Nevada
Advocates pushing for more humane measures to control Nevada's wild horse population
LAS VEGAS (KTNV) — The spotlight is on the wild horse and burro population here in Nevada once again.
For years, how the population has been managed has stirred up a lot of controversy. Many times, the Bureau of Land Management has used helicopters to get the job done over a large territory. Many times the roundups have ended up with horses being injured or dying.
Advocates have pushed for other ways to control the population. One way is with human fertility. I talked to advocates who say the 2024 national spending bill that President Joe Biden signed makes a cut to the BLM’s budget, a step in the right direction.
Valerie Juick took me to her property in the northwest valley where she has two horses behind her home. She adopted Aspen seven years ago. At just a few months old, Aspen ran away from her mother during a roundup near Cold Creek.
Juick said she has turned a wild horse into her own and said the roundups are hard to watch.
“It is horrible, if you watch those videos with the compound fractures and the bones sticking out and they are still chasing these horse,” Juick said. “They round them up and they get split up.”
The American Wild Horse Conservation estimates there are 44,000 wild horses and 4,000 wild burros in the state. They have pushed for the Bureau of Land Management to use alternative population control methods.
According to the conservation, the latest 2024 national spending bill cuts the BLM’s budget for the horse program by nearly $6 million.
“Congress is watching and they are not going to throw money at the BLM to continue implementing a failed approach to wild horse management,” said Suzanne Roy, the Executive Director of the conservation.
She adds the $11 million designated for human fertility control is staying the same and that it sends a message.
“That report language also includes a directive to BLM to evaluate alternatives to helicopters in the management of horses.”
As for Juick, she tells me using more fertility control measures with darts could work to control the state’s wild horse and burro population.
“We have to be better at taking care of the wildlife,” Juick said.
Channel 13 has reached out to the Bureau of Land Management for a statement. As of the time this report was filed, we have not heard back.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom won’t admit it, but a move by President Donald Trump is especially helpful to drivers in California — and Nevada.
Gasoline prices are pressuring consumers around the country. On Friday, the average U.S. price was $4.55 a gallon. In California, that would be a bargain. The average there was $6.16 a gallon. Nevada’s average was $5.23 a gallon, the result of around 88 percent of the state’s gasoline coming from California.
It might be getting worse — regardless of what happens in Iran.
In recent months, two major California refineries have shut down. That represented a 17 percent reduction in California’s refining capacity. Their closures weren’t caused by the Iran war, but by Gov. Newsom and California’s relentless attacks on fossil fuels.
To make up for the fuel it won’t extract or refine in-state, California depends on imports from foreign countries.
“We are importing 30 percent of our crude oil from the Middle East,” Mike Ariza, a former control board supervisor at the Valero Benicia Refinery, said in an interview. He has been warning the public about California’s potential fuel shortage. “There are not very many ships left on the way that have fuel,” he said last month.
Last week, KCRA-TV in Sacramento reported that “about 2 million barrels of oil are in the process of being unloaded in Long Beach off of the last California-bound tanker that got through the Strait of Hormuz.”
At a California legislative hearing Tuesday, Siva Gunda, the vice chairman of the California Energy Commission, said the state has enough gasoline to accommodate demand for the next six weeks. That’s not a very long time, especially given that it takes weeks or months for oil to travel from the Middle East to California. And that process won’t begin until the Strait of Hormuz reopens.
There is a region, however, with abundant oil available for sale and safe passage — the southeastern United States. Unfortunately, the Jones Act, an antiquated 1920 law, mandates that only U.S.-flagged ships may move cargo between U.S. ports. But only 55 of the more than 7,000 oil tankers worldwide comply with this requirement.
This is where Mr. Trump rode to the rescue. Late last month, the White House announced Mr. Trump would suspend the Jones Act for another 90 days. In March, he originally waived it for 60 days. This will make it easier for California and Nevada to obtain domestic product.
If only Mr. Trump could also suspend the destructive energy policies imposed by Gov. Newsom and California Democrats.
LAS VEGAS (KSNV) — An adoptable pet is in the spotlight for “Furever Home Friday,” with Amy from the Nevada SPCA featured in a segment highlighting an animal available for adoption today.
The Nevada SPCA encouraged viewers looking to add a pet to their family to consider adopting.
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