Urgent: Public Comments Needed by Thurs. to Stop Roundup of 2,500 Wild Horses in Nevada

The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is continuing the war on wild horses by proposing to round up an astounding 2,500 wild horses — fully 80 percent of the wild horses in the Calico Complex in northwestern Nevada — and stockpile them in long-term government holding facilities. The roundups, which are set to begin December and last three months, will break horse families apart and permanently shatter complex horse society. To learn more about wild horse social and family bonds, see the wild horse series on PBS Nature, “Cloud: Wild Stallion of the Rockies.”

The U.S. General Accounting Office (GAO) has found that “BLM’s decisions on how many wild horses to remove from federal rangelands were not based on direct evidence that wild horse populations exceeded what the range could support and that removals were often not accompanied by reductions in livestock grazing levels or range management to increase the land’s capacity.”

The Calico Complex roundup plan continues BLM policy of removing wild horses, who are supposed to be protected by an act of Congress, for the benefit of private ranchers who graze their livestock on our public lands at bargain basement rates. The plan is an example of BLM’s gross mismanagement of our wild horses and public lands. Read more> http://www.horsesinthesouth.com/article/article_detail.aspx?id=8824

Tags: BLM, Cloud Foundation, wild horses

6 Comments to Urgent: Public Comments Needed by Thurs. to Stop Roundup of 2,500 Wild Horses in Nevada

kaitlin dunbar
November 12, 2009

Let the wild horses be, and do not shatter their communities

Lanette Wilke
November 12, 2009

Please leave the horses alone. They are wild for a reason. They are fine where they are. Please have mercy before it is too late.

Jade Trachte
November 12, 2009

Stop the roundup

Nena
November 12, 2009

I am so sick of this BLM, just keep rounding up all the horse’s in this country.And they don’t have to answer to no- one. What is Congress saying ? What’s the house saying? What the presidents saying about it? Nothing to the public, make me wonder who is really behind all this..

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