Court Rules on Checkerboard Wild Horse Gather
Pat Raia
March 6, 2015
The court says the BLM violated the NEPA, but didn’t violate the Wild Free-Roaming Horse and Burro Act.
The court says the BLM violated the NEPA, but didn’t violate the Wild Free-Roaming Horse and Burro Act.
The plan involves treating mares in the Onaqui herd management area with a fertility control vaccine via remote darting.
Mustangs require care different from the average domestic saddle horse. Here’s how vets manage BLM horses’ health.
The public tour of the Indian Lakes Off-Range Corral in Fallon, Nevada, will take place on March 7.
The legislation would reduce the number of days Kentucky counties must keep estray animals in their custody.
The BLM is seeking pasture facilities that can provide a free-roaming environment for horses removed from rangelands.
The legislation would place wild horses under state and Native American tribe jurisdiction rather than under the BLM’s.
The court ruled that the USDA doesn’t have authority to require minimum penalties for Horse Protection Act violators.
The BLM Utah Cedar City Field Office says the horses are causing public health and safety concerns along Highway 21.
The BLM partners with entities to train mustangs gathered from public lands to prepare them for use as riding horses.
Legislation governing equine medication policy is scheduled to be heard Feb. 18.
The gather, expected to last 10 days, will be followed by a wild horse adoption event on Feb. 28.
A number of samples from Thoroughbred racehorses recently came back positive for anabolic steroids.
The sales company will begin implementing guidelines for controlled therapeutic medications this spring.
The judge halted the gather “until the court has an opportunity to fully consider the merits of plaintiffs’ claims.”
Learn about the history of feral horses and burros in the United States and the BLM’s management goals and strategies.
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