Fresh lawsuit from Laura Leigh over Nevada roundup
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Wild Equus caballus advocate Laura Leigh has filed a trial against the Bureau of Land Management over its administration of wild horses inward the Owyhee Complex inward northern Nevada.
The representative was filed inward Reno Federal District Court past times Reno attorney Gordon Cowan for Leigh, founder of Wild Horse Education. It addresses a 10-year removal conception inward the Owyhee Complex.
Leigh, who travels the westward monitoring bureau-managed wild Equus caballus roundups, witnessed most of the roundup days during the outset stage of the Owyhee plan.
Leigh alleges inward the courtroom documents that inappropriate comport was observed repeatedly, including purpose of electrical cattle prods, wild horses driven through barbed wire in addition to operations inward sub-freezing temperatures.
Leigh says the bureau has failed to implement whatever humane handling touchstone for brute tending in addition to handling.
“I convey tried everything I tin post away intend of to convey a reasonable conversation near addressing these serious issues in addition to the requests are ignored or dismissed,” she says.
“It is literal agony watching what I tin post away exclusively course of education every bit a callous disregard for basic welfare become ignored. I felt at that spot was no pick merely to file farther litigation every bit I convey every expectation the comport volition croak on at Owyhee for the adjacent decade.”
Leigh said that over the final 2 years the bureau had been making claims that a policy would survive inward place, or had created functioning “memorandums”, that were ignored inward practice.
“The BLM National component subdivision has been promising the populace a policy, in addition to giving deadlines for implementation that come upwards in addition to become amongst no forthcoming policy,” Leigh said. “Witnesses croak on to run across no alter inward handling of wild horses past times the agency.”
Wild Horse Education’s media spokeswoman Marta Williams said: “We volition croak on to address the outrageous comport inward whatever way nosotros tin post away until at that spot is an enforceable touchstone for humane handling for America’s wild horses in addition to burros.”
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