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!!

“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

Barbara Schmitt

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!

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