Our Mustang’s are free-roaming wild horse‘s, that first descended from horses brought to the America by the Spanish. In 1971, the U.S. Congress recognized Mustangs as “living symbols of the historic and pioneer spirit of the West, which continue to contribute to the diversity of life forms within the Nation and enrich the lives of the American people.” Since 1971, the BLM (Bureau of Land Management)has removed over 270,000 horses from their western home ranges and taken away nearly 20 million acres of wild horse habitat. Only 37,000 wild horses and burros remain on public lands in the West before this recent cull, but, we allow millions of cattle graze our public lands for human consumption. 32,000 wild horses who have been removed from the range are already held in government holding facilities, and the BLM intends to round up a total of 12,000 more horses by the end of 2010.
On August 11 the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals had rejected an emergency motion to stop the Twin Peaks wild horse roundup. This Court of Appeals upheld a denial by U.S. District Court Judge Morrison C. England, Jr. of motions filed by Plaintiff In Defense of Animals for an emergency stay, temporary restraining order and preliminary injunction to stop the roundup. After reading more into who is behind this outside of BP, Please read previous post: http://civillibertarian.blogspot.com/2010/07/mustang-conspiracy-british-petroleum.html , I found the Safari Club International in support of The Twin Peaks Roundups named in the the lawsuit against IDA’s motion to stop the Round ups. http://www.safariclubfoundation.org/ This is blatantly outrageous corruption murdering our precious wild horses over greed and power, yet again. There are millions of horse lovers in this country that disagree with these actions, some wealthy and celebrities, so why are the tax payers paying BLM to appease special interest groups for profit? Why did they not ask for public opinion or help if they claim there is an overpopulation issue? Many people would have stepped up and volunteered time and efforts for alternatives. And there are alternatives to be utilized that the government keeps ignoring. The most intelligible, moral and ethical one being Managing Wild Horses Through Fertility Control By Jay F. Kirkpatrick, Ph.D.,
Traditional management of wild horse populations, over the past 100 years, has included everything from simply shooting animals, to sending them off to slaughter plants for dog food, to gathers and adoptions, through the Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM) Adopt-A-Horse program. None has been successful in stabilizing populations over the long haul and management by removal ignores two biological imperatives. Removal of animals, by any means, lethal or otherwise, presents two problems, aside from the immense costs. First, as the density of horses is reduced, the remaining animals breed at younger ages, have less time between foals and in general speed up reproduction through a process known as compensatory reproduction.
(To read more: http://www.wildhorsepreservation.org/resources/fertility.html ) We could very easily use this method of control for the wild herds if it were really the issue, rather than continuing to embrace the provincial thinking from the barbarian drama queens that are currently controlling these issues. Below is an example of their tactics, Please, we need to force them out of the position to continue these horrific practices.
The body of a wild horse foal was found near the site of the Twin Peaks roundup Wednesday by Craig Downer, wildlife ecologist and Cloud Foundation Board member, and Christy Davis, wild horse advocate. Davis, an experienced horse woman, examined the foal for any broken bones. What she found was an apparent rope burn on a rear leg as well as a gunshot wound. "It seems as though the foal was shot in the gut," Davis states. "It looked as though the foal was abused, lassoed around the hind legs and dragged."
The foal, approximately 2 weeks old, was killed prior to the start of the controversial Twin Peaks Herd Management Area roundup in Northern California. When Davis told BLM officials about finding the gunshot foal, Bureau of Land Management (BLM) employee, Carman Prisco, told Davis she must be confused and the dead animal was an antelope. Photos taken by Downer confirmed that this is indeed a wild horse foal. ( http://humaneobserver.blogspot.com/2010/08/twin-peaks-roundup-starts-with.html )
we have to let our voices be heard and loud whomever is in power, and take back our country for the animals and humans to live free from harm. Please take the following actions:
CALL THE BLM, ask them to cease and desist the Round up of the Wild Mustangs!
202-208-3801.
CALL SALAZAR, (202) 208-7351- DEPARTMENT OF INTERIOR
DEMAND A TOTAL MORATORIUM ON WILD HORSE ROUNDUPS.
Please call President Obama and ask to end the Wild Horse Roundups now
(202) 456-1111 9-5 EST, M-F
Please call, email or write your local representative, Look them up here: http://www.congress.org/
as well as CA Senator Boxer http://www.congress.org/signon/congressorg/mail/?id=358&lvl=C&chamber=S&type=ST
(202) 224-3553
Senator Feinstein http://www.congress.org/signon/congressorg/mail/?id=347&lvl=C&chamber=S
(202) 224-3841
Please sign : http://capwiz.com/madeleinepickens/issues/alert/?alertid=15433501 https://secure.humanesociety.org/site/Advocacy?pagename=homepage&page=UserAction&id=4663&autologin=true&autologin=true&s_src=humaneaction&sub_src=081810&JServSessionIdr004=4wj65vn8w2.app305a
More Resources and useful links:
http://ourcompass.wordpress.com/2010/08/16/we-need-an-executive-order-to-save-the-horses/
http://www.idablog.org/category/horse-campaign/
http://www.animallawcoalition.com/wild-horses-and-burros/article/1412
http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2010/08/13/18656041.php
http://www.vickitobin.com/index.html
http://www.animallawcoalition.com/wild-horses-and-burros/article/1398
