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Help us Save 33,000 Wild Mustangs...
Help us Save 33,000 Wild Mustangs...
Oct 26, 2008
There are 33,000 Wild Horses in Long/Short Term Holding Pens that the BLM can no longer care for. One of the options that the US Government is considering is to KILL all of them. WE think there are other options and many of us are willing to help this herd. If you would like to be part of the solution, please read on....
BLM is conducting a meeting in Reno, Nevada and inviting the public to make statements:
BLM Sets Meeting of National Wild Horse and Burro Advisory Board
for November 17 in Reno
The Bureau of Land Management’s National Wild Horse and Burro Advisory Board will meet on Monday, November 17, 2008, in Reno to discuss issues relating to the management, protection, and control of wild horses and burros on Western public rangelands. The one-day meeting will take place from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., local time, at the Silver Legacy Resort Casino’s Reno Ballroom, 50 East Fourth Street, Reno, Nevada 89501. The agenda of the meeting can be found in the October 16 Federal Register on page 61436.
The Advisory Board provides input and advice to the BLM as it carries out its responsibilities under the 1971 Wild Free-Roaming Horses and Burros Act. The law mandates the protection, management, and control of these free-roaming animals in a manner that ensures healthy herds at levels consistent with the land’s capacity to support them. The BLM manages about 33,000 wild horses and burros that roam BLM-managed rangelands in 10 Western states.
The public may address the Advisory Board at the November 17 meeting at an appropriate point in the agenda, which is expected to be about 3 p.m., local time. Individuals who want to make a statement should register with the BLM by noon on the day of the meeting at the meeting site. Depending on the number of speakers, the Board may limit the length of presentations, set at three minutes for previous meetings.
Speakers must submit a written copy of their statement to the BLM at the meeting; those who would like to comment but are unable to attend may submit a written statement no later than November 12, 2008, to: Bureau of Land Management, National Wild Horse and Burro Program, WO-260, Attention: Ramona DeLorme, 1340 Financial Boulevard, Reno, Nevada, 89502-7147. Comments may also be e-mailed to: Ramona_DeLorme@blm.gov. Those submitting comments electronically should include the identifier "WH&B" in the subject of their message and their name and address in the body of the message.
For additional information regarding the meeting, please contact Ramona DeLorme, Wild Horse and Burro Administrative Assistant, at 775-861-6583. Individuals who use a telecommunications device for the deaf (TDD) may reach Ms. DeLorme at any time by calling the Federal Information Relay Service at 1-800-877-8339.
The Advisory Board meets at least two times a year and the BLM Director may call additional meetings when necessary. Members serve without salary, but are reimbursed for travel and per diem expenses according to government travel regulations.
The BLM, an agency of the U.S. Department of the Interior, manages more land – 258 million surface acres – than any other Federal agency. Most of this public land is located in 12 Western states, including Alaska. The Bureau, with a budget of about $1 billion, also administers 700 million acres of sub-surface mineral estate throughout the nation. The BLM’s multiple-use mission is to sustain the health and productivity of the public lands for the use and enjoyment of present and future generations. The Bureau accomplishes this by managing such activities as outdoor recreation, livestock grazing, mineral development, and energy production, and by conserving natural, historical, cultural, and other resources on the public lands.
– BLM –
California Senator, Dianne Feinstein, may be able to help us. Send her a note like the one written below to her contact info:
http://feinstein.senate.gov/public/
Senator Dianne Feinstein
United States Senate
331 Hart Senate Office Building
Washington, D.C. 20510
Phone: (202) 224-3841
Fax: (202) 228-3954
TTY/TDD: (202) 224-2501
Click here to email me.
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Dear Senator Feinstein:
As the holidays approach The Bureau of Land Management will be holding advisory board meetings to discuss the possibility of euthanizing tens of thousands of wild mustangs currently held in detention pens all over the west. As I am sure you’re aware that over the next three months the fate of 33,000 wild mustangs currently housed in government holding facilities hangs in the balance. Every day that goes by brings the spectre of mass murder closer. We are asking you to step up and secure funds for the mustangs WE pulled from their home and call for an immediate moratorium on ALL GATHERS.
The failed policies of the Bureau of Land Management have created“warehousing” of America’s finest ecological icons. The living, running artifacts of our heritage are being gathered and culled from public lands all over the west, and left to languish in captivity. This “cull and pen” policy has created overpopulation, ruined social networks within bands, disturbed genetic viability for future longevity, and inflicted horrific trauma on our most magnificent and innocent animals.
The BLM has floated the idea of using euthanasia as an option to use in dire circumstances if necessary. Because of the vague and nebulous wording worked into the original 1971 Wild Horse and Burro Act via the Burns Amendment, the “if necessary” can be interpreted as “When we capriciously have a departmental shortfall we can slaughter horses.”
We make this urgent plea on behalf of the 33,000 innocent, scared and traumatized animals by asking for an immediate moratorium on ALL gathers in the ten western states that have wild horses. Secondly, we ask that sustenance funds be earmarked to continue feeding these horses until further resolutions can be worked out within different groups. Returning animals to zero herd areas on public lands is the only morally decent thing to do, short of securing land for them where they can be UNMOLESTED. The 1971 WHBA stipulates these majestic animals live free of harassment.
Thank You,
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Together, WE CAN SAVE AMERICA'S HORSES.....
Meg Potter
Kimberly Meagher
Wildhorse Ranch Rescue
11811 S Lindsay Road
Gilbert, AZ 85296
www.wildhorseranchrescue.com
(866) 926-8007
a registered 501c3 charity
dedicated to saving equines from abuse, slaughter, neglect and premature death
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