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1. I follow these amazing horse’s and you get to know them by name and band they are in. Heartbreaking to see what is happening to our wild horse’s. These horse’s were free and don’t deserve to be treated in the cruel and unethical practice set by the BLM .. please leave these horse’s free.. there are humane ways to keep the numbers down without running them to extreme lengths of exhaustion and even death. Putting them in small holding pens seperated from there bands they cannot get to shelter and crowded unsafe conditions young foals taken from there mothers this is just disturbing and insane.

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2. Our wild horses are precious. Precious to us and precious as part of the ecosystem they have lived in for many generations but most of all they are precious to each other. They are families. Families who are being literally torn apart for the sake of horrendous greed.
   Listen to them cry … https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kl11RvVYvTM

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3. *Were any of the below considered in the mis management of the Wyoming herds?*

   *see goals 6, 9 * Wyoming Fish and Wildlife 2000: A Summary – Google Books https://books.google.com/books/about/Wyoming_Fish_and_Wildlife_2000.html?id. .. U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Land Management, Wyoming State Office, 1992 … *Wyoming Fish and Wildlife 2000: A Summary*, *Volumes 53-56*

   * https://www.starvalleyindependent.com/2017/06/14/wyoming-to-receive-18-million-from-1-1-billion-wildlife-fund/ *

   https://www.animallaw.info/statute/us-funding-state- pittman-roberson-act-chapter-5b-wildlife-restoration#669a

   *United States Code Annotated. Title 16. Conservation. Chapter 5B. Wildlife Restoration *

   Popular Title: Pittman-Robertson Wildlife Restoration Act

   – Primary Citation: 16 USC 669 – 669k

   *Summary:*

   The Pittman-Robertson Wildlife Restoration Act authorizes the Secretary of the Interior to cooperate with the States, through their respective State fish and game departments, in wildlife-restoration projects. However, no money shall be expended until the state in question assents to the provisions of this chapter and has passed laws for the conservation of wildlife, which includes a prohibition against the diversion of license fees paid by hunters for any other purpose than the administration of the fish and game department.

   *Statute Text*

   § 669 . Cooperation of Secretary of the Interior with States; conditions

   § 669a . Definitions

   c) Wildlife Conservation and Restoration Account

   (1) Amounts transferred to the Wildlife Conservation and Restoration Account shall supplement, but not replace, existing funds available to the States from the sport fish restoration account and wildlife restoration account and shall be used for the development, revision, and implementation of wildlife conservation and restoration programs and should be used to address the unmet needs for a diverse array of wildlife and associated habitats, including species that are not hunted or fished, for wildlife conservation, wildlife conservation education, and wildlife-associated recreation projects. Such funds may be used for new programs and projects as well as to enhance existing programs and projects.

   (2) Funds may be used by a State or an Indian tribe for the planning and implementation of its wildlife conservation and restoration program and wildlife conservation strategy, as provided in sections 669c(d) and (e) [FN2] of this title, including wildlife conservation, wildlife conservation education, and wildlife-associated recreation projects. Such funds may be used for new programs and projects as well as to enhance existing programs and projects.

   (3) Priority for funding from the Wildlife Conservation and Restoration Account shall be for those species with the greatest conservation need as defined by the State wildlife conservation and restoration program.

   (6) the term “wildlife conservation and restoration program” means a program developed by a State fish and wildlife department and approved by the Secretary under section 669c(d) of this title, the projects that constitute such a program, which may be implemented in whole or part through grants and contracts by a State to other State, Federal, or local agencies (including those that gather, evaluate, and disseminate information on wildlife and their habitats), wildlife conservation organizations, and outdoor recreation and conservation education entities from funds apportioned under this title, and maintenance of such projects;

   (7) the term “wildlife conservation education” means projects, including public outreach, intended to foster responsible natural resource stewardship; and

   (8) the term “wildlife-restoration project” includes the wildlife conservation and restoration program and means the selection, restoration, rehabilitation, and improvement of areas of land or water adaptable as feeding, resting, or breeding places for wildlife, including acquisition of such areas or estates or interests therein as are suitable or capable of being made suitable therefor, and the construction thereon or therein of such works as may be necessary to make them available for such purposes and also including such research into problems of wildlife management as may be necessary to efficient administration affecting wildlife resources, and such preliminary or incidental costs and expenses as may be incurred in and about such projects.

   *What is a “Species of Special Concern”?* *https://www.wildlife.ca.gov/Conservation/SSC*

   *for the purposes of this discussion, “animal” means fish, amphibian, reptile, bird and mammal

   A Species of Special Concern (SSC) is a species, subspecies, or distinct population of an animal* native to California that currently satisfies one or more of the following (not necessarily mutually exclusive) criteria**:

   – is extirpated from the State or, in the case of birds, is extirpated in its primary season or breeding role; – is listed as Federally-, but not State-, threatened or endangered; meets the State definition of threatened or endangered but has not formally been listed; – is experiencing, or formerly experienced, serious (noncyclical) population declines or range retractions (not reversed) that, if continued or resumed, could qualify it for State threatened or endangered status; – has naturally small populations exhibiting high susceptibility to risk from any factor(s), that if realized, could lead to declines that would qualify it for State threatened or endangered status.

   On Mon, Oct 16, 2017 at 8:09 AM, Straight from the Horse’s Heart wrote:

   > debbiecoffey posted: “Source: wildhoofbeats.com Why the Checkerboard > Wild Horse Roundup in Wyoming is Personal by Carol J. Walker, Dir. of Field > Documentation for Wild Horse Freedom Federation *Reminder* Please call > your Senators this week to save our wild ” >

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4. They are doing this because they believe they have the Senate bought and paid for.

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5. WILD HORSE FREEDOM WHITE PAPER
   http://wildhorsefreedomfederation.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/White-Paper.pdf

   This documentary evidence is supplemented by sworn percipient witness testimony. WHFF first obtained maps of all of the long-term facilities. WHFF personnel then drove the public roads that go through and around select long-term holding facilities and did their own careful counts of populations, and the results are significantly different from those reported by the BLM.73 After viewing the perimeters and/or driving down roads in the middle of almost half of the facilities, and using comparisons and confirming conclusions with GPS, photographic, and videographic evidence, including GPS overlays of the travel path over the map of the long-term
   facilities, WHFF has evidence that in some cases less than one-half of the horses supposedly on the grounds of the facilities were actually there.

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6. WILD HORSE FREEDOM WHITE PAPER
   http://wildhorsefreedomfederation.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/White-Paper.pdf

   The pregnancy and foaling issue raises another cogent question for the agency and the public: what is the effect of the gathers on wild mares’ pregnancy? There is little data available to the public online regarding nonroutine veterinary care of the gathered horses, and there should
   be documentation of any problems with pregnancies and other complications from birth, miscarriages and the like. In order to obtain this information, members of the public will usually have to file a Freedom of Information Act request.

   The problems described above are well established in the documentation collected and summarized in additional documents included in the Appendix provided with this White Paper.

   By way of a few examples:

   1. WHFF obtained documents supposedly describing all horses and
   burros captured in the period of 1980-1999. There were 131,559
   entries, but on other BLM records, the BLM claims that in this time
   period, 168,627 equids were captured. With this document alone, some
   37,068 wild horses and burros were somehow left out of the BLM’s
   Wild Horse & Burro Program System Database. (Exhibit 3.)75

   Exhibit 4 consists of the pages 1 and 4 of the U.S. Department of the
   Interior, Office of Inspector General Investigative Activity Report
   (“Report”), with respect to the case of Tom Davis, BLM Wild Horse
   Buyer (Case Number OI-CO-13-0004-1). Davis was of course the
   individual who bought close to 2000 horses from the BLM and sold
   them to slaughter.

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7. That vile poisonous snake in the WH and his minions are causing this pain and fear for the horses as well as for the people living here in this country! You know that the money has not gone to care for these horses. It has been spent for cattle lobby by their caretakers! I saw this coming by patterns they set up. The horses have been cared(?) for like they were short term feeders going to slaughter. What other alternatives do WE have? Talking to brick walls that are deaf to the “will the people”. So what’s next?

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8. Privately owned livestock are allocated 97 percent of western forage on all 251 million acres currently managed by the BLM ……This is compared to 3 percent allocated to wild horses and burros occupying just 29.4 million acres in Herd Management Areas…… How is this “primary use”? ……. After all the wild horses and burros are eliminated, the public lands grazing program will still cost the U.S. taxpayer a reported 500 Million dollars per year…..Lawmakers don’t care that we love them, or that they live in families, but they should care that the Public Lands Grazing program sucks taxpayer money with no benefit to the country….. Who can get this message to Congress? http://protectthewolves.com/five-hundred-million-dollars-thats-what-21000-ranchers-who-graze-their-livestock-on-americas-iconic-western-rangelands-are-estimated-to-have-cost-us-taxpayers-in-2014/

   ……In a NACO meeting in August, discussing how to get the wording out of the Appropriations Bill, Mr. Norris noted they are “having challenges with the language removal (that restricts sale) and “Best case scenario is to keep the language out of the original draft” because they would have trouble convincing members to vote to remove it.. …. In other words, just hope no one notices that the language that restricts sale has been removed. “They are working on “educating” members of Congress.” ….Amodei suggested the word “slaughter” be left out…… Is there no one “educating Congress” about the Grazing Program?

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9. The judge that ruled for a temporary delay in the roundup here in Wyoming is the wife of the ex governor and good ole boy Gov. Freudenthal. They have ties to the big cattle organizations here and she might make a show of doing the ‘right’ thing but ultimately that bag will side with the blm. Without a doubt. Here in Wyoming it appears that corruption is the name of the game.

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