Article by Jane Braxton Little of the Sacramento Bee
BLM’s current mismanagement of Wild Horses & Burros to be Hot Topic
BLM Removing Native Wild Horses from Nevada’s Antelope Complex ~ photo by Terry Fitch of Wild Horse Freedom Federation
Carla Bowers, a mustang advocate, will present a proposal for managing wild horses to the Modoc-Washoe Experimental Stewardship Steering Committee when it meets in public session Jan. 10.
The committee is scheduled to discuss livestock grazing permits and wild horse management at the meeting, which starts at 9 a.m. at the Bureau of Land Management Surprise Field Office in Cedarville.
It will also discuss genetic diversity in the wild herds and Forest Service management in wild horse territory in northeastern California, said Jeff Fontana, a BLM spokesman in Susanville.
The agenda of the stewardship committee, which provides advice on natural resource issues and livestock grazing to the BLM and the Modoc National Forest‘s Warner Mountain Ranger District, includes reports from technical review teams working on a livestock grazing proposal for the BLM’s Bare Grazing Allotment, and a proposal regarding temporarily nonrenewable forage grazing permits.
The group works on a full consensus basis to promote innovative range management approaches and to provide incentives for excellence. Members represent broad interests, including livestock grazing permit holders, California and Nevada state wildlife agencies, the BLM, Forest Service, resource conservation districts, timber interests, environmental groups, sporting groups and local government, Fontana said.
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Categories: Equine Rescue, Wild Burros, Wild Horses/Mustangs
Straight from the Horse's Heart 
Sorry but I can already see the deck being stacked against the horses..
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Let’s think positive for the horses……I know that working with the BLM (the enemy) is extremely difficult…but if anyone can get it done……Carla Bowers is armed with information and stats like no one else I know!…….give ’em hell, Carla
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my thoughts exactly Terri. 😦 AWHPC has requested a meeting with WH staff. Hope these efforts go somewhere good for the horses or very soon there will be no more wild horses to save.
http://org2.democracyinaction.org/o/6931/p/dia/action/public/index
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I hope and pray that this time will be different. Typically these meetings have been staged to make it appear that the public has input into the outcome for the Wild Horses and Burros, but nothing is ever decided in their favor… more cows grazing, more of their land designated for industrial options, more horses, once wild and magnificent, standing in crowded holding pens, or worse sent to slaughter. I fear that the only hope for the horses is for the BLM to be dismissed from anything to do with them and new policies that actually protect them and save the land that was intended for them in the 1971 Law be re-enacted with impunity.
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I would like to read about this plan – does anyone have the information?
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Me too!!!!! Want to read this plan before I say GO Carla
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