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BLM To Kill Thousands of Wild Horses
Animal Welfare Institute Condemns BLM Proposal to Kill Thousands of Wild Horses in Holding Facilities
WASHINGTON, D.C. (July 2, 2008) – For the first time in the history of the Bureau of Land Management (BLM)—the federal agency charged with protecting and managing wild horses in the United States—officials now claim that up to 30,000 horses currently in confinement may have to be “euthanized” to balance the agency’s budget.
The Animal Welfare Institute (AWI) vehemently opposes any proposal that would sanction the mass killing of our nation’s wild horses. “To set the record straight, euthanasia is mercy killing. That’s certainly not what’s being proposed here by any stretch of the imagination,” said Chris Heyde, deputy director of government and legal affairs for AWI. “It’s killing pure and simple to balance the books for an agency whose reckless management has caused immeasurable harm to a national treasure at considerable cost to the American taxpayer.”
In the last few years, the BLM’s national wild horse and burro program has changed leadership and direction—and tragically, wild horses have paid the price. To placate the demands of livestock interests and despite protests from wild horse advocates, the agency began rounding up animals from the wild at an unprecedented rate, leaving many herds with so few animals that their long-term health and viability are now in serious jeopardy.
Adoption demand could not keep pace with such drastic removals, requiring the BLM to contract for more and more private long-term holding facilities. Today, this misguided policy has shockingly resulted in more animals being held in confinement than run free in the wild. Now, BLM officials are seeking a magic bullet for the problem that they have irresponsibly created – adding a whole new subtext to the expression “They Shoot Horses, Don’t They?”
The 1971 Wild Free-Roaming Horses and Burros Act was passed unanimously by Congress to stop the mass slaughter and commercial exploitation of these magnificent animals. “Americans were outraged to learn what was happening then, and they will be even more irate to learn what the BLM is proposing today,” Heyde said. “Public support for the original Act is considered one of the largest grassroots campaigns on animal welfare issues in US history. It is time to reignite this passion if we are to save these magnificent animals from extinction on the range and in the wild.”
The proposal to resume killing the public’s wild horses will be discussed at the next National Wild Horse and Burro Advisory Board meeting scheduled for September 2008. AWI encourages the public and the US Congress to act swiftly to protect our horses, whose lives are at risk at the hands of the very agency tasked with the responsibility to care for them.
For over 57 years, AWI has been the leading voice for animals across the country and on Capitol Hill. Please join us in our ongoing campaigns to reduce the sum total of pain and fear inflicted on animals by humans. Sign up for AWI eAlerts to receive the latest news on what you can do to help us protect all animals: http://www.awionline.org/joinus.
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Chris Heyde (703) 836-4300
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Deputy Director, Government and Legal Affairs
Animal Welfare Institute
PO Box 3650
Washington, DC 20027
Tel: (703) 836-4300 ~ Fax: (888) 260-2271
www.awionline.org
www.compassionindex.org
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July 8th, 2008 at 4:39 am
Chris, Willie,
I’m sure you’re familiar with Dayton Hyde’s facility in the Black hills? It is a model that should be copied by the BLM in each of the 10 Western states that have wild horse herds(and elsewhere) that are appropriate. Perhaps all the appropriate National Parks should have Wild Horse herds moved and reintroduced to them(where there aren’t any already) and where they can be sustained without damaging the eco-system? How about lowering the adoption fees and cost for the Wild horses to qualified adoptees? While the price of horses has gone down somewhat but a trained (I don’t like to say broke)mustang is still a valuable commodity for ranchers, pleasure, sports, families and particularly Endurance Riding. There are many ranchers that are against the slaughter too. Maybe with your organization and Willie’s profile, some of the well known professional trainers like Craig Cameron, Clinton Anderson, Pat Parelli, Al Dunning, John Lyons, Chris Cox, Dennis Reis and others could donate some of there time and effort into some sort of Mustang Training Program. Mustangs trained by any of these trainers would bring pretty decent prices, save the animals, give these guys some good publicity and profit as well. The Western States Mustang Challenge is a contest (you are probably more aware of it than I am)between professional trainers to take a wild mustang from scratch and train it in a short period of time. Perhaps this could be expanded to some sort of program to provide an alternative to slaughter? I can’t donate right now,but if Ican help in some way, let meknow. I have an 11 year old paint Gelding that I keep on my friend’s farm. I take care of her three horses as well. She used to have a Horse Therapy Program (NARHA certified. My son is Autistic and as in the Program. That got me back riding after many years and I’ll never cease at this point. The Paint (Alberio)works for me as a trail horse and my son as a Therapy horse. We are trying to revive the Program. Right now, we can’t afford more mouths to feed at the farm or we’d be candidates for adoption. Horse Therapy Programs are growing every day,including programs for injured and traumatized Iraq Vets; adults and kids with pyschological problems, troubled juvenilles, etc. Churchill said it, Will Rogers and Ronald Reagan quoted it (yeah Reagan got undeserved credit for it)but the fact is “THE OUTSIDE OF A HORSE IS GOOD FOR THE INSIDE OF A MAN”. IT’s more than that. It’s the soul of the horse as well. Good Luck. I’ll sign any petitions ands start one if you like.
Dave Rubin
Minnesota
PS: God Bless you, Willie and other members of your organizarion for your efforts on behalf of the Mustang, a national treasure.
October 11th, 2008 at 7:43 pm
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December 29th, 2008 at 9:57 pm
http://www.change.org/ideas/view/stop_horse_slaughter_now
update on efforts to tell Obama to stop horse slaughter
pass it on
June 15th, 2009 at 8:14 am
Yes, agreed the Pryors Horses deserve a National Park in their home area of Montana. After you read the information write President Obama.
The strongest point today. The day of the BLM meeting. You not going to believe this information until you read it. It is like a reading a horrble real story that is unbelieviable.
The BLM didn’t want to tell the USA citizens they were planning a wild horse holocost. Goverment has not been truthful or willing to disclose a BLM Cruel plan. It says all this and more in the actual BLM papers recieved by the legal non -for -profit,Conquistador Equine Rescue and Advocacy Program. The BLM actual words are extraordinary rendition, and executive override of laws, and are now open up to public disclosure. It says in this plan they want to keep this plan a secret. This is just the beginning of the amount papers discovered. Contact below
Call e-mail, and read for yourself this I did and it was well worth it.
The Conquistador Equine Rescue and Advocacy Program
Phoenix, AZ
ph: (480) 430-2294
contact@conquistadorprogram.org
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
Them write the President and ask to have this investigated today!
Join the efforts of
http://www.bushtruthcommission.com/
Read these documents and then contact President Obama today
Contact: http://www.whitehouse.gov/CONTACT/
Best
Barbara Ellen Ries
http://www.bushtruthcommission.com/
Read these documents and then contact President Obama today.
http://www.nvhorsepower.org/wild_and_free.html
http://www.whitehouse.gov/CONTACT/
June 15th, 2009 at 8:37 am
Suggestions today are as follows the condition has worsen.
1. Today I would say we need to even take this further. Request a review of a materials yourself on line or contact
I read it and called them.
The Conquistador Equine Rescue & Advocacy Program is a nonprofit 501c3 equine welfare organization. It is also posted to read on their web site. Read it they want this information to be public.
The Conquistador Equine Rescue and Advocacy Program
Phoenix, AZ
ph: (480) 430-2294
contact@conquistadorprogram.org
Documents on web below: Go to this web
http://www.conquistadorprogram.org/blm__court_documents_on_wild_horses
2.Contact President Obama directly to ask thet he look into this matter and investigate.
http://www.whitehouse.gov/CONTACT/
3.Join this recent posting for the Bush Truth Commission:
http://www.bushtruthcommission.com/
You will not believe this information until you read it!!
July 26th, 2009 at 8:52 pm
July 26, 2009
USA Citizens for Cloud ,
His Herd & Wild Horses and Burros ~
to ROAM Free!!
Stop the Round ups of Cloud ~ His Herd (All
& Wild Horses & Burros)
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: exsec@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 slaughter (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@aol.com
July 29th, 2009 at 9:43 pm
Wildhorse Mass Extermination Planned by Secretary Interior Salazar; Stop This
By: acquarius74 Saturday July 4, 2009 5:59 pm
http://seminal.firedoglake.com/diary/6125
Ken Salazar
Today as we celebrate Freedom, Liberty, and the right to pursuit of happiness, DailyKos carries this shameful story. A new commenter here by name of “wildhorses” says it much better than I can and gave the link at bottom for the dkos article.
wildhorses July 4th, 2009 at 2:26 pm comment @ 4WILL OBAMAS LEGACY ON LADY LIBERTY include the killing of 33,000 AMERICAN living symbols of freedom, our American wild horses?Today Department of Interior (DOI) Secretary Salazar commemorates the Statue of Liberty while planning the extermination of over 33,000 wild horses against the clear will and vote of the people.DOI Secretary Salazar typically donned in a White Cowboy Hat is presiding over the formal plans to provide stress counseling for the BLM’s workers and other who will be charged with killing healthy wild horses.Dartable birth control (PZP) developed by Dr. J Kirkpatrick has been available for 20 yrs and has been used successfully at Assateague for 10 yrs as well as elsewhere.There are easily 400,000 cattle on these public lands vs. less than 30,000 wild horses.The BLM continues to ignore and invert the science behind horse vs. cattle grazing and continues to claim horses have a more negative impact on grass conditions, even though cattle, unlike horses, do not have upper front teeth and actually pull out the grasses by the roots and have a much more adverse effect on range conditions.Secretary Salazar, who hails from a ranching family in Colorado as a Senator voted to allow downed and diseased animals into the American families’ food supply.Return to the horses to the Wild Horse Territories , as originally intended by the 1971 Free Roaming Wild Horse and Burro Act, and save the American taxpayers the more than 39 million dollars per year cost of round-ups and holding pens fees.
Here is link to this DailyKos article. Please vote and leave a comment. If you know of movements, petitions, ways to stop this, please leave a comment.Thanks in advance, and thank you, ‘wildhorses’.http://www.dailykos.com/story/…..n-the-West
http://www.lvrj.com/news/51091367.html#blogcomments?submitted=y
Cindy MacDonald wrote on July 18, 2009 01:02 PM: I began researching BLMs “management” of wild horses and burros in July 2006 after BLM issued a press release in the Review Journal about how they needed to remove almost 1,000 “excess” animals from the LV area.
Since then, I have studied almost every aspect of public resource management to understand the reality behind the WH&B Program.
This article, like most of them, completely fails to tell the public what is really going on behind the scenes.
For example, many of those Republicans in opposition to this bill and using catchy soundbytes like “horse welfare” are flaming hypocrites as they are the most avid supporters of huge government hand outs totaling billions of dollars to ranchers all across the West – something they have been doing for decades on the taxpayers dime.
The BLM has become a political body and the real issue is a raging war for natural resources, most of it aimed to serve the rich and screw the general public.
Wild horses and burros comprise just a tiny bit of what is “managed” in the West but very few will tell the public anything more than “the BLM has determined they are excessive” and must be removed.
The American public is being scammed out of some of the most majestic, historical and unique animals to grace our Nation and once they are gone, they are gone for good.
What the BLM has done should be investigated but at least this bill STARTS to try and move things back in the right direction.
With billions of dollars flowing into coffers for “everything else”, it is sad to see short-sighted people so easily played by the special interest groups taking what is rightfully ours.
And if anyone wants to get real about unsustainability, aim your sights on the public lands livestock industry…
Go Cindy
July 29th, 2009 at 9:49 pm
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: exsec@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 slaughter (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 (_______________________)
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@aol.com
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
Cloud the Most Famous Wild Horse in the World. Continue to be in Virtual Prayer and Meditation and Good Vibration to keep Cloud and the Wild Horses alive and to ROAM!!
Title: Wild Horse Protection Bill Clears the House
Date: 04/26/2007
Location: Washington, DC
Press Release
Show All Statements
Wild Horse Protection Bill Clears the House
The U.S. House of Representatives approved legislation today reinstating over 30 years of federal policy that prohibits the commercial sale and slaughter of wild horses and burros that make their home on our nation’s public lands. The legislation, introduced by Rep. Nick J. Rahall (D-WV), Chairman of the House Natural Resources Committee, passed with a vote of 277-137.
“This Congress is tasked with the stewardship of much that is invaluable – breathtaking natural wonders, healthy rivers and streams – all icons of American history. It is our responsibility to manage these resources for the good of future generations, and it is a responsibility that I take very seriously,” said Rahall. “The proper care and preservation of the wild horses that roam public lands in the West also falls within our stewardship – yet current policy is keeping us from living up to our responsibility.”
H.R. 249, championed with bipartisan support, requires the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) and the Forest Service to resume their responsibility to enforce the protection of wild horses on public lands. In 1971, Congress adopted legislation to protect wild horses and mandated that they could not be sold or slaughtered for processing into commercial products. Since then, the BLM has allowed for the general public to adopt wild horses, captured when their population becomes excessive.
But a provision in the Fiscal Year 2005 omnibus appropriations bill, known as the Burns rider, overturned 34 years of national policy on the care and management of wild horses and burros. As a result, countless wild horses have been rounded up for slaughter so their meat can be offered on menus in overseas nations such as France, Belgium, and Japan, where it is considered a delicacy.
https://www.votesmart.org/speech_detail.php?sc_id=281208&keyword=&phrase=&contain=
“It is incredible that this nation would even think of allowing the commercial sale of horse flesh for human consumption. The very notion that wild American horses would be slaughtered as a food source for foreign gourmets has struck a chord within the American people,” Rahall said. “We must put a halt to this process, one that is nothing short of inhumane, once and for all.”
In 2005 and 2006, Rahall successfully offered similar legislation as amendments to the Interior Appropriations bill. However, neither amendment was signed into law – leaving thousands of wild horses and burros victimized, and at increased risk to sale and slaughter.
“My colleagues in the House have demonstrated, once again, that the will of the American people is strong in the fight to protect wild horses from slaughter. Americans do not want it, and we should not be facilitating it any longer,” Rahall said.
http://resourcescommittee.house.gov/…
August 1st, 2009 at 7:46 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 10th, 2009 at 1:22 am
A message from Ginger Kathrens of The Clou Foundation
http://www.youtube.com/user/TheCloudFoundation
Call the President Obama he needs to know This information. Nuber included on this Utube& massage
Lame Foal from Summer Roundup From: TheCloudFoundation | 670 views The Pryors Roundup of Cloud’s herd should never have taken place this early in the year when month old foals are made to go down 10-15 miles in a matter of a couple of hours in order for their mothers to get a contraceptive drug.
Take Action: Please call President Obama now: 202-456-1111 (or 202-456-9000)
Ask that the older horses slated for removal be released Ask that this herd be not taken below 150 adult animals to maintain their genetic viability
Ask for increased scrutiny of the Bureau of Land Management’s Wild Horse and Burro Program. Our wild horses and burros need immediate change and an end to their mismanagement. … (more info)
September 18th, 2009 at 8:20 pm
Adoption of Pryor Mustangs and Important Event in Washington DC!!
The Adoption is September 26th at the BLM Britton Springs Administrative Corrals outside of Lovell, WY and then advocates from around the US are headed to DC!
Dear Cloud Supporters,
Just a quick update:
- Plans are coming together to adopt/purchase older horses and keep them together in their family bands until we have successfully lobbied for their release or the Washington DC District Court rules against the BLM. Please send donations to the Freedom Fund for getting the horses and to help us cover legal expenses. Our attorney and a great team of volunteers recently prevented the zeroing out of the West Douglas Herd in Colorado; we need more wins like that for our wild horses.
-Please join us in Washington DC for “Mustangs on the Hill” on the 29th of September. We will meet on the West Lawn of the Capitol Building in the morning for a press conference where Ginger will speak along with many other leading humane and wild horse advocates, Celebrity supporters and Senators and Congress people who are supportive of the ROAM Act. We will then spread out to meet with Senators and their staff to push for the immediate passage of the ROAM Act which is now in the Senate Energy and Natural Resources committee. Please start calling your Senators now. -If you are planning on adopting a Pryor Horse on September 26th please let us know as soon as possible: info@thecloudfoundation.org or 719-633-3842.
Keep the faith for our wild horses, there is a strong movement now to secure a future for them. The roundup of Cloud’s herd is just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to the mismanagement of our wild herds. We hope you can join us in DC.