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.

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)

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

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
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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/...