Tag: BLM

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 23, 2019

Agency funding bill passes Congress

Congress passed a final spending package on Dec. 16 for Fiscal Year 2020, which includes increases for many natural resource agencies’ conservation and management programs. The final spending bill was...

December 18, 2019

BLM studies one-dose fertility control for wild horses and burros

The Bureau of Land Management and partners will study the effectiveness of a fertility control vaccine that works in just one dose in feral horses previously removed from the wild....

December 3, 2019

The Wildlife Society concerned about BLM move

The Wildlife Society sent a letter to the Secretary of the Interior David Bernhardt last week, expressing concern about the plan to relocate the Bureau of Land Management’s headquarters to...

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 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...

August 28, 2019

BLM relocation moves forward

The Interior is moving forward with plans announced in mid-July to move the Bureau of Land Management headquarters as well as relocate many wildlife staff. Last month, Interior Secretary David Bernhardt announced plans to...

July 24, 2019

Hundreds of BLM positions to move west

Interior Secretary David Bernhardt has announced plans to relocate the headquarters for the Bureau of Land Management to Grand Junction, Colo. The department plans to relocate a majority of over...

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...