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 ...
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Administration budget would cut wildlife funding
The administration’s Fiscal Year 2021 budget proposal, released Feb. 10, includes steep cuts for many important wildlife management and conservation programs ...
Conservation in Congress for 2020
The second session of the 116th Congress will likely see progress on some of the conservation priorities advanced in 2019. Legislation passed by the House, such as ...
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 ...
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 ...
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’ ...
Free-roaming horse and burro summit seeks solutions
Diverse stakeholders from the conservation, livestock management and animal welfare world came together to take the first steps in a process that aims to bring ...
TWS offers recommendations for wild horse management
TWS submitted written testimony to the National Wild Horse and Burro Advisory Board during its meeting last week in Salt Lake City. The advisory board provides ...
BLM plans wild horse population control research
The Bureau of Land Management has released an updated draft environmental assessment and a finding of no significant impact for plans to test a sterilization ...
Government funding authorized through the end of September
On May 5, the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2017, H.R. 244, authorizing appropriations to fund the federal government for the remainder of Fiscal Year 2017 ...