It’s Da Real Thing!
The Bureau of Land Management has been verbally dishing mega-tons of wild horse and burro manure to the American taxpayers for decades but now they are actually putting our money where their mouths are, literally. Now the U.S. Public can actually lay their hands on the real thing from the equines that should not be captive but free on their rightful range. That BLM is so very, very clever!
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Categories: Horse News, Wild Burros, Wild Horses/Mustangs
Straight from the Horse's Heart 
As the forward says, if anyone knows how to peddle $h*t, it’s the BLM.
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Haahaaahaa….Denise your so funny!
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What a laugh! Perfect, BLM!
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I did pick this up at FB and although Wild Horse MAnure may be a little different, I would think that the pens have manure from horses that have ben processed and given wormer and other possible toxins which makes it ‘less wild’ manure. So here goes;
http://www.thehorse.com/articles/31642/use-caution-when-fertilizing-with-raw-horse-manure
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If anyone is “full of it” … BLM is!
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Is this a joke!! Offer “them up as manure!”
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Indeed they are manure they must need to try and muck us up. What a dumb idea which goes to show your they have nothing else better to report, theyre heads are up their asses.
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Does this mean they will actually start cleaning out the corrals so the babies won’t be born in a pile of it??? Do they think they can use this to pay for their stinking helicopters. I saw where the BLM is cancelling Oil & Gas Lease Auctions to the sequester – so why are they continuing to round up horses. Talk about HS!!!!!
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Good point about the sequester, Paula. Why can BLM keep this going under these circumstances affecting (and afflicting) so many people, including children, across the nation?
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BLM noise about the overcrowded range ( well duh …round up some cattle and sheep…leave the Mustangs and Burros alone) and then about adoptions.
Here’s the link as there are some really good comments, but then the usual airheads are commenting as well
http://www.star-telegram.com/2013/05/09/4839933/government-cant-find-room-for.html
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You could shred all the reports they have issued over the years. Don’t know that it would help your garden grow but it certainly is manure.
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Oh my god honestly??? I mean I am laughing, have to what in hell, they really have lost it haven’t they?? Well, like you all have said they are the pro’s when it comes to horse sh-t….
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whadaya mean…EVERYDAY is Free BLM Manure Day!!!! R.T. out of your many writings, this is my favorite I have seen in awhile..Thank you, you often say what many of us would like to say!
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I guess I have heard everything now!!! Let’s pass some more horse sh__ around! Everyone has said it…the BLM are certainly the masters at this!!! Thanks RT, I certainly have heard everything
now..
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I’m stunned. We “stupid citizens” (BLM’s take on us pesky wild horse advocates) have had numerous first person witness accounts of the completely uncleaned pens they keep the wild ones in. We’ve seen photos and videos of them standing in filth nearly up to their hocks in one mustang prison facility in Utah, some stuck in a mire of manure, as well as less severe but nonetheless still disgusting conditions at every other “holding facility” that’s ever been photographed. We’ve seen photographs of piles of $hit covering at least 50% of the surface area of all those prison pens for years.
When we complained loudly a few years ago about the dozens of babies being born into the big piles of crap everywhere on the ground and then dying at Palomino Valley, or was it Arrowhead, BLM told us they simply could not clean the pens as the mustangs were just “too wild” to allow them to do so. They could not enter those pens with the “wild” horses. No attempts to simply move them to one end and cordon it off at that halfway point so they could clean half the pen and then reverse and do the same so the little ones would not have to feel their first touch of earth as a pile of dung and flies & diseases could be more under control. Nope it was simply impossible for BLM to clean the pens because of those “wild” horses in them.
So now, out of the blue, some BLM facilities are actually picking up and removing manure? Wow, I wonder if this is a once in a decade opportunity or perhaps once in a lifetime. Or maybe they’ve exterminated so many wild ones that those pens are somewhat empty now so BLM wouldn’t have to be afraid to enter the pens with the scary “wild horses” to clean the pens. I’m still shocked they have even made any effort to clean after insisting it could not be done and apparently feeling it was perfectly OK to let them live in filth. But maybe they’ve seized on turning their new little spring cleaning project into a great PR trick as well: appeal to the dumb American citizens with an offer of free WILD horse $hit, making it sound all exotic and special since everyone knows that WILD $hit is so much more desirable than domestic $hit. Unbelievable. But then again, nothing BLM ever does is believable to me.
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…..and they intend to round up MORE. Comments were due on April 29th, but let them hear from you anyway. They need to KEEP hearing from us. Take a look at the Wild Horses in the Burns District….they may never be seen by the Public again:
http://org2.salsalabs.com/o/6931/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=13786
Public Comment Deadline: April 29, 2013
Video of the Steens wild horses is available here.
The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is giving the public just 17 days to submit comments on a plan to roundup and remove wild horses living in the South Steens Herd Management Area (HMA), which is located 75 miles south of Burns, Oregon. Known as the “Hollywood Herd,” the South Steens horses are both colorful (many pintos) and accessible, making them one of the most popular and frequently photographed populations in the U.S.
Just four years ago, the BLM conducted a helicopter roundup in the mountainous South Steens HMA, removing hundreds of wild horses from the range. The horses were thrown into holding pens; most will remain in captivity in government holding facilities for life. Now, four years later, the agency is planning another roundup in the HMA, and targeting over 300 horses for removal.
Despite sequestration and budget crises and despite the lack of holding space for captured mustangs due to the stockpiling of an astounding 50,000 wild horses, the BLM just does not get the message that its fiscally irresponsible and inhumane ways must change. The agency must stop rounding up and removing wild horses from their homes on the range, and start properly implementing a PZP fertility control program. Current wild horse numbers can be accommodated by modest adjustments to livestock grazing in order to give PZP the time to stabilize population numbers, and reduce the herd size over time.
The BLM allocates 72% of available forage in this HMA, not to federally-protected wild horses, but to a private rancher who grazes his livestock on our public lands at tax-subsidized rates. This leaves ample room for the agency to adjust forage allocations to maintain the current South Steens wild horses on the range and avoid costly removals.
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South Steens Wild Horses~June 2011
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There is nothing more beautiful and majestic than watching our wild horses in the wild! Thank you for sharing this magnificent film. I hope and pray they leave the remainder of the Soufh Steens Wild Horses to live our their lives in freedom, where they belong.
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Thanks Louie, local and state advocates and wild horse lovers need to be seen and heard by their districts. All of us need to be questioning every move BLM makes in this way. We need to build more connections to the herds that are out there!
Please plan to visit wild horses this year!!!! Connect with locals and learn all you can. Do more. Act.
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Those Wild Horses AND the manure need to stay on the range, where they so rightfully and legally belong.
http://wildhorsepreservation.org/how-wild-horses-help-ecosystem
HOW WILD HORSES HELP THE ECOSYSTEM (excerpts)
by Craig Downer
As concerns mutualistic relations, we again note that horse feces contain less thoroughly decomposed vegetable matter than would a ruminant’s and, for this reason, more greatly aid in building the nutrient-rich humus component of healthy soils. This leads to better water retention and nutrient levels for root absorption, and the overall well-being of the horse- or burro-inhabited ecosystem. Also the less-digested feces majorly feed the ecological food chain, benefiting a host of organisms and species from tiny microorganisms to beetles and bugs, worms, birds, rodents, lizards, and larger animals that feed upon these. Additionally, both wild horses and burros are major prey species that contribute substantially to natural predator species such as puma, wolf, and bear. They should be regarded as one with the great tapestry of these large-predator-containing ecosystems and incorporated in regions of wolf, bear (especially grizzly) and puma reintroduction.
The fact that the horse and burro are not committed to as thoroughly decompose the plants they ingest as compared to ruminants, coupled with the fact that they spread their grazing pressure over vast areas, not camping on any one area (unless so forced by human interference with their habitat, e.g. fences, fenced off water holes, etc.) makes them the perfect reducers of dry, parched and flammable vegetation and so the perfect preventers of the catastrophic wildfires that are on the increase, especially in the West where the wild equids are found. The drying of large portions of the West due to Global Warming makes the equid role particularly critical. Again, their building of more moisture-retaining soils makes them very important in this respect, since soil moisture dampens out incipient fires and makes the air coating the earth also more moist. Horses and burros are much better equipped for this increasingly important service to all the life community, including man, than ruminant grazers, particularly domesticated ones. Indeed, these equids refill a significant empty niche within the North American ecosystem.
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As always, Louie, great information AND the video of those amazing horses from South Steens.
Are they the undernourished, inbred ugly runts that I’ve read about – the reasoning for getting rid of the wild ones? The tri-colored buckskin (mare?) is something else – they are all better looking than the plain old quarter horse sorrels! Not that I’m putting down sorrels, but what a beautiful bunch of horses & how anyone can even contemplate rounding them up & sticking them in pens is beyond me. Just breaks my heart. Somehow there has to be a way to stop this – but apparently no one is reading Craig Downers info or paying attention to common sense. Keep up the good work, please.
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Anyone want to guess on the amount of contract money involved in this fiasco?
These trolls are checkerboarding our public lands with reductions, leases and “change” of previously set aside lands, use left and right. They are making us FIGHT parcel by parcel.
Darth Vader (Cheney) and his henchmen want to “privatize” EVERYTHING. If you are not sure, ask the US Post Office.
This is the perfect example of when capitalism is krapitalism.
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This, of course, is nothing new. what do they think their attempts to blame every injury on0ublic lands to the horse is. maybe they believe thatmthempublocmthat reads their page is no greater than the non-rural reality stars performing oversight either fail to see or studiously ignore the void that exist everywhere between any federal agency and the horse, but is no more apparent or egregious than as it appears on the BLM’s web site.
A nine year-old spending an afternoon on Gramdpa’s farm would recognize after a bit that cows and horses do not share the same grazing behaviors. What is impossible to miss is the different riparian area patterns of use. These difference are not based on the different forages or difference in climate. They are species specific behaviors that replicate themselves in all ecosystems where horses appear alone or together with cows and other grazing animals. There differences are due to the fact the horse does not digest the forage (grasses) that the horse consumes. Instead, the bacteria that live on the different horse foraged grasses break down the forage into food usable for the horse. No bacteria, no digestion. There is no one size fits all bacteria that easily migrates from one forage to another which is the science behind the reason that when change the diet of our horses we must do it gradually or we put them at risk of colic and death. the forage down in the horse’s digestive system.
Yet, despite the presence of veterinarians in high level jobs with or associated with the practice of taking wild horses off of nutrient poor range grass and then feeling them the richest type of horse quality grass, alfalfa. Was explained away as a USDA policy.Do we understand thie implication here. Essentially we are to believe that the USDA, creates a policy just for our wild horses that do not recommend for domestic horses and insisted the BLM use this hay makes no seems since there domestic horse policy advises against this.
If the USDA did this when their scientists educators advise horse owners and rescues to do the opposite whether, this is extremely.
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This USDA policy ‘insistence’ has killed many wild horses. BLM does everything to extreme to make our wild ones ‘domestic’; capture, gelding, branding, dispersal, adoption and life long holding.
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The BLM thinks the wild horses and burros are at the bottom end of the range totem pole but they belong to all of us and they shouldn’t be pushed out and slaughtered just to make room for the welfare ranchers and their cows. We need to form a organization that is dedicated to their welfare. Maybe there could be a check off box on our tax forms to help support it. I am sure it would be way more popular than the political boxes. Seriously, if we don’t intervene we are not going to have any wildlife left. Our opponents care nothing for wilderness, wildlife, environment ar even clean water and air. There is no limit to their greed and selfishness. We need to do everything we can to stop their reign of terror.
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We have been teaching our nation that there is great value in wilderness and in the wildlife and the pristine lands and waters. This is part of our heritage to learn these things. This will never change. These things are invaluable and priceless. Those who destroy our public heritage need to be told they are not going to win it all. We are still a nation with ethics even if the BLM, DOI, USDA, and others have obviously lost theirs. Our desire for getting things done right and with fairness must keep on in the face of ag-gag laws and accusations of eco-terrorism and blatant conflict of interest. Keep telling the truth. Hold onto the values we respect and never stop fighting. This is about more than just us and the wild ones but we are one of the litmus tests.
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They are YOUR Wild Horses, Maggie. They are OUR Wild Horses and so is the Public Land where they so rightfully and LEGALLY belong.
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