FROM 2010

Wild Horses Forced Into a Stampede of Death
February 12, 2010; KLAS (CBS-TV) I-TEAM Report on Calico Roundup
A massive roundup of wild horses in Northern Nevada turned out to be one of the deadliest in the history of the wild horse program. Contrary to assurances from the Bureau of Land Management, dozens of horses were killed during the Calico roundup. What's more, the horses are still dying inside government corrals because of injuries suffered during their frightening run across tough terrain. American taxpayers shelled out close to $1 million to capture 1,900 horses on the Calico range, even though a federal judge told BLM it was a bad idea.

Give Wild Horses Their Land Back
January 21, 2010; By Jack Carone; Los Angeles Times
U.S. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar's ode to the "majestic" wild horse, and his description of how the federal government must manage its population in his Jan. 14 Times Op-Ed article, comes across to the average reader as a reasonable and sympathetic approach to the problems faced by the American mustang. What Salazar doesn't mention is that the bureaucracies now under his control — and the business interests they service — have created the problems the Interior secretary says he wants to solve.

Feds Cancel Another Wild Horse Roundup After Lawsuit Threatened: 495 Wild Horses in Eastern Nevada Get Reprieve
February 8, 2010; Yuba.net
The U.S. Bureau of Land Management (BLM) postponed the proposed roundup of nearly 500 wild horses in the Eagle Herd Management Area in eastern Nevada, just three days after the national law firm of Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney notified the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) that it would sue to stop the helicopter stampede and capture, which had been scheduled to begin February 15.

Pace of wild horse deaths accelerates at BLM holding facility
2010, San Jose Examiner
Feb. 4 - Wild horse advocates are growing increasingly alarmed, as the pace at which wild mustangs are dying or being killed by BLM contractors in Nevada spirals out of control. In just the last few days, at least 11 more horses have been killed, raising the death toll to 39 of the 1892 horses who have been relentlessly chased by helicopters for miles on end over difficult winter terrain, never to see their homelands again. These deaths are not coming painlessly or humanely; most of the horses are being shot after sustaining terrible injuries, such as broken legs and broken necks, after having been manhandled and crammed into too-tight cargo holds on their way to a 320-acre holding facility at Indian Lakes Road, near Reno. At least two foals have literally had their feet fall off, and upwards of 25 mares have spontaneously aborted due to the extreme stress of the roundup, and a subsequent radical change in their diets.

Two mustangs die in Calico roundup north of Reno
2010, Reno Gazette-Journal
Jan. 5 - Two horses died, and a third leaped over a fence and escaped through barbed wire in the first week of a roundup of wild horses in the Black Rock Desert 100 miles north of Reno. The federal Bureau of Land Management, which plans to gather 2,500 mustangs over the next few weeks in areas near the Calico Mountains, verified Monday that two animals died during the roundup.