Don’t forget to also call the White House and your Congressional representatives.
SOURCE: Wildhoofbeats.com
by Carol Walker
Today is the last day to comment on the BLM’s disastrous plan to sterilize wild mares in the White Mountain Herd Management Area in Wyoming. Despite the herd numbering only 268 wild horses, which is within the AML of 209- 300 wild horses in the area, the BLM plans to team up with USGS and conduct a study, first rounding up the herd using helicopters, removing horses until there are 209 left, and putting radio collars on the mares and tail tags on the stallions to study behavior for 1 year. They plan to put radio collars on the mares, and the last time the BLM did this in 1991 many horses died. This is just not safe. Then they plan to round them up again using helicopters, and then spaying 30-50 wild mares in the field, which is an incredibly dangerous procedure, certainly fatal to many of the mares. The sterilization of this and other herds targeted for research by the BLM and USGS spells the beginning of the end of wild horses on our public lands.
Please comment today by 4pm Mountain Time. Your own words will be the most powerful and effective for having an impact on the BLM and their plans.
You can read more here in my blog:
You can use the Cloud Foundation’s excellent talking points here:
http://us1.campaign-archive2.com/?u=b16d80346618d3ce64e8e9877&id=010bafe18c&e=936756a5da
Or if you have just enough time to write a few sentences, please be sure to cover the following points:
1. Do not round up and remove horses from White Mountain Herd Management Area. The horses are within AML. If you must round them up, use bait trapping at known water sources not a helicopter roundup.
2. Do not put radio collars and tail tags on the stallions. This is unsafe and potentially fatal for the horses. Use observation of people int he field, interns or staff, to obtain information. The horses are easily identifiable and most are easy to approach – this invasive and dangerous method is not necessary.
3. Do not spay wild mares. This is cruel, inhumane, potentially fatal for many of the mares. It is completely unnecessary. If you must use birth control on this herd, use the proven, safe, humane and reversible native PZP or PZP-22 that can be given using bait trapping and/or field darting.
Send your comments to:
BLM_WY_whitemtn_littleco_hma@blm.gov
Put “White Mountain and Little Colorado EA” in the subject line of your email.
These need to be in by 4 pm Mountain Time on today, Thursday the 14th of January. Please pass this along.
Categories: Horse News, Wild Horses/Mustangs
Straight from the Horse's Heart 
Stop this now. BLM, your fabricating number of wild horses still in existing ranges. These are OUR animals, not yours, We, the American citizen, demand this and chasing wild horses, etc, with helicopters need to stop NOW. You are showing you are in cahoots with the cattlemen and we don’t like it and demand it stop now and forever.
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The Public must also me made aware of the fact that MONSANTO sits on this board and could well have a great deal of influence in the decisions involving our Wild Horses & Burros
Review of Proposals to the Bureau of Land Management on Wild Horse and Burro Sterilization or Contraception
Click to access NAS%20Review%20of%20Proposals.pdf
BOARD ON AGRICULTURE AND NATURAL RESOURCES
GARY F. HARTNELL, Monsanto Company, St. Louis, Missouri
NORMAN R. SCOTT (Chair), Cornell University, Ithaca, New York (Emeritus)
PEGGY F. BARLETT, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia
HAROLD L. BERGMAN, University of Wyoming, Laramie
SUSAN CAPALBO, Oregon State University, Corvallis
GAIL CZARNECKI-MAULDEN, Nestle Purina PetCare, St. Louis, Missouri
RICHARD A. DIXON, University of North Texas, Denton
GEBISA EJETA, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana
ROBERT B. GOLDBERG, University of California, Los Angeles
FRED GOULD, North Carolina State University, Raleigh
GARY F. HARTNELL, Monsanto Company, St. Louis, Missouri
GENE HUGOSON, University of Minnesota, St. Paul
MOLLY M. JAHN, University of Wisconsin, Madison
ROBBIN S. JOHNSON, Cargill Foundation, Wayzata, Minnesota
JAMES W. JONES, University of Florida, Gainesville
A.G. KAWAMURA, Solutions from the Land, Washington, DC
STEPHEN S. KELLEY, North Carolina State University, Raleigh
JULIA L. KORNEGAY, North Carolina State University, Raleigh
PHILIP E. NELSON, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana (Emeritus)
CHARLES W. RICE, Kansas State University, Manhattan
JIM E. RIVIERE, Kansas State University, Manhattan
ROGER A. SEDJO, Resources for the Future, Washington, DC
KATHLEEN SEGERSON, University of Connecticut, Storrs
MERCEDES VAZQUEZ-AÑON, Novus International, Inc., St. Charles, Missouriqu
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Mine have already been submitted, so I consequently feel no guilt in getting distracted and cooing over that positively darling photo of best friends Scout & Red Cloud. Bros before BLM ho-er, employees!
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Sally Jewell just reported our government is halting new coal leases on federal land, for three years it seems. The language she and President Obama used are equally justified concerning our public lands grazing program.
Here is what is being reported today, if you replace oil and coal references with grazing permits, and mines with cattle, the shoe fits very well indeed. There should be no double standard in public lands management from Sally Jewell, it is indefensible.
“President Barack Obama, in his annual State of the Union address on Tuesday, hinted at Friday’s announcement, saying he would “change the way we manage our oil and coal resources, so that they better reflect the costs they impose on taxpayers and our planet.”
Jewell said the review will examine concerns flagged by the Government Accountability Office and the Interior Department’s Inspector General, as well as members of Congress and the public.
“We have an obligation to current and future generations to ensure the federal coal program delivers a fair return to American taxpayers and takes into account its impacts on climate change,” she said.
Jewell said the Interior Department will also adopt measures to boost transparency of federal coal leasing.
Measures include creating a public database to show the carbon emitted from fossil fuels developed on public lands, posting online pending requests to lease coal or reduce government royalties, as well as capturing methane emissions from mines.”
https://news.yahoo.com/obama-administration-announce-remake-coal-program-sources-013305660.html
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