Saturday, February 04, 2012
ELKO, Nev. (AP) -- Republican Rep. Ron Paul railed against the federal government during campaign stops in Nevada on Thursday, saying states are in the best position to resolve conflicts over the management of wild horses and roads on public lands. Paul addressed about 600 people in Reno ...
Friday, February 03, 2012 8:37 AM
HELENA, Mont. (AP) -- A Hutterite colony near Cut Bank has been ordered to pay $90,274 after two horses belonging to neighboring ranchers died of strychnine poisoning. The Seville Colony and farm boss Thomas Wipf pleaded guilty in October to misapplication of pesticides after the horses ate str ...
Monday, January 30, 2012 3:40 PM
RENO, Nev. (AP) -- A federal judge in Nevada who handed horse protection advocates a rare victory last fall has rejected their latest request to block government roundups of free-roaming mustangs in the West, saying they'll have to go to Congress if they think the animals are being treated inhum ...
Friday, January 27, 2012 8:37 AM
SALEM, Ore. (AP) -- Oregon wildlife officials say a mule found dead recently in northeast Oregon's Wallowa County was probably killed by wolves. Spokeswoman Michelle Dennehy said Wednesday the carcass was found last Friday on private rangeland east of Joseph, Ore. Wildlife officials say wo ...
Wednesday, January 18, 2012 5:58 PM
Using draft horses on the farm is a romantic notion entertained by a few rural landowners, but some farmers use their draft horses to add income to their operations. "You probably have more opportunities to make money with draft horses than you do with regular horses, because you can do hayrides ...
Thursday, January 12, 2012 10:00 AM
Lameness is the most common ailment to affect a horse, and detecting and assessing the problem has been left to a veterinarian's naked eye. But a professor of equine surgery at Missouri University College of Veterinary Medicine wants to change that. Kevin Keegan has developed a sensor system tha ...
Thursday, January 12, 2012 12:00 PM
BOISE, Idaho (AP) -- The Bureau of Land Management is investigating the shooting deaths of two wild mustangs on the Hardtrigger Wild Horse Herd Management Area in southwestern Idaho. The BLM said it received a report Tuesday from someone who spotted the dead horses on public land about 1 ...
Friday, January 06, 2012 4:18 PM
BRIDGEPORT, Neb. (AP) -- A western Nebraska rancher convicted of letting wild horses and burros starve has been released on parole. Alliance radio station KCOW reports (http://bit.ly/u34qL8 ) Jason Meduna was released last month. Meduna was convicted in January 2010 of 145 counts of animal crue ...
Monday, January 02, 2012 12:34 PM
BAKER CITY, Ore. -- Saddle sores and severe back injuries are fairly easy to detect in a horse. But a slight pinch here and a little poke there might not be so obvious, at least not to the rider. Custom saddle-maker Bill Huston has noticed that most saddles have a "common flaw." They are built fo ...
Thursday, December 29, 2011 9:00 AM
CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) -- A federal judge is allowing wild horse advocacy groups to intervene in a lawsuit in which livestock operators are trying force the removal of wild horses from private lands in an area of roughly 2 million acres in southwestern Wyoming. U.S. District Judge Scott Skav ...
Monday, December 26, 2011 1:41 PM
FRESNO, Calif. (AP) -- A Central California humane society is working to find foster stables for 27 starving horses that were found at two Fresno County farms last week. The county Sheriff's Office seized 14 horses Friday from a farm near Riverdale where deputies and workers from the Society for t ...
Monday, December 26, 2011 12:30 PM
RENO, Nev. (AP) -- 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. Amy Lueders said that's the best way to stop horse protection advocates from undermining the agency's roundup policies wit ...
Monday, December 26, 2011 9:40 AM
RENO, Nev. (AP) -- Federal land managers have agreed to postpone a precedent-setting plan to castrate hundreds of wild stallions in eastern Nevada pending a federal court's review of the issue. The U.S. Bureau of Land Management's decision came a week after a coalition of conservationists ...
Monday, December 26, 2011 7:30 AM
CLOVIS, Calif. (AP) -- A California man has been arrested after authorities discovered 19 starving horses on his leased San Joaquin Valley ranch. One of the horses on the Clovis property was euthanized because it was in such bad shape. The Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to An ...
Thursday, December 22, 2011 9:10 AM
PRESCOTT, Ariz. (AP) -- The future of an animal haven north of Prescott is in doubt as those who run it increasingly struggle with the costs of caring for six dozen dogs, more than 100 goats, 55 horses and a slew of other animals. Many of the 75 dogs living at the Circle L Ranch have been rescu ...
Tuesday, December 20, 2011 10:49 AM
RENO, Nev. (AP) -- A coalition of conservationists and wild-horse activists is suing the government to block its implementation of a precedent-setting plan to castrate hundreds of wild stallions in eastern Nevada. The lawsuit, filed by the Western Watersheds Project, the American Wild Hor ...
Sunday, December 18, 2011 1:37 PM
SALINA, Kan. (AP) -- In the best of situations, a horse can live 25 or 30 years. But what can you do with an old, sick, injured and suffering horse, one that no one wants, or a dead one for that matter? The answer can be expensive, said Mike Samples, manager of the Farmers and Ranche ...
Friday, December 16, 2011 9:36 AM
The Deschutes County Sheriff's Office in central Oregon has six horses available for adoption. The department sometimes gets possession of large stock animals, like cows, horses, sheep, pigs, emus, goats, ducks and/or chickens if they are abandoned or seized in abuse or neglect cases. In crimi ...
Friday, December 09, 2011 4:22 PM
CASPER, Wyo. (AP) -- A state lawmaker says at least two groups are considering opening horse slaughterhouses in Wyoming now that Congress has cleared the way for such operations. State Rep. Sue Wallis is a Republican from Recluse and a member of the group United Horsemen, a non-profit group which ...
Monday, December 05, 2011 7:39 AM
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) -- An official with the North Dakota Department of Commerce says it's unlikely that the state will open a horse slaughterhouse after Congress recently lifted a ban on funding horse meat inspections. Pro-slaughter activists have said they are looking to open a plant so ...
Thursday, December 01, 2011 3:47 PM
TULSA, Okla. (AP) -- Horses could soon be butchered in the U.S. for human consumption after Congress quietly lifted a 5-year-old ban on funding horse meat inspections, and activists say slaughterhouses could be up and running in as little as a month. Slaughter opponents pushed a measure cutti ...
Wednesday, November 30, 2011 7:26 AM
PRESIDIO, Texas (AP) -- Unofficially, the state of Texas celebrates donkeys and their historical and cultural significance in shaping the American West. Officially? The policy on small, wild donkeys is shoot to kill. Texas park rangers are trying to wipe out hundreds of free-roaming donke ...
Monday, October 31, 2011 7:46 AM
GREAT FALLS, Mont. (AP) -- A Hutterite Colony near Cut Bank and two of its members have pleaded guilty to federal charges filed after two horses belonging to neighboring ranchers died of strychnine poisoning in April. The Seville Colony, Inc., along with farm boss Thomas J. Wipf pleaded guil ...
Wednesday, October 26, 2011 2:12 PM
CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) -- The federal government began another wild horse roundup Tuesday in the same area of southwest Wyoming where a ranching association is trying through legal means to get even more wild horses removed from the sagebrush country. A U.S. Bureau of Land Management contractor ...
Tuesday, October 25, 2011 3:41 PM
CARSON CITY, Nev. (AP) -- Horse advocates are protesting plans by a state agency to remove up to 100 abandoned horses from the range in northern Nevada after a rash of vehicle accidents. Nevada Department of Agriculture officials began removing horses on Friday after more than 30 recent c ...
Tuesday, October 25, 2011 7:40 AM
RENO, Nev. (AP) -- A National Academy of Sciences team will hold its first meeting on the federal Bureau of Land Management's wild horse and burro management program on Oct. 27 in Reno. The 14-member committee has been tasked with conducting an independent review of whether the agency is using ...
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