Interior (Dept. of Interior) Wild Horse Focus Ignores Cattle Impacts

BLM’s Scientific “Cow Blindness” Impedes Sage Grouse Recovery

Washington, DC — The U.S. Bureau of Land Management (BLM) continues to blame wild horses for ecological damage across the West while avoiding analysis of its own massive livestock grazing program, charges Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER) in a letter sent today to Interior Secretary Deb Haaland. A PEER analysis shows that on the majority of lands where the agency has identified wild horses as implicated in the decline of sage grouse habitat, agency records indicate livestock grazing as a significant cause of habitat degradation.