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Death Toll from Round-ups:

Calico  |  158

Elko  |  22
 

 
 

 
 
American Herds: What Judge?

 
 

Tuscarora Court Documents and Animal Law Coalition Article
   07.23.10 Motion for Renewed TRO
   07.23.10 Laura Leigh Declaration
   07.23.10 Nena Winand Declaration

   07.19.10 Motion for Contempt-Relief
   07.19.10 Declaration for Contempt Motion
   07.19.10 Exhibit A - DOI Letter

 

   Tuscarora Complaint

   Tuscarora Motion for Restraining Order

 
BLM: "We are not the Bureau of Horses" by Laura Allen, Animal Law Coalition
 

 
 
Law suit filed to block Twin Peaks round-up
   Press Release
   Complaint

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       Relentless Pursuit by Cattoor Helicopter (one of two BLM contractors)

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Craig Downer materials from BLM WH&B Workshop in Denver 06.14.10 & 06.15.10

  Reserve Design    

 
 

 
 
George Knapp I-Team Report |  Nearly 80 Wild Horses Dead After Roundup

 
 
 

 
 
George Knapp I-Team Report | Part 2: Wild Horses Forced into a Stampede of Death

 
 
George Knapp I-Team Report | Part 1:  BLM Wraps Up Huge Wild Horse Roundup

 
 
 
American Herds: Tidbits and Toadstools
 

 
 
American Herds: Say Something!

 
 
Western Watersheds Project Wins Summary Judgment against BLM

 
 
 
American Herds: Gold In Them Thar Hills!
 

 
 

 
 

 
 
An Open Letter to the President to Stop the Extermination of our Wild Horses
 

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Mestengo

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Unified Call for a Moratorium on Wild Horse & Burro Round-ups
 
 
 
 

 
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Cattoor Indictment (one of two BLM helicopter contractors)
 
 
 

George Knapp I-Team report | Stampede to Oblivion (note-there are 6 segments plus 2 extra reports) View past reports here

 
 
American Herds: Shepherd-ing the Future

 
 
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The BLM Slaughter Conspiracy by John Holland and Valerie James-Patton

 
 
What's Left? by American Herds
 
 
 

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BLM FOIAs

 

BLM Alternative Management Options

 

 

 
 
 

 
 

George Knapp I-Team follow-up to Stampede to Oblivion

 

 
 
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American Horse Defense Fund | Save Our Wild Horses

SOWH Resolution

AHDF Save Our Wild Horses Point Paper 

AHDF PROs & CONs of Salazar Plan

 

 
 
 

 
 

 
 

A Call for a Congressional Investigation | Animal Law Coalition

 

 
 

 
 
Wild Horse Annie Biography (researched and written by Craig Downer)

 
 

 
 

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Managing for Extinction - 2009-2010 'Gather' Schedule

 

BLM Round-Up Fatalities |  2008    2009 YTD

  Documents obtained by Horseback Magazine

 

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Representative Grijalva letter to the BLM

 

 

 
 

 
 

Wildlife Ecologist, Craig C. Downer statement to the Wild Horse and Burro Advisory Meeting | September 28, 2009 – Arlington, VA

 

 
 

 

 

Judge blocks BLM from round-up of West Douglas Mustangs

Decision from Judge Rosemary M. Collyer, US District Judge

 

Detailed background information from Animal Law Coalition

 

 
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2008 GAO Report

 
 

 
 

 
Native American Church of Ghost Dancers

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Link to Pictures of Wild Horse Round-Ups
 

 
 

My Wild Horse Education by Laura Leigh | Sheldon Horses

     Part 1     Part 2

 

 
 
Frequently Asked Questions (from American Wild Horse Preservation Campaign)
 

 
 

 

Historical Documents

 

 
 
 
 
 

 
 
2005: America's Wild Horses and Burros | Research for Management
 
 

 
 

1997: Horses to Slaughter – Anatomy of a Cover-Up within the BLM (1997-04-01) | PEER

 

 

 
 

May 20, 2005 – Senator Burns reacts to passage of the Rahall/Whitfield Amendment.

 

When the amendment reaches the Senate, Sen. Conrad Burns (R-Mont.), chairman of the Senate Appropriations interior subcommittee, plans "to throw it out."

 

Senator Burns’ allegiance became clear when he stated: "I'm in the livestock business, and I've bought and sold horses all my life, Basically, the marketplace works." Senator Burns’ infamous rider, surreptitiously included in the 3,300 page federal budget last November, allows the government to sell wild horses at livestock auctions, freeing up subsidized public land grazing for private cattle. Maybe Senator Burns needs to be reminded he is now in the U.S. Senate, not in the livestock business.
 
 
 

 
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US Wild Horses

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Craig Downer, advocating for Wild Horses and Burros through the years...
 
 

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Wild Ecology

 
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This is Cloud, one of the wild horses that remains on public lands. It is estimated that only 13,000-19,000  are left running free out of the 2+ million that graced our lands. Please GET INVOLVED. Don’t stand by and let the BLM and cattle ranchers extinct our Wild Horses. 

 

Do you honestly believe that the few thousand horses are doing more damage than the 7+ million cattle? Look at the wild horses and burros being removed from their land. Do they look like they’re starving? Please research and you’ll find the ties to horse slaughter and the propaganda that is being spread to support the privately owned cattle on public lands.

 

 
 

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News, Articles, Interviews & Press Releases

 

 
 
Is a TRO in BLMs Future? | Horseback Magazine
 

 
 

 

EWA Press Release: Mariana Tosca, Viggo Mortensen and Kevin Nealon join the unified call for an immediate moratorium on wild horse and burro round-ups

 

 

 

AP: Sheryl Crow takes up cause of wild horses in West

 

 

 

Press Release: Sheryl Crow Asks President Obama & Secretary Salazar to Stop the Assault on America’s Wild Horses and Burros
 

 
 
 

 
 
Salazar Sez | American Herds
 

 
 

The Bureau of Land Management – Wild Horse Specialists? | RT Fitch by Simone Netherlands

 

 
 
 

 
 

 
 
Listen to Craig Downer, Deanne Stillman, Cindy MacDonald and Kathleen Hayden, January 23, ’09 on the Nature Connection
 

 
 

 
 

 
 

 
 

 
 
 

 
 
 

 
 

 
 

New Zealand Horsetalk | Salazar wild-horse plan draws cool response

 

 
From Deanne Stillman

 
 

 
 
 

 
 
 

 
 

 Mustangs Face Perilous Future | Duane Burright

 

 
 

New Zealand Horsetalk | Homeless on the Range: wild horse worries

 

 
 

The Cloud Foundation | Mustangs on the Hill and Press Conference 

Horseback Magazine | A Report from the Hill
 

 
 

 
 

 
 
 

 
 

Cloud Foundation / EWA Press Release | Documents Reveal BLM Secret Plan to Destroy Wild Horses

 

 

 
 

Pasadena WeeklyThe Great Silent Witness

 

 
 

 
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Stallion's death a serious blow to small wild herd

New law introduced to protect wild horses / HR 1018 

Region's US Border Patrol mustangs to march in DC Inaugural Parade 

New Zealand Horsetalk | Benefactor could take up to 30,000 Wild Horses

Madeleine Pickens to Rescue Wild Horses from the BLM 

A Dramatic Rescue for Doomed Wild Horses of the West 

Offers on table to avoid killing thousands of wild horses held in federal facilities 

AWI | Managing for Extinction   

Wild Horse Euthanasia Decision Postponed by BLM 

EWA Press Release | Plan Emerging for mustangs from 3-Strikes Ranch 

ROAM legislation (HR 1018) heads to House! Read about HERE and HERE. 

 
 

 
 
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Cattoor Indictment (one of two BLM helicopter contractors)
 
 
 

 
 

 

 

THIS MUST END

 

 

Death Toll @ Calico | 151
(includes 39 aborted foals)
 
Death Toll @ Elko  |  22
 
 

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Escape from the BLM to Freedom

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