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 ...
Wild Horses and Burros
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 ...
Interior Secretary nominee awaiting confirmation vote
Last week, the U.S. Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources held its confirmation hearing for the new administration’s nominee for Secretary of the ...
TWS, Coalition testify; wild horse board recommends changes
The National Wild Horse and Burro Advisory Board, a nine-member federal advisory council that represents various stakeholder interests, recommended that BLM sell or ...
TWS leads congressional briefing regarding BLM horses and burros
The National Horse and Burro Rangeland Management Coalition, chaired by The Wildlife Society, hosted a congressional briefing on July 6 to discuss wild horse and ...
LWCF, horse amendments to energy bill pass Senate
After months of delay, the Energy Policy Modernization Act (S. 2012) was passed by the Senate in a decisive 85-12 vote. The bill was introduced in by Chairwoman ...