Thursday, February 16 2012 10:20 PM EST2012-02-17 03:20:15 GMT
Thirty thousand wild horses are stacked in government-supported holding facilities. The program costs more than $70 million per year, but an ambitious plan to improve conditions for the horses has been bottled up within the BLM for years, in part because cattle ranchers don't like it.More>>
Friday, April 20 2012 4:23 PM EDT2012-04-20 20:23:13 GMT
Federal land managers have agreed to study a proposal by the wife of oil tycoon T. Boone Pickens to establish an ecosanctuary for wild horses across more than 900 square miles of northeast Nevada.More>>
Wednesday, April 4 2012 6:45 PM EDT2012-04-04 22:45:32 GMT
Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid heard from Nevada business leaders today. One topic discussed was eco-tourism. But one tourism destination facing years of federal delays before it ever opens up. More>>
Monday, December 26 2011 12:27 PM EST2011-12-26 17:27:26 GMT
The head of the U.S. Bureau of Land Management in Nevada is appealing to agency employees to step up and blow the whistle on any abuse of mustangs.More>>
Saturday, May 14 2011 1:57 AM EDT2011-05-14 05:57:01 GMT
Wild horse advocates packed a Nevada Senate committee hearing Friday to oppose a bill that would exclude wild horses and burros from the definition of wildlife.More>>
Wednesday, March 23 2011 8:35 PM EDT2011-03-24 00:35:43 GMT
With the financial trouble Nevada is in, you might think state lawmakers would welcome a project that will bring millions of dollars to the state. But a panel in the Nevada Senate has turned thumbs down to a planned wild horse sanctuary without even hearing from the investors who are backing it.More>>
Tuesday, January 4 2011 6:37 PM EST2011-01-04 23:37:05 GMT
Nevada's wild horses have been at the center of controversy for years, but the debate is now getting more attention because of a meeting going on in Las Vegas this week with people who want to round up the horses and slaughter them for food.More>>
Wednesday, November 3 2010 12:43 PM EDT2010-11-03 16:43:41 GMT
The Bureau of Land Management says it is suspending plans to round up more than 100 wild horses late this month from a northern Nevada range at the Hawthorne Army Depot.More>>
Wild horse advocates took on the Bureau of Land Management during a special meeting Thursday night. The BLM plans to move most of the wild horse herd out of Red Rock Canyon, but wild horse advocates say it is unnecessary and they claim the agency will not repopulate the herd.
Jerry Reynoldson, wild horse advocate, said, "I haven't heard anything to suggest to me they know conclusively they need to remove these horses from Red Rock. They simply want to do that."
Shari Warren, with the National Wild Horse Association, said, "My biggest fear is that they're not going to have enough money next year to put those horses back onto the Red Rock range."
The BLM says it can't move the horses to another range because they are limited by a 1971 act that defines suitable horse ranges in Nevada.
