HOW YOU CAN MOST HELP AMERICA’S WILD HORSES/BURROS
- Please write a letter to your Senators and Representative and ask that they respond. The following are points and we ask that you put it in your own words.
- We ask that you appropriate funding through Congress to study the Heber Wild horses in northern Arizona in the Apache Sitgreaves forest for the next 7-10 years.
- This means that this herd should not be rounded up as planned next year.
- We ask that the study be independent of the Forest Service and/or the Bureau of Land Management (The Agencies.) ISPMB should assist Congress in choosing scientists for the study.
- This horse herd has been protected from roundups for nearly 20 years thanks to ISPMB.
- Their growth rate is between 1%-3%.
- These rates defy the acclaimed rates that the Agencies purport at 20% annual growth with populations doubling every 4 years.
- If that were the case, there would be 4,800 horses in the Heber herd today and the last count was 414 in 2021.
- By independently studying this herd, I believe that the Agencies would have to TRANSFORM how they manage our wild horses and burros.
- We believe the roundups must end until wild horse populations stabilize from the constant disruptions of their highly evolved social communities.
- If the Agencies continue management as is, including giving them birth control, this will spell doom the populations.
- Please advise me as to your position on making the Heber Herd a study herd because in 1980-82, the National Academy of Sciences requested that a study be done and the Agencies refused. We are asking that it be done now.
- Please write a similar letter to the Secretary of Agriculture, Tom Vilsack
- You can use the above letter with the caveat. Section 10 of the 1971 Wild Free-Roaming Horses and Burros Act provides that the Secretary can declare that wild horses be studied – “ The Secretaries are authorized and directed to undertake those studies of the habits of wild free-roaming horses and burros that they may deem necessary in order to carry out the provisions of this Act.”
- Please ask for a response from Secretary Vilsack.
- Or call – 202-720-3631 Address: 1400 Independence Ave. SW-Washington, D.C. 20250
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“The Wild Free-Roaming Horses and Burros Act of 1971 was designed to protect and preserve wild horses and
burros from “capture, branding, harassment, or death; and to accomplish this they are to be considered in the area
where presently found, an integral part of the natural system of public lands.”
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I can’t find the words to express how horrific this taking wild horses from their homes and will be killed!!!
CORRUPT CRUEL SOULLESS cattle ranchers UNNECESSARILY kill wildlife — wolves, mountain lions and wild horses!!! ENOUGH!!!
These iconic horses must be spared these heinous roundups cruelly leading them to a merciless death.
Through efforts over the last several weeks to save the Alpine horses who have been rounded up by the USFS, I have discovered your organization and that you filed a lawsuit with FR Law Group. We saved a lot of the horses through fundraising, sharing on Instagram with good people who took them to their ranches.
How are the BLM and the USFS able to constantly thwart the law, lie to American people and get away with it? I have talked to people in the BLM and they blatantly lie to me and make it obvious that they don’t care about the horses and burros they are supposed to be protecting. I have written many letters, made many calls to my reps in Congress and even with HR 3355 , S 2732, we can’t even get the SAFE ACT to a vote. I’m very frustrated . I know that the billionaire welfare ranchers have much to do with the problem and would like to know what else we can do besides writing more letters and making more phone calls. I will, though, use your points above to write to my reps and Vilsack . Letters and phone calls to Haaland do absolutely no good.
Would a new lawsuit do any good? We could fund-raise for one.
In my opinion the USFS and BLM must be totally disbanded. Maybe the NPS too because they gave us some blatant lies and pretty preposterous ones in a webinar that AWHC easily disproved and caught them up short.
I thank you for your time and please let me know how I can help.