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  • Pryor Mountains Horse Management Plan Revision Needs Support

    George Wuerthner

    Feral horses graze the Pryor Mountains. Photo George Wuerthner  The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is currently accepting comments on a proposed change in its wild horse management plan for the Pryor Mountains. The BLM needs positive encouragement to follow up on its proposed plan to reduce the Pryor Mountain horse herd to counter the…

  • Theodore Roosevelt National Park Proposal To Remove Domestic Cattle and Feral Horses Runs Into Opposition

    George Wuerthner

    The wild beauty of the Little Missouri badlands within Theodore Roosevelt National Park, North Dakota. Photo George Wuerthner  Theodore Roosevelt National Park (TRNP) has proposed eliminating feral horses and domestic livestock from the Park. Unlike the fiasco at Point Reyes National Seashore, where the NPS appears to support maintaining domestic livestock within the park unit,…

  • Bighorn sheep reintroduced to Nevada’s, Virginia Range

    Ralph Maughan

    Release of 32 bighorn underway- This release by the Nevada Department of Wildlife, Nevada Bighorns Unlimited and private individuals has taken 20 years to be accomplished. The stock for the release came from Nevada to the south around Stonewall Mountain near Tonapah. They are desert, not Rocky Mountain bighorn sheep.  Bighorn are now back in…

  • Wildhorse Face-off

    Ralph Maughan

    The Challis (Idaho) wild horse herd is the largest in Idaho, occasionally growing to 400 or so animals. It maintains very distinct boundaries — on its north the Salmon River, on the south Road Creek, on the east U.S. Highway 93, and on the west the East Fork Salmon Road. Every 2-3 years the U.S.…

  • Controversial roundup of wild horses underway

    Ralph Maughan

    BLM roundup of wild horses in Nevada is heated- Los Angeles Times on the Nevada “roundup” My view on wild or “feral” horses and burros is that they are non-natives species that, like cattle, damage the range and harm native wildlife. The BLM’s preoccupation with them, rather than making sure the land barons properly manage…

  • Alone on the Range

    Ralph Maughan

    Just one wild horse left on Flathead Lake’s Wild Horse Island, but there is no shortage of horses that could repopulate the island- The Missoula Independent did a feature on the contentious issue of the management of the wild (or feral) horses of the West. Alone on the Range. Only one wild horse remains on…

  • Horse Debate Misses the Point.

    Ken Cole

    Ted Williams, a writer for Fly Rod and Reel Magazine and Audubon has written a piece attacking wild horse advocates and politicians who supported H.R. 1018, the Restore Our American Mustangs Act. I think it misses the point. I think that an opportunity to do something about livestock damage was missed and the bill will…

  • Wild horses thought to create beautiful fields of wildflowers in Pryor Mountains

    Ralph Maughan

    Unfortunately, the flowers may be the result of overgrazing by the horses- This article and its premise may spark a lot of controversy. Wild horse range pressured by overgrazing. By Brett French. Billings Gazette. I should add that I have never been to the Pryor Mountains of Montana, which are east of Cody and near…

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