Please join Madeleine Pickens for breakfast in New York City on Wednesday, January 20, 2010. The breakfast will be at the Union League Club at 38 East 37th Street at 8:30 AM. If you wish to attend please RSVP to Matthew Swift at (646) 709-4275 or maswift@gmail.com.
Madeleine Pickens will be speaking about her plan to Save America’s Mustangs. Below is a summary of recent events.
The current wild horse “gather” taking place in the Calico complex in northern Nevada needs to be placed in context with the overall BLM Wild Horse and Burro Program. Secretary Salazar’s announcement calls for major geographic relocation of wild horses and reforms to this Program.
There is no proposed reform for day to day management of wild horses, except to broaden the use of sterilization to control herd size. Sterilizing thousands of mares will not bring short term relief plaguing the wild horse program as it currently stands. Rather, it raises serious questions on the intent of the Secretary’s reform. If the BLM continues to gather horses at this frightening and unprecedented rate, while dramatically reducing acreage for these protected animals while increasing sterilization, the genetic viability of our wild horse population will surely be at risk. Will the ability of the remaining wild horses to survive after having been so drastically “managed” still be plausible? Is the current agency’s approach based on scientific methods that will guarantee the wild horses will survive, as well as their genetic health? Or, are we on a path to witness the extinction of our Nation’s last wild horses? Read more> http://www.horsesinthesouth.com/article/article_detail.aspx?id=9855
Tags: BLM, Bureau of Land Management, Equine Protection, Madeleine Pickens, Mustangs, Save America's Mustangs, Wild Horse and Burro Program, wild horses
