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BLM Secret Plan To Destroy Wild Horses
PRESS RELEASE
June 11, 2009- for immediate release
Documents Reveal BLM Secret Plan to Destroy Wild Horses
Documents obtained from the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) via the Freedom of Information Act by a Phoenix-based non-profit, The Conquistador Program, reveal shocking and detailed plans to destroy healthy wild horses in government holding facilities as well as those still remaining in the wild on public lands.
BLM employees as well as a USDA veterinarian held weekly “Implementation Team” meetings beginning in July of 2008 in which they discussed and developed strategies aimed at ridding BLM of thousands of mustangs. In October they completed a 68 page document entitled “Alternative Management Options”.
Tactics included in this document are reminiscent of those used to wipe out Native American tribes in the 1800s.
The BLM team created scenarios for killing mustangs using barbiturates, gun shots, or captive bolts. Bodies would be disposed of through rendering, burial or incineration. They discussed killing 1200-2000 wild horses per year.
The document states that “the general public would be prohibited from viewing euthanasia.”
Additionally, the Team felt that “increased support from public
relations and management staff would also be needed to insulate those doing the actual work from the public, media and Congressional scrutiny/criticism.”
“Minutes from these meetings as well as the Draft Plan reveal what amounts to ‘the final solution’ for the American mustang,” states Ginger Kathrens, filmmaker and Volunteer Executive Director of The Cloud Foundation.“
Despite a huge outcry from the American public last year regarding BLM plans to kill wild horses in holding, the agency is still pressing forward with a plan to destroy our American mustangs both on and off the range.”
Division Chief of the Wild Horse and Burro Program Don Glenn told The Cloud
Foundation that “no decision has been made to move forward on a large scale with this plan, yet.”
BLM meeting minutes speak for themselves. “Security at facilities and at gathers would need to be increased to combat eco-terrorism. Having the people that are willing to put down healthy horses at gather sites could be a problem.
Having vets putting down healthy horses at preparation facility[ies] could also be a problem. Meeting minutes reveal the psychological toll that employees would pay—“have counseling for employees and contractors that have to euthanize the healthy horses because it is very stressful.”
The report created an option in which wild horses of all ages could be sold
“without limitation”. In other words, horses could be sold directly to killer buyers in unchecked numbers. The Team admitted that “some wild horses will go to slaughter”.
“Once they are gone, they’re gone” says Karen Sussman, President of the International Society for the Protection of Mustangs and Burros.
“To lose this incomparable species would be a travesty.”
Team Members formulated ways in which they could circumvent the National Environmental Policy Act, asking “How many (wild horses) could be euthanized during a gather (roundup) without having NEPA?” BLM discussed ways to circumvent the federal carcass disposal law (43 CFR 4730.2).
Conversations included how many wild horses could be rendered at the Reno Rendering plant or “disposed of in pits”. The Team concluded that “there will not be large numbers of horses euthanized during gathers or in the field. This is due to state environmental laws.”
Recommendations include the creation of gelding herds, and sterilization of mares to create non-reproductive herds in the wild in place of natural herds.
The team recommended changing the sex ratio from the normal 50% males and 50% females to 70% males and 30% females. Then the experimental two-year infertility drug, PZP-22, would be given to all mares that are returned to the wild. Plans call for rounding up the wild horses every two years to re-administer the drug.
“Mares on the drug will cycle monthly and, with the altered sex ratio, the social chaos will be dangerous and on-going,” Kathrens explains. “Any semblance of normal wild horse society will be completely destroyed.”
Kathrens has spent 15 years in the wild documenting mustang behavior for her PBS television documentaries which chronicle the life story of Cloud, the now famous pale palomino stallion she has filmed since birth. “Even Cloud and his little herd in Montana are in serious danger if BLM implements these options,” she continues. “The BLM plans a massive round up in Cloud’s herd beginning August 30, 2009.”
The BLM will not guarantee that Cloud and his family will remain free.
The BLM documents referred to above and photos of wild horses are available from The Cloud Foundation.
The Cloud Foundation, Inc.
107 South 7th St.
Colorado Springs, CO 80905
719-633-3842
719-633-3896 (fax)
info@thecloudfoundation.org
www.thecloudfoundation.org
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July 4th, 2009 at 10:15 am
Stand you ground with Ginger Kathrens of the Cloud FoundationReps. Raul Grijalva,D-Ariz., and Nick Rahall, D-W.Va.,
Lawmakers and Citizens Come to the Rescue of Wild Horses
Lawmakers introduced legislation following the Bureau of Land Management’s controversial announcement last year that it is considering killing large numbers of wild horses taken from the rangeland.
FOXNews.com
Saturday, February 14, 2009
Two lawmakers are saddling up to save wild horses.
Reps. Raul Grijalva,D-Ariz., and Nick Rahall, D-W.Va., are trying to restore a 34-year-ban on the commercial sale and slaughter of wild horses and burros after it was lifted four years ago.
They introduced legislation following the Bureau of Land Management’s controversial announcement last year that it is considering killing large numbers of wild horses taken from the rangeland.
“Congressmen Rahall and Grijalva are seeking to protect the rightful place of wild horses on our public lands in the West and to stop the misuse of tax dollars on inhumane round-ups,” said Wayne Pacelle, president and CEO of the Humane Society.
“They have been tireless in their efforts to correct the past mismanagement of this program and to get the program on the right footing.”
But the bureau says it’s stuck between a rock and a hard place because it has few options to manage wild horses that aren’t being adopted, and the costs for keeping them in a holding facility are overwhelming its budget.
“We’re the bad guys,” Tom Gorey, a bureau spokesman, said about the public campaign animal welfare advocates are waging against the bureau.
“They’re looking at the situation and failing to realize we’re a multi-use agency,” he said. “We don’t just manage horses in the bureau.”
The bureau is spending $27 million of its $36 million budget to hold 34,000 horses, or three-fourths of its budget. Of those horses, 3,700 were adopted last year.
“There’s no adoption market to speak of,” Gorey said. “It’s very weak.”
Gorey said the bureau is reprogramming $20 million in its budget to pay for the holding costs and has told lawmakers that it would need $85 million by 2010 to continue holding the horses without destroying them.
“Congress has shown no inclination to fund us at a higher rate,” he said.
The bureau is defying the Wild Free-Roaming Horses and Burros Act, which requires excess animals not being adopted to be destroyed in the most humane and cost-efficient manner possible or, under certain circumstances, be sold without limitation.
The bureau has chosen not to slaughter the horses out of concern over public and congressional reaction.
“All we said last year is we need to consider legal options to humanely put down excess horses for which there is no adoption demand,” Gorey said.
Since 2004, when the ban on slaughtering or selling horses was lifted, only 2,900 horses have been sold. Two incidents in 2005 led to 41 horses being resold and slaughtered. As a result, the bureau warned potential buyers that they could be subject to prosecution if horses ended up in a slaughterhouse.
But this isn’t enough for lawmakers. Grijalva and Rahall introduced their legislation last year and it was passed by the House. But the legislation got stuck in the Senate and the lawmakers had to introduce the legislation again this week for the new Congress. Aides to the lawmakers hope the legislation will be passed by the end of the year.
“It’s been an ongoing issue and the wild horses were symbols of the West,” said Natalie Luna, an aide to Grijalva. “And a lot of people who live in the West where they roam free have asked for the protections.
“We hope the Bureau of Land Management will want to cooperate with the needs and voices of the constituents,” she/he said. This is ground we want to stand up for and protect our horses and national treasure!!
What You Can Do to Help Save Cloud’s Herd and America’s Wild Horses
Over 40% of America’s wild horses have been removed from the wild from 2000-2008 alone and if the agency responsible for managing our wild horses, the Bureau of Land Management, does not change we are in danger of losing the last of our wild horses. Over 100 herds have been zeroed out from the over 19 million acres legally designated for their use. The BLM needs to return wild horses to these areas—over 30,000 are currently in government holding.
As few as 13,600 wild horses remain in designated public land herd areas in ten western states in America, among them is Cloud’s herd in the Pryor Mountain area of Montana and Wyoming. Only 25% of our wild herds are currently at genetically viable population levels! Cloud’s herd is one of these although a massive round-up planned for August 2009 would change this. The round-up would result in 60 horses losing their families and their freedom, including some horses who have lived their entire 20+ years in the wild. We must stop the destruction of Cloud’s herd and work for the sustainable future of all our wild horse herds across the west.Congressmen Nick Rahall (D-WV) and Congressman Raul Grijalva (D-AZ) have stepped forward to make real and positive changes to the Wild Horse and Burro program with their recently introduced bill HR 1018. Please write to them to thank them for their hard work. You can read Ginger Kathrens’ comments and suggestions to the congressmen here.
Here is a short list of government contacts — please write, e-mail and/or call on behalf of Cloud and all our wild mustangs.
Contact the following agencies and representatives
PRESIDENT:
President Barack Obama
The White House
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW
Washington, DC 20500
Comment line: 202-456-1111
http://www.whitehouse.gov/CONTACT/
CONGRESS:
1. Stop the BLM from managing our wild horses to extinction.
2. Halt all round-ups of wild horses until range conditions and herd numbers can be verified.
3. Return wild horses in holding to the 100+ herd areas (19+ million acres) that have been zeroed out.
4. Expand the Pryor Mountain. Wild Horse Range for Cloud’s Herd & protect herd at viable population level of at least 150 adult horses until range is expanded.
Congressman Nick Rahall (D-WV)
2307 Rayburn HOB
Washington,DC 20515
(202) 225-3452
email
Congressman Raul Grijalva (D-AZ)
1440 Longworth HOB
Washington, DC 20515
ph (202) 225-2435
fax (202) 225-1541
Email to: Laurel.Angell@mail.house.gov
Your US Senators and Congress people
Montana Senator Max Baucus (D)—specific to Cloud’s herd
511 Hart Senate Office Building, Washington DC, 20510, phone: 202-224-2651
e-mail from: http://baucus.senate.gov/contact/index.cfm
Montana Senator Jon Tester (D)—specific to Cloud’s herd
204 Russell Senate Office Building, Washington DC, 20510,
phone: 202-224-2644, e-mail from: http://tester.senate.gov/Contact/
Senate Energy & Natural Resources Committee:
304 Dirksen Senate Building, Washington, DC 20510
phone: (202) 224-4971, Fax: (202) 224-6163, e-mail all 23 members at http://energy.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=Contact.Home
Reinstate wild horse protections removed in 2004 by the Burns Rider and include language in the bill that would prevent BLM from destroying healthy wild horses.
DEPARTMENT OF INTERIOR- BUREAU OF LAND MANAGEMENT
1. Work to expand the legal boundaries of the Pryor Mountain Wild Horse Range to include the historic and current use areas in the Custer National Forest. This will allow for a truly viable herd of 200-300 mustangs.
2. Keep the population at a viable number of at least 150 adults until range expansion is achieved. This will allow for the preservation of the rare Spanish genetics of the herd. Bringing in horses from other herds is ill advised, unnecessary and costly.
3. Do not remove older horses
4. Work to protect the mountain lions that have kept the herd at zero population growth in years past. Natural management should be the goal.
Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar \
DOI, 1849 C Street NW, Washington DC 20240
Phone: 202-208-7351, exsec@ios.doi.gov
BLM Acting Director Ron Wenker & Acting Deputy Director Mike Nedd
1849 C Street NW, Washington DC, 20040, phone: 202-208-3801 Ron_Wenker@blm.gov, Mike_Nedd@blm.gov
Don Glenn BLM Division Chief of Wild Horse and Burro Program
BLM Washington Office, 1849 C Street NW, Rm. 5665 Washington DC 20240
Phone: 1-800-710-7597 or 202-208-3801, Fax: 202-208-5242, wildhorse@blm.gov
Jim Sparks, Field Manager BLM -Billings Field Office
5001 Southgate Drive, Billings, MT 59101
phone (406) 896-5223, fax (406) 896-5281
Jim_Sparks@blm.gov
United States Department of Agriculture
Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack
U.S. Department of Agriculture
1400 Independence Ave., S.W.
Washington, DC 20250
Email: AgSec@usda.gov
FOREST SERVICE
Ask the following people to please work with the BLM to expand the Pryor Mountain Wild Horse Range to include the historic and current use areas in the Custer National Forest. This will allow for a truly viable herd of 200-300 mustangs.
• Abigail Kimbell, Chief USDA Forest Service
1400 Independence Ave., SW?Washington, D.C.?20250-0003??
phone: (202) 205-1661, e-mail: akimbell@fs.fed.us
• Mary Erickson, Acting Forest Supervisor- Custer National Forest
PO Box 130, Bozeman, MT 59771,
p. 406-587-6701, mcerickson@fs.fed.us
• Chris Worth, Acting Deputy Supervisor
1310 Main Street, Billings, MT 59105
phone: 406-657-6200, cworth@fs.fed.us
Please write letters to the editor, ask that your favorite radio and TV hosts cover this story and last but not least, please tell your friends and family about wild horses and ask them to join the Cloud Foundation in helping to protect and preserve wild horses on our public lands.
List compiled by The Cloud Foundation, March, 2009 ~ http://www.thecloudfoundation.org
Cloud’s grandchildren, Arrow & Image: two who could be removed
Barbara Ellen Ries Says:
July 4, 2009 at 3:40 PM
Stand you ground in July’s 2009, Peaceful protect with the Cloud Foundation ~ Save cloud and his Herd and the Ely, Nevada, horses from extermination. Donate and become a list of CITIZENS STANDING Their for to GROUND FOR SAVE WILD HORSE HERDS, e-mail join today!!
Sign up to the Cloud Foundation at support@thecloudfoundation.org.
If you can help call,
Phone:
719.633.3842
U.S. Mail:
The Cloud Foundation
107 South 7th Street
Colorado Springs, CO 80905
July 5th, 2009 at 9:50 am
Happy Fourth of July
The Horse
Our Symbol of Freedom
Most of us believe the horse was brought over by the Spanish, but in fact, this beautiful creature was here long before that. We now have fossils that prove the horse did in fact, originate in North America.
The Native Americans have a saying, “the grass remembers them.” Horses readily took to the western plains, because they started out there, long ago. They died out, possibly because they were over-hunted, or because of drastic climate changes, but they are a re-introduced native species, not a introduced non-native species. You can visit Hagerman Fossil Beds National Monument and see the fossils for yourself.
We have relied on the horse for many things, for many, many years. Without them, The West surely would not have flourished and become the United States of America, the birthday we celebrate this weekend.
Please take a few moments to watch our video, and while you are enjoying your holiday, giving thanks to our forefathers and for our freedom, please remember to thank the horse by taking action and letting your representatives know how you feel. Right now, in particular danger, are 11 herds of wild horses in Nevada. The Bureau of Land Management is planning to “zero out” all eleven herds on the basis that they are over-populating the area they have been given on which to survive. Zeroing out means taking them all away! The deadline for public opinion on this matter is July 6, 2009, (however this is something where you should voice your opinion even after that date as it is a trend happening across the entire country). This is expensive, morally wrong, in direct opposition to the mandate of the Wild Horse and Burro Act which was signed into law in order to protect and preserve the wild horses and burros of our country, and not based on true research and facts. It is a move to clear the way for cattle ranching on public land, and other destructive practices like gas and oil leases and mining. The Bureau of Land Management is supposed to protect our public lands, not sell it off to the highest bidder. Please make your voice heard, stand up for the wild horses and stand up for our public lands. This is the land of the free and the home of the brave!
You can easily contact BLM Director John Ruhs by clicking here…the letter is already written for you and will go directly to his email at his office so it can be read by Monday morning.
Fact: America’s wild horses are being eradicated in violation of the Wild Free-Roaming Horse & Burro Act, which protects them as “living symbols” of our Nation’s spirit.
Fact: From over 2 million in the 1800s, fewer than 25,000 remain on our public lands.
Fact: There are now more wild horses in government holding pens than remain in the wild.
Fact: The round-ups continue, and a recent change in the law opens the door to thousands being sent to slaughter.
Fact: Although in-the-wild management would save millions of tax-dollars, special interests have been successful in pressuring the government to systematically remove wild horses from public lands – specifically corporate cattle interests who want our horses replaced with private cattle for subsidized grazing.
For more information about our wild horses, and to hear interviews with Ecologist/Biologist Craig C. Downer who has studied the horses for years, plus country western sensation Lacy J. Dalton and wild horse advocates, please click here.
We hope you have a very safe and happy fourth of July and thanks for helping our symbol of freedom! Please know that it does not matter where you live, you can help the horses!
Please just copy the letter below, paste it in your email, add your own comments if you wish, and send it to eyfoweb@nv.blm.gov with a copy also being sent to nancy@theblendmagazine.com and
feedback@ios.doi.gov
Beacause this issue will eventually end up in front of your representatives for voting, sending a copy to your own representatives is also a good idea. Click here and you can easily find out who they are:
Write your House Representatives
Write your Senator!
You can also contact Director John Ruhs directly at
Phone 775-289-1800 Fax 775-289-1910
To learn more and help the Wild Horses, visit http://www.wildhorsepreservation.com and
sign the petition.
We asked our BigBlendMagazine.com readers: ‘Horses are a historically a symbol of the old west – what do they mean to you?’
Here are some of their answers:
“Without the horse being introduced into America modes of transportation would have been completely different. Think of the impact the horse had on movements of the Indian tribes that lived on the plains. How far reaching it has been in our history. The fact that now they kill wild horses as a means of clearing the range for cattle is sad.“ – Roger from Gilbert, AZ
“The Horse has been a vital part of the old west from the settlers to the gold miners, farmers and so on. Without the horse the west would not have made it.” – Rebecca from Antelope, CA
“Being from Nevada where we still have wild horses they mean Freedom to me. Incredible animals that still need protection to preserve that Freedom!” – Cynthia in Las Vegas, NV
“They’re a symbol of my family to me. My family were riders in the Pony Express.” – Angela from Eureka Springs, AR
“Horses have really helped man and civilization. They are amazing, intelligent, and loyal creatures!” – Erica from Greensboro, NC
“When I first saw the wild horses in Nevada, I was already in my 40s. The majesty of those animals, looking just slightly different than the domesticated ones I was accustomed to seeing, tugged at my heart strings. They are a magnificent creature representing a part of our heritage that can never be replaced. They should be cherished like the national treasure they are.’ – Betty in Julian, CA
“They made the old west what it was.” – Paula from El Cajon, CA
“I love thinking about the old west how these majestic animals helped our ancestors pull wagons, plow fields and were the only means of transportation.” – Vaughn in Salt Lake City, UT
For more answers from our listeners,
please click here.
Director John Ruhs & Secretary Salazar:
Wild horses and burros are living symbols of the historic and pioneer spirit of The West; they contribute to the diversity of life forms within the Nation and enrich the lives of the American people.
The Bureau of Land Management’s current policy of aggressive removal of wild horses favors private cattle interests over the will of the people; this is unacceptable and un-American, and a waste of our taxpayer dollars.
We respectfully ask that the BLM and the Department of the Interior review the scientific findings that contradict BLM’s claims of wild horse overpopulation and negative impact on the range; – a moratorium on all round-ups until actual numbers of wild horses and burros on public lands have been independently assessed; and restoration of the Herd Management Areas designated by the 1971 Wild Horse and Burro Act.
We ask for an implementation of in-the-wild management, and that fences currently blocking the wild horses from water supplies, be removed. Further, we ask that your plans for zeroing out herds be stopped immediately.
America’s wild horses are a reintroduced native wildlife species and an American zoological treasure. I ask you to ensure that they will be allowed to thrive in genetically viable herds for future generations to enjoy on our public lands.
Sincerely,
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July 12th, 2009 at 7:44 pm
July 12, 2009 at 2:53 AM
Barbara Ellen Ries, Arizona
Senator Leahy Proposes ” Truth Commission to investigate and Online petition to investigate and prosecute constitutional abuses of Bush administration. Senator Leahy ~ Please investigate the documents from the BLM. One would hope that the time invested in this information be known and discovered. I hope and pray that this information dark and shocking as it may be is investigated. I hope for the wild horses sake, The Cloud Foundation and horse advocates as well as myself in the USA are represented and not and the laws for horses in the wild horse and burro act. Here’s body of the petition: I hereby join Senator Patrick Leahy’s call for the establishment of a truth and reconciliation commission, to investigate the Bush-Cheney Administration’s constitutional abuses so we make sure they never happen again. These abuses may include the use of torture, warrantless wiretapping, extraordinary rendition, and executive override of laws. A truth and reconciliation commission should be tasked with seeking answers so that we can develop a shared understanding of the failures of the recent past. Rather than vengeance, we need a fair-minded pursuit of what actually happened. The best way to move forward is getting to the truth and finding out what happened — so we can make sure it does not happen in any way shape or form. Thank you for any consideration.
Documents on web below http://www.conquistadorprogram.org/blm__court_documents_on_wild_horses For Immediate Release Contact: Patricia Haight, Ph.D., (480) 430-2294, pathaight@yahoo.com
Julianne French, 520-309-5791, J_French@cox.net Documents from Bureau of Land Management Reflect Intent of BLM for Wild Horses in Holding Facilities & on Public Lands Signed by: [Your name] (Barbara Ellen Ries) Send this web site to friends family and others in support http://www.bushtruthcommission.com/ Easy to find the money trail or tail. Barbara Ellen Ries my web http://spirithorsebr.tripod.com
Please send to everyone ….
Barbara Ellen Ries
Contact the Con
June 25, 2009 at 2:53 AM
3:11 pm PDT, Jun 24, Barbara Ellen Ries, Arizona
Senator Leahy Proposes ” Truth Commission to investigate and Online petition to investigate and prosecute constitutional abuses of Bush administration. Senator Leahy ~ Please investigate the documents from the BLM. One would hope that the time invested in this information be known and discovered. I hope and pray that this information dark and shocking as it may be is investigated. I hope for the wild horses sake, The Cloud Foundation and horse advocates as well as myself in the USA are represented and not and the laws for horses in the wild horse and burro act. Here’s body of the petition: I hereby join Senator Patrick Leahy’s call for the establishment of a truth and reconciliation commission, to investigate the Bush-Cheney Administration’s constitutional abuses so we make sure they never happen again. These abuses may include the use of torture, warrantless wiretapping, extraordinary rendition, and executive override of laws. A truth and reconciliation commission should be tasked with seeking answers so that we can develop a shared understanding of the failures of the recent past. Rather than vengeance, we need a fair-minded pursuit of what actually happened. The best way to move forward is getting to the truth and finding out what happened — so we can make sure it does not happen in any way shape or form. Thank you for any consideration. Documents on web below http://www.conquistadorprogram.org/blm__court_documents_on_wild_horses For Immediate Release Contact: Patricia Haight, Ph.D., (480) 430-2294, pathaight@yahoo.com Julianne French, 520-309-5791, J_French@cox.net Documents from Bureau of Land Management Reflect Intent of BLM for Wild Horses in Holding Facilities & on Public Lands Signed by: [Your name] (Barbara Ellen Ries) Send this web site to friends family and others in support http://www.bushtruthcommission.com/ Easy to find the money trail or tail. Barbara Ellen Ries my web http://spirithorsebr.tripod.com
Please send to everyone ….
Barbara Ellen Ries
Contact if you have any information that will assist the Peaceful and Urgent progress towards saving our wild Horses.
If you have concerns about legal matters please write representatives & President Obama. The info is posted above.
Patricia Haight, Ph.D., (480) 430-2294, pathaight@yahoo.com
August 1st, 2009 at 7:33 pm
Update Current News, Please post
August 1 2009
Stop the Round ups of Cloud ~ His Herd (All
& Wild Horses & Burros)
They plan to zero out 11 herds in Nevada and zero out the Pryor Herd of Mountaina satiability.
Let them ROAM ~ FREE
We live in the best of times and the worst of times ~ Charles Dickens .
STAND YOUR GROUND with Ginger Kathrens of the Cloud Foundation.
How to help ASAP ~ See Below!!
1.
Drastic Removal Planned for Cloud’s Herd
Watch this 30 second video by Ginger Kathrens
Newsletter
http://webmail.aol.com/43792/aol/en-us/Suite.aspx
VIDEO
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2qp_EXnlXxg
2. Write and SPEAK OUT!! Clouds and his Herd are on the roundup list now….. Don’t let this round up & death sentence happen. What do you do? Address and e-mail below.
3. Go into silent vigilance of hope prayer and meditation for Cloud and his Herd and all the Wild Horses
4. Send this E-mail to Director of the Interior ASAP!
Time is of the essence. “Cloud and his family (herd) could be killed before his October 2009 movie comes out on PBS.”Ginger Kathrens
Email Ken Salazar and the Bureau of Land Management now! There is an easy format below you can use just add your name.
To this e-mail:20exsec@iosdoi.gov
Mail: Ken Salazar
Department of Interior
1849 C Street , N.W.
Washington, DC 20240
Phone: 202-7351
http://www.doi.gov/contact.html
Dear Kenneth Interior Secretary Salazar,
Interior Secretary Salazar and the Bureau of Land Management I’m asking you to stop the Roundups of Cloud and his Family!
I am writing to express my extreme disappointment in THE BUREAU OF LAND MANAGEMENT’S (BLM) DECISION to continue THEIR plan to euthanize or hold in captivity thousands of wild horses and burros and ROUNDUPS ~ AT THE EXPENSE OF THE AMERICAN TAXPAYER.
The Wild Free-Roaming Horse and Burro Act (1971) was created with the hope of managing healthy herds of wild horses and burros on healthy Western rangelands. With the goal of managing the sizes of these herds, the BLM believes that wild horses and burros consume unfair amounts of forage on BLM lands. “On March 3, 2009, it was stated by a BLM representative that the forage depletion on public lands leaves cattle with nothing to eat. Contrary to that statement, a Wild Horse Ecologist, Craig C. Downer, of Nevada, stated in his speech (Wild Horse Speech With Tables And Charts, Wild Horse Summit, Las Vegas, Nevada, October 2008) that wild horses and burros only consume a mere 5.6% of the forage consumed by livestock on BLM land. “
It is not necessary to hold these wild horses and burros in captivity or round them up for sla ughter (an expense to taxpayers). THE Cloud Foundation OFFERS an Alternative Herd Plan & SOLUTION. (The Cloud Foundation Web) This was given to the BLM in June 2009.
The BLM holding costs for the BLM in 2009 are $33 million, and in 2014 it is estimated to be $85 million. This business plan will help unravel the problem that the BLM has created in gathering horses off the range land at the tax payers’ expense.
1. Stop the BLM from managing our wild horses and Clouds Herd to extinction.2. Halt all round-ups of wild horses until range conditions and herd numbers can be verified.
3. Return wild horses in holding to the 100+ herd areas (19+ million acres) that have been zeroed out.
4. Expand the Pryor Mountain. Wild Horse Range for Clouds Herd & protect herd at viable population level of at least 150 adult horses until range is expanded.
Sincerely thank you for any and all consideration to saving our National Treasure and Cloud‘s Herd and family.
You’re Name (_______________________)
http://www.conquistadorprogram.org/blmcourt_d... DRAFT PLAN
For Immediate Release Contact: Patricia Haight, Ph.D., (480) 430-2294, pathaight@yahoo.com Julianne French, 520-309-5791, J_French@cox.net
Nevada and Pryor Mountain in July and August of 2009 Roundups fact or fiction. History will tell. Opps my bad will not do for the United States citizens who love and cherish these beauties.
Source: Barbara Ellen Ries, Advocate for Cloud Foundation.
If you think we being harsh read documents from the BLM draft and we will see if Cloud and his Herd lives to ROAM FREE. I hope this draft was just some humans having a bad day and not reality.
I believe “The Truth shall set the Horses free one way or another.”
Barbara Ellen Ries, Arizona Horse Advocate and Pro-ROAM
If your organization can help please e-mail me at ~ spirithorsebr@aol.com
Barbara Ellen Ries, spirithorsebr.com
August 27th, 2009 at 9:10 pm
11th Hour for Cloud’s Herd,
URGENT MESSAGE ABOUT THE PYRORS
Please act now to stop this unnecessary and cruel round up— the BLM still plans to move forward on September 1st
The Bureau of Land Management is rounding up and eliminating 12 herds (650 horses) off 1.4 million acres in Nevada right now– next they plan to destroy Cloud’s herd with a massive removal of 70 horses that would include OLDER HORSES and YOUNG FOALS.
Many of the horses you have come to love in the Cloud shows and will meet in the new Cloud show on October 25th will lose their families and their freedom next week. By zeroing out whole herds and reducing others to below genetic viability, the BLM is circumventing the will of Congress. The House just passed the Restoring of American Mustangs (ROAM) act and the Senate will review this bill (now S.1579) when they return from recess in September. Is BLM just trying to do as much irrevocable damage to America’s wild horses as they can before Congress can act?
This round up will start on September 1st unless we can stop it. Removing 70 horses will destroy this unique little Spanish herd, leaving them well below the bare minimum for genetic viability. The range is in great condition and the horses are healthy. This removal should be stopped. Please do all you can to help! Listen to Ginger Kathrens on Endangered Stream Live– a special edition show “Angels for Cloud”
National Call in Day for Cloud is Friday, August 28th — SPREAD THE WORD! Have your kids call in and write too– These horses need to be preserved for future generations and we must act NOW
1. Call/write/fax President Obama as often as you can—this herd is a national treasure and should not be wiped out by a government agency. Please flood the phone lines with calls! Phone: 202-456-1111 or 202-456-9000 Fax: 202-456-2461
E-mail Obama
2. Ask Secretary of Interior Ken Salazar to stop this round up
Call: 202-208-3100
Write: feedback@ios.doi.gov
3. BLM Director Bob Abbey, tell him to halt this round up– he must reconsider his agency’s actions
Call: 202-208-3801
Fax: 202-208-5242
Robert_Abbey@blm.gov
4. Call and write your own Senators and Congress people- tell them that Montana is allowing the destruction of Cloud’s unique and historical wild horse herd. Politely express your outrage and ask them to help stop this round up. Find your state offices here
Listen to Ginger Kathrens NOW on “WFL Endangered Stream Live”
REMEMBER: National Cloud Call-In Day is FRIDAY, AUGUST 28th!
Thank you to everyone for signing the petition- we only need about 400 more signatures!
September 3rd, 2009 at 8:28 pm
I PRAY it’s not too late to make a difference. I am trying to save a small quantity of horses in Colorado. I am ashamed that Ken Salazar used to be our representative. I have over 350 members in my group. I will adopt this cause and dedicate my Facebook group to it (see link) with this group’s organizer’s permission.
Barbara Schmitt
September 10th, 2009 at 1:28 am
National Wild Horse and Burro Program
“In the land of the free and the home of the brave” Be Brave for the Horses!!
Managing for Extinction: Shortcomings of the Bureau of Land Management’s National Wild Horse and Burro Program
By the Animal Welfare Institute (AWI), 2007
One copy free to AWI members
$3.00 for non-members
(cost-price, includes S&H)
PDF Version
We have released a newly revised edition of Managing for Extinction, a 30-page report detailing the failures of the National Wild Horse and Burro Program. Agencies in charge have lost sight of the legal mandate of the 1971 Wild Free-Roaming Horses and Burros Act, and this publication provides insights on ways in which the program and our wild horses might be saved.
http://www.youtube.com/user/TheCloudFoundation
A message from Ginger Kathrens in The middle of The Roundup!!
Barbara Ellen Ries
The Elimination of Wild Horses as a Species. Please assist with Saving of the National Symbol of Freedom . The Truth and Citizens Shall set them Free!!
Suffering is like a tree struck by lighting ~ stripped splintered and broken. When our friends our suffering they will never be the same until they are free from suffering for extended period and given the love they need which is a birthright.~ Barbara Ellen Ries
Have finally arrived at the end of their existence BLM public plans to manage them to death. Barbara Ellen Ries
Would it not be ironic if this very popular wild horses series of “Clouds and his Herd”, would end in death for the Third and final film in the Cloud Series.
These are outstanding documentary about wild horses capturing the pure love between human beings and Our Wild Horses National Treasures.
We need not turned our backs on these beauties
Stand your Ground
To trust in the process
http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/print/2009/02/wild-horses/fuller-text
http://www.thecloudfoundation.org/pdfs/PMWHR_EA_%207-08-2.pdf
By Barbara Ellen Ries
September 19th, 2009 at 12:41 pm
Mustangs on the Hill
Thursday, 17 September 2009 15:20
Please join us on Tuesday, September 29, 2009 from 8:00 AM to 4:00PM on the West Front Lawn of Capitol Hill to support the ROAM Act and urge Congress to preserve and protect OUR wild horses. We encourage people to bring signs (for more information click here) and stand with us united, for OUR wild horse’s future and preservation of OUR heritage and history! To RSVP for the 28th or the 29th, please contact mustangsonthehill@gmail.com .
Be sure to include your state so we can include you in the meetings with the Senators. Thank you to all for your support! We need everyone who is able, to come and stand with us! This is our time to truly make a difference!
Details regarding signs and protocol here: http://www.uscapitolpolice.gov/special_events.php
Click Here to download a flyer! See you on the Hill!!