’s husband, is Eastern Shoshone. The two tribes share the Wind River Indian Reservation in central Wyoming, and each has its own buffalo herd on separate pastures.
Viewpoint: The Montana solution for saving our nation’s wild horses
By Emily Anderson and Suzanne Roy
December 27, 2021
December marks the 50th anniversary of the Wild Free-Roaming Horses and Burros Act, an important piece of legislation intended to protect and preserve these wild animals on the Western range, including in the Pryor Mountains of Montana.
Viewpoint: The Montana solution for saving our nation’s wild horses
By Emily Anderson and Suzanne Roy, Missoula Current
December 27, 2021
December marks the 50th anniversary of the Wild Free-Roaming Horses and Burros Act, an important piece of legislation intended to protect and preserve these wild animals on the Western range, including in the Pryor Mountains of Montana.
Opinion: Is Congress finally poised to do right by our nation's wild horses? | Holly Gann Bice
By Holly Gann Bice, Special to Reno Gazette Journal
December 7, 2021
This opinion column was submitted by Holly Gann Bice, government relations director for the American Wild Horse Campaign.
Is the treatment of our nation’s wild horses tilting from cruelty and ignorance of science to compassion and common sense?
Rescued burros Huck and Puck find home in Worthington
By Bera Dunau, Daily Hampshire Gazette
November 3, 2021
WORTHINGTON — Huck and Puck, two wild burros captured in Nevada by the Bureau of Land Management in 2019, have been given new homes in Worthington, saving them from possible slaughter through the efforts of the American Wild Horse Campaign. However, the group is still fighting for the policies that put the burros at risk of death to be changed.
Advocates Allege Wild Horse Mistreatment At Cañon City Prison, BLM Says ‘Vast Majority’ In Good Condition
By Kati Weis, CBS Denver
November 1, 2021
CAÑON CITY, Colo. (CBS4) – The decades-long controversy over wild horses in Colorado has been heating up in recent months, with Governor Polis even weighing in this summer, asking the federal government to pause horse roundups, after being inundated with calls and letters concerned about the treatment of the animals. So, CBS4 Investigates decided to take a closer look at what happens once the mustangs are rounded up and hauled out of the wild.
Kuhn: Ranchers are calling the shots on wild horse roundups
Wyoming Tribune Eagle,
October 28, 2021
Who gave ranchers the right to call the shots on what happens to our horses on our land?
The U.S. Bureau of Land Management, apparently.
Acting on junk science and in support of special interests, the BLM is writing checks like crazy from taxpayers’ bank accounts, paying upward of $171 million for the roundup and removal of mustangs from southern Wyoming’s Checkerboard region.
Feds accused of blocking public’s view in massive wild horse roundup
By Kiah Armstrong, ABC 4
October 25, 2021
WYOMING (ABC4) – The American Wild Horse Campaign is alleging that the U.S. Bureau of Land Management has placed unlawful restrictions on the public viewing of the largest federal wild horse roundup in history.
The AWHC has alleged that the BLM Wyoming has moved the public observation area at a distance that blocks the public’s view of the capture operation which they say violates the public’s First Amendment right to observe the federal operation.
‘An accelerated push to remove wild horses’: Advocates speak out ahead of adoption event in Hurricane
By David Louis, Cedar City News
October 25, 2021
ST. GEORGE — Wild horses, considered beautiful and noble animals by many, embody the pioneering spirit of the West, with a lineage on the North American mainland dating to Spanish explorers in 1519.
According to the Bureau of Land Management, wild horses and burros have virtually no natural predators and their herd sizes can double about every four years.
