{"id":285276,"date":"2021-08-24T08:57:25","date_gmt":"2021-08-24T08:57:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/?p=212387"},"modified":"2021-08-24T08:57:25","modified_gmt":"2021-08-24T08:57:25","slug":"the-fictions-of-onaqui-expose-fatal-flaws-in-the-blms-wild-horse-round-ups","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/08\/24\/the-fictions-of-onaqui-expose-fatal-flaws-in-the-blms-wild-horse-round-ups\/","title":{"rendered":"The Fictions of Onaqui Expose Fatal Flaws in the BLM\u2019s Wild Horse Round Ups"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In July, the Bureau of Land Management rounded up the vast majority of Utah\u2019s Onaqui wild horse herd. Pressed by a lawsuit, the Bureau\u2019s Salt Lake Field Manager testified under oath that an emergency roundup was necessary because wild horses were in poor and declining health and would need to be euthanized if left in the wild. After removing the majority of the Onaqui herd from the federal lands, the agency admitted publicly that its narrative had been false: The captured Onaqui horses were in good body condition;there was plenty of forage on their Herd Management Area (HMA) to sustain the entire herd through the drought. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2021\/08\/24\/the-fictions-of-onaqui-expose-fatal-flaws-in-the-blms-wild-horse-round-ups\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2021\/08\/24\/the-fictions-of-onaqui-expose-fatal-flaws-in-the-blms-wild-horse-round-ups\/\">The Fictions of Onaqui Expose Fatal Flaws in the BLM\u2019s Wild Horse Round Ups<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2021\/08\/24\/the-fictions-of-onaqui-expose-fatal-flaws-in-the-blms-wild-horse-round-ups\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In July, the Bureau of Land Management rounded up the vast majority of Utah\u2019s Onaqui wild horse herd. Pressed by a lawsuit, the Bureau\u2019s Salt Lake Field Manager testified under oath that an emergency roundup was necessary because wild horses were in po&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1149,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,266],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285276"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1149"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=285276"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285276\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":285291,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285276\/revisions\/285291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=285276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=285276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=285276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}