This weekend wild horse supporters have something to be thankful for.
On 11/23 In Defense of Animals and Craig Downer brought a lawsuit against the Bureau of Land Management to stop the Calico Complex Roundup in Nevada, scheduled to start 12/1. The Department of Justice delayed the start of the roundup until December 28, granting time for the lawsuit to have an effect, unlike the too short 2 day hold on the Pryor Mountain Roundup earlier this fall. Read here for more on this: http://bit.ly/stopCalico
Also, now more than 155 organizations, scientists and celebrities have signed the new Unified Letter calling for a moratorium on all wild horses roundups. You can go the the Cloud Foundation page and send a letter to your representatives and to President Obama.
http://bit.ly/Moratoriumletter
Here is a petition you can sign online to support the moratoriums on roundups:
http://bit.ly/MoratoriumPetition
All of this seems to be coming to a peak of activity here as we enter the last few weeks of the year. With the BLM rounding up 12,000 horses this year, already having taken 1000 wild horses from Wyoming last month, continuing the pressure on our representatives is vital. The BLM is like a juggernaut and at this point, legal action and legislation seems the only way to stop their destructive trend. With Secretary of the Interior issuing new plans for sterilized “salazoos” and removing more and more horses, the demise of the free roaming wild herds that represent all that is best in our Western Heritage may soon be a thing of the past if we do not continue to act.
This Thanksgiving weekend, I am so grateful for all of the wild horses advocates who are fighting daily on the front lines to save our wild horses. I am also grateful to all of you who love the wild horses and take precious time from your busy days to keep writing, emailing and calling.
Thank you very much and remember your efforts DO make a big difference.
Carol Walker
Hi Carol ~ Great post and fantastic pictures, as usual. Yes, we DID get a TRO for Calico, but I'll never understand why the judge didn't do the same for the Pryor roundup. I don't think he's made a final decision YET. So, what if he decides the roundup wasn't legal? The mares are already sterilized and other horses have new owners. Talk about too little too late!
Terrific expression of thankfulness – with lovely photos!
Linda Ann Nickerson
National Equestrian Examiner
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Dolly
If America rids it self of an essential part of her living history, then America is not the Land of the free. America should take pride in the fact that the Horse is very much American and should be emphasising the fact that the rest of the world should be thankful to America as it is the natural homeland of the equine.
Americans should raise their voices and demand the Mustangs be allowed to roam freely, without any interferences from the BLM or any other organisation. The mustangs are ensuring the land they roam is fertile. It cattle ranchers graze their livestock, on the same lands, this will only destroy and make the area a wasteland.
So to all the organisations that are campaigning on behalf of the Mustangs & Burros, well done and keep fighting the good fight, for one day maybe an American President will wake up and realise the Mustangs are essential to the fundamental thinking of what the people of America believe their country stands for and take pride and joy in seeing wild mustangs roaming free.