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Can BLM wild horse round-ups by helicopter ever be humane?

July 21, 2023 By Merritt Clifton

And can any wild horse management plan,  including just letting the horses go,  ever be done without helicopters?             RENO, Nevada––The deaths of 11 wild horses in the first 10 days of a Bureau of Land Management roundup of 2,000 wild horses from the Antelope Valley,  Goshute and Spruce-Pequop herd management areas in Nevada has […]

Filed Under: Adaptive species, Advocacy, Animal organizations, Feature Home Bottom, Horses, Horses & Farmed Animals, Laws & politics, USA, Wild horses, Wildlife Tagged With: Anthony Marr, Dave Cattoor, Elliot Katz, Laura Leigh, Martin Griffith, Merritt Clifton, Scott Sonner, Willis Lamm

Four schemes to save 70,000 wild horses from a BLM Apocalypse

April 27, 2019 By Merritt Clifton

What the Trump administration plans & what wild horse advocates hope to do about it             WASHINGTON D.C.––The infamous Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse,  riding a white horse,  red horse,  black horse,  and pale horse to sow Pestilence,  War,  Famine,  and Death,  are prophesied to come galloping at wild horses in the guise of Oil,  […]

Filed Under: Adaptive species, Advocacy, Animal organizations, Cattle & dairy, Feature Home Bottom, Feral animals, Hooved stock, Horses, Horses & Farmed Animals, Laws & politics, Sheep & goats, USA, Wild horses, Wildlife Tagged With: Anthony Marr, Chris Stewart, Donald Trump, Kitty Block, Laura Leigh, Merritt Clifton, Priscilla Feral, Sara Amundson, Suzanne Roy

Wildlife contraceptive researcher Jay Kirkpatrick, 75

December 23, 2015 By Merritt Clifton

Developed PZP for use in 85 species          Jay Kirkpatrick,  75,  for more than 40 years a leading developer of contraceptive vaccines for wild horses,  deer,  elk,  and other wildlife,  died on December 16,  2015 in Billings,  Montana “from a brief but serious illness,”  family and friends said. Kirkpatrick,  originally from Bucks County,  Pennsylvania,  spent […]

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