Demand accountability now from BLM,FWS,NPS and others

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Why are the Bureau of Land Management,the Fisheries and Wildlfe Service,the National Park Service and other federal agencies purposefully overloading the horse market? Why the slash-and-burn agenda to get wild horses and burros off the public lands where they have a right to be and where they are managing very well (In all of the links below, look at the vegetation where roundups occurred-it's is lush and green and ample for the few thousand wild horses and burros that are left).
From:
http://www.wildhorsepreservation.com/sheldon....
(click on link for pictures documenting the abuse and complete and utter disregard for life on the part of the FWS)

Despite a public outcry and pleas by humane groups to at least postpone this round-up, FWS proceeded in the summer heat, at the height of foaling season. A days-old foal is struggling to keep up with the herd.FWS would not allow the public within a two-mile range of the round-up site. Despite the secrecy, our investigators were able to document the process up close.

“This is not foaling season.”
(Brian Day, Refuge Manager)

To defend their plan, FWS tried to claim that somehow June is not the height of foaling season on Sheldon. Yet, a 2002 report by a Sheldon Refuge biologist states that horse population samplings on Sheldon are done no sooner than the end of July, to wait until most of the mares have foaled.

“We are taking extra precautions with the foals.”
( Paul Steblein, Project Leader)

Several foals were injured, orphans separated from their mothers in the chaos. Some mares reportedly aborted their fetuses under the stress of the round-up (Click on link for pictures of injured foals. It was the height of foaling season) This foal trampled by the herd. He didn't make it, dying of internal injuries(http://www.wildhorsepreservation.com/resource... )

Some foals, exhausted by the chase and unable to follow the herd, were left hog-tied in the desert heat for wranglers to pick up later. Others were just lost in the chaos, left behind to fend for themselves. Wranglers reportedly managed to locate eight of these orphan foals on Friday (the round-up had started on Monday). Five of them were already dead.It is unknown how many others, too young to survive on their own, died on the range. Mares could be seen in the holding pens showing signs of recently giving birth but with their newborns unaccounted for.
FWS got nervous and became more secretive as the process unfolded. However, a vet report by Dr. Krebs, who treated the three survivors, confirms that these foals were left for days alone on the range (http://www.wildhorsepreservation.com/pdf/Shel... )
All along, FWS had been assuring the public that no foals had ever been injured during one of their round-ups.
Yet another lie, as evidenced by this picture from last year's round-up.

Why wasn't an investigation held and charges laid? Why didn't the key people who were responsible for this lose their jobs? What is seen in the above links is non other than a blatant disregard for life for the sake of expediency and greed. No one could publicly treat a dog this way and get away with it least of all a federal agency who is actually an employee of the American people. These horses do not belong to the FWS or any other federal agency, they belong to the American people and if the American people do not step up now and demand accountability from the Bureau of Land Management, the Fish and Wildlife Service and the National Parks Service, the wild horses and burros of American will be, literally, driven into extinction.

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The wild horses and burros that the BLM and other federal agencies are rounding up are from nature reserves, wildlife sanctuaries where they were to live out their lives under the protection of the 1971 Wild Free-roaming Wild Horse and Burros Protection Act of 1971, instead, this is what is happening( eye-witness accounts) in the State of Nevada and any other state where wild horses and burros are:

http://www.wildhorsepreservation.com/testimon...

Please realize that none of these horses and burros needed to be removed. There was no starvation, the horses weren't thin or sick, and they were doing fine on the land-public lands, taxpayer supported lands.However, wild horses and burros have been removed, burros shot on sight in nature reserves, all in an attempt to rid America of these celebrated symbols of freedom and liberty and replace them with cattle. Cattle, 8 million on public lands, while the ranchers pay a pittance to rent/lease those same taxpayer-supported lands, all with the blessing of the BLM and other federal agencies who are actually employees of the American people.

Video documentation and proof of water redirected away from wild horses, burros and other wildlife by ranchers and the BLM. Dead horses outside fenced off public water holes while ranchers' cattle and BLM alfalfa crops flourish, watered by public water supplies on public land:

http://www.azcentral.com/12news/news/articles...

http://www.youtube.com/watch...
"I've got pictures of where(1:35 on video) wild horses are lying dead outside wire fences and the cattle well-watered and fed inside the fences."
-David Hesse ,Founder and President of Mustang and Wild horse Rescue of Georgia

From:
http://www.lasvegasnow.com/global/video/flash...

"As far back as 1991 a congressional audit found that BLM removes horses from the range without standing the land and at the urging of cattle ranchers. The BLM says it okayed this week's gather because the drought made it tough on horses but there is water on the range. Enough for large alfalfa fields on BLM land, enough for hundreds of antelope. One hundred yards from the dusty waterhole where three horses scrounged for a drink is a lush green pond full of water supplied by a well and a pump but the water is fenced off so wildlife can't get to it. The sign on the door to the pump house(It's a BLM pumphouse) shows that BLM knows there's water on the range just not water for horses."
(Nevada News report: July 2008)

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Managing For Extinction(the BLM's plan to eradicate the wild horses and burros from public lands)
Managing for Extinction:
http://72.30.186.56/search/cac he?ei=UTF-8&p=wild+horse+a nd+burro+freedom+allliance &fr=yfp-t-501&u=www.dd al.org/pdf/whb%2520report.pdf &w=wild+horse+burro+freedo m+allliance+alliance&d=cnU HSBg5RUvF&icp=1&.intl= ca

Killing to balance the budget: http://www.awionline.org/news/2008/blm_kills_...

The systematic planned eradication of the wild horses and burros from the American plains by federal agencies:
http://www.wildhorsepreservation.com/news_ale...

Why the Wild Horses are Vanishing:
http://www.youtube.com/watch...

Bush, Oil and Wild Horses:
http://www.youtube.com/watch...

The BLM has removed 75,000 wild horses and burros from public lands since 2001, putting them in BLM holding pens under the guise that these horses and burros needed to be "adopted." They no more needed to be adopted out than the antelope, bald eagle or any other wildlife in the area yet they are being removed by the thousands in a slash-and-burn agenda to them them off public lands and out of wildlife reserves. What is the reason given for this? Well, the reaons vary and none have any data, substantiation or logic to back them up.

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Managing For Extinction(the BLM's plan to eradicate the wild horses and burros from public lands)
http://72.30.186.56/search/cac he?ei=UTF-8&p=wild+horse+a nd+burro+freedom+allliance &fr=yfp-t-501&u=www.dd al.org/pdf/whb%2520report.pdf &w=wild+horse+burro+freedo m+allliance+alliance&d=cnU HSBg5RUvF&icp=1&.intl= ca

From:Nevada News report: July 2008(excerpts)
http://www.lasvegasnow.com/global/video/flash...
(News announcer)

The BLM says it has no choice but to put the horses to death because it can no longer afford to feed the ones it has.

Critics says that BLM should stand for Bureau of Livestock and Mining because those industries are so often beneficiaries of land policies. Horses are certainly not in good standing with the BLM,. Some say the BLM created this crisis by clearing off 75,000 off the range in the last seven years. for reasons that appear suspicious at best.

At a muddy despression in the Nevada desert three healthy looking wild horses surrounded by dozens of antelope plop around while warily eyeing our camera.Just down that road at the gate of the tTonepaw test range trucks are loaded with a makeshift corral, the last vestages of this weeks' round up effort that corralled and carted away hundreds of other horses. The truck will head down the road in anticipation of BLM's next round up .It's not certain how these three dodged the roundup but if you believe the BLM these horses are dying of thirst of starving.

The BLM is rounding up more horses when it can't afford, according to them, to feed the ones they have? Yet they can afford to pay $1,500.00 to round up more horses and to feed them? This news telecast was during the time the BLM was saying they couldn't afford to feed the horses they already had in holding pens yet they were out rounding up more horses. On that same news telecast:( Don Glenn, BLM Horse and Burro Chief:)

There's basically no grass, the horses are eating brush which is not their normal food and after awhile they go down in condition and die of starvation. on the range and there's no more inhumane death for an animal
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(Announcer )

Don Glenn has spent 30 years in Washington working on wild horse issues but seems unaware that lack of grass on Nevada ranges isn't exactly unusal. Critics say the BLM rarely gets its stories straight about reasons for roundups .Last November Nevada's top horse official Suzie Stokey gushed about this very same range.


(Susie Stokke, Nevada, BLM employee)

" In terms of a good place for horses as far as habitat goes, it's a great place.


(Announcer:)( pictures of lush green landscape shown)

We didn't know at the time of that interview but Stokke had already decided to remove most of the horses from the range near Tonepaw, not because they were starving but because they MIGHT be starving some time in the future.
The BLM says there's 1.3 million acres can support, at most, 500 horses, one horse for every 2,600 acres. That's to protect the horses and the range
(Note: nothing said about the the 8 million cattle on that sane range, nothing said about how that range can support 8 million cattle but not the 19,000 remaining horses that roam across 10 states)

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(Jerry Reynoldson, Wild Horse Advocate)
I don't think they're using any science so it has little to do with range conditions and a whole lot more to do with "We just wanna get them out of here."

(Announcer)
Jerry Reynoldson has long contended the BLM simply makes it up as they go along. when it wants to justify a roundup.
Former BLM range scientist craig Downer says that's why he left the Bureau.

(Craig Downer, former BLM range scientist)
: It's very skewed data, very arbritrary statements they'll come out with . They just come out and state that the wild horse is a detriment to the ecosystem without any proofs.

(Announcer):
It's also no accident that 30,000 horses are currently living in BLM pens. Documents obtained by the I-team show that the BLM spends millions each year on rounds-up and on feeding horses in corrals but only four percent of its budget on finding homes for the horses. A backlog was inevitable.

Which led Reynoldson to this prediction more than a year ago,

" You know, at some point, somebody out there is just going to say we gotta put a bunch of these horses down it's the only answer."

And that is exactly what the BLM is planning to do this September unless they are stopped by the American people, they plan to kill the thousands of wild horses they purposefully pulled off public lands and wildlife refuges and put in BLM holding pens. The reason? They've run out of money to feed them, yet the BLM has money to plan several more roundups in the coming months. They have money to round up thousands more horses and put them in BLM holding pens and they have money to feed these horses until, again, they say they have to kill these horses too.
Without reason -yes, without reason because None- NONE of the reasons they've given hold water- the horses aren't starving, they aren't damaging the habitat- the 8 millon cattle taking their place are, and they aren't thin or sick - and they have a right to be on public lands and in nature reserves.

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I'm from the US, not far from where the worst of this is going on, and what is going on is horrendous. It's so horrendous that the agencies involved have to stop public access to the roundups, it so horrendous that I have to get someone else to post this for me from another country so that the state I'm from is not revealed. The American people have to be aware of what is going on before it's too late.
The BLM has been saying for years that there are still 33,000 wild horses left on public lands. Despite the fact that Senator Ensign has indicated that there are only 19,000 wild horses left and that number spans 10 U.S. states and despite the fact that there are now more wild horses in BLM holding pens than on the range, the BLM is still saying that there are still 33,000 wild horses left on the range. Without data, without substantiation, without any study being done as to whether or not that is still the case, the BLM is removing 10,000-12,000 wild horses a year from the range.In less than one year there will be nothing left. Nothing.

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From: http://www.wildhorsepreservation.com/news_ale...
July 2, 2008 – BLM Considering Euthanasia for Thousands of Wild Horses
"The Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM) Wild Horse and Burro Advisory Board met on Monday. As Americans were making plans to celebrate Independence Day, BLM announced it is considering putting to death thousands of our wild horses, as a "solution" to its budget shortfall. How did we come to this?In 2001, BLM obtained a 50% increase in annual budget for implementation of an aggressive removal campaign. 24,000 horses were slated for capture, with no long-term plan for their welfare. Now, predictably, the federal agency finds itself in the untenable positions of warehousing over 30,000 horses (more than remain in the wild); the funding it wants to save by putting our wild horses to death was wasted on years of unnecessary round-ups to cater to special interests. 6 million head of private livestock graze our public lands and BLM wants us to believe that 25,000 wild horses are overpopulating the range? Removals are based on flawed and biased data; BLM itself admitted at Monday’s meeting that not even its censusing techniques are accurate. In 2005, while in the process of rounding up thousands of horses supposedly due to poor range conditions, BLM eased public land grazing restrictions for private cattle.BLM’s irresponsible approach to wild horse management created the problem, and the agency is now asking the American public to swallow a very bitter pill, all the while continuing to round up horses by the thousands (2,000 are slated to come off the Nevada range in the coming weeks alone). "
The BLM was not held accountable when they sold wild horses to slaughter in the 1990s, they were not held accountable when there were serious concerns regarding their finances, they were not held accountable when there were 171 horses found dead under their "management", they were not held accountable as to the thousands upon thousands of horses they were removing from public lands, they were not held responsible when horses were found, dead, outside fenced off public water supplies, they were not held responsible when, encouraged by the fact they were not held responsible for any of their past actions,they now plan to kill the thousands of wild horses they couldn't round up fast enough, more than the holding pens could sustain, yet, still encouraged by their not having to be accountable, they are planning to round up thousands of horses more. Where is this going to end?

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My question, and the question every American should be asking is this- Why is the BLM, and other federal agencies flooding not only their holding pens but the horse market? Wild horses, who were doing fine on the range,are now put, by the thousands, into BLM holding pens to be "adopted" while thousands more are rounded up. There are only so many adoption openings yet the tame horses who readily cannot fend as well for themselves are having to compete with the wild horses who can very well fend by themselves without the interference of the BLM. What this is leading to is a massive overload of horses- unnecessarily. So my question is, why would the BLM want to overload the horse market? If the BLM did not know that, at some point in the last few months they were running out of money and room, and if they don't know now that if they say they don't have any money left to feed the horses they have and then to be making plans to go out and round up thousands and thousands more horses, then they should no longer be entrusted with having any say whateversoever in the management of the wild horses and burros on public lands. Again, I say, any employee who would do something like this,would be fired. The only logical reason why the BLM would want to overload the horse market is for them to, under the guise of all innocence, say exactly what they are saying now. "Oh, there's no more room, we don't have any money left, oh the adoptions aren't as many as we'd hoped."

The BLM spent, in the last four years, 96 percent of its budget(millions of taxpayer dollars) in rounding up horses and only 4 percent towards adoptions, it spent millions of taxpayer dollars contracting out to round up horses when there were already enough tame horses vying for the few adoption vacancies and the wild horses were fine where they were, on the range they were driven from. Why? It was inevitable that there would be an oversupply of horses. Any agency who would purposefully plan for this should be disbanded and the people responsible fired from their jobs. Any agency who was not aware what would happen has no business managing anything, least of all wild horses,burros, wildlife and the habitat. Instead two agencies should be formed- one to represent the oil/gas/cattle interests and the other to safeguard, manage, and protect the wild horses and burros, the wildlife and the habitat.
The time for accountability is now. Horses-both wild and tame, have suffered long enough at the hands of the BLM, FWS, NPS and other federal agencies entrusted with their care and management. Eradication is not management.

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This has to end and it has to end NOW. Demand accountability from the BLM, FWS, NPS and those in those agencies who are responsible for the suffering, death, and proposed eradication of the wild horses and burros on lands, you, the American taxpayer support. You, through your tax dollars are supporting these agencies in their actions and have a right to demand from your Senator, Congressman/Congresswoman as the agencies involved that there is accountability. You have this right. Demand this now or America will see the extinction of the wild horse and burros in American unless these agencies are stopped.
There's too many horses and not enough people to adopt them? Stop rounding up wild horses. Leave them on the range where they were managing very well in the first place and leave those few available adoption spots for the domesticated horses. The BLM received 30 million dollars last year- they used the money to round up horses. Spend that money instead to buy feed, land, medical care, grow feed crops, etc for these wild horses and burros and have more to show for it than the BLM has to show for that money- proposing to kill thousands and thousands of wild horses because they spent all of their money rounding them up.
Right now, it is at the point of urgency. Take steps now. The BLM is planning to kill the thousands of wild horses and burros it already has in BLM holding pens this September, 2008, they plan to go out and round up thousands more,and unless they are stopped. They and the FWS and NPS will continue their agenda unless the American people speak out.

Ask your Senator/Congressman/Congresswo man to co-sponsor bills 6598 767, 249, AND 297. If they already have urge them to push these bills to the floor for a vote in order for them to be made public law. Right now, there is not one single bill made law that protects the horses-wild and tame- as well as the wild burros of America. Urge your elected members now to push these bills to the floor for a vote NOW. Until there are laws in place and until accountability is demanded from federal agencies such as the BLM and others, the horses and burros of America are threatened with extinction.

Again, I am located in the US,not Canada.I had someone else post this for me because I'm too much in the line of fire to post it myself.