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Deadly Crash Could Spell
End of Off-Road Racing

Aug 17, 2010 9:07 AM CDT

Deadly Crash Could Spell End of Off-Road Racing

Feds weighing options after Mojave Desert crash kills 8

(Newser) - Off-road racing fans and promoters fear that the accident that killed eight people in the California desert Saturday night may end up killing their sport as well. The spectators were crushed when a driver lost control of his truck and skidded into a crowd just a few feet away, a...

Feds to Sterilize Wild Mustangs

Oct 8, 2009 6:19 AM CDT

Feds to Sterilize Wild Mustangs

Thousands of wild horses to be shifted east to reduce strain on federal land

(Newser) - Tens of thousands of wild horses are to be sterilized and shifted from range land in the West to preserves in the Midwest and East under plans announced yesterday. The move will help manage the unsustainable numbers of horses and burros roaming free in Western states without having to resort...

Army Seeks New Home
for Desert Tortoises

Aug 6, 2009 3:00 AM CDT

Army Seeks New Home for Desert Tortoises

(Newser) - The Army plans to evict more than 1,000 endangered desert tortoises to expand a tank training ground in the Mojave Desert, the Los Angeles Times reports. Conservationists warn that the last effort to shift the tortoises proved disastrous: Many were wiped out by predators, and others traveled up...

Bush Policies Will Blow Through Nat'l Parks for Years

Jan 25, 2009 1:40 PM CST

Bush Policies Will Blow Through Nat'l Parks for Years

Putting commerce over conservation, White House stifled scientists' protests

(Newser) - Views of spacious skies and purple mountain majesties in US national parks may soon be interrupted by industrial roads and power lines, after years of Bush policies that pushed commerce over conservation, reports the Los Angeles Times. And unlike the many decisions that President Obama can quickly reverse, the changes...

Wild Horses Drag Pickens' Cash Away

Nov 18, 2008 11:16 AM CST

Wild Horses Drag Pickens' Cash Away

T. Boone's wife adopts 30,000 mustangs, blocking euthanasia

(Newser) - Some 2,000 wild horses of the American West were in danger of euthanasia—until billionaire T. Boone Pickens’ wife, Madeleine, stepped in and offered to adopt them and 28,000 of their closest friends, the Washington Post reports. The Bureau of Land Management holds the animals in pens, rounding...

Battle Rages
Over Culling
Mustang Herd

Jul 20, 2008 8:27 AM CDT

Battle Rages Over Culling Mustang Herd

Proposed euthanasia of growing wild horse population sparks debate

(Newser) - In the debate over how to deal with America's wild mustang herds, both sides claim to have the animals' best interests at heart. Federal agency officials tasked with protecting the horses say the most humane—and economical—course is to euthanize some so the rest don't starve. But activists see...

Gov't Is Mucking Up
Mustang's Fate

OPINION

Jul 2, 2008 1:54 PM CDT

Gov't Is Mucking Up Mustang's Fate

Cash-strapped BLM wants to cull herd, 'a protected symbol of freedom'

(Newser) - The cash-strapped Bureau of Land Management is considering culling the wild horse population in the West, and at least one equine advocate is not pleased, Newsweek reports. In an interview, expert and author Deanne Stillman calls the plan to reduce the population of 30,000 wild and 33,000 corralled...