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| The BLM is asking for public comment on the Environmental Assessment to roundup the wild horses in Iron County, Utah. You can read the Environmental Assessment HERE.
The BLM last did an aerial population survey about 2 years ago, where they only counted 261 adults in the entire Bible Complex (there were an additional 57 foals and yearlings), but the BLM seems to add the foals into the equation for reproduction. SO, if foals had babies that year, and 20% of the wild horses were hiding, the BLM came up with a population estimate of about 697 in 2014. That’s 261 adults to almost 700 in only 2 years! Whoa! We want GPS and time & date stamped photos from ALL BLM aerial population surveys, and for the BLM to only use the numbers of horses that can actually be proven to be there in their written count. We don’t want flawed population modeling. In the EA, the BLM lists an alternative for reducing livestock, then states there is no detailed analysis because it is outside the scope of the analysis. The BLM makes reducing livestock within the scope of the EA by including mention of it in the EA. The BLM will be leaving only 170-180 wild horses on 152,563 HMA acres, while livestock grazing allotments indicate about 2,894 cattle and 1,674 sheep (4,568 animals) will be allowed to eat the forage. (note: only part of these allotments may be on the HMA) The BLM has not informed the public if a genetic analysis has ever been done by Dr. Gus Cothran or detailed information regarding the genetic variability and viability of the herd. If you comment on the EA, please take a few moments and write something in your own words, and don’t just sign onto a form letter. The BLM lumps all form letters into a separate category and counts them as one. Release Date: 05/06/14 |
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BLM Seeks Public Comment on Environmental Analysis for Wild Horse Gather in Southern Utah |
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Cedar City, Utah—The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Cedar City Field Office is seeking public comment on an Environmental Assessment (EA) analyzing proposed wild horse gather, removal and fertility treatment in the Bible Spring Complex.
The four Herd Management Areas (HMAs) that make up the Bible Spring Complex—Bible Spring, Blawn Wash, Tilly Creek and Four Mile—are located in western Iron and Beaver counties, approximately 30 miles west of Minersville, Utah in the Wah Wah and Indian Peak mountain ranges. The Bible Spring Complex is approximately 222,929 acres of public, private and state lands.
The EA analyzes a proposal to gather and remove excess wild horses and apply fertility control between two to four times over a 10-year period. The EA, including maps, is available on line at: http://www.blm.gov/ut/st/en/prog/wild_horse_and_burro.html or on the Environmental Notification Bulletin Board at: https://www.blm.gov/ut/enbb/index.php; search for project name “Bible.”
Written comments will be accepted by letter or email until May 30, 2014. Please note that the most useful comments are those that contain new technical or scientific information relevant to the proposed action. Comments should be as specific as possible. Comments which contain only opinions or preferences will not receive a formal response but may be considered in the BLM decision-making process. Please reference “Bible Spring Complex Wild Horse Gather Plan EA” when submitting comments.
Written comments may be mailed or emailed using the following:
Mail
BLM Cedar City Field Office
Attn: Cedar City Field Office Manager
176 E. DL Sargent Drive
Cedar City, UT 84721
Before including an address, phone number, email address, or other personal identifying information in any comments, be aware that the entire comment—including personal identifying information—may be made publicly available at any time. Requests to withhold personal identifying information from public review can be submitted, but the BLM cannot guarantee that it will be able to do so. The BLM will not consider anonymous comments. All submissions from organizations and businesses, and from individuals identifying themselves as representatives or officials of organizations or businesses, will be available for public inspection in their entirety. For additional EA-specific information, please contact Chad Hunter at (435)865-3000. Persons who use a telecommunications device for the deaf (TDD) may call the Federal Information Relay Service (FIRS) at 1-800-877-8339 to leave a message or question with the above individual. The FIRS is available 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Replies are provided during normal business hours.
Follow us on Twitter @BLMUtah The BLM manages more than 245 million acres of public land, the most of any Federal agency. This land, known as the National System of Public Lands, is primarily located in 12 Western states, including Alaska. The BLM also administers 700 million acres of sub-surface mineral estate throughout the nation. The BLM’s mission is to manage and conserve the public lands for the use and enjoyment of present and future generations under our mandate of multiple-use and sustained yield. In Fiscal Year 2013, the BLM generated $4.7 billion in receipts from public lands. |
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Categories: Horse News, Wild Burros, Wild Horses/Mustangs
Straight from the Horse's Heart 
“We want GPS and time & date stamped photos from ALL BLM aerial population surveys, and for the BLM to only use the numbers of horses that can actually be proven to be there in their written count. We don’t want flawed population modeling.”
Say it loud: No stick figures. No hash marks on a piece of paper. No maps with flight-path lines. No pretty polka dots. No Population Modeling using 20 year old input from Garfield Flats, Nevada – that only a PhD could decipher. No ‘interpretation’- just The Facts.
No ‘extrapolating’ off the horses already taken by BLM; no ten year old genetic analysis from horses already removed – and sent God knows where.
How about – just this one time – a genuine effort to discover how many horses are actually out there…with the same vigilance applied to knowing exactly how many cattle and sheep are actually out there?
Perhaps that, too is based on ‘estimates’.
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Preach it Lisa!!!!!
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Thank you for the info. Will be writing soon.
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Only give TRUE counts of the horses. It is impossible for 261 horses counted to turn into 700 horses, from your last count two years ago. Stop the unnecessary roundups.
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A Go-Pro video camera is inexpensive and can be attached to a helicopter or plane and will give accurate visual documentation of wild horses and burros and their habitat during an aerial survey of our public land. Why oh why do we suppose that BLM does not use this easy Go-Pro tool??? Do they not want accurate counts of our wild ones? Of course not! Here is a link to video documentation during an INDEPENDENT aerial survey of Twin Peaks Herd Management Area.
https://rtfitchauthor.com/2013/12/07/counting-wild-horses-an-aerial-tour-of-twin-peaks-wild-horse-and-burro-habitat/
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grandmagregg
Great Question ~ Keep up the Great Comments
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At This 11th hour ~For Horses
I cannot believe
We are
Even entertaining thoughts of a Roundup
Whos eyes are viewing this ?
No One ~ its all about $$$$$
$$ ~ On our Beloveds Flesh
When all the Smoke and Mirrors disappear
We Will See The Devastation that has been have done
To our beloved ~ Indigenous Equids ~
Who in Essence ~ Deserve This Land
We Apparently Do Not
This is a No Brainer ~ For a Person w/ a Heart !
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The wild horses have their homes and places on the land and should be able to stay NO to round-ups in Utah or anywhere else. Bundy needs to pay up or get off the land he has been using for free! What if all the ranchers do that- not good!
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There is more good news coming out of Canada. it looks like US heavyweights Victoria McCullough and Florida State Senator Joseph Abruzzo have joined with New Democrat MP, Alex Atamanenko (BC Sourthern Interior) is holding a press conference to discuss his private members bill to restrict the slaughter of horses to only those raised primarily for human consumption and which carry a lifetime medication history. Bill C-571 is up for its second hour of debate on Monday, May 12 following which a vote is likely to be held on Wednesday May 14. Using arguments based on science and legal liability the US heavyweights were able to convince US Vice President Joe Biden to add language defunding federal inspections at US slaughter facilities for horses in the 2014 Omnibus Bill signed by President Obama this past January. Horses in the US cannot be slaughtered without inspections.
Also taking part will be Sinikka Crosland, Executive Director of the Canadian Horse Defense Coalition (CHDC), a key ally and promoter of Atamanenko’s Bill C-571 and Dr. Ray Kellosalmi, CHDC medical and toxicology expert.
I have been sent Canadian Horse Defense news letters for a number of years and it keeps me updated on just what is going on in Canada, I would suggest everyone to sign up because this is so important to stopping US horses from dying in all slaughter plants in Canada and Mexico. What happens there will have lasting effects here in the US for years to come.
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WHERE DO WE SIGN UP ?
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What Id like to know is according to President Nixon signing into law the protection of wild horses and burro’s , When did the BLM become above the law ? These horses have been on public land .As far as i know we the people pay the taxes on this land so we the people should decide what we want on this land . THE HORSES AND BURRIO’S STAY .
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Yes, and although the 1971 WH&B law has been amended in part, it still states clearly that their land is to be devoted PRINCIPALLY although not exclusively to the wild horses and wild burros’ welfare in keeping with the multiple-use management concept of public lands.
Definition of “principally”: First, highest, foremost in importance, rank, worth or degree, chief, mainly, largely, chiefly, especially, particularly, mostly, primarily, above all, predominantly, in the main, for the most part, first and foremost.
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http://www.blm.gov/wo/st/en/info/newsroom/2014/May/BLM_Seeks_Bids_for_New__Short-Term_Facilities_to_Care_for_Wild_Horses_and_Burros_Removed_from_Western_Public_Rangelands.html
Release Date: 05/07/14
Contacts: Tom Gorey , 202-912-7420
BLM Seeks Bids for New, Short-Term Facilities to Care for Wild Horses and Burros Removed from Western Public Rangelands
WASHINGTON, D.C. – As part of its responsibility to manage and protect wild horses and burros, including those removed from overpopulated herds roaming Western public rangelands, the Bureau of Land Management is soliciting bids for new, short-term holding facilities (corrals) located in 17 Western and Midwestern states.
The BLM’s solicitation is for multiple short-term facilities accommodating a minimum of 200 wild horses and/or burros in a safe and humane condition. The short-term facilities must be close to and readily accessible from a major U.S. interstate or highway.
Each short-term facility must be able to provide humane care for a one-year period, with a renewal option under BLM contract for four one-year extensions. The animals will remain in a short-term holding facility until they are adopted or can be transported to a long-term pasture. The solicitation is open until June 2, 2014.
The states under consideration for this solicitation are Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, Kansas, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Oregon, South Dakota, Texas, Utah, Washington, and Wyoming. In the case of Oregon and Washington, the area west of the Cascade Mountain Range is excluded. A future solicitation will cover states in the East.
The BLM’s bidding requirements are posted in solicitation L14PS00389, the details of which are available at http://www.fedconnect.net. To obtain the solicitation: (1) click on “Search Public Opportunities”; (2) under Search Criteria, select “Reference Number”; (3) put in the solicitation number (L14PS00389); and (4) click “Search” and the solicitation information will appear. The solicitation form describes what to submit and where to send it. Applicants must be registered at http://www.ccr.gov to be considered for a contract award.
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April 27, 2014
One of the Biggest Fat Cats in America is the BLM
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Victor Keith
http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2014/04/one_of_the_biggest_fat_cats_in_america_is_the_blm.html?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter
Amid the circus that is the Bundy Ranch standoff is the much more important and revealing story surrounding a previously little-noticed agency called the Bureau of Land Management.
Even though every federal agency these days, from the Environmental Protection Agency to the Department of Education, feels the need to have its own SWAT team, 200 federal agents with assault rifles and dogs seems an inappropriate way to conduct a roundup.
Upon closer examination, the reason for the importance to the BLM of establishing its authority may entail much more than the revenue from grazing fees.
For starters, the Department of the Interior’s semi-annual report to Congress in 2013 noted that the federal government has effectively controlled the market for helium for almost a century.
Then there is the revenue from mineral sales. The Department of the Interior inspector general report from March 2014 reports that the BLM is operating a 17-million-dollar-a-year business in minerals.
The real prize, however, is coal. The BLM controls some 40 percent of the national coal supply and collects more than 1 billion dollars a year in bonus and royalty revenues.
It also shows why cattle ranchers are being inexorably driven off their lands by governmental policies. The federal government has a much more lucrative plan for those lands that does not involve private property owners.
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Public Radio just reported the Utah BLM is having all employees take ID off their vehicles after a death threat to an employee in SW Utah… relating to “wild horses and grazing rights.” They reported two guys with their truck license plate duct-taped and wearing hoods pulled a gun on a BLM employee, and brandished a sign saying “you need to die.” I’m sure there will be more news on this, hang on to your hats.
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All the more reason for WH&B advocates to remain calm, centered and display the self control which they have managed to demonstrate in even the most vile situations.
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