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Update: BLM Wild Horse & Burro Advisory Board Meeting to be Broadcast Live

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Meeting begins 08:00 AM Mountain Time
Click (HERE) for live feed
Unified Advocate Press Conference to be held, not broadcasted live, at Noon
Public Comments 3:30 – 4:30 PM
Information and Agenda (HERE)

 

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    • I am in the Boston, Ma area. Sandy is here but not strong…yet. I will be watching the BLM Advisory Board meeting. I cannot audio record. But I always watch the BLM & DC meetings and take detailed notes as-fast-as-I-can…what everyone says. (With some *&^%# comments of my own in the notebook margins. I am only human & the stuff I hear is infuriating.) Thank you for the web link .

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    • Im not sure how to record this but Ill try. How did the press conference go? Did you have a video of that press conference and how many press showed up? Did you address the Tom Davis issue
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      • So far, the BLM Advisory Board this AM basically dismissed the Tom Davis issue. Spoke briefly. Will not sell to Davis anymore and will do more vetting. Importantly, the accusations in an article were so great that they stopped selling to Davis. I know the article but cannot remember the author right now. It was a WOW article *****. The board is on beak now. All morning was devoted to a climate specialist talking drought. Interesting.

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  6. Discussing/spending taxpayer $ on “growth supression” on endangered species is ludacris. AML’s below genetic viability is ludacris. Their extinction agenda is already set, nothing good will come out of this.

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    • And so far this Board meeting has been about drought. How wild horses are drinking all the water and none for antelope. How wild horses are damaging the range foraging, hindering new growth. Wild horses are causing setbacks with the endangered wild grouse. How wild horses need to be “gathered” to save their lives. But where to put the wild horses now. All places filled. The set-up was the climatologist who spoke for almost 2 hours this AM. And he DID NOT speak “doomsday’ for the range due to wild horses nor that the range would not replenish with water and grass. He was basically noncommittal. Again & again, a Board meeting how to get rid of the wild horses. And with all the above, WHAT ABOUT THE CATTLE!? THEY ARE THE ONES RUINING THE RANGE. SCIENCE PROVES…THIS FOR DECADES!!!

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  7. Ronnie-
    I have been listening to most of the meeting too … and LIVESTOCK is not mentioned … even though our HMA land is almost always AT LEAST used (AUM) five or more times by LIVESTOCK … just agreeing with your observation of what they are saying. Boloney … pure baloney and cover-up … pure and simple and even Callie just said that the money money money is the most important thing to her in the WH&B program.

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    • I’m with you! All she seemed to talk about was the $…heartless uncompassionate hell.

      Others (the public) including RT managed to get some stings in before they were ripped from their 3 minute quickie ….podium….I think Simone wanted to comment snc they would not let her do it because she didn’t get her comments into by 2 pm! What BS!

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  8. Write up in the Deseret News: Monday, 10/29/2012 4:01PM “SALT LAKE CITY — Multiple wild horse advocate groups called on the Bureau of Land Management to stop rounding up wild horse and burros, a practice they say leads to warehousing thousands of animals in abysmal conditions and the slaughter of others for human consumption… The nine-member citizen’s board, which includes a representative from Utah, is meeting to review issues pertinent to the program and to make recommendations to the BLM for management of the program, which oversees wild horse and burro populations in 10 Western states.
    “Instead of finding ways to manage them on the land,” the groups say the BLM is now stuck in the “syndrome” of stockpiling wild horses in holding pens or pastures, where their numbers at 47,000 eclipse the animals that roam wild — 38,500 by the BLM’s own estimates.
    Such a practice has led to a fiscal disaster, said R.T. Fitch, president of the Wild Horse Freedom Foundation, enticing the federal agency to turn a blind eye to “kill buyers” who purchase hundreds of animals for slaughter in Canada or Mexico.
    “They need to stop selling horses sight unseen by the truckload,” said Simone Netherlands, managing director of Respect4Horses.
    The BLM officially acknowledged Monday that an investigation is being done by the U.S. Department of Interior’s inspector general after allegations surfaced that a Colorado horseman had purchased more than 1,700 wild horses from the BLM over a five-year period.
    The horseman admits to being a slaughter proponent but signed contracts with the agency agreeing that none of the animals would meet that fate.
    Ed Roberson, assistant director of the BLM, said sales to the horseman were immediately stopped once allegations surfaced. While advocates say such large bulk purchases of animals absent any inspection should arouse suspicion, Roberson said the practice isn’t unusual.
    In this case, the buyer said he intended the animals be used in movie shoots or to keep rangeland grasses short in oil field productions areas.
    Netherlands scoffed at the explanations and said the BLM is “funding unspeakable cruelty” so wild horses can go from an idyllic existence on public lands to a “dinner plate.”
    The last U.S. slaughterhouse for horse meat intended for human consumption shut down in 2007 when the federal meat inspection program for that purpose was defunded.
    Lack of such plants has fueled a lucrative market in Canada and Mexico, where advocates estimate horses are shipped by the thousands.
    The BLM says it has a strict policy against selling to “kill buyers.” Last year, the federal agency intercepted dozens of horses outside of Price they say were destined for sale in Mexico.
    Groups are ramping up their calls for an end to BLM roundups because the agency is on an accelerated schedule to remove horses from Western lands due to the drought…”
    http://www.deseretnews.com/article/865565563/Advocates-decry-BLMs-wild-horse-roundups-at-meeting-in-SLC.html

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    • Thanks Christy Lee-
      Just wanted to clarify that “allegations” that Tom Davis bought the 1700 horses is not the correct word. HE DID and the documents of horses and burros sold to him are available online (link below). You may want to look at the names of the other large sales – although some were legitimate – others need further investigation. You may also wish to look at the names of the facilities that the horses were sold FROM. Although we know that the BLM marketing person made the final decision for sales and that there is and will be a cover-up by BLM … we also know that the facility managers were completely aware of where these wild horses and burros were headed for.

      http://www.propublica.org/documents/item/443093-blm-sales.html

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