Ep #35: Revisiting AWHC Wyoming Lawsuit: Interview with Suzanne Roy

Today’s episode serves as an update for the continuing litigation against the BLM. The BLM has plans to zero out herds in one area, reduce herd size in another area, and do a land grab spurred by the Rock Springs Grazing Association. To discuss this, I’m joined by the executive director of American Wild Horse Campaign, Suzanne Roy.

Suzanne is a 25-year animal welfare professional. During her career, she has worked to improve the plight of elephants, chimpanzees, marine mammals, and other animals, both in captivity and in the wild. In 2009, she turned her attention to the fight to save America’s wild horses and burros.

Listen in this week to find out how you can help with this very important, and perhaps the most significant, litigation issue brought against the BLM by the American Wild Horse Campaign. Roughly 2,000 horses and 40% of wild horse habitat in Wyoming are at stake, and that’s just the start. Suzanne and I recount the history, the parties involved, and the decisions that led to this action.

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What You’ll Learn from this Episode:

• Why the American Wild Horse Campaign brought a lawsuit against the BLM.
• What plans the BLM had in place for the wild horses and their habitat.
• How the Rock Springs Grazing Association is facilitating the “checkerboard” land grab.
• How wild horse management policies and public lands grazing rights are in conflict.
• Who is helping with this litigation, why they’re doing it, and more importantly, why the wild horses really need everyone’s help.

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• Subscribe to my blog to get more information on how you can help America’s wild horses.
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• Living Images by Carol Walker
• Wild Hoofbeats Blog
• Wild Hoofbeats: America’s Vanishing Wild Horses by Carol Walker
• American Wild Horse Campaign | Donate to their legal fund | Instagram | Facebook
• William “Bill” Eubanks II
• Chad Hanson: Wyoming Mustang Institute
• Lynn and Chad Hanson Instagram
• In a Land of Awe by Chad Hanson
• Animal Welfare Institute
• Western Watersheds Project
• Kimerlee Curyl

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