Help The Wild Horses

Jstn · **Posted:** Mon Nov 30, 2009 6:30 pm

Jan asked me to post this info, and requests your assistance...

http://thecloudfoundation.wordpress.com ... e-roundup/

Nevada Mustangs Given 28-Day Reprieve

IDA Lawsuit Postpones Huge Wild Horse Roundup

Washington, DC (November 24, 2009) - The U.S. Department of Justice announced tonight that the massive roundup and removal of thousands of horses from public land in northwestern Nevada will be delayed until December 28 as a direct result of the filing of a lawsuit by In Defense of Animals and renowned ecologist Craig Downer on November 23.

Tomorrow, IDA and Mr. Downer plan to file a motion for a permanent injunction, with supporting affidavits from horse experts and eyewitnesses to Bureau of Land Management (BLM) roundups. The motion will ask Judge Paul L. Friedman of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia to stop the roundup altogether.

The roundup and removal of 80-90 percent of the estimated 3,055 wild horses living in the BLM’s Calico Mountain Complex was originally scheduled to begin December 1. The BLM has received over 10,000 public comments in opposition to the roundup.

“We welcome this moratorium on the capture and inhumane treatment of the Calico horses,” said William Spriggs, Esq. of Buchanan, Ingersoll and Rooney, pro bono attorney for IDA and Mr. Downer. “The BLM plan for a massive helicopter roundup of these horses is entirely illegal.”
“We are confident that the court will agree that America’s wild horses are protected by law from BLM’s plan to indiscriminately chase and stampede them into corrals for indeterminate warehousing away from their established habitat,” he said. “The magnificent wild horses and burros of the American West are an important part of our national heritage and must be preserved.”

The Wild Free Roaming Horse and Burro Act, passed unanimously by Congress in 1971, designated America’s wild horses and burros as “living symbols of the historic and pioneer spirit of the West,” specifying they “shall be protected from capture, branding, harassment, or death … [and that] to accomplish this they are to be considered in the area where presently found, as an integral part of the natural system of public lands.”

Since 1971, the BLM 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. By contrast, millions of cattle graze our public lands. Thirty-two thousand wild horses who have been removed from the range are already held in government holding facilities, and the BLM intends to round up 12,000 more horses in FY 2010.

You can help. More info and petition to the White House here....

http://www.thecloudfoundation.org/

nimsgirl · **Posted:** Mon Nov 30, 2009 9:59 pm

Thank you Jan

Jstn · **Posted:** Sun Dec 06, 2009 8:01 pm

The latest, and what you can do to help, at link...

http://tuesdayshorse.wordpress.com/

Advocates buck BLM plan to relocate wild horses from the West to the East

SPARKS, Nev. (AP), Dec. 6, 2009 — Dozens of wild horse advocates will go before a federal advisory panel in Nevada on Monday to try to persuade public land managers to buck a plan to relocate thousands of free-roaming mustangs from the West to preserves elsewhere.

Some of the top defenders of the equines nationally are making the trip to urge the U.S. Bureau of Land Management’s National Wild Horse and Burro Advisory Board to halt government roundups of the horses from the range.

Advocates for the horses are pressing for alternatives to Interior Secretary Ken Salazar’s plan to move 25,000 mustangs to preserves in the Midwest and East. KTNV-TV >>

jan133 · **Posted:** Tue Dec 08, 2009 11:33 am

Just want to thank this great group for caring about our wild horses - i have made a lot of friends when i joined the cloud blog under the cloud foundation owned by ginger kathrens who has loved and filmed cloud since his birth in the pryor reserve in montana and the other people -many like me not rich but who love the wild horses running free - they are a symbol of america and since 2004 our govt which had sworn to protect them in 1971 have instead been rounding them up and selling for slaughter - now the public knows and yet those at the bureau of land management believe they dont have to listen to americans anymore - salazar, head of the interior dept said they all shd be killed - he is very pro-rancher - it comes down money - the ranchers pay about 2.00 a year per head to graze their cattle (some 8 million head of cattle) on public lands where the horses roam - the horses have no money to give so they pay with their lives at slaughter houses and the govt gets the money - people like madeline pickens whose husband is t. bone pickens, a billionaire want to help but govt just thumbs their nose at them - that is why we horse lovers are so mad - we have people with money who want to buy the horses frm the govt at $125.00 a head to save them but the govt sells to killers for about $900 - its all about the money.

Jstn · **Posted:** Fri Jan 22, 2010 3:17 am

Jan sent me this link. She says it's an "excellent film on the mustang"

http://blustream.sendvideo.net/stw/inde ... 3tjtsxwwkz

jan133 · **Posted:** Fri Jan 22, 2010 4:16 pm

on another note - supposed the public is allowed to come to the so-called gatherings as the blm calls it - so at calico this week madeline pickens and a film crew came and good morning america came with film crew - the blm was p - to say the least - did not want anyone filming anything they are doing - so dont know what gma was allowed to film and they would not acknowledge madeline pickens and her film crew - she is the lady who has offered twice to the blm to buy the some 33,000 wild horses and put on land she owns - they turned her down - they get more money if they can sell horses for slaughter - if you read the lies the blm is posting on their website - then there is no hope for the wild horse - blm says horses are starving to death - all the horses that ginger has seen in the wild - tho may lose weight in winter are still very healthy - the humane society of america is not helping save them - they are the ones giving all mares a shot so they wont get pregnant - sadly all male horses over 6 months are altered - even ones that have valuable genes for the spanish type horse that cloud is - can send some links to jstn and he can post here

Jstn · **Posted:** Fri Jan 22, 2010 4:21 pm

You are welcome to post your own links, Jan.

Unless you actually need my assistance, I have plenty to do already. LOLOLOL

PS - Don't forget to format your text to large when posting, but leave a space between any coding and a link, so the link will be clickable. Thanks - Jstn

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