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We keep extensive records on the history of the herd of horses roaming within Theodore Roosevelt National Park, and our advocacy to preserve their freedom.
Here, you’ll find files that explain the scientific, historical, and cultural significance of the wild horses of Theodore Roosevelt National Park, plus letters of support for the horses from different people/organizations, and editorial features related to our advocacy work.
If you have further questions, would like additional information or to schedule an interview with us, please email us at info@chwha.org
ND Governor Doug Burgum’s letter to TRNP January 2023
ND Department of Tourism – Director Sara Otte-Coleman ND Senate testimony
2022 Scoping Letter TRNP
United Tribes of North Dakota letter of support for keeping horses in TRNP
FOIA information from American Wild Horse Conservation
MHA Nation’s Resolution asking TRNP to keep the horses in the park
Genomic Analysis of
the Nokota Horse shared with permission by the Nokota Preserve, Chester Springs, PA
Fargo Forum Editorial
Bismarck Tribune Op-Ed, October 2024
ND Stockman’s Assn ND Senate testimony
March 2024
Population genomics provide insight into ancestral
relationships and diversity of the feral horses of TRNP
This secret document that shows the lengths that TRNP went to in their attempts to create the narrative for removing the horses from the park NPS 2022h
2024 resolutions
Billings County Resolution
Medora City Council Resolution
Documents obtained from former TRNP Park Superintendent Noel Poe.
1996 Letter
1998 Letter
Theodore Roosevelt National Park Civic Engagement Report July 2022
The Chasing Horses Wild Horse Advocates comment letter for the first round of comments for the NEW wild horse management plan
The letter that our legal team sent to Theodore Roosevelt National Park on 3/21/2022
Theodore Roosevelt National Park Civic Engagement Report July 2022
The Chasing Horses Wild Horse Advocates comment letter for the first round of comments for the NEW wild horse management plan
1978 Environmental Assessment – currently being used to manage the wild horses of TRNP
The letter that our legal team sent to Theodore Roosevelt National Park on 3/21/2022
TRNP Livestock Management Plan Newsletter – March 2022
Castle McLaughlin Papers
The only person to date that has done any research on the origin of the wild horses in Theodore Roosevelt National Park was Castle McLaughlin. This paper was published in 1989 when Castle was a graduate student at Columbia U in NYC and an interpretive ranger for Knife River Indian Villages NHS (NPS) in Stanton, N.D. Castle has recently retired after 25 years of being a curator at Harvard’s Peabody Museum
1989 Castle McLaughlin Report
Badlands Broomtails A Cultural History of Wild Horses in North Dakota
Partnership agreements between North Dakota Badlands Horse (NDBH) and Wild in North Dakota (WIND) with Theodore Roosevelt National Park. The partnerships have since been dissolved. The essence of these agreements was that NDBH & WIND agreed to help TRNP park management with the capture and sale of the horses.
North Dakota Badlands Horse Partnership
Wild in North Dakota Partnership
Theodore Roosevelt National Park, North Dakota Historic Resource Study by Public Lands History Center at Colorado State University in Fort Collins, Colorado.
The Designed Landscaped of the North Dakota Badlands: Weldon and Marjorie Gratton, Faithful Stewards and Genuine Collaborators by Steve Martens
National Academy of Sciences report: BLM Wild Horse and Burro Program: A Way Forward
Dr. Dan Baker, head of Colorado State University’s (CSU) “Birth Control Study” that was done at Theodore Roosevelt National Park, gives an overview of his experiment on our horses to an audience of his peers at the Free-Roaming Horse and Burro Fertility Control Workshop held on November 8, 2018 in Albuquerque, NM.
BLM Wild Horse & Burro Handbook
Historic Preservation Act – Section 106 Review Process Information:
Steve Martens Documents
Steve Martens letter re: March 2024 report
Historical letter from Steve Martens
Martens List of historical documents/Bibliography on Badlands Horse Culture
Historic Preservation Act – Section 106 Review Process Information:
SENATE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION NO. 4011
the Nokota horse is the honorary equine of North Dakota
Plans for wild horse herd at Theodore Roosevelt National Park range from no change to no horses
The National Park Service is reexamining its management of more than 180 horses for the first time since it adopted an environmental assessment in 1978. Options range from maintaining the current program to allowing the herd to “live out their lives in the park.”
In 2018, a research paper was released entitled “Genetic Diversity and the origin of the feral horses of Theodore Roosevelt National Park” You can read the entire report here: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0200795
KX News interview regarding the wild horses in Theodore Roosevelt National Park 3/25/2021
KX News interview regarding the wild horses in Theodore Roosevelt National Park 2/1/2021
Dr. Jenny Powers discusses her successes developing a remote dart to administer birth control – being tested on the mares in TRNP. Presentation was given to her peers at the Free-Roaming Horse and Burro Fertility Control Workshop held on November 8, 2018 in Albuquerque, NM.
The portal that Theodore Roosevelt National Park management uses to share information with the public about the wild horses. This is the only way they will communicate with the public. https://www.nps.gov/thro/learn/nature/feral-wild-horses.htm.
PDF version of NPS Management Policies (2006)
Colorado State University’s Project Proposal to the BLM for 2015-2020.
WH&B SEMI-ANNUAL PERFORMANCE/PROGRESS REPORT from CSU/TRNP 4/17-10/17
BLM Wild Horse and Burro Research Background Materials for Advisory Board, June 2021
Interview with Robert Utley
Thunderbear’s Newsletter #280
Wranglers round up horses, bison in
park, Helicopters help lead animals to
corrals
Fargo Forum 10/9/1997
Badlands horses gathered for culling
Dickinson Press 10/3/2000
History of park horses is debated
Dickinson Press 10/28/2007
Park plans auction of feral horses
The Dickinson Press 5/13/2008
TRNP mustangs to be auctioned
Park to test birth control on mares to maintain
herd sizes
Fargo Forum 9/25/2009
Wild horses epitomize the Badlands
Bismarck Tribune 10/4/2009
Man injured when wild horse from
Roosevelt park jumps fence at sale
Other than that, roundup, auction called a success
Associated Press 10/25/2009
UND researchers study origin of
horses at Theodore Roosevelt park
Grand Forks Herald 8/12/2018
ROUGH RIDING
Advocates of wild horses want herding changes at
N.D.’s Theodore Roosevelt National Park
Fargo Forum 9/9/2019
Park to resume birth control of wild
horses
Theodore Roosevelt rangers hope to minimize
roundups
Fargo Forum 9/17/2019
Preserving the Legacy of North Dakota’s Wild Horses
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/saving-the-legacy-of-nort_b_5669868
2013 SENATE NATURAL RESOURCES
SCR4011
Nokota Horse Conservancy, Inc. v. Bernhardt
Nokota Horse Conservancy, Inc. v. Bernhardt, 666 F. Supp. 2d 1073 | Casetext Search + Citator
Minnesota group’s attempts to market Badlands wild horses halted by judge
Minnesota group’s attempts to market Badlands wild horses halted by judge | Park Rapids Enterprise
History, management of park horses being debated
Theodore Roosevelt National Park Categorical Exclusion Documentation Form (CE Form) 9/8/2020.
Management of Feral Horses in the
National Park Service by Jenny Powers
Reimmunization increases contraceptive effectiveness of gonadotropin-releasing
hormone vaccine (GonaCon-Equine) in free-ranging horses (Equus caballus): Limitations and side effects