An expert in horse population genetics claims to have found laboratory evidence of historical ancestry in samples taken from Arizona’s Salt River Alpine horses found slaughtered on federal land in 2022. “So far, I can say that there is evidence of Spanish ancestry in the Salt River horses,” Gus Cothran, a retired professor and consultant…
Lab Test Results Suggest Embattled Alpine Horses In Arizona Have Historical Lineage
SCOTUS Issues ‘Major Victory for Property Rights’ in Forest Service Dispute: Attorney
The Supreme Court ruled 6–3 in favor of Montana property owners who claim the U.S. Forest Service cheated them by unilaterally changing the terms of a decades-old public access agreement affecting their private land. The March 28 decision split the court’s six-member conservative wing. Three members sided with the property owners; the other three sided with…
Arizona Senator Files Bill to Ban Killing of Alpine Wild Horses for Their Meat
February 8, 2023
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A bill filed in Arizona’s Senate would make Alpine wild horse killing or slaughter for human consumption illegal while promoting humane birth control to stabilize the population. Known as the Alpine Wild Horse Act, SB1057 would provide greater legal protections for the Alpine herd, currently facing systematic roundup and removal from federal lands throughout Arizona….
Advocates for Embattled Arizona Wild Horse Herd Awaiting DNA Results
Alpine wild horse advocates in Arizona are awaiting lab results to determine whether the free-roaming horses being rounded up on U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service land and sold online are of a historical Alpine lineage. While a positive determination of Alpine heredity may not halt the Forest Service’s scheduled roundups, it may “alter the…
Advocates for Arizona Wild Horses Slated to be Rounded Up See Hope in DNA Results
Alpine wild horse advocates in Arizona are awaiting lab results to determine whether the free-roaming horses being rounded up on U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service land and sold online are of a historical Alpine lineage. While a positive determination of Alpine heredity may not halt the Forest Service’s scheduled roundups, it may “alter the…
Arizona Wild Horse Advocates Buy Up Dwindling Alpine Herd
December 3, 2022
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PRESCOTT, Ariz.—Simone Netherlands grabbed a handful of green alfalfa hay and called out to Apache, guarding a small band of Alpine wild horses at the opposite end of the corral. The young stallion lowered its head warily and remained motionless at seeing a visitor standing beside her. “C’mon,” Netherlands said to the horse gently, waving…
Montana Property Owners Tell Supreme Court That Forest Service Treated Them Unfairly
Two Montana property owners who claim the U.S. Forest Service cheated them by changing the terms of a decades-old public access agreement affecting their private land made their case before the Supreme Court on Nov. 30. The case is Wilkins v. U.S., court file 21-1164, an appeal from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the…
SCOTUS Agrees to Hear Appeal by Montana Property Owners Complaining of Forest Service ‘Bait and Switch’
The Supreme Court announced on June 6 that it will hear the appeal of two Montana property owners who claim the U.S. Forest Service unilaterally and unlawfully changed the terms of a decades-old public access agreement affecting their private land. The case is Wilkins v. U.S., court file 21-1164, an appeal against a ruling by…
US Forest Service Started New Mexico’s Largest Wildfire, Government Agencies Say
May 28, 2022
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Federal agencies and the State of New Mexico said Friday that one of the U.S. Forest Service’s forest management measures, also known as “prescribed burn,” started the largest wildfire in New Mexico. “Forest Service fire investigators have determined that the Calf Canyon Fire on the Pecos/Las Vegas Ranger District of the Santa Fe National Forest…
Tunnel Fire ‘Worst’ Wildfire in Flagstaff in More Than a Decade
FLAGSTAFF, Ariz.—Michelle Ryan took immediate action when she received the emergency text message telling her it was time to “Go.” “Go” meant that the Tunnel Fire near her home on the outskirts of Flagstaff, Arizona, had reached a critical level. The only thing left to do was to evacuate the area. “I just started grabbing…
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