The roundup, which targets over 800 wild horses for removal from public and private lands in the Adobe Town, Salt Wells Creek and Great Divide Basin Herd Management Areas, has been twice delayed due to the lawsuit filed by the wild horse preservation groups and advocates on August 1, 2014. The action was originally scheduled to begin on August 20. In the emergency appeal to the Court of Appeals, the plaintiffs state: “It is undisputed that this proposed roundup will remove hundreds of wild horses from public lands and that BLM has not even purported to comply with any of the statutory requirements set forth by Congress in… the Wild Free-Roaming Horses and Burros Act…, which are mandatory prerequisites before a single wild horse may be removed from public lands. This is the first time in its more than four decades of implementing the [Wild Horse Act] that BLM has sought to remove wild horses from public land without first complying with the express statutory dictates of [the law] and without conducting any environmental analysis whatsoever under the National Environmental Policy Act. Accordingly, the decision under review involves important legal questions…, the resolution of which will have profound implications for BLM’s future management of our nation’s federally protected wild horses.” The groups are seeking an emergency injunction to delay the roundup until the Tenth Circuit has time to review their appeal of the district court’s August 29, 2014 decision denying their motion for a preliminary injunction to stop the roundup while the case against challenging the action was heard on the meritsreturntofreedom.org/blm-wyoming-wild-horse-roundup-delayed-as-advocates-appeal-to-tenth-circuit-september-3-2014/
Posted on: Fri, 05 Sep 2014 15:21:34 +0000
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