BLM CATERS TO LIVESTOCK
INDUSTRY and SCAPEGOATS WILD HORSES & BURROS
Below is BLM's official pie chart outlining food and water resources allocated in the wild horse Herd Management Areas in the Calico Mountain Complex, Nevada (2009-2010)
As the chart shows, livestock is given ~50% of all resources even in wild horse Herd Management Areas ... wildlife gets 25% and wild horses only 25%.
Below is BLM's official pie chart outlining food and water resources allocated in the wild horse Herd Management Areas in the Calico Mountain Complex, Nevada (2009-2010)
As the chart shows, livestock is given ~50% of all resources even in wild horse Herd Management Areas ... wildlife gets 25% and wild horses only 25%.
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NATURE
SELECTION DENIED BY BLM
The BLM either doesn't understand or doesn't appreciate the importance of natural selection. Natural selection is nature's process which ensures strong genetics are passed on to future generations; that means some individuals will naturally survive and reproduce more successfully than others. Natural selection builds healthy populations.
BLM claims by removing horses from the range they are helping them - because they claim the horses would "starve." Nothing could be further from the truth - removing horses from the range does not help the horse population because it is an arbitrary and unnatural reduction process and the BLM program subverts the important natural selection which has always guided specie survival on our planet.
BLM's indiscriminate reduction of populations - in the case of Calico 80 to 90% - removes the certainty and safety of natural selection and denies the wild horse populations the ability to ensure strong, long-term survivability.
The BLM either doesn't understand or doesn't appreciate the importance of natural selection. Natural selection is nature's process which ensures strong genetics are passed on to future generations; that means some individuals will naturally survive and reproduce more successfully than others. Natural selection builds healthy populations.
BLM claims by removing horses from the range they are helping them - because they claim the horses would "starve." Nothing could be further from the truth - removing horses from the range does not help the horse population because it is an arbitrary and unnatural reduction process and the BLM program subverts the important natural selection which has always guided specie survival on our planet.
BLM's indiscriminate reduction of populations - in the case of Calico 80 to 90% - removes the certainty and safety of natural selection and denies the wild horse populations the ability to ensure strong, long-term survivability.
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Ringling Bros. Circus In San Francisco Bay Area from AUGUST 11-22, 2010
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Gov't Broken Wild Horse & Burro Program
Congress needs to take action to fix the government's inhumane and tax-wasting wild horse and burro program. Sadly, the Obama Administration has proven to continue the same Bush Administration policies and business as usual continues at the expense of the horses, burros and American taxpayers.
Interior Secretary Ken Salazar and his staff have testified before various Congressional committees promoting Salazar's flawed plan for the Fiscal Year 2011 budget which includes increased funding for the ill-managed and inhuman Wild Horse & Burro program. Click here to send a fax to both Senate and House Interior subcommittees.
For more on how you can help stop Salazar's BAD plan for wild horses and burros visit our blog.
CONGRESS MUST REIN IN BLM
It's time to have Congress hold BLM accountable. The public needs to speak up against the Obama request for the $12-million increase to the Wild Horse & Burro (WHB) Program and $42.5-million for a "mid-west preserve." Last year Congress increased the WHB budget and all we got was an acceleration of the same bad, Bush policy that removes and scapegoats wild horses to benefit special interests such as cattle ranchers and other commercial interests.
It's time to demand that Congress:
1) Deny the Interior Department's request of $43-million for a "preserve" in the Midwest or East.
2) Require a suspension of all roundups in FY2011.
3) Forbid wild horses be allowed to go to slaughter.
4) Require that BLM focus resources towards on-the-range improvements and management.
5) Acknowledge the importance of natural selection - something that is completely void in the BLM program.
6) Require BLM to allow public access (observers) at all aspects of the taxpayer-funded roundup and holding of wild horses.
Interior Secretary Ken Salazar and his staff have testified before various Congressional committees promoting Salazar's flawed plan for the Fiscal Year 2011 budget which includes increased funding for the ill-managed and inhuman Wild Horse & Burro program. Click here to send a fax to both Senate and House Interior subcommittees.
For more on how you can help stop Salazar's BAD plan for wild horses and burros visit our blog.
CONGRESS MUST REIN IN BLM
It's time to have Congress hold BLM accountable. The public needs to speak up against the Obama request for the $12-million increase to the Wild Horse & Burro (WHB) Program and $42.5-million for a "mid-west preserve." Last year Congress increased the WHB budget and all we got was an acceleration of the same bad, Bush policy that removes and scapegoats wild horses to benefit special interests such as cattle ranchers and other commercial interests.
It's time to demand that Congress:
1) Deny the Interior Department's request of $43-million for a "preserve" in the Midwest or East.
2) Require a suspension of all roundups in FY2011.
3) Forbid wild horses be allowed to go to slaughter.
4) Require that BLM focus resources towards on-the-range improvements and management.
5) Acknowledge the importance of natural selection - something that is completely void in the BLM program.
6) Require BLM to allow public access (observers) at all aspects of the taxpayer-funded roundup and holding of wild horses.
DEATH TOLL CLIMBS: 87 + 40 spontaneous abortions
BLM's update of the Calico victims click here.
For BLM death reports click here.
BLM DENIES FULL PUBLIC ACCESS TO CALICO ROUNDUP & SPOON FEEDS GLIMPSES OF DEATHS/SUFFERING
Throughout the entire Calico Complex roundup the BLM refused to provide appropriate public access to observe and document this multi-million-dollar government operation. The BLM often omitted information reporting whatever they wanted, whenever they wanted. The public had absolutely no way to verify any of the information provided and the BLM made sure of that by confining public viewing to a few hours three days a week (many of these "public observation days" were canceled and never rescheduled). Now the BLM is indicating that public visits to the multi-million-dollar contracted holding facility on Indian Lakes Road will end.
The video to the right shows Don Glenn, director of BLM Wild Horse & Burro program, repeatedly stating on Dec 7, 2009 that full public observation of roundups
("gathers") would be provided:
"All of our gathers are open to the public ... if we had hundreds of
thousands of people wanting to come out and watch a gather we'd have to
manage that situation ... If the public or the press wants to observe a gather,
they just need to get a hold of us and tell us that they want to observe a
gather and we'll accommodate them ... they can come and observe the gather for
the whole time ... we will accommodate them."
Jan 16, 2010:
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APHIS necropsy of Foal Run to Death on Jan 1, 2010 available here. On New Year's Day, the BLM rounded up 10 wild horses but only captured 9 because a 6-month old foal died en route. APHIS vet at the scene, Dr. Al Kane, reported that after being chased by the helicopter for "1/2 mile" the little foal was falling down and died while being chased by BLM helicopters. This foal lived his last moments in utter terror, forced to run, falling repeatedly and his family being stampeded away by government-contracted helicopters.
Below is video take on Jan 30, 2009 at the Indian Rivers Road Fallon holding facility. These horses were stolen from their homes less than 48 hours earlier.
