Stop the Wild Horse Round Up / Pet Bloggers Blog Hop

The American Wild Horse Preservation Campaign (AWHPC) is dedicated to preserving the American wild horse in viable free-roaming herds for generations to come, as part of our national heritage. Its grassroots efforts are supported by a coalition of over forty organizations. It was public outcry over the treatment and round up of Wild Horses that ended the carnage and torture of the Wild Mustangs thanks to the nation’s schoolchildren and their mothers: in 1971, more letters poured into Congress over the plight of wild horses than any other non-war issue in U.S. history; there wasn’t a single dissenting vote, and one congressman alone reported receiving 14,000 letters. Congress unanimously passed the Wild Free-Roaming Horse and Burro Act, declaring that “wild horses and burros are living symbols of the historic and pioneer spirit of the West; that they contribute to the diversity of life forms within the Nation and enrich the lives of the American people; and that these horses and burros are fast disappearing from the American scene.” The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) and the U.S. Forest Service (USFS) were appointed to implement the Act.







The current situation is the result of a long history of failed policies, land allocation issues, and an intricate money trail. The BLM and the USFS, among others, are responsible for managing the nation’s public lands and are foremost the managers of wild horses and burros. Their responsibilities also include issuing public land grazing permits to cattle ranchers. These grazing permits cover limited areas of public land that are available for lease. So, for every wild horse removed from a grazing permit allotment, a fee-paying cow gets to take its place, and a public land rancher gets the benefit of public land forage at bargain rates. This is the number one reason wild horses are removed from public lands.







From over 2 million in the 1800s, America’s wild horse population has dwindled to fewer than 33,000. There are now more wild horses in government holding pens than remain in the wild, with many of the remaining herds managed at population levels that do not guarantee their long-term survival. Still, the round-ups continue.



Over the past forty years, federal law enacted by the people on behalf of the Wild Horses has been ignored. There is no strategic plan to keep viable herds of wild horses on public lands there is no Federal research being conducted as to the true number of Wild Horses left in the wild and if that is a viable number to secure the future of these horse. One of the arguments by livestock lobbyists who want to use the land as cheap grazing ground for their cattle is that these horses are not in fact a breed of horse but actually feral horses that got loose from their farm or cattle ranches during the country’s infancy and therefore are nothing more then a nuisance and are not an endangered species. The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) and the U.S. Forest Service (USFS) were appointed to implement the 1971 Act but now have been given the power not through proper legislation where one organization is allowed to round Up Wild Horses using Helicopters and the other is allowed to slaughter them both things that the 1971 law outlawed.

Oppose Removal of 580 Wild Horses and Testing of Dangerous Drug in Wyoming’s North Lander Complex

The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Lander Field Office in Wyoming is seeking public input for a proposed removal of 580 wild horses in and around the North Lander Complex and the testing of a drug, SpayVac, that according to the National Academy of Sciences may result in permanent sterlization of mares as well as serious health problems in horses.



The 586-square-mile Complex includes four Herd Management Areas (HMAs) where the The Bureau of Land Management allows just 536 wild horses to live in this vast public lands area, while authorizing the annual equivalent of more than over 3,400 privately-owned cows and thousands of sheep to graze there at rock bottom, taxpayer-subsidized rates. AWHPC opposes the removal of any horses from this large area – especially given that the BLM permits more than seven times more livestock than wild horses in the same area so it is not that the horses are too crowded or that there are too many for the area to sustain or even that they are getting into cattle ranches or farms and disturbing the animals there its just that the cattle lobby wants to be able to have more and more practically free land for their cattle to graze on.



Please take action to demand that the BLM forgo the removal of horses from and the testing of the SpayVac drug in this Wild Horse Population sign the petition and make sure your voice is heard http://org2.democracyinaction.org/o/6931/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=11366







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