05 August 2010

Congressmen Grijalva and Congressman Rahall circulated a letter in Congress to place an immediate moratorium on roundups & protect the last remaining wild horses and burros. The letter was sent to Secretary Salazar, with a cc to BLM Director Bob Abbey on July 30th. In total, 54 Congress people signed the letter! Thank you to all signees- the time is now for hearings and independent and accurate censusing of the wild horses and the much-reduced areas they have left to roam. Read the letter online here and please include it in your correspondence to Senators, another letter is needed on the Senate side. 

Statement:

"We applaud the 54 members of Congress  who support protecting the wild horses on their land," states Ginger Kathrens Executive Director of The Cloud Foundation. "There are very few viable wild horse herds remaining due to BLM's policies of gutting herds, reducing them to token numbers while allowing millions of head of welfare livestock to populate legally designated wild horse ranges. We want the BLM to place an immediate moratorium on their lethal round ups before the American mustang is just a memory."

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Read more: Members of Congress write Salazar to halt the roundups http://bit.ly/54sign -- read more in a press release from the Animal Welfare Institute as well, & see their excellent advertisement "Home on the Range?"

29 April 2010

The Cloud Foundation is pleased to announce “Herd-Watch,” a dedicated public observation effort of our American herds of wild horses and burros across ten Western states. Dedicated volunteers are needed for this effort both on and off the range. Read more to get involved!

Photos: Living Images by Carol Walker

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27 May 2010

The Cloud Foundation is now accepting applications for summer or long-term interns.

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When Emmy Award-winning filmmaker Ginger Kathrens recorded a tottering newborn wild foal, she hardly anticipated how he would change her life. She named the pale colt Cloud.

The Cloud Foundation is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization dedicated to the protection and preservation of wild horses and burros on our western public lands with a focus on Cloud's herd in the Arrowhead Mountains of Montana. Cloud was rounded up for the third time in September of 2009 despite an enormous public outcry. Cloud and his band were released two days after they were captured but Cloud's grandchildren and his daughter were removed along with more than 50 others, leaving the herd at only 125 horses. Cloud is now back in the wild & we continue our work to preserve what wild horses value most- their freedom and their families. Click here for a recent update on Cloud and the wild horses of the Pryors, including the four bands we rescued, a whole sub-population removed in the last roundup. Check back often to stay abreast of current events involving Cloud and all of his compatriots. America's wild horses and burros live on public land and are currently being managed to extinction by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM). Check our action alerts and blog to find out more on what you can do.