Search Results for: wild horse and burro

May 27, 2020

BLM needs more time, money for wild horse management, report says

It will take 15-18 years to reduce the current population of over 95,000 wild horses and burros to the appropriate management level of about 26,715 animals and doing so will...

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March 24, 2020

TWS Issue Statement: Feral Horses and Burros in North America

Back to Position Statements page Feral horses and burros are invasive species in North America. Exotic, non-native species are among the most widespread and serious threats to the integrity of...

March 19, 2020

The Wildlife Society provides recommendations on spending bills

As congressional appropriators begin to develop their Fiscal Year 2021 spending bills, The Wildlife Society recommended spending levels for the U.S. Geological Survey, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Bureau of...

February 26, 2020

Court upholds wild horse removals in Nevada

A federal court upheld the Bureau of Land Management’s plan to remove more than 1,700 wild horses from the Caliente Herd Area in southeast Nevada. More than ten years ago,...

February 19, 2020

Administration budget would cut wildlife funding

The administration’s Fiscal Year 2021 budget (update June 2021 – see link to archived document here)proposal, released Feb. 10, includes steep cuts for many important wildlife management and conservation programs including...

December 11, 2019

Administration’s regulatory agenda would affect wildlife

Many of the anticipated rules released by the White house Office of Management and Budget’s semiannual Unified Agenda of Regulatory and Deregulatory Actions will affect The Wildlife Society’s conservation priorities....

November 6, 2019

TWS provides testimony on lack of horse and burro progress

The Wildlife Society provided written testimony about the lack of progress in the federal management of free-roaming horses and burros to the National Wild Horse and Burro Advisory Board, which...

October 29, 2019

‘Horse Rich’ documentary takes center stage at Reno event

Over 300 people gathered in Reno last week for a discussion of wild horses and their impact on the environment. The program featured a showing of Horse Rich and Dirt...

October 18, 2019

Wild horse board prepares to meet as BLM gathers more horses

The National Wild Horse and Burro Advisory Board will meet Oct. 29 to 31 to discuss the federal government’s management of select free-roaming horses and burros — both on public...

July 17, 2019

Wild horse board meets, amidst gathers and scrutiny

The Bureau of Land Management last week began gathering wild horses in eastern Nevada, as part of its ongoing efforts to reduce the ecologically feral species’ overpopulation on public lands...