Bureau of Land Management

The brightest, best part of the Adobe Town roundup was at the end of the first day, on the way back to town after the helicopter had landed, I found a beautiful band of horses, still wild and free. A pale palomino colt ran, chasing his older brother, as his father, a gorgeous sorrel stallion …

For the last two weeks, the BLM has been rounding up the horses in the Adobe Town Herd in southwestern Wyoming using helicopters.  The vast majority of the horses in this half million acre herd area have been removed from their homes, their families and their freedom. 851 wild horses were shipped to the BLM …

Grey Mare in Adobe Town As I waited for the Adobe Town/Salt Wells Roundup to begin, I visited the horses of Adobe Town that I have gotten to know over the last 4 months. I headed out every morning before dawn, and found bands of stallions, mares, yearlings and foals, unknowingly enjoying their very last …

Why Wild Horses? Why not remove all of them from our public lands and keep them in “Salazoos” in the Midwest and East Coast? Why not geld all the stallions and stop their populations from growing? And then in 15 years, there will be no more wild horse problem. Well, I say we cannot do …

Now that the BLM has been halted in its massive roundups in NV it naturally follows they would set their sites on the state with the second largest wild horse population, Wyoming. The Adobe Town and Salt Wells Creek Herds are the largest herds left in Wyoming. The Bureau of Land Management began managing the …

It’s a cold winter this year, made even colder by the unresponsiveness of our government to the plight of our wild horses. Right now, at the coldest time of the year, the BLM is rounding up over 2700 horses in northern Nevada, and horses are being injured and are dying in the harsh winter conditions. …

As the Holidays are fast approaching, I am thinking about what is closest to my heart and most important to me – the continued freedom of our wild horses. I also am thinking about wild horse supporters and advocates all over the country and all over the world who care about these horses and have …

This weekend wild horse supporters have something to be thankful for. On 11/23 In Defense of Animals and Craig Downer brought a lawsuit against the Bureau of Land Management to stop the Calico Complex Roundup in Nevada, scheduled to start 12/1. The Department of Justice delayed the start of the roundup until December 28, granting …

On October 7, Ken Salazar announced a disastrous new plan for managing wild horses while admitting the deficiencies in the current management of the Bureau of Land Management’s Wild Horse and Burro Program. His new plan, heralded as salvation for wild horses by some, would actually spell the complete destruction of wild horses in this …

I have been following and photographing the wild horses in the McCullough Peaks Herd Area near Cody, WY for the past 5 years. This herd is one of the most easily access able of the herds, and also one of the most colorful, with gorgeous pintos, palominos, cremellos, buckskins, greys, bays, black and chestnuts color …