Source: By Allison Sherry ~ The Denver Post
Mainstream Article, once again, skewed against wild horses and burros…
BLM Antelope attack in 2011 ~ photo by Terry Fitch of Wild Horse Freedom Federation
WASHINGTON — New Interior Secretary Sally Jewell said Tuesday that she is still undecided about how to handle a burgeoning? wild horse and burro population that is eating more than half the horse budget at the BLM and sparking outrage among wild horse advocates.
Jewell said in an interview with The Denver Post that she is awaiting a National Academy of Sciences study, slated to come out in early June (and directed by the BLM not to look at the millions of welfare cattle grazing on the same land), to determine how best to handle the horses.
“It’s going to help identify what’s the sustained capacity of our public lands to handle our wild horses, what is the effectiveness of things like birth control methodology to try and deal with the issue,” Jewell said Tuesday. “So we appreciate their help and we look forward to that response.” (How about the millions of private cattle?)…(CONTINUED)
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Categories: Horse News, Horse Slaughter, Wild Burros, Wild Horses/Mustangs
Straight from the Horse's Heart 
I hope people will go to this article and make some comments.
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Like we trust the NAS to be fair…
Our problem is we allow Washington to investigate and educate itself. It’s own people, whether they are the best for the job or not, are the trusted few. After all we can’t have an independent study, you never know the outcome in advance. We can’t allow the public’s opinion to get in the way otherwise we might have to prove we’re not a terrorists to buy a gun.
We can only hope that Ms Jewell hasn’t been inoculated with the Federal Serum of Incompetency.
“There are a great multitude of individuals who are like blind mules, anxious enough to kick, but can’t tell where” —Josh Billings
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To relieve themselves of an incompetent person, they just promote them. This came from a government contractor to me a long time ago when i dealt with the government on my job. So you can imagine the people who are holding crucial positions…
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exactly
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Went and read the article~and because I do not have a facebook account I cannot comment on the many articles that RT has posted~Love SmokysDad’s comment I hope he is here with us on this site fighting for the Horses~one thing I have noticed though, out of the millions of people in the Rocky Mt. area only a handful comment on articles. I happen to know that the many people I have talked with over the years are not for roundups or horse slaughter.
And one thing to mention is the Denver Post is in serious supscriber trouble, they have to give it away in super markets and because of it’s political stance, people have quit suscribing to it. So the nitwits who post are not the majority around here.
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That’s nice to know..lol
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I thought I was the only one without a facebook account! There were a lot of familiar names that had posted on that article – only a few nitwits!!! If people unfamiliar with the slaughter issue would read some of these posts – they would learn a lot. Theres such a lack of factual information in the media – its scary. And the fact that the NAS study wasn’t allowed to take the damage that the cattle do into account is really idiotic. Only in government!
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This will be another skewed report orchestrated by the BLM who failed simple math. Oh that’s great! Should we get our own scientists to testify about this report? Or what can we do? The livestock NEEDS to be entered into the equation before any solution can be obtained. We know it. Why doesn’t she?
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The time has come. We advocates no longer have to guess how Sec Jewell will conduct DOI business….same as usual. Actually, many advocates knew this already based on the continued roundups for a mysterious throng of wild equines that no one else has seen and the “sterilization” proposal….or would that be “The FINAL Solution Project”?
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Agree Denise
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I’m not optimistic about her. She has less than 4 years to get up to speed on the position, and I predict not much is going to get done or change in that time. The management of our wild horses has been a complete disaster by anybody’s report.
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The number of cattle versus wild horses on public land is 50 to 1; five of 18 wild horses are stockpiled in government facilities; 270,000 wild horses have been removed from public land since 1971; 22.2 million acres of wild horse/burro land has been removed since 1971; 70 percent of wild horse herds have been reduced below genetic viability levels.
Read more: http://billingsgazette.com/news/opinion/mailbag/wild-horses-aren-t-the-problem/article_6151c67f-cd11-55d5-a923-2af43938cdeb.html#ixzz2SjRx49UC
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Harvesting wild horses is still called mustanging. Stockpiling them is how to pretend there is a bigger problem on the range than there is.
So many die.
Try comparing the BLM activities/management with the 1971 Act and write up charges against BLM! No one seems to be able to interpret this Act/law in the manner it was meant. So we need to. And we need to be very specific.
Miss Jewell, Do you also intend to break the law? You could stop this right now with your signature. It is only POLICY, right? You can change policy. In mid air! Try it, you might like it.
The crisis is in the opposition of the movers and shakers and their decision to ignore the public outcry and the loss of our wild horses and burros.
There is no over population. There is a theft of lands and the disrespect for the lives we have asked be protected these past 42 years.
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While we are waiting for a study on wild horses..how about we stop rounding them up? Leave them alone.
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“At Jewell’s confirmation hearing, four senators, two Democrats and two Republicans, questioned the Department’s handling of the wild horse program, saying the BLM has consistently failed to live up to its own management goals.” Ever wonder why we pay taxes? Seems it’s for studies that empower politicians to squander more taxes on defying the will of the people so they can sprinkle the loot among their cronie PAC paying friends..
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This study is conducted by a specialist ordered by Jewell for the BLM????? Rigged for their own benefit….Not the Wild Mustangs….of course not???????? Why not ask Craig Downer?????
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Same ole bullchit coming again I can tell just from her comments especially when she uses the word BURGEONING and not on mention of the hundreds of thousands of cattle on the Mustangs rangelands!!!!!
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http://www.capitalpress.com/newsletter/AP-WY-wild-horses-040513
Ranchers, BLM, settle suit over Wyo. wild horses
U.S. District Judge Nancy Freudenthal in Cheyenne approved the settlement Wednesday.
The settlement requires the BLM to round up horses to meet the new herd target numbers. Roundups will occur this year through 2015, or 2016 if the population objectives aren’t met by then.
The association’s president, John Hay, of Rock Springs, declined to comment Thursday
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Continual approved roundups with no end in sight…..When is this crap
going to end?????I can hardly stand to hear this over and over again…No progress no changes
for our Wild Horses……………
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There are hardly any wild horses or burros left. We don’t need to round up any more
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U.S. District Judge Nancy Freudenthal SHAME ON YOU!!!!!
We know who’s side your own!!
Make those ranchers fence their property!!!
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Remove the wild ones in exchange for this? I wonder if Sally even knows about it. “Sow the wind and reap the whirlwind!” http://www.thewildlifenews.com/2013/05/07/valley-fever-a-growing-threat-to-sw-desert-hikers-hunters-rock-hounds-nature-buffs-atvers-residents/
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Though this beautiful video by European composer and singer Louise du Toit is a tribute to Australia’s wild horses (Brumbies, who are treated like pests in that country — sound familiar?), it can easily be regarded as an ode to the wild horses of America, too: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6BnmtIWSBDs
Its “truth” is more convincing than any skewed “scientific” study, so perhaps Sally Jewell should listen to it, watch it, and allow herself to be moved by it.
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It is time Jewell makes a stand to place the wild horses back out on the ranges. It is time we tell her as horse advocates this is a more progressive approach. I will be an advocate for creating eco systems for our wild horses. Not funded by tax $$$$. I plan to use private land and some public land that is protected. Those of you that know a land area suitable of our wild horses, let me know. Let us help Jewell make a profound new decision to protect our wild horses. Of course the BLM will sway her decisions, always about the all mighty $$$$$$$$$. We can as horse advocates can make a huge difference in this fight. We will not back down ever. All for the horses. Protecting and defending them so they can live free on our lands.
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