SOURCE: Wildhoofbeats.com
Wild Horses Rounded up at the Checkerboard Roundup in 2014
by Carol Walker, Dir. of Field Documentation, Wild Horse Freedom Federation
Congress is back in session and the 2018 Budget will be under consideration. Over 46,000 wild horses and burros currently in short term holding and long term holding plus over 46,000 right now still on public lands but deemed “excess” by the BLM are at risk of being killed or sent to slaughter.
Despite asserting the need to do this to save money, on 8/29 the BLM announced its decision to roundup and remove 1560 wild horses from the Checkerboard Area in Wyoming, a vast area of over 2.4 million acres. They will begin this removal on or after September 15 and will take 513 wild horses from Adobe Town, 725 from Salt Wells Creek and 322 from Great Divide Basin. These horses are doomed to be killed if the 2018 Budget passes as is.
Wild Family in Adobe Town
Here is the Decision Record for the 2017 Checkerboard Roundup:
We need your help NOW to stop the killing and slaughter of our wild horses and burros.
Please call your Senators and Representatives today and every day until the 2018 Budget is passed.
Find your Representatives here: https://www.house.gov/representatives/find/
Tell them I support the Titus-King-Polis Amendment to restore the prohibition on killing wild horses and burros
Tell them I support the Buchanon-Roybal-Allard-Royce-Blumenthal Amendment to prevent horse slaughter
Find your Senators here: https://www.senate.gov/senators/contact/
Tell them I oppose any provision allowing BLM to kill wild horses and burros or sell them to someone who will
I oppose any attempt to remove sale restrictions on wild horses and burros
Checkerboard mare and foal
You can download this flyer here:
http://wildhorsefreedomfederation.org/TellCongresstoSTOP.pdf
Categories: Horse Slaughter, Wild Burros, Wild Horses/Mustangs
Straight from the Horse's Heart 
Reblogged this on Susan Dorling and commented:
Help save your precious wild horses and burros before its too late.
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Thanks for this post. I just learned that the Titus-Polis-King amendment will be taken up by House Rules Committee tomorrow 9/6. Please email/call Rules Comm. members and urge support for the “Titus 54” amendment. The following list provides key staffers’ contact info — easier to go through them if you’re not in the member’s district. (Rep. Jared Polis is on the committee; no need to contact him except to thank)
The Committee on Rules for the 115th Congress
Hon. Pete Sessions (R)
202-225-2231
sessions.house.gov
Legislative Director- brandon.middleton@mail.house.gov
Chairman
Texas
Hon. Tom Cole (R)
202-225-6165
tom.cole@mail.house.gov
Chief of Staff– sean.murphy@mail.house.gov
Vice-Chairman, Oklahoma
Hon. Louise McIntosh Slaughter (D)
202-225-3615 slaughter.house.gov
Legislative Director- cheri.hoffman@mail.house.gov
Ranking Minority Member, New York
Hon. Rob Woodall (R)
202-225-4272
woodall.house.gov
Legislative Director- janet.rossi@mail.house.gov
Georgia
Hon. James P. McGovern (D)
202-225-6101
mcgovern.house.gov
Legislative Director- Cindy.buhl@mail.house.gov
Massachusetts
Hon. Michael C. Burgess (R)
202-225-7772
burgess.house.gov
Legislative Counsel-david.lieberman@mail.house.gov
Texas
Hon. Alcee L. Hastings (D)
202-225-1313
hastings.house.gov
chief of staff- lale.Morrison@mail.house.gov
Florida
Hon. Doug Collins (R)
202-225-5265
dougcollins.house.gov
legislative director-Jennifer.choudhry@mail.house.gov
Georgia
Hon. Jared Polis (D)
202-225-2161
polis.house.gov
chief of staff- eve.lieberman@mail.house.gov
Colorado
Hon. Bradley Byrne (R)
202-225-4931
byrne.house.gov
legislative director-matt.weinstein@mail.house.gov
Alabama
Hon. Dan Newhouse (R)
202-225-5816
newhouse.house.gov
legislative director-jason.herbert@mail.house.gov
Washington
Hon. Ken Buck(R)
202-225-4676
buck.house.gov
chief of staff/legislative director-ritika.rodrigues@mail.house.gov
Colorado
Hon. Liz Cheney
202-225-5265
cheney.house.gov
legislative director-scott.hughes@mail.house.gov
Wyoming
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Thanks, Charlotte.
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THANK YOU Charlotte.
I called all of them
The phone # needs to be corrected…the one on the list is for Doug Collins office Hon. Doug Collins (R)
202-225-5265
Hon. Liz Cheney
202-225-2311 CORRECT PHONE #
cheney.house.gov
legislative director-scott.hughes@mail.house.gov
Wyoming
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Appreciate the correction, Louie. These were all checked beforehand via members’ FB pages and calling, but staffing can be fluid on the “Hill.” Thanks most of all for contacting every one!
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Leave our horses on the range and set the others free.Ranchers can make do what land they have.
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