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Can more deer, goats, cows, elk, or wild horses really prevent wildfires?

July 18, 2025 By Merritt Clifton

Did the Grand Canyon Lodge burn because the Grand Canyon lacked hungry herbivores? GRAND CANYON,  Arizona––A well-placed and well-timed bucket of water or the sudden,  unexpected arrival of Smokey Bear can stop a wildfire before it gets started. Likely neither a bucket of water nor a bear, with or without hat and shovel,  directed at […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal organizations, Cattle & dairy, Deer & other horned species, Disasters, Endangered species, Feature Home Bottom, Habitat, Hooved stock, Horses, Horses & Farmed Animals, Hunted species, Hunting & trapping, Laws & politics, Sheep & goats, USA, Wild horses, Wildlife Tagged With: Amelia Perrin, Jenny Lesieutre, Marjorie Fishman, Merritt Clifton, Smokey Bear, Wild Horse Fire Brigade, William E. Simpson II

What blew the $#@! out of the South Fork Dairy Farm, killing 18,000 cows?

April 14, 2023 By Merritt Clifton

Farm was only three years old DIMMITT, Texas––Investigators are still scrambling to figure out why the South Fork Dairy Farm,  eleven miles southeast of Dimmitt,  Texas,  abruptly exploded at about 7:20 p.m. on April 10,  2023. Operated under registered agent Frank Brand,  South Fork Dairy Inc. was only incorporated in 2019. The blast itself and […]

Filed Under: Cattle & dairy, Disasters, Feature Home Bottom, Hooved stock, Horses & Farmed Animals Tagged With: Allie Granger, Animal Welfare Institute, Derrick Josi, Dimmitt, Marjorie Fishman, Merritt Clifton, South Fork Dairy

Springcliff Farm thoroughbred barn blaze adds shock to AWI exposé

January 7, 2022 By Merritt Clifton

Horse farm fire is horrific;  fire toll on poultry & pigs is thousands of times worse             MARTINSVILLE, Indiana––A pre-dawn fire ripped through the Springcliff Farm foaling operation in Martinsville, Indiana on January 6,  2022,  killing an as yet unknown number of horses. “The call came in around 4:50 a.m. from a neighbor,”  White River Township […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal organizations, Chickens, Disasters, Feature Home Bottom, Feature Home Top, Hooved stock, Horses, Horses & Farmed Animals, Laws & standards, Poultry, USA Tagged With: Animal Welfare Institute, Brandon Shireman, Christine Cagle, Dena Jones, Marjorie Fishman, Merritt Clifton, Vince Cagle

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