Thursday, September 02, 2010
GLENNS FERRY, Idaho (AP) -- Federal officials have rounded up about 200 wild horses in southern Idaho after a wildfire burned too much grass to support the herd. Officials with the U.S. Bureau of Land Management claim last week's Long Butte wildfire burned most of the Saylor Creek he ...
Thursday, September 02, 2010 9:29 AM
BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) -- A federal judge says wild horse advocates can press forward with a lawsuit challenging government roundups of a herd of the animals in southern Montana. The ruling from U.S. District Judge James Gwin of Washington, D.C., also says the government must defend a ...
Sunday, August 29, 2010 9:09 AM
NEEDLES, Calif. (AP) -- Federal crews are airlifting thousands of gallons of water to a remote desert area in San Bernardino County near the Arizona border where dozens of wild burros have died of dehydration in 110-degree heat. Bureau of Land Management Needles Field Office Manager Rusty ...
Thursday, August 26, 2010 5:29 PM
KALAMAZOO, Mich. (AP) -- State health officials say lab tests have confirmed that two Michigan men contracted a rare, potentially deadly form of encephalitis spread by mosquitoes. The Detroit Free Press reports that health officials said Friday that test results show the two Kalamazoo County ...
Monday, August 23, 2010 4:29 PM
BAKER CITY, Ore. (AP) -- If you ever wondered how much farming has changed since, say, the 1870s, just watch Marvin Brisk harvest a Baker County barley field. And listen. Instead of black smoke from a rumbling diesel-powered tractor there is the tawny dust of chaff and the rhythmic thu ...
Saturday, August 21, 2010 2:28 PM
BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) -- The Bureau of Land Management says it is considering giving fertility control vaccines to more wild horses in the Pryor Mountains. BLM spokesman Greg Albright said Wednesday that about 70 percent of mares in the approximately 150-horse herd have been given fer ...
Saturday, August 21, 2010 9:09 AM
RENO, Nev. (AP) -- Holes in the carcass of a young foal found near a wild horse roundup in northeast California and Nevada were the work of scavenger birds not gunshot wounds as horse protection advocates first claimed, federal officials said Tuesday. A veterinarian with the U.S. Agriculture De ...
Thursday, August 19, 2010 12:09 PM
CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) -- A wildlife photographer said Monday she has hand-delivered more than 3,000 letters to the U.S. Bureau of Land Management opposing plans to round up wild horses in southwest Wyoming. The BLM wants to gather 1,951 wild horses in October. The figure would amount to 80 ...
Wednesday, August 18, 2010 5:29 PM
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) -- Virginia has recorded its first case of Eastern Equine Encephalitis in 2010. The Virginia Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services said Monday that it confirmed an 18-month-old female mustang from Suffolk had the disease. The horse was euthanized July 26. Ei ...
Wednesday, August 18, 2010 8:09 AM
RENO, Nev. (AP) -- Federal agents at a wild horse roundup in northeast California are investigating the death of a young mustang that may have been shot before the controversial gather began this week about 120 miles northwest of Reno. Bureau of Land Management spokeswoman Jan Bedrosia ...
Sunday, August 15, 2010 8:59 AM
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) -- A prominent California race horse breeder was one of two men killed in a small plane crash in a remote area of Oregon, authorities said Thursday. Witnesses told authorities they saw the twin-engine plane break up on its way to the ground Wednesday and that it was de ...
Sunday, August 15, 2010 8:59 AM
CLINTON, Maine (AP) -- The owners of a central Maine horse farm are facing animal cruelty charges two months after state animal welfare agents seized 15 horses and other animals from the farm. Thirty-four-year-old Brett Ingraham and his wife, 25-year-old Alexis Ingraham, are each charged wit ...
Friday, August 13, 2010 7:58 AM
RENO, Nev. (AP) -- Mounting their most vigorous defense for rounding up wild horses in the West, lawyers for the Obama administration argued Tuesday that leaving the overpopulated herds on public rangeland would do the mustangs more harm than good. Assistant U.S. Attorney Ignacia Moreno s ...
Thursday, August 12, 2010 3:18 PM
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) -- A federal judge is allowing the U.S. Bureau of Land Management to round up more than 2,000 wild horses in California's far northeastern corner, where the animals graze on high desert plains. An animal-rights group had sought a temporary restraining order to p ...
Sunday, August 08, 2010 9:19 AM
RENO, Nev. (AP) -- Federal officials confirmed Wednesday that 34 wild horses died or were euthanized during a roundup of animals from parched rangeland in Nevada, sparking fresh criticism from horse protection advocates pressing the Obama administration to suspend such operations. Bureau ...
Friday, August 06, 2010 12:58 PM
ARCHER, Idaho (AP) -- The Madison County Sheriff's Office in eastern Idaho says three people were injured after their SUV collided with four horses, killing three of the horses. Police say two male teenagers and a female juvenile were transported to Madison Memorial Hospital with unspecified ...
Wednesday, August 04, 2010 7:59 AM
JACKSON, Wyo. (AP) -- Julie Winthers wasn't sure what to expect when she cautiously approached Griane in the Heritage Arena at the Teton County Fairgrounds in early June. Two years earlier, a horse she was riding spooked and took off. She hadn't been on a horse since. But Winthers' husban ...
Friday, July 30, 2010 10:18 AM
LANSING, Mich. (AP) -- Michigan authorities say a viral brain disease that can kill humans has been confirmed in three horses this year in the state. Mosquitoes can spread eastern equine encephalitis to horses and humans, and authorities say people should use repellant or stay out of areas w ...
Wednesday, July 28, 2010 4:48 PM
NEW YORK -- A Nebraska cable TV network ponied up $266,500 for famed singing cowboy Roy Rogers' stuffed and mounted horse, Trigger, at an auction in New York City on July 14. Trigger was bought by the cable company RFD-TV in Omaha, Neb., at a Christie's auction of items from the now-closed R ...
Thursday, July 22, 2010 10:53 AM
RENO, Nev. (AP) -- Federal land managers said Wednesday that more than 600 wild horses in northeastern Nevada were gathered during an emergency roundup they say was necessary to prevent the animals from dying of thirst. The U.S. Bureau of Land Management said 636 horses were rounded up near ...
Friday, July 23, 2010 5:09 PM
RENO, Nev. (AP) -- Federal land managers say they have removed more than 338 wild horses from a northern Nevada range since a judge lifted a temporary restraining order on the emergency rescue roundups. U.S. District Judge Larry Hicks rescinded the order on Friday after Bureau of Land Manage ...
Wednesday, July 21, 2010 7:48 AM
RENO, Nev. (AP) -- A federal judge today ruled that a government roundup of wild horses can resume in Nevada, dealing a setback to animal-rights activists who had hoped to halt it after 12 mustangs died of dehydration. U.S. District Judge Larry Hicks' order came as federal land manager ...
Sunday, July 18, 2010 2:29 PM
CARSON CITY, Nev. (AP) -- Twelve wild horses have now died in a Nevada roundup directed by the U.S. Bureau of Land Management, half of them colts and mares. The BLM on Wednesday said four more animals died or were put down because of dehydration or water intoxication. The agency also a ...
Saturday, July 17, 2010 8:49 AM
WOODBINE, Md. (AP) -- Maryland prison officials have suspended a program that provided inmate labor at a farm in western Howard County that treats neglected horses. The program was launched with much fanfare last week. But neighbors and parents of volunteers say they weren't informed ...
Saturday, July 17, 2010 8:49 AM
BEND, Ore. (AP) -- A Deschutes County, Ore., sheriff's spokesman says a 26-year-old Bend woman is under arrest, accused of aggravated animal abuse in the shooting of two horses. One of the wounded horses has been treated at an equine medical center and released to his owners. Sgt. Bryan Husb ...
Friday, July 16, 2010 10:09 AM
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) -- State agriculture officials say a three-year-old mare in St. James Parish was euthanized after tests found Eastern equine encephalitis and West Nile virus in the animal. Agriculture and Forestry Commissioner Mike Strain says the Louisiana Animal Disease Diagnostic La ...
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