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Breaking News!
The Bureau of Land Management’s Wild Horse and Burro Advisory Board has just voted in favor of killing all the wild horses currently in short term and long term holding, approximately 44,000 horses. The only NO vote on the Advisory Board was from Ginger Kathrens of the Cloud Foundation.
Being extremely fond of euphemisms, the BLM uses the term “euthanasia” which is incorrect.
Definition of Euthanasia: “the act or practice of killing or permitting the death of hopelessly sick or injured individuals (as persons or domestic animals) in a relatively painless way for reasons of mercy.” This is in fact murder, not euthanasia.
The intent behind this vote was to send a strong message to Washington, DC so that this might happen. Dean Bolstad, Division Chief had been alluding to killing the captive wild horses earlier in the meeting.
This is BLM’s endgame for our wild horses.
Please speak up – send comments to the Advisory Board ASAP at this address: whbadvisoryboard@blm.gov
Contact Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewel, and the Director and the Division Chief of the BLM:
Dean Bolstad, Division Chief dbolstad@blm.gov
Neil Kornze, Director of the BLM nkornze@blm.gov, director@blm.gov
Sally Jewell, Secretary of the Interior Secretary_jewell@ios.doi.gov, exsec@ios.doi.gov
You can email the bloody-minded Advisory Board individually as well:
June Sewing: mustangs@infowest.com; Fred Woehl: prtfred@gmail.com; Robert Cope: cowdoc75@hotmail.com; Julie Weikle: jweikeldvm@yahoo.com; Sue McDonnell: suemcd@vet.upenn.edu; Steven Yardley: steven.leslieyardley@yahoo.com; Ben Masters: benmasters@unbrandedthefilm.com
and you can thank Ginger Kathrens for standing strong in the face of such complete and utter disregard for the interests of our wild horses and burros: Info@thecloudfoundation.org.
Then write your Congressmen and Senators and the White House:
https://www.whitehouse.gov/contact
http://www.senate.gov/general/contact_information/senators_cfm.cfm
http://www.house.gov/representatives/
This outrage must not stand.
433 Comments
tell us how to stop this killing!!!
Cal and write your Senators and Congressmen. Tell the press!
Yes as Carol said,Call and raise hell.
I emailed them today. This is terrible news.
Thank you for doing that.
Change.org petitions website, can make this go viral
I am at a loss for words but you? Very courageous and well informed. I am missing the point of the action against these animals. They’re wild animals, so why are they now in captivity awaiting their death. Let them go and live or offer them to people for a reasonable price so they will no longer be depleting food resources.
They are in captivity because the BLM has been rounding up and removing them for decades in response to very powerful special interest groups who do not want to share public lands. The wild horses should be managed on the range in their homes not rounded up and removed and stockpiled at great taxpayer expense.
These horses are protected by law. Wild horse and burro act of 1971. If the BLM cannot manage the horses they should be left on the range.
CONTACT ALL NATIONAL NEWS MEDIA. IT IS EASY!!!!CNN MSNBC CBS ABC NBC.
THEY LIVE FOR STORIES LIKE THESE!!!
THE BLM NEEDS TO BE OUTED AND THERE NEEDS TO BE PUBLIC OUTCRY!!!
Where are they located? This is awful
They are in holding facilities in California, Colorado, Wyoming, Kansas, Utah, Ohio, Montana and I may have missed a couple of states.
This is what we need to do.
Why doesn’t someone put toghter a petition so that everyone can sign it.
Because a petition is not going to stop Congress from approving the BLM’s plan – concerned citizens making contact with their Senators and Representatives will.
Hi, I live in Newfoundland and Canada,, how may I help? this is so sad and outrageous!!
I am calling and writing everyone you suggested. This must be stopped. Barbaric and despicable
Thank you Caroline. That is exactly what we need to do.
These horses are protected by law. Wild horse and burro act of 1971. If the BLM cannot manage the horses they should be left on the range.
These horses are protected by law. Wild horse and burro act of 1971. If the BLM cannot manage the horse they should be left on the range.
Adopting the Mustangs they want to kill is the only thing we can do. That’s the sad truth.
Actually we can stop this by talking to our Senators and Congressmen. They are not enough homes for all of them but the BLM can return wild horses in holding to the 22 million acres they have taken away from them and let them live out their lives on public land.
People and organizations need to step up and adopt. Mustang population is well over double what it is supposed to be. The horses in holding don’t want to go back to starve or die of dehydration…that is what would happen to them. It is happening already in many HMS’s.
Susan, please document the proof of your claims. Where are horses starving or dying unless the management has failed them? How do you know what the population is “supposed” to be since nobody (even the NAS) can trust or verify the BLMs inventorying methods and data? Why should taxpayers who pay through the nose to have wild horses and burros managed in the wild also be further expected to adopt a few, when most people don’t own even a quarter of an acre, while private interests have managed to control millions of acres once designated as legal horse areas for their own personal profits?
Have you asked the gender-segregated, sterilized, gelded, and orphaned captive wild horses how much they would like to stay confined in their own filth, unable to roam or even escape foul weather? Isn’t dying a natural death part of a “thriving natural ecological balance” as any ecologist would define it?
How lucky if you have such great knowledge… however I disagree entirely with your spurious suppositions.
Really!!!!! Return them to the wild! I. Have personally seen what to many horses can do to the environment an the natural wild life. I an my husband had to clean out a spring where the horses trampled the mud the a point where the spring was getting clogged. I’m in favor of the wild horses but believe that gelding the stallions so that the herds can be controlled. We as Americans have a emotional attachment to these nomads of the plains an I agree that they are majestic creatures. But just think of how many people in our country are in need of food. We are a country that has become wastful of natural resources. The native Americans ate horse as well as the pioneers. Where did we come to this phobia of eating horses. I have had it in Other countries an if cooked right it is excellent. I know I know they are a symbol of the free spirit, but isn’t the eagle and the wolf of the elk and Buffalo? I know that many people will not like my post but maybe just maybe you people will open hour minds an think about it.
This all sickens me. Humans cannot stop picking on our wild life. Always excuse after excuse as to why they have to be taken out of their own environment. Who gave these egotistical people the right to play god?
Ask for the people’s vote~ you cowardly individuals!
Horses are a natural beauty of our landscape, and with out them it becomes empty, shallow and cold. They have earned their right stay where they are or to be relocated on another landscape…Not death.
How about we cook you? We don’t eat horses here they are our pets. I can see you have two faces. Go to the other countries that Eat them if you like it that much . Get out of here. This country , two face.
Eat horses??? Wtaf is wrong with you???
The phobia comes from the slaughter industry which is not well regulated. Beef that you purchase in the store is raised on a tightly regulated cattle farm. Horse meet comes from wherever it can be sourced, including pets. Why is this worrisome? Because horse owners can vaccinate their horses with whatever the heck they want because the animal is not being raised for human consumption, it’s being kept as a pet. Therefore, by consuming horse meat you’re accepting that as tasty as a the well-prepared meat may be, you’re giving up the right to know what you’re consuming along with said meat, including the idea that you’re ingesting horse vaccines, or whatever else I choose to feed or inject my pet with.
I guess you eat other pets as well !
IRS lists horses as pets! Horse is considered a dog or a cat. My taxes prove it.
If you want to preach about who is ruining the country and taking all the resources, start preaching about controlling the population of useless people!
Have you seen what the cattle do to the range?
I’m going to start a petition to have each b one of the individuals listed above removed from their jobs. Then I’m talking to an attorney about going after each one of them with a legal and civil lawsuit. I’ll keep you posted
Most of us in the USA are Christians and God came down from heaven riding a horse so no eating horses is not an option in the usa.
Maybe it is your mind that should be opened to something different. Sick
What is wrong with some of u here? Eat horses, we don’t do here in America!! Either help or stay off here, u r sick!!!
Really? You are one sick individual ! Eating horses in this country is akin to eating your family pets, to eating dogs and cats. What makes you think that it is ok just because you say so. No, you do not think they are majestic, and you lie to yourself. You are no better than any animal abuser. They are a part of the American landscape, and it is public land from which they were kidnapped so that scum could graze their cattle. If you are going to have cattle, buy your own land in which to graze them. I strongly suspect from your post that you are a cattle rancher or so far up their butts that you can’t see daylight. You are, no doubt in favor of killing wolf populations as well. Well, Americans should become vegans in order to save our wildlife. Then you would have no one to purchase your goods or hyperbole. No one has permission from the land owners, the American people to displace our wildlife from our property. The BLM and the US Game and fish departments should be completely abolished, then reformed with caring and compassionate people who have the welfare of the Animals, the good of the country and the people who want to keep the land as it was designed to be, a homeland for our wildlife instead of a profit subsidy for rich cattle ranchers who buy off public servants. There are no words for the likes of you. I could call you despicable but that word is way too nice for the likes of you. Just let me say, I sincerely hope you get everything you deserve.
Pepper , it’s a free country thank goodness, and like you and your beliefs, I to have mine, unfortunately in this case I have to go in favor of the horses, they are beautiful animals. As far as food your correct about feeding hungry people. I’ve never lived where wild horses run free so I can’t speed about the damage they may couse .
Let’s stop having so many human babies while we’re at it! Humans ruin every bit of land that they touch and heaven forbid another creature get in the way of a human’s progress or their precious pond…
Pepper, gelding the studs will solve nothing and create additional problems, since very few get to reproduce under natural conditions, and those that do are the fittest, constantly tested by natural and societal forces.
The question of eating horses is not relevant; these animals were protected by public demand and unanimous act of Congress and are not commercial livestock, period. Slaughter would make no dent in human hunger as there are too few animals left anyway, and those in holding have been treated with chemical dewormers and vaccines anyways, many harmful to humans. The entire population of our remaining wild horses would keep a commercial slaughter plant busy only for a few weeks, then what? America has about 325 million people now, and perhaps 20,000 or 50,000 wild horses in the wild (no accurate numbers exist), so how exactly would your idea work, and who would get the “gift” of illegal horse meat? Would taxpayers also have to pay to (illegally) process and ship it, and then what about the offal, blood and bones, which constitute pollution needing management oversight and cleanup (at additional taxpayer cost, presumably by those wealthy enough not to have to eat the meat). All this while also subsidizing livestock grazing in the same areas at far below market values yet not providing any free or discounted beef to consumers of all income classes.
A better answer to human hunger is for Americans to waste less food, and to insist on discounted prices for any foods raised on public lands at taxpayer expense.
A better answer to “horses clogging a spring” is to look adjust the management strategies, not blame the horses for behaviors created under conditions controlled by people.
Your suggestion, while it may seem logical to you, is illegal, abhorrent, and unethical, while managing to solve almost nothing and creating many new and expensive problems.
I cant believe my eyes . horses have roamed the earth forever.why cant you set them free.gods creatures are sacred.they deserve to live.you are so cruel to kill inocent animals.
It’s time we take back our public lands from the ranchers and give them to the wild animals. Why should a select few be given control over Our lands?
Thank you Pepper. I think this is well said and appropriate.
Pepper, maybe you can open YOUR mind to the facts, that the numbers of wild horses and burros are minimal compared to the MILLIONS of cattle on public lands. Cattle grazing is far more destructive to the land, as well as polluting waterways. Americans are not buying the crap that the BLM and others are trying to use as reasons to remove horses and burros. Nope, what this boils down to is the entitlement factor – that ranchers, other special interests who have financial resources feel they have the God given right to claim public lands as their own. Horse advocates know that there is plenty of land to allow wild horse and burros to live and not interfere with cattle. A better solution is needed, a more humane approach, is needed. As far as your statement about eating horses, it might be time for you to move to one of those countries who don’t believe eating horses is ILLEGAL! Or how about China or Korea, you could get a tasty plate of dog or cat in one of those countries.
Have you noticed the damage and destruction humans do to the environment? Funny how we always want to manage the population of animals when we make no efforts to manage our own. I think the wrong “herd” is being thinned. Woe to us if we were held to the same standards we so willingly place on animals who have no reasoning skills to know they need population control. What is our excuse? We are superior because of our mental capacity yet for all of that, we are actually worse than these majestic creatures.
I agree with you Pepper. I wish more individuals could (or would) visit where these so called “wild” horses are residing to see first hand the destruction they have done to the land and watering sources harming not just themselves but all wildlife. There simply is not enough feed nor water to support these animals in their current population. In Nevada the maximum allotment is 12,800 and currently we have 31,980 horses and 2,500 burros. These horses are not indigenous to the area yet individuals continue to carry the misconception these animals are all grace and beauty. In fact the lack of resources will claim many through starvation or dehydration and the land itself has reached a crisis creating areas which may never recover.
If this group really feels this strongly about “saving” them then I suggest we ship a 1000 to every state and you can determine how best to manage them without destroying the resources of our future generations.
I am sorry but the “crisis” you are talking about in Nevada of overgrazing and suffering rangeland has been caused by decades of livestock overgrazing. The wild horses are the easy scapegoats to blame.
Pepper,
You make several valid points in both directions and I, for one, hear where you are coming from. If I may, I would like to add to both sides of your comments:
1)Wild horses in our country, the Mustangs and of course what burros run with them, do symbolize our National Freedom to many people. But you are very correct in that overpopulation of them is destructive to grazing lands as equines pull grasses out by the roots unlike ungulates which have no upper incisors and clip what they eat. That grassland will grow back as they move on. Horses leave a barren wasteland behind unless reseeded. And obviously droughts hurt all wild animals dependent on the prairie.
Your suggestion of castrating the males is an EXCELLENT one, particularly in the animals already in captivity! Isn’t that the same as the spay/neuter mantras heard worldwide to eliminate overcrowded Shelters killing thousands of beautiful small animals every day for lack of space or homes.
There ARE some individuals and groups that have adopted Wild Mustangs and gentled and ridden them.
For instance, do you know that the U S Marine Corps Mounted Color Guard rides ONLY Palomino Mustangs obtained from the Beaureau of Land Management? All of the horses are so well gentled that a small child can safely approach a mounted Marine and safely pet the horse and speak to the rider! They are ridden in Parades (Even the Rose Bowl Parade), appear at opening ceremonies for large Rodeos, and many other events. Unfortunatetly, as many things in our military have been reduced, so has the USMC Color Guard. Where there were once stables at various bases around the country, now they are all (and there are quite a few) are stables in Barstow, CA, and when called for in various settings they are trailered there in a large red horse trailer painted with their insignia. Google them and see some of their beautiful and heart warming pictures.
2)Your second issue dealt with the fact that there are many starving people and that Indians, pioneers and modern day Mexicans and Europeans eat horse meat. Also that you had yourself and when prepared right was very good.
What will be faced here in the US is that the Horse in our culture is considered as much of a Companion Animal as a Dog or a Cat and we would never eat them! That is not the case, for instance, in Asia. But it certainly is here. And that will be very difficult to change.
I appreciated your comments and hope you did mine as well. It is not an easy problem to solve.
The captive stallions living in holding facilities have all been gelded.
You are correct in stating that there is a limit to how many we can keep before it’s detrimental to other wild and domestic animals as well as the feeding of humans. I Like horses as much as anyone but at some point commonsense has to prevail.
this guy does not know what hes talking about. at all, natives revered horses, even after they where starved to death, by the ranchers contracted to provide them with beef, started giving them decomposed beef, then then quit completely, they natives were forced to eat their dogs, which is why we have a ceremony for our ancestors who were forced to eat dog. there was no horses, the white man had already killed them.
Your viewpoint is elitist, clinical, chillingly sterile, small-minded and disgusting. This is an atrocity being committed nefariously and for GREED upon thousands of beautiful animals en masse and your blindness to the magnitude of what murdering 45,000 beautiful beings–NOT FARM-RAISED FOOD OR LIVESTOCK–represents is astounding!!!
Where we have ‘come’ with regard to your ‘phobic’ comment, is we have become more civilized and hopefully less barbaric to hold a higher standard as to what animals WE EAT and DO NOT eat! You are a total hypocrite, to state that you recognize the Wild Mustang as a ‘magnificent’ animal but are yet willing KILL THEM AND EAT THEM! Your justifications and feigned admiration are a blatant, LIE. Perhaps YOU need to OPEN YOUR MIND and think more broadly than to simply eliminate animals because they are inconvenient. The all-too-Inconvenient — LIE!
Congress having the decision to KILL the truly wild and free spirits of America is egregious!! THESE WILD HORSES HAVE THE RIGHT TO LIVE ON *OUR* PUBLIC LANDS UNMOLESTED and NOT BE SLAUGHTERED WANTONLY!
How elitist, ‘excellent’ and delightful for you that you ATE a member of these amazing species which carried frontiersman across America to open up the West, fought with soldiers and died with them…Assisted early farmers in tilling their land; THE WILD MUSTANG IS A BEAUTIFUL, INTELLIGENT ANIMAL, A SYMBOL OF AMERICAN FREEDOM AND ONE OF OUR NATIONAL TREASURES! An American Tradition, Wild Horses roaming our wild-lands will be forever eliminated should Congress, the BLM and people like you have their way.
THE BLM is a totally CORRUPT agency and have LIED TO CONGRESS.
SO SHAME ON YOU AND THOSE OTHER COUNTRIES– Take your elitist desire and championing of the killing and eating of HORSES IN THE TENS OF THOUSANDS, SOMEWHERE ELSE.
I will tell you that you and those questionable humans like you ARE IN THE MINORITY–But then that is why you are among the elite — it is none of your concern now, is it?
PLEASE EVERYONE ELSE, HELP TO SAVE OUR WILD MUSTANGS!!!
Best idea !
HW the cow meet you get I’m store, is not what you think. Monsanto Paris chemically induced 304 vegetable seeds animals food start reading on the back of them you’ll see what I’m talking about it on the internet either back in the seventies they used to have the roundups I went online and then they would have options and sell the horses I watch the documentary one night Sheryl Crow the singer was narrating it and they don’t have to round up some more they’re chasing him down with helicopters the horses are running off the bus and killing themselves and now that I’ve heard for the last 6-7 years they’re selling them to Mexico the governor of Montana said it up there selling them to Mexico do they slaughter houses and then they showed them into a stall it starts with their feet and legs then the body. They were alive when they start. Robert Redford is a horse Actavis Sheryl Crow is also
I need a bullet point list of the what can be done. I have no way of taking care of a rescue horse nor do I know what the BLM could do besides releasing them back into the wild. I only vaguely remember reading something about what the BLM is doing wrong (years ago)
Well said. Returning public land for keeping the horses alive. Yes.
Yes!
You’re right Carol! We need to call all the legislators and then call again!
What kind of program is in effect to manage the reproduction of the herds? I agree with you that they should live out their lives on their land. Slaughtering 44,000 horses or anything is their quick fix for their problem not the horses. We have become a nation of killing instead of a nation of compassion.
There are any number of methods that work and do not need sterilization. This is not the issue. There is no overpopulation of wild horses on our public lands. The BLM wants to get rid of our wild horses in the wild and those on holding.
How do we adopt them?
Go here: http://www.blm.gov/wo/st/en/prog/whbprogram/adoption_program.html
Seriously you think the over-grazing is caused by ranchers and their livestock? You are so misinformed. I grew up in ranching and had it not been for the ranchers caring for the land, controlling the herds and keeping the springs available to all wildlife we would be in worse shape then we are. Even if you want to make this argument it does not change the facts: There is not have enough resources and there are not enough individuals adopting these animals to ever bring these herds down to manageable sizes.
I will write the board (and our representatives) and commend them for making the difficult but responsible choices. What you propose cannot be sustained so if you really want to save them start proposing something which offers real solutions. Perhaps Colorado would like to add another 10,000 to it’s current 1500. Then maybe a few more states will volunteer to take another 10,000.
Coralee: agree with some of this. yes, there are not enough resources, but land should NOT be left to the ranchers to “care” for. Mother nature will do a better job. Which means letting beaver, buffalo, prong horn sheep and lets not forget the predators to live. Horses and cattle are not indigenous.
I was going to ask that. Why don’t they just let them go.???
My strong suggestion is that they return all the horses in holding to the 22 million acres that used to belong to wild horses at the time the 1971 act was passed. The stallions are gelded, they cannot repriduce so let them live out their lives in freedom and MUCH cheaper than keeping them in holding pens.
This is what should happen! Get the cattle off and leave the wildlands to the wild creatures: horses, deer, elk, etc.
Cattle breeders should raise their cattle on their OWN land, as farmers in the East do. There is no public land in the East. And there is lots of beef being produced there.
Dear Carol,I have followed you for years,and was dreadfully concerned regarding the West Douglas Herd,and so many others.I live in Nassau,Bah.I adopted a young goal 18
Charlie, there are other solutions. These creatures can and must be returned to the land. We need to let people know!
I think they should go to Detroit, San Francisco, Washington DC and all big cities run by democrats. They will take care of them.
I think that “thinking” for you is nonexistent.
Charlie why is the only we can do is adopting?
Write the Advisory Board: Please speak up – send comments to the Advisory Board ASAP at this address: whbadvisoryboard@blm.gov
You can email the bloody-minded Advisory Board individually as well:
June Sewing: mustangs@infowest.com; Fred Woehl: prtfred@gmail.com; Robert Cope: cowdoc75@hotmail.com; Julie Weikle: jweikeldvm@yahoo.com; Sue McDonnell: suemcd@vet.upenn.edu; Steven Yardley: steven.leslieyardley@yahoo.com; Ben Masters: benmasters@unbrandedthefilm.com
I would agree with returning the mature adults that know how to survive as a wild mustang to their land. Adopt out the yearlings and youngsters born in captivity. I have adopted a yearling and he is the sweetest, gentlest little guy. I will never spend hundreds or thousands to purchase another horse. I will adopt and save as many of these beautiful horses as my circumstances will allow.
Dear Carol,
I just sent my email and am hoping many more people will too. It just takes a few moments of your time.
Done! Tomorrow, Monday, I’ll call mccain, flake (who is one),and kirkpatrick. Then calling jewel’s office. I’m in AZ.
maybe, just maybe, we can take some of those billions being used to make the illegals documented democrats and set up a sanctuary city for these horses.
Yep!
Wow, ignorance at its finest.
http://www.blm.gov/wo/st/en/prog/whbprogram/adoption_program/facility.html
Adopt the excess horses. Nobody can feed an extra 44,000 horses that nobody is adopting. It’s like an animal shelter that has too many dogs/cats.. something HAS to happen. Either people need to step up and alleviate the numbers in the facility or the facility has to do something to bring the numbers down. Too many animals in one area. Some disease is bound to go thru and cause suffering in addition to death. Adoption immediately is the only way to save a few.
And yet the BLM keeps rounding up more and more wild horses – they have created this problem. They need to manage them on the range. They need to place the horses on the 22 million acres that have been stolen from them. Killing the wild horses solve no problems.
Yes, they need to be managed on the range. Everything they try gets villainized though. The land wasn’t stolen from them. They are a non-native species. Cattle are non-native as well but their numbers are controlled. They are not allowed to be on public lands for long periods of times. Only a few months of the year are cattle on public land. The wild horses are always on the public lands. Their numbers do need to be controlled (preferably by sterilization) so that there don’t need to be so many taken off the land.
The question is: who was here first – horses or humans? The answer is easy: this is horses’ public land, not humans’. So stop saying a being is in too larger number, only the humans multiplied like a virus on this planet.
How far back do we go to determine “native species”? Last time i checked Saber-toothed Tiger, Mastodons, Camelops, Sabertooth Salmon, and yes Dinohippus (horses) no longer live in North America. And yes modern horses are apparently descendent from the extinct species. Are humans native to North America?
I’m thinking the bigger threat are human beings, maybe control their numbers?
You should really watch the video that shows how barbaric the BLM employees are when they steralize … abort a live colt fetus without any anethesia. How would you like to suffer the pain of that? Everyone knows that the Cattle industry pays off the corrupted BLM and this is the real reason the BLM Advisory Board has just voted to MURDER 44,000 WILD MUSTANGS. I have seen 1st hand how cruel the crappy BLM employees treat the wild mustangs and it is due to the complaints that were registered here in Alabama against those barbaric jerks that they will no longer bring the wild mustangs to north Alabama for adoption. Look up Madeline Pickens and her Mustang Monument and see 1st had how the BLM has prevented her from opening a Wild Mustang preserve that would be self supporting on land that she actually owns. Educate yourself and then start making a real difference by doing something that will actually help !
Dan – man brought horses here, after the first people were here. This is history.
Sustainability is the key word. These horses are unmanaged and affecting other species due to over population. Adoption is a great resource but unfortunately so many who are passionate about this issue do not adopt or live in the regions which are being over run with horses. There are management levels in the legislation which should be followed. A horse can live for 30 + years and taxpayers are footing the bill to feed and care for them in long term facilities. This model is unsustainable.
There is no overpopulation of wild horses on our public lands. In 70% of our herd management areas have less than 150 wild horses which is below the number needed for genetic viability. What is unsustainable is welfare ranchers overgrazing our public lands.
Tiffany, our wild horses and burros have been managed by paid professionals for over forty years, so your claim is unfounded. The costs to keep horses off the range are a manmade crisis, not a natural one. Killing off predators in the wild to protect livestock is also an unnatural management choice which alters wild horse populations artificially.
Horses live as long as they ever did naturally, and this was well known in 1971 when the law protecting them was enacted by unanimous act of Congress. The law clearly indicates they were to be managed “where then found” in the wilds, not by the thousands in segregated pens in private zoos.
The AMLs you reference are widely criticized as being unfounded in science or sustainability for the range or the wild horses. We need better solutions but mass slaughter is not sustainable, either, since the roundups will continue as before and the problem will again resurface, only leading to more expense and more killing.
The right answer is to manage them as wild animals, in the wild, with their natural predators unharmed and with thoughtful contraception and occasional adoptions of animals bait-trapped with a buyer already lined up beforehand.
Why is it that urban people always exempt themselves from “stealing” the land that wild horses can live on?
The sad truth is that there are too many humans- most of whom are out of sync with nature. It would be better to manage the human populations better although I do not suggest killing those of US existing either. Greedy and selfish political and corporate agendas come into play here unfortunately as well. Most of our politicians are bought and paid for political hacks whichever their party. The innocent horses should not have to pay the price. I wish the Native American populations had defeated the europeans who invaded their continents although I am of european descent. I am a lifelong nature and horselover like many of those posting here. I hope this situation can be resolved in some way to benefit the horses instead of the callous and ignorant government agencies.
Dear Ms. Carol,
I am in total agreement with you. The BLM needs to stop adding to the holding facilities and give the horses back what’s theirs. I have signed every petition I have found, emailed my state rep and called the local news. I will never stop fighting for the wild horses of America.
Sincerely horse lover and advocate.
Robin Del Grosso
Id eather the cruel humans die
we must not allow this to happen,all these wild horses belong to the American people. This at best should be put to a vote.T he BLM should not be allowed to do this .When this becomes public the American
public will be outraged
You’re the 1st, I’ve seen who “caught” the information that these animals and land BELONG to the people of the USA. We are all entitled to know and vote….the Public needs to be informed. I believe, a mass killing, should not even be an option. They are not sick, or spreading disease. Ranchers are able to use “their” lands set aside for “them” and then “they” should be exterminated ? That’s ridiculous…once again I believe the almighty $$$ is what’s “killing” these horses and buros. We the People own this land and animals…our taxes and our laws are their to prtect them and we are letting a ” group” make a kill decision? Last I heard, We were still a Democracy and All should get to KNOW & VOTE….someone who knows how to contact the Media & perhaps has some influence inform them….could you please on behalf of ALL of us citizens and our precious innocent animals and our future generations. Death does not solve problems
It’s not the BLM that it is recommending this, it’s the advisory board. It’s too bad that so many people react without taking the time to understand what they’re reacting to. My wife works at the BLM for the Wild Horse program and she took that job because of her love for the animals. It is truly her dream job… everyday she gets to interact with the most beautiful and honest animals in America. Unfortunately because people don’t take the time to understand who’s opinion they disagree with, she is getting bombarded with hateful phone calls. Its NOT the BLM. Its the advisory board. Their members of the public that make recommendations.
call 202 208-3100 and tell them what u think about the unthinkable decision. then u can email dean bolstad and tell him what u think of this soul-less horror. his eml is dbolstad@blm.gov and then share this EVERYWHERE. in numbers we can change this.
The U. S GOVERNMENT KILLED OFF MANY ANIMALS FOR REASONS OF OVER GRAZING OF THE Navajo & Hopi Tribes, earlier, in around 1860s they programed to exterminate the buffalo, now to kill off wild horses of Mother Earth’s living creatures dependant on the Earth’s grass.Now, acting as God, they want to annihilate these horses because of?* Wrong terminology makes us reason the programs
Here’s an online petition: http://www.thepetitionsite.com/766/128/224/blm-votes-to-slaughter-44000-beautiful-wild-horses-in-holding./
I am sorry but sending a petition to the Bureau of Land Management is a complete waste of time. I can understand petitioning the President or Congress but this is NOT going to get you anywhere. Contact the White House and your Senators and Representatives, contact the press.
https://www.whitehouse.gov/contact
http://www.senate.gov/general/contact_information/senators_cfm.cfm
http://www.house.gov/representatives/
Adopt a horse. That’s the reason they are there, nobody is adopting them.
Actually that is not the reason they are there – the reason they are there is the BLM keeps rounding up thousands of wild horses to cater to the welfare ranchers instead of managing them in their homes and on public lands where they should be managed. 50% of adopted horses are returned, so adoption is not a solution to the problem.
I don’t like animal cruelty as much as anyone, in actually infuriates me. But we know that industrial farming is contributing significantly to global warming, and I’m only asking: what do we do with these horses? Is there a truly sensible reason (endangered, etc) to keep them alive? Hearing myself say that hurts my ears, but these are the kinds of things we need to think about with the fate of the planet and all humanity at stake.
Yes there is a solution for these horses and yes we should keep them alive. They are living feeling beings that deserve our respect and care and they have lost their homes and their families through no fault of there own. At the time the 1971 Wild Horse and Burro Act was passed there were 22 million more acres that wild horses were on – that land has been stolen from them, and that is where all the horses in holding should be put to live out their lives.
what about telling avaaz so they could start a petition how can this happen??
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Stop eating beef.
Brilliant. Just call for a continuation of an already unsupportable situation. Don’t offer alternatives. Just wring your metaphorical hands and cry “they can’t kill the cute fuzzy animals”. Pathetic.
If you can’t provide a solution, you are, at best, part of the problem.
Why not mention adoption? Or out-and-out purchase of larger numbers? Why not take up a collection – crowd source- for a foundation to take care of these critters?
Why not grow up and realize the world ain’t pretty. I love horses, but I’m not willing to continue to support a non- useful herd.
The only thing unsupportable about this situation is the BLM doing more of the same – they are still rounding up and removing them instead of managing them on the range. I did indeed mention a very real solution that the Advisory Board actually had a committee on a few years ago – return these captive wild horses (the stallions are gelded so they will not be breeding and increasing in numbers) to the 22 million acres that were removed from their range and let them live out their lives a Much much cheaper than in holding facilities. This is the only realistic solution.
Do not be suckered in by this misleading article. This advisory board does not have the authority to order this. The author has totally mislead her leaders in order to garner donations. Horse slaughter was stopped when the federal funding for USDA inspectors was pulled by the US Congress. Only the US congress can appropriate money to reinstate the inspectors. Additionally, this advisory board did not call for the killing of horses, only that euthinasia needs to be part of an overall solution. Carol Walker you should be ashamed of yourself. Please go to Protecttheharvest.com to see the real story of the Nevada horse issue.
I never said that the Advisory Board had the power to authorize killing the horses – but that people should contact their Senators and Representatves because they would approve the funding to do this. This is not “euthanasia” if you look at the dictionary definition of the word that applies to putting sick or ailing animals out of their misery – these are healthy horses, this is killing, plain and simple. And I did not ask for one dime of anyone’s money and neither did Wild Horse Freedom Federation which I am on the board of. So get your facts straight.
You are the author of this article, are you not? “Breaking News: BLM’s Wild Horse Advisory Board Just Voted To Kill All 44,000 Captive Wild Horses In Holding”. Your words!Totally untrue! And to say that you are on the Board of a charity and not using this to raise money is a deriliction of your duty as a Board member of a 501c3…so please, let’s not all of the sudden act like we don’t know what you are trying to do with these salacious headlines.
I did say that the Advisory Board voted to kill 44,000 wild horses because they did on Friday September 9. How is that untrue?
It is in no way a dereliction of my duty to not put “donate” on all my blog posts. As far as I am covered what needs to be done is for people to be in communication with their Senators and Representatves. How do I need money for that? I am a volunteer.
Please tell me where can l vote because don’t want to see wild also get killed I will take the whole lot if I could but I live in New South Wales Australia there is a way I can help please let me know send me email to my email address thank you so mush ??
It there a local Animal Shelter or Org. that is trying to help these animals? Maybe we can help by making a donation so they can try to save some of these animals. The donations the more animals could be saved.
This is so sad , they were on the property first, it is so sad that people want to destroy everything. How can we stop this?
Wind West WE CAN’T STOP FIGHTING FOR THEM NO MATTER WHEN THE SLAUGHTER IS SCH’D. I remember when I was a lil girl I got the clipping out of book from a Foster guy on how to draw horses. But now I see how humans are destroying these magnificent horses. Why can’t these be just let free to roam their land. They would have a better job of surviving then if they were slaughtered. I am begging, PLEASE DON’T KILL THESE BEAUTIFUL ANIMALS GIVEN TO US FROM GOD AND MOTHER EARTH TO LOOK AT AND ENJOY THEIR SPIRITS.
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Please in God’s name don’t kill these beautiful creations of life
Agreed!! This is so insane:,(
Dear Wild Dancer
You are right! We need to spread this across social media/Facebook and get people involved. These horses need our love and attention. They
can and must be saved and returned to the land!
I am shocked and disgusted.There has to be a different solution!
The buffalo were almost lost and now how dare these people decide to kill our other symbol of freedom. What is your goal? To remove all wild animals from our lands? This is the first I’ve heard of this since 2013. Please don’t kill these beautiful animals. They deserve to be free.
Symbol of freedom? These horses have been living their lives out in feed lots. These ones are the symbol of loss and hopelessness. Have you ever gone to see the wild horses in the BLM holding facilities? There’s no freedom, no hope. Nobody goes to adopt, nobody goes to see them. Nobody CARES until they say they can’t afford to feed them anymore and has decided to put them to their deaths. Why didn’t you CARE about the horses a month ago? Why didn’t you go see them? Why didn’t you adopt one? Horses are large animals that cost a lot of money and take a lot of resources to care for. Why don’t you call yourself accountable? It’s easy to blame someone else than making yourself accountable.
The holding facilities are horrible grim places with no shelter. I have adopted 3 mustangs who live with me at my home. In 2014 I helped adopt and reunite 3 families of wild horses 10 total at Black Hills Wild Horse Sanctuary, horses rounded up in the Checkerboard roundup – I wish I could have taken all 1261 of them. And the BLM keeps rounding up wild horses and plans to take 500 more this fall in the Checkerboard II roundup.
If you ended up with a stud and mares would you let them breed? or would you sterilize? We have one adopted mustang and he’s just a brat. We don’t allow any horse breeding.. there is such a horse overpopulation issue right now. Horses go for $150 at the livestock auctions all day long.. good domestic ones. The wild horses are breeding every year. If people wanted to make a real difference they would have a larger sterilization program. Then the free horses could stay free, there wouldn’t have to be roundups and putting wild horses into feedlots… then having to figure out something to do with so many unwanted horses.
This is shameful. These horses should be free. They are sentient beings, who have families, clans and social order. Murdering these horses is vile and cruel. It is bad enough that you drive them with helicopters until they die of exhaustion, then imprison them in pens, but now to murder them? All so ranchers can use public the land to graze cattle. Shame on you. This is disgusting.
I too find this to be an outrage, However, please do not consider the decisions of corporate blm as being in line with reachers. The blm is in no way working on behalf of ranching. They want resources on the land where the horses would otherwise graze. Gold, uranium ect…..
Let these horses free. You don’t own that land the horses do. You are nothing but crooks. That is federal land and you have no right to kill them
Stop this inhumane madness..
Disgraceful.
What in the hell is wrong with you people? How dare you? Trust me, karma is coming and it won’t be pretty!
You better wake up and get this thought right out of your head. It’s sick!
Debra Noce
Sensational headlines do not help your cause in the long run. Report the truth. It is not good, but not “ALL”.
It is all that are in long term and short term holding – roughly 45,000.
Any “unadoptable” horse – probably every one that has been “offered” for adoption three times (3 strikes) & not adopted. These same horses are then “sale authority”.
Stop & think about it – that describes far too many of them.
Frankly, we need “sensational” headlines! People NEED to be aware and they haven’t been. This is the truth.
The Humane Society’s reporting the same: http://www.humanesociety.org/news/press_releases/2016/09/blm-recommendation-090916.html
I read it. It would be nice to have a good sterilization program. Nobody on either side of this issue wants to see these horses on feedlots. It’s something we can all agree on. Of course, there will be the new opposes of the sterilization program. So as always, nothing can ever move forward.
I read it also. I agree that it would be nice to have a good sterilization program. But then again the cost. All my male animals have been fixed, but it was costly. Maybe it would be good training for vet students curriculum. We need to find the funds if this is to work. It’s something everyone can all agree on. Of course, opposition will surely pop up its ugly head and cause more grief.
We donor need a sterilization program. There is no overpopulation of wild horses on our public lands.
Tinman, if you study natural wild horse behavior, only one stallion tends a harem and all the rest remain in bachelor bands until they can challenge and oust the harem stud. So unlike domestic animals, in the wild a very high percentage of intact males never get to breed, and those that do must pass the harsh tests of natural selection. Random castration will do nothing to reduce the population whatsoever, but will disrupt social structures (much has been documented on this score) and it will guarantee a less vigorous genetic base overall. The only logical answer is to do as the NAS suggested, first provide much better information concerning actual populations, actual mortality and actual reproduction, actual genetic viability, and only then implement more focused and consistent use of contraceptive darting of mares living out their lives on the range.
It’s murder. We need to do whatever it takes to stop it.
Stop this useless killing pleade
BLM board,
I hope this is wrong that you could not just kill beautiful horses without a second thought. This is a heartless move on your part and one that you should reversed. I am holding back telling you what I really think and imploring you all to have hearts and find rescues or other means than killing our heritage. Obviously you do not care about our history and you are in the pockets of ranchers and others just as our politicians are, is there no one who is not bought and sold in this country?
Please do send your comments to the BLM Advisory Board – they will not read them here.
I think it would be really helpful if you provided suggested language to email to the board.
Hi Valerie. Just say what you think. I am a little too irate to suggest something.The Advisory Board cannot actually DO anything – they can make recommendations to the BLM, that is it. I think they should know what people are thinking but the really important people to write are your Senators and Representatives.
Hi Carol, I have emailed all the email addresses you gave us the following message:
Dear Madams and Sirs,
terrible news has reached us of the vote of your BLM “Advisory Board” to destroy over 40,000 horses. We are horrified of your decision to continue to destroy this country’s legacy and protest in the strongest way possible.
We demand that the BLM return these horses to the public lands they have been taken from and be allowed to live out their lives.
We are in the process of launching a political and media campaign to publicize and publicly expose your disgraceful “work” over the past decades. If the destruction of all these animals is the best you can do with the public trust and power invested into you, you are obviously not fit to hold this office.
Congressmen, Senators and the White House are being notified of your failure to steward these animals entrusted to you by the American public.
This will NOT stand!
I am shocked, saddened, and angry to learn about your vote in favor of MURDERING 44,000 HEALTHY horses.
What gives you the right to do this. This is nothing short of animal abuse and if carried out, you should all be held criminally accountable.
How could you live with yourselves??? Don’t you have any compassion or a human conscious?
I urge you to immediately cease such activity and instead devise a humane plan to relocate these horses or release them to others who will carry out activities to ensure long and healthy lives for these sentient beings.
Thank you in advance for your humanity.
I will take 5 onto my 43 acre farm. Been looking for a few horses anyway! Please don’t kill them, they are truly beautiful and represent American Freedom as much as the Eagle does!!
I could actually take 10. I have 43 acres and two pastures
Here is the website. It has the adoption info on there and all the facility locations. http://www.blm.gov/wo/st/en/prog/whbprogram/adoption_program/facility.html
I was wondering if they ever responded to your request or are they really that heartless
They aren’t heartless at all. $43 million a year in their care. They’re in a corner. Nobody will adopt them.
And who put them in a corner? They are STILL rounding up and removing wild horses and plan on removing more this fall.
How is that? The BLM has been backing themselves into a corner. They are the ones continually rounding up these beautiful animals and spending the money to care for them, when they could be healthy and self sustained out on the range as the wild animals they are meant to be. Whether you agree or not, this is a very heartless act. What you seem to be saying is that is is selfish of the BLM to do it. For them to not want to spend this money and just kill off the animals they are spending the money on is benefitting only them. Take that into consideration.
http://www.blm.gov/wo/st/en/prog/whbprogram/adoption_program/facility.html
Why do they need to b killed?
There are too many horses. I used to volunteer at an animal shelter that had to euthanize thousands of animals every year. Why? Because too many were born, too many existed for the land and resources available. They have been up for adoption to the public for decades. Few horses ever get adopted. We’ve had dry years one after another out west. Resources are going down, prices are going up. Horses are very large animals that eat a lot. They are in holding facilities, feedlots. There is no grass.. hay has to be brought to them every day. Hay has to be trucked in. Hay has to be purchased. Horses cost hundreds of dollars just in hay every year. Multiply that by 44,000 horses.. there just aren’t the funds to feed animals nobody actually wants. People say they want them to live.. but these animals are living in cages.. and nobody even comes to see them.
L, you need to add balance to your comments about use of forage, otherwise you are being disingenuous. Horses eat about 20% of their body weight per day, or something less than 20 lbs./day in good times. Cattle need about the same but are generally much larger, and on many horse management areas livestock grazing is permitted in numbers far larger than horse populations.
An argument is often made that cattle only graze for a few months (timing and duration varies widely depending on the permit) but these are often the only months vegetation is growing in our arid western climate where half the year the plants are either dormant or it is winter. Sheep grazing is allowed in some places from fall to spring as well, so the vegetation gets no recovery time even in winter, all as planned by our paid management aka the BLM.
There are many thousands of livestock grazing permits that do not overlap the few remaining legal horse areas so a logical first step is to remove livestock from only these shared areas, where wild horses (again by law) were to be given “principal” rights to the forage therein.
Further, to say nobody “wants” wild horses is far from true, we just don’t want them anyplace other than where the law designated for them in 1971. Anyplace else is contrary to both the intent and letter of the law.
This is so sad. An i guess they have nothing better to do then kill these poor horses that are no harm to these people.Find something better to do an pick on something that can fight back. These poor things have no say people like this are bullies this is what is wrong with this world.
What would your solution be? You have to find funding to feed all those horses knowing full well that there will be 15,000 born in the next year that are adding to the stress on the environment. Everyone saying these people are heartless when they are trying to manage and prevent thousands of horses on the range from starving to death because it is overpopulated. Not to mention all the animals in holding are stuck in a pen and not able to live out their long lives being horses. It is not a matter of people picking on these horses, they want what is best for the whole group of wild horses and that does not involve starving to death on the range of standing in a pen for the rest of their lives taking up resources that could be used to help the wild horses remaining in the wild.
There is no overpopulation of wild horses on public lands. 70% of the herds have less than 150 horses, which is the minimum number to insure genetic viability. They are not starving to death. Livestock on our public lands outnumber the horses 100-1. The real stress on our public lands is from the overgrazing of livestock.
Where are you getting this information? If you go to flickr.com and search BLM Mustang Gather there are so many pictures of horses that are basically walking skeletons.
The very thin horses whose photos BLM loves to pass around saying all wild horses would look like this if they don’t round them up belong to the Cold Creek Herd in Nevada. They were rounded up and many were euthanized – but there is a story behind how that happened. All of the herds I have been observing for the last 12 years are extremely healthy in Wyoming, Montana and Colorado.
I am truly ashamed of my government in All it’s forms.
We need to dismantle these organizations!
Stop!!! These were the horses that helped tame the west. The are an intricate part of our history. Killing off mass groups of any other wild animal would not be tolerated so why allow this heinous act to occur? If anything else, tame them. Don’t just send these beautiful and majestic symbols of the west to needlessly be slaughtered. There are other ways to deal with them. Remember how our ancestors practically killed off the buffalos? Do we really want to drive another species to the verge of extinction like so many others in this country? Tread lightly. Once a species is gone, it cannot return.
Actually it is done every year at a festival in Texas with another creature. Children are encouraged to kill them and play in their blood. Many of them are kept for weeks without food or water. Many are beaten bloody, have their mouths sewn shut, teeth ripped out, and face other tortures before they are publicly executed by the thousands. And people IN. THIS. COUNTRY. celebrate it. It’s HORRIFYING what they do to these animals.
What are you referring to what animals where in texas.
They are not in Texas. These are wild horses that have been rounded up and removed from their homes on our public lands over decades by the BLM. They are warehoused in holding facilities in Wyoming, Nevada, Oklahoma, Kansas, Utah, and other states.
She’s referring to the annual rattlesnake roundup in Sweetwater, TX.
Where in Texas does this take place and what animal is tortured by children? I have not heard of anything like this but will check into it if you will give me more information.
You can respond to doghouse@sptc.net
There has been no mass killing of horses yet and there are no facilities in Texas. The short and long term holding facilities are in Arizona, Utah, Colorado, Nevada, Wyoming, Kansas, Montana.
She’s referring to the annual rattlesnake roundup in Sweetwater, TX.
Certains êtres humains sont des tueurs encore et encore. Certains êtres humains ne supportent pas des êtres libres et heureux de l’être. Certains humains s’octroient le droit de tuer des innocents. Ces êtres humains sont indignes, ce sont des voleurs de vies, des assassins(légalisés). Il faut les arrêter et les mettre hors d’état de nuire à la vie
let kill them go over sea and see that they said
This is outrageous!!! Why can’t they let them roam free like they were meant to be?
Because the ranchers want the land for their cattle. Check out the movie Unbranded it has all the information on what their opinions are of the mustangs.
But they weren’t meant to be here. They are an non-native species to the USA.. as are cattle. But cattles numbers are kept in control. The horses in the feedlots are the result of trying to keep the ‘free’ numbers in control.. too many horses would destroy the land. The problem is there is no use for the excess horses. Nobody adopts them, nobody wants them, nobody even goes to see them. It’s a sad reality. They are simply overpopulated.. like an animal shelter with 5x the animals it’s cages/space allows. SOMETHING has to happen. Either people need to adopt or they need to bring the numbers down.
Sorry, but horses are native to this continent, even though it goes back to the ancient continent. A study was done in the 1920’s that pointed out the wild population was biologically connected to those first herds and had gone through changes to a distinct variation of horse breed. These animals have as much right to exist as the elk, deer and buffalo on our continent.
Why is this being done? Why were all of these wild horses in captivity in the first place? Is it similar to WA wanting to kill the Wolf packs they introduced back to the state – because some farmers lost a couple cows! Are horses over grazing “free range” areas and the farmers are complaining? That’s the ONLY reason I can think you would round up this many horses, and I’m sure the cost to do so is up there as well. Once you KILL them (even the pregnant mares) will you learn it was a mistake and then try once again to bring them back? When will people learn this is wrong. It’s sickening! Why, why, why is everyone messing with the wild animals that help balance this earth??? WHY? Please stop these killings.
Job security? ???
Why are the native wild horses paying the price for mans greed. This is so disgusting how can you kill helpless animals for no reason. What is the reason for this so they can make money selling the meat to Europe. How can you live with yourself knowing what this means.
I really hope there’s a hell.
This is just plain wrong. These horses need room. There is so much land in this country there has to be room for these horses!
What is going on? STOP this insanity!!! The Wild Horses are to be protected!!!!
WHEN IS THIS SCHEDULED? HOW CAN THEY LEGALLY DO THIS?
I am afraid that this is just another example of our elected officials being paid to vote according to the greedy interests of individuals or organizations who don’t care about the horses, history, ethics or even mercy. Most of our elected officials are pawns that cant see further than their own generation and selfish needs. Who will help these wonderful creatures and prevent their complete anihilation….? Some thing must be done or it wont stop until they are gone forever.
What reason are they giving to kill them?
Time to publically identify each and every boardmember who voted for this heinous plot!
CAROL, WHAT CAN I DO. My heart is Breaking
We need to call or Senators and Congressmen, get the press to spread the word.
where are the horses being held? Can we form a human line around them?
Unfortunately they are being held in several different sites in dozens of facilities.
No, but you can do something REAL and adopt one or more. They cost a lot of money in care.. but that’s the only solution. Here is the adoption information http://www.blm.gov/wo/st/en/prog/whbprogram/adoption_program/facility.html
Stop the round ups and killings. Why do you think there is so much wildfires let the horses and donkeys graze and the brush will all be contained so fires won’t spread it will save people money homes etc. get some intelligent people in charge with hearts!
What in the world is happening????? The world is going right down the toilet! I can’t believe that these idiots are playing God. They will have to answer to Him someday.
Please show some compassion and leave these gorgeous creatures alone!
This cannot be. What can be done?
Sure are a lot more people upset about this! I did write an email to the blm advisory board – but am going to contact my Congressmen & Representatives – I hope & pray all the people who commented here do the same!!! As you suggested, Carol
To be honest – as horrible as the whole idea is – possibly this drastic “recommendation” will shake things up enough to actually force a change!
Just awful.hopefully congress will not pass this measure.praying for their souls
Prayer is good but so is contacting your Senators and Congressmen and asking them to stand against this.
These beautiful wild horses don’t bother anyone so why capture and them vote to kill them you all are the devil himself (HITLER) no worst then ISIS!! God rest your soul’s
I am curious as to why some news agency has not investigated this so-called land management committee to find out exactly how deeply they have their hands in the pockets of the local ranchers and any other money-making ventures determined to eliminate any living creature from this so-called free range territory. This much stupidity and cruelty can only be motivated by greed. Greed leaves a money trail. A money trail exposes corruption and there can be no more corrupt or depraved act than to murder 44,00 living creatures who have done nothing to anyone to merit this punishment. Surely there is some news reporter with the guts to investigate and expose these monsters for the greedy bastards they are.
I really like what you said Louisa Cornell. I was trying to reach TV news agencies but they weren’t in today. These idiots in charge are psycho. The Horses are healthy and Happy living their way of life and they go hunting them down and trapping them.You’re right there must be money involved. What about that woman in New Mexico with the Slaughter house for horses, and pipelines. After all there are those that also wanted to reduce the human population 90% They may be the same club of killers. Thanks for the 1 person from the Cloud Herd that voted NO. Where are they being held 44,000 horses?
The wild horses are being held in long and short term holding facilities in Nevada, Califirnia, Colorado, Wyoming, Montana, Utah, Kansaa and Oklahoma.
Can a petition against this be started?
Petitions do not go anywhere. And people sign them, think they have done their part and do no more. This is a battle pure and simple, for the lives of our wild horses. We need to fight for their lives and their freedom, and there is no quick fix. Call your Congressmen and Senators, call the press, tell as many people as you can what is going on.
I disagree with your statement that “Petitions go no-where”. Look at what has happened with the North Dakota tribes and the pipeline. They had placed a “WE THE PEOPLE” petition. And it indeed got something done. If you want Washington to hear you, get a petition on this site going NOW. It needs 100K signatures within 30 days (I believe) before it will be sent directly to the President.
The small petitions, seem only to go to the BLM which we all know doesn’t really listen to us.
BTW. before the 30 days were up on the North Dakota and the Pipeline incident – it had collected well over 175,000 signatures.
The petition that will “try” to stop these horse deaths (and more if it is worded correctly), needs to be placed on EVERY RESCUE site, across the nation, on Twitter everywhere.
Carol Walker, I saw your name listed more than others so I thought I would suggest an idea to you.
I am an animal lover, I am disgusted and so tired of seeing so many animals in our world abused, tortured, thrown away, slaughtered, etc.
I would contact MSNBC “The Last Word” with Lawrence O’Donnel about this story. He does quite a few stories like this and was recently reporting on the North Dakota tribes and the pipeline that was supposed to be put in. By the way, he reported on Friday that the pipeline was stopped.
I am not knowledgeable enough on this topic to discuss it intelligently otherwise I would contact the show myself. Perhaps you are the right person?
I will send letters to the Congressmen and Senators.
Save the horses!
My granddaughter worked with a woman who did the Mustang Magic and got a Mustang through the BLM. She was unable to handle the mare and got abusive to her. Thankfully my granddaughter has been able to adopt this beautiful mare and she’s in a loving home now. It makes me sick to think of how many others may have been treated similarly. Now the BLM wants to kill 44,000? Will this destruction ever end?
The return rate to the BLM of adopted mustangs is over 50%. Rather than spending more money rounding up more horses, why not spend that money making the horses they have more suitable for adoption?
The wild horse eating all the livestock food again.
Done BAN GRAZING ON PUBLIC LAND.
I will pay extra for it, or just stop eating beef.
Give the Public Land back to the animals and if you graze and your calf gets ate too bad. Take your cattle home.
This is the destruction of America’s wild horses who are protected under Public Law 92-195, the Wild Horse and Burro Act of 1971. Currently there are less than 50,000 wild horses and 9,000 wild burros left in the 10 western states.. Subtract the 44,000 in holding pens, and that leaves less than 6,000 horses left in the wild—a figure too small for sustainability. This is the Death Knell of an iconic animal that worked side by side with humans to build this country, fought in our wars (estimates say that 5 horses died for every soldier killed in WWI.), provide recreation and sports, and attract thousands of spectators, artists, and photographers, generating an industry of their own—an industry that does not profit the BLM.
The BLM manages 245,000,000 acres, of which 155,000,000 acres are leased for livestock grazing, mostly cattle and sheep. This year ranchers paid a fee of $2.11 per AUM (Animal Unit Month). This is defined as the amount of land it takes to feed one cow and calf, or one horse, or five sheep or goats for one month. These fees generated $14.5 million in 2015.
While Game and Fish Departments estimate that there are 36,000,000 deer, 1,000,000 elk, and 670,000 pronghorn antelope grazing on the same grass, the BLM contends they don’t keep data on the population of cattle foraging on leased public lands.
Why would seven humans even consider this annihilation of our wild horses? Who will pay to murder 44,000 mares, stallions, and foals? What happens to 44,000 carcasses? How will they be disposed of? Taxpayers will foot the bill. This will effectively wipe America’s wild horses from the face of the earth, after 600 years of occupation and survival.
This action will go down in infamy. Your names and the BLM’s reputation will be blackened forever. Horse people, horse lovers, every child who dreams of seeing wild horses, every child who asks Santa for a horse, every child who filled notebooks with drawings of horses,every human being who is thrilled by the beauty of these animals, will rise up and raise such a din of protest, that you will forever be know a WILD HORSE DESTROYERS. There will be no place you can hide from this infamous decision. Bless you, Ginger Kathrens, for your “No” vote in the face of this insanity.
If they wouldn’t make it so hard to adopt the mustangs they would have more adopted out – obviously regulations need to be in place but something as simple like a 3 sided shelter cannot be made of tarps? They need to get used to tarps anyway, why not have their shelter made from it so they have more of a reason to get used to the tarps?
Unbelievable how they want to kill them rather than be more lenient on the rules so they can get them homes.
How can we adopt like three or four of the. Those about two to three years of age?
You can adopt 4 young horses at a time, for $125 each. You can purchase older horses or those with three strikes, 4 at a time, or more with approval from BLM in Washington DC
Here is the adoption information and the locations where you can pick your horses from. Get a move on it though.. you don’t want to be too late. http://www.blm.gov/wo/st/en/prog/whbprogram/adoption_program/facility.html
No more killing! Protect all animals!
BLM HAS NO RIGHT TO ELIMINATE THESE ANIMALS…!!!
If the food is going to run out better being euthanized than starving to death. If you want to adopt a horse and actually be a part of the solution.. you can do that. Otherwise, these are empty words.
This is an atrocity. The people who voted to do this obviously have no conscience. It needs to be put on the national news I can’t believe Americans would stand for this. PLEASE DEAR GOD DO NOT LET THIS HAPPEN! !!!
They had removed wolves from Yellowstone only to return them a few years later after discovering they had a natural purpose there. They thinned out the herds of sickly and older animals and reduced the overgrazing caused by overpopulation of deer and elk. We humans need to stop playing GOD. Every creature, including us, have a purpose on this earth. This senseless and needless killing must cease NOW!
Why are you doing this? Ehat gives you the right to end such beautiful innocent lives? Just because you have a little bit of power does not give ypu the reason to puch innocent lives arpund and end them. They will never get to run free again. What part of death do you not understand? Its permanent. Why cant you just set them free where they arr allowed to love free. What harm will it do?
This is FUCKING rediculious! How is this justified?! Here’s an idea stop invading the land they live on and let nature takes its course. Or sterilize some of the males to reduce the reproduction rate and numbers. Surely that wouldn’t be more expensive then euthanizing them all! And who are we to decide the fate of the wild animals around us. This world is falling apart and the human race is over steping it’s boundaries..where’s the respect!?
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I am able to take at least two of these horses. I have plenty of acreage. However, I don’t have a trailer anymore. Is someone willing to bring them to WA State, on the Columbia River.
Can we go form a human line around the horses? What else can we do to stop this murder?
This is ridiculous… this is not OK…. should we just dispose of all life that is an inconvenience. Horses are more than meets the eye. If you ever need to save your life and they look into your soul they will pass you by. They know what’s in peoples heart and you guys that voted to kill them will never pass muster. I hope you think about your own self worth and how much you are or can be an inconvenience, were you disposed of so easily? I thin not as you are still here to make Ill thought of decisions and choices. We are here to protect earth and all she substains not discard it. Wow!
Wait, so BLM can kill, murder, euthanize how ever you want to put it! Gods creations not there’s to slaughter! They have lived in NV for hundreds of years! NO…. This is sick & wrong! Who gave these closed minded evil people the right! They better say some prayers & ask for forgiveness because they are murdering the most beautiful of gods creations! SHAME on NB BLM what has happened to my donations????
Why must men continue to justify killing animals. These animals are a part of our American history. Do not kill these animals. They belong to our history and have every right to exist. I am guessin that ranchers find them eating the federal grass lands that want to feed their cattle for nothing. I do not support this intention. It is barbaric
De Moya
This is such bullshit why not just let them back into the wild!! Ugh #justiceforwildhorses
Don’t kill them. There is other things you can do. There is people out there that will take them you just have to get it out there for them to find and adopt or just give them away. Let them be free.
So where are the FACTS? Why not include link or two where the reader can verify the critical details of the story?
I did a brief Google search, and was not able to find ANYTHING other than a couple of breathless, shrieking stories like this one.
What was the date of the meeting at which this supposed vote took place? Where was it held? Who is on that board, and how did each member vote? What reasons did they give? What’s the LARGER story, about both the horses and their effects on the range where they live?
I’ve loved horses all my life, lived and worked with them for decades, but damn. This story is pure emotional manipulation, utter horseshit.
The date of the meeting was yesterday. Every single Advisory Board Member voted in favor of killing the wild horses in holding except Ginger Kathrens. This is not exaggeration, it is factual. The meeting was live streamed.
Here is an unedited transcript of yesterday’s meeting: https://app.box.com/s/xo1xlqq58stg8fdg99guskpk59u1nxr0
Thank you Carol for posting that transcript link, though I don’t know if I’m getting the full version because part of the text is cut off by my PDF reader. I was just on the board’s website where they posted other meeting transcripts and video, but all that was posted for the Sept 8-9 2016 meeting was a link to the livestream and the agenda. (this is the webpage I was referencing: http://www.blm.gov/wo/st/en/prog/whbprogram/Advisory_Board/advisory_board_minutes.html ) I find it interesting that they are taking so long to post the rest of the meeting’s information, though it just might be the case of a government worker not getting to post until the Monday after the meeting.
Wild horses need to be protected NOT harassed, abused and slaughtered! Wild horses are our heritage. In many areas, they killed off wolves and bears, then realized they were needed to balance the ecosystem, then re-introduced them to right their wrong. Destroying our wild horses is wrong! Very, very wrong!
Horses are actually non-native to this continent. We’ve kept them as symbols.. but as a non-native species their population does need to be controlled. You can adopt one.. only costs about $150 for adoption. The real costs comes in feeding and caring for one though.
L, others have pointed this out already, but horses are inarguably native to this continent, which is their original homeland. Apart from that, the point is of no consequence since Congress unanimously acted to protect them “where found” in 1971 without discriminating on their origins. If you read the law you would already know this.
Adoption would occur more frequently if they didn’t make some many restrictions that caring loving families have to fight through just to adopt. This is definitely an atrocity against some of our most majestic creatures. Typical bureaucratic BS!!
Once again humans are hell bent on destruction. We destroy their land or develope it and then wonder why the wild horses or any wild animal is starving. Time to stop the destruction and preserve what we are slowly loosing. I can’t imagine a day when we won’t see wild horses, but it is coming, because of political bullshit and greed. The BLM should be ashamed of themselves for even thinking of doing this.
I am appalled by this. What gives them the right to destroy something so precious.
Why kill everything that does not fit into their plan? They are Gods creatures. They have a right to live.
It’s population control. Too many wild horses means they strain the resources, which affects everything else. The BLM manages EVERYTHING living and non living. This is to benefit everything, including the hundreds of thousands of other wild horses.
Livestock grazing has degraded our public lands. There is no overpopulation of wild horses on our public lands. They need to be managed in the wild on our public lands, not rounded up by helicopter and warehoused by the BLM.
Carol, I don’t think you know what you are talking about at all.
1) on those 22 million acres you keep talking about there is a lot more than just horses to live off of it.
2) horses are overpopulated, when you take into account all these other animals.
3) don’t k ow if you are a vegetarian, but either way. Vegetarians use more land than meat eaters eating cattle,
4) stop talking about cattle grazers the cattle at least give something back
5) before you go off about how amazing wild horses are and everyone should get to see them and they should get to stay around. Let me say most people in the country have never even seen a wild horse, and mich more importantly most americans won’t care about them. That is unfortunately just a fact.
6) also why don’t you donate your house and property to a horse refuge and then move to a apt in a city. Because according to what you say. Nobody should get to own land or cows or anything that could ever compete with those wild horses.
7 ) lastly I live on 150 acres. I have 15 horses (dont breed them) and other animals. (No I don’t have any cattle permits) I truly do love horses. But I can say that I as a horse lover think there population needs to be brought down to about 1000 and no mo. And I honestly would not miss the others.
Well said!!
This is so wrong in so many ways, why? They are free animals, they should be protected not killed. Some have baby’s, or are in foal. This is horrible, to killed such a beautiful animal. How about moving them, transporting them to a reservations. I am just ashamed for we catch them from the wild and choose to kill them and they have no clue why? I can understand the sick, so they don’t suffer but to just kill God’s creation and beauty is insane. I hope you all can live with yourselves, for committing such a horrible act, alltogether.
Someone needs to start a petition for this! I bet you would get tons of signatures!
Petitions are not going to help. People can sign and think they have helped, where the really important work is calling and writing our Senators and Congressmen and help get this in front of the press.
I believe we should do this to the politicians who voted yes for this idiotic scheme. True bloody idiots!
If they don’t do anything because of outdated laws, all the rangelands will be destroyed and eventually everything living out there will suffer. The pronghorn are already suffering from the constant increase of wild horses. Wild horses double their population in the west EVERY year. They eat more than anything out there and have no natural predators. Neither do deer and pronghorn in this country–that’s why we hunt them. Since no one wants to hunt horses, alternatives must be made. As much as it sucks that these horses have to die, they really do have to die to benefit the rest of the rangelands. Rangelands are the most endangered ecosystem in the world, yep, even more than rainforests. This is how we take a step to save this vital ecosystem. So what do you care about more? 44,000 horses, or the 100s of thousands of other non captive horses out there, all the pronghorn, owls, burrowing animals, reptiles, and plants in the rangelands of our west?
It is not a matter of not caring about wild horses or other wild life – killing 44,000 captive wild horses does not help wild horses and other wildlife that are free. The wild horses should be managed in their homes on our public lands. Livestock grazing should be reduced or eliminated in areas where there are wild horses. The wild horses in holding should be returned to the 22 million acres that have been taken away from them, and allowed to live out their lives. Killing them solves no issues and helps no one.
I have to say – wild horses don’t reproduce any faster or differently than domestic ones! It takes 11-12 months from the time a mare is bred till she foals. Not all foals live to be a year old. The mortality rate is high – many many things can happen to a colt in the wild. I realize the BLM’s rate of reproduction is higher than any I have ever heard of – but doubling every year? I think even the BLM claims every 4 years (which is also not true). And the reason there are “no” predators is because the predators are a danger to COWS so wolves, mountain lions etc are killed – to benefit the ranchers. The 44,000 horses they want to kill are already captured and in short & long term holding pens. Captives.
I don’t understand! Please respond with why. There has to be a alternative! Please do something to stop this! I just read about how horses are used in mental health problems. They are used for therapy with great success. So come on really kill 44000 horses??
Get the for profit cattle off the goverment’s land and let the horses and other game run free!
Madeline Pickens millions of acres are still waiting for these horses, but the BLM won’t let them go. Google it, their demands & logic are unbelievable.
Can somebody please explain the truth of why these horses are penned up in the first place? That would be very helpful to this cause, an explanation.
The wild horses are in holding facilities in Wyoming, Nevada, Kansas, Montana, Oklahoma, California. They have been rounded up and removed from their homes over decades mostly because of pressure from ranchers who lease public land for livestock grazing. It is a little difficult to explain all the issues facing wild horses in a short period of time, but if you do read my blog posts on http://www.wildhoofbeats.com you can get some background.
The wild horses are in holding facilities in Wyoming, Nevada, Kansas, Montana, Oklahoma, California. They have been rounded up and removed from their homes over decades mostly because of pressure from ranchers who lease public land for livestock grazing. It is a little difficult to explain all the issues facing wild horses in a short period of time, but if you do read my blog posts on http://www.wildhoofbeats.com you can get some
Why not just turn them loose. They have been fending for themselves for years. They are apart of our history.
They should be set free on the 22 million acres that used to be herd areas and allowed to live out their lives.
I myself have adopted 3 mustangs from warmsprungs. If I had the land and funds I would adopt more ti save them. Maybe I should start a go fund me page to help save the mustangs! I can buy property and hay train them and enjoy these beautiful animals. I absolutely love mustangs. Once they trust you the love you searly.
In addition to writing Our Govt officials, Wildhoofbeats should post how we can adopt them. Who to contact, how to make a donation or otherwise. And if just 22,000 people took two horses each it would be a mute issue. That sounds like a lot of people but when you think about how many people alone attend a NFL game on Sunday’s, it only represents 25% of attendees at one game. So we can complain about the decision but until we contribute monetarily or adopt a few, we are letting it happen.
You can adopt wild horses directly from holding facilities like Rock Springs Corrals in Rock Springs, Wyoming and Canon City Colorado, and in many other states, and the BLM also has online adoptions. Just google BLM wild horses.
But I am not asking for a stampede of people to take all the horses in holding. Not everyone is equipped to take an untouched wild horse, and I would hate to see horses ending up in bad situations. This is not a time to panic – this is a time to contact your Senators and Representatives and put pressure where it needs to go onto the BLM to do the right thing by these horses and stop rounding up and removing more horses!
You know people get put in jail for animal cruelity but when they have this many horses it’s fine to just kill them because there not getting any money that bs there are plenty of homes these babies could go to but no they want there money there are rescues that could give them temp homes all through out America but yet they just decide to kill them this really makes me mad of how these people could get away whit crap like this I mean really
Adoption is $150.. that’s just a few months worth of hay. If you can’t come up with a few months of hay to pitch back in.. then how are you going to feed that horse for the many years ahead of it? The adoption fee is very reasonable. The adoption process is very simple. The problem is nobody actually does it.
L, the adoption process is not always as simple as you describe, there are many requirements which if not met will prevent title transfer after the one year of more or less probation. As Carol mentions, too, I have seen many folks adopt who have good intentions but no horse skills, so these horses end up sold within a few years, and some end up in slaughter plants through no fault of their own. Another issue is once an identified horse is transferred into long term holding a potential adopter has no way find or adopt them, which is a policy decision.
I agree adoption can be a good situation for some horses and people but recognize it will only ever be a small factor in the overall equation of wild horse management.
People do it, but the return rate is over 50%. Not everyone is equipped to care for and train a wild horse. That being said, here is the BLM info on adoption:
http://www.blm.gov/wo/st/en/prog/whbprogram/adoption_program.html
This is an atrocity! This is not the solution, this apathy for the lives of these wild horses that were ripped from their home ranges is unacceptable! Why is this always the answer when it comes to “unwanted” animals? We as a society encroach on the natural habitat of wild animals and force them into a corner where they have nowhere else to go! Then instead of protecting these animals, they are killed so that people aren’t inconvenienced!
As I understand it, this is due to overpopulation, and these animals are put up for adoption all throughout the year in an attempt to spare their lives. If you want to save them, adopt them! I have sent an email to the BLM suggesting that giving them away for free would be a better alternative to destroying them. Please click on the link to find an adoption event near you! http://www.blm.gov/wo/st/en/prog/whbprogram/adoption_program/schedule.html
Thank you for the adoption information. The BLM needs to stop rounding up and removing wild horses from our public lands. There is no overpopulation of wild horses. This is a lie perpetuated by the BLM. 70% of our wild herds have fewer than 150 adults, which is the number needed to sustain genetic viability.
It’s ONLY $150 adoption fee, that just a couple months worth of their hay. If you can’t afford that how will you ever afford their feed and care? Setting the horses up to be starving somewhere if they gave them away.
Most horse owners don’t have property – we board. And even those that do have property may not meet the requirement the BLM has to keep a wild horse.
I’m looking at the requirements right now, the actual application from the BLM. They clearly want to ensure the facility you are bringing them to (doesn’t say you have to own free and clear, doesn’t say anything about it being a rental.. just where the horses will be going) will keep them contained. In fact, it asks where the facility is located and who the owners of the facility are. If you are boarding or renting that would be part of that. These requirements insure that they have food, water, and shelter where they are going and that your trailer will bring them home safely. If you don’t have proper facilities this is just setting them up to be taking them back in a few months.
This is insane! I’ve emailed the BLM.
Please Note: These Wild Horses are a Natural resource and serve a purpose to our beautiful Protected lands. They to should be protected. They did NOT asked to rounded up and kept, just to be killed, they are to FREE roaming this Great Lands to be roamin all over to like the Big Horn Sheep, Deer, the other wild animals. You have NO right to slaughter God’s Creatures. We are Encroaching on their rights
They won’t just kill them – THELL SEND THEM TO SLAUGHTER – and make a profit while doing so!
Our COWARD of a POTUS could stop this , but he’s too busy playing golf to care
This is OUTRAGEOUS! This is how GOVERNMENT works when we allow them to be “caretakers”! Do you think they’ll treat elderly people with any more respect under Obamacare???
Government screws up EVERYTHING THEY GET THEIR HANDS INTO. Time to put it back into the hands of local communities
They couldn’t sell them at a profit.. they aren’t worth anywhere near what they’ve put into them. Perhaps they could use the recovered money in a sterilization program, so excess horses didn’t keep having to be taken off the land. NOBODY WANTS HORSES ON THE FEEDLOTS. On both sides of the issue we look at the brokenhearted horse and we know that it’s not right. But what to do about it now?
If they did sell them to enter some food chain then at least they didn’t just make compost in the ground.. it saved some other animal from dying for food.
“Time to put it back into the hands of local communities” I’m in one of those communities. The people working for the BLM live here. The people in these communities see the need of population control as they see the horses in the conditions they now live in. The people far removed from the issue.. living in cities, have never cared to even see a wild horse.. live most of their days not concerned about what’s going on out here. When the people out here see the need to do something the people in the cities are angry at us. These are the local communities making a decision, the real problem is that you don’t agree with it.
Is the American government not satisfied with the millions of innocent lives already murdered? Do they have to add these 44,000 innocents to the list too?
Anyone who supports this decision should have no right to even be in a position to allow this wholesale slaughter.
It’s the moneyed cattle interests that have lobbied against these horses sharing “their” grazing lands. Look at what the government is doing to wolves at the behest of cattle interests in Washington state. http://time.com/4472562/washington-wolves-profanity-peak-pack/ I’d say your most effective move after contacting your Reps and Senators along with BLM officials is to boycott beef. If a significant percentage of folks did so and demand dropped there would be far more room for other wild creatures to share public lands. What the BLM plans to do is an outrage- there are other solutions, perhaps more expensive, perhaps more challenging, but taking the easy, bloody way out would be a horror…
Does all animals on this planet has the right as much as we do to be on this planet what gives us the right to make that decision all of the humans all we want to do is destroy
First it’s the rancher, Indians, and horses. What next?
Why in Gods name do you want to slaughter all these magnificat horses? What is your problem with them? Who else is on your future list, we know a lot of them. Your reasoning is off base. I hope you can sleep, conscience clear at night. You make my blood boil, you are cold and insensitive, of Hitler mentality. GOD SAVE THE HORSES !!!!!!!!!!!!
We must contact these people and tell them to stop this:
June Sewing: mustangs@infowest.com;
Fred Woehl: prtfred@gmail.com;
Robert Cope: cowdoc75@hotmail.com;
Julie Weikle: jweikeldvm@yahoo.com;
Sue McDonnell: suemcd@vet.upenn.edu;
Steven Yardley: steven.leslieyardley@yahoo.com;
Ben Masters: benmasters@unbrandedthefilm.com
whbadvisoryboard@blm.gov
dbolstad@blm.gov
Why are you killing these innocent beings when we the people do not support or want this? And we employ you with our tax dollars?
Why do you not relocate them to some of the other thousands and millions of acres of open land?
Where is your conscience?
Why are you killing these innocent beings when we the people do not support or want this? And we employ you with our tax dollars?
Why do you not relocate them to some of the other thousands and millions of acres of open land?
Where is your conscience?
This is sickening. Why would anyone feel that is the best option? These mustangs would do wonderfully relocated to another area. Plenty of space here in Canada. BC already has many herds of mustang a few more wouldn’t hurt. Not to mention south in Mexico, I am willing to bet they would be welcomed. Even ranchers across the USA would take them for free. Lets face it, BLM if you’re killing them you’renot getting money anyway.
On a side note to the author, rightly slamming their incorrect usage of euthanasia and then using murder incorrectly, seems a little bit like the pot calling the kettle black. It’s your blog, do as you wish, it just seems to me that if holding one group to the original dictionary definition, you should as well.
Unfortunately, Canada has its own “problem” with wild horses! I believe just a few months ago there was discussion on culling horses there! Doubt adding more wild horses would help our problem or Canada’s and American horses are being trucked to Canada & Mexico every day to slaughter. The ranchers using our public land already want the horses gone – whether they are free or not!
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BLM NEEDS TO BE OUTED…THERE NEEDS TO VE VAST PUBLIC OUTCRY!!!
CONTACT ALL NEWS MEDIA NOW!!!!!
Yes!!!
The BLM held annual sales gere, in Del Rii. They demanded premium prices for colts. They should hold more sales and reduce their prices. They are, BTW, a TAXPAYER funded operation.
Please stop this senceless killing couldn’t they relocate thers horse reserves in bc alberta other parts of Canada I have 160 acres if they whernt so far away I. D adopt 20-30 of them an I no many horse lovers that would we.re in sask please find another way to save these animals
The horse is what really should be considered a national treasure , how disgusting and dispictable that they are even considering this , it makes me sick , these are wonderful animals that should be taken care of and treasured , but oh I forgot the American way is now everything is disposable whether it’s a living being or not , getting very hard to say I’m an American anymore , no values , corrupt government and a holes like this that make these kind of decisions
They should be finding homes for them or setting them back out in the wild. Arizona high desserts have plenty of room for wild horses.
The Horses should have just as much as a right to live as people do. Please don’t destroy such beautiful animal that God has created.
I am emailing all on the list and contacting my representatives immediately. Who the hell does the BLM think they are. Next they will start killing humans living off the land. Why did they round these horses up in the first place? Public land is PUBLIC land
and these animals are part of that along with the wolves everyone is trying to get rid of. I am so sick of human superiority.
I wrote to all of those you listed. THANK YOU! My niece is a fearless advocate and drives countless miles to save animals from being killed. I applaud you for your work!
STOP EATING MEAT
I haven’t precisely read where precisely the killing is to take place… is it all over the USA, or just in a specific area? Sincerely, HM @}}-
No killing is happening yet. The horses are in holding facilities across several states.
Carol,
Please consider starting a petition IMMEDIATELY through https://www.change.org/. It is a straight forward process and gets attention. I have signed hundreds over the years and things do change. I would initiate such a petition, however I’m not knowledgeable about the details of this sad story. PLEASE…. Thank you!
The ASPCA already has a petition up that you can sign about the Wild Mustangs!
The petition I found on the ASPCA site was not specific to this issue, but I did find a petition dated 8 years ago when we found out the BLM was having secret meetings discussing killing all the wild horses in holding:
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/2/speak-out-against-plan-to-kill-thousands-of-wild-horses/?taf_id=1428291&
Petitions are fine but please do not just sign a petition and neglect the really important helpful things to do such as getting in contact with your Senators and Congressmen about this issue. That is what can turn it around – not a petition.
Terrible! Can’t you start a petition on Avaaz.com for example?
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Wonder how all those people who voted for this would like to be euthanized
IS THIS OUR COUNTRY OR IS IT OWNED BY SPECIAL INTERESTS LIKE THE CATTLE INDUSTRY AND THE BLM AND THE PAID OFF CORRUPT POLITICIANS? I have become quite unpatriotic as of late. American hypocrisy has been revealed like a snake crawling from under a rock. This whole wild horse thing is a reveal of just how unjust America is and how it kowtows to Special Interests. These horses are being rounded up not because there are too many, but because the cattle industry wants the land for their cattle. This is unconscionable. And not only are horses being slaughtered, but they are being slaughtered for a meat market in Asia and here. This is a business as well. And all the while, the BLM claims they are attempting to get these horses adopted…bullshit! And all the while they are threatening to poison them with a toxic birth control that is not needed and that is bullshit as well. It is time for A Wild Horse Revolution. SOMETHING MUST BE DONE TO STOP THIS!
I own a BLM mustang from here in Oregon. I started to volunteer for the Horse Adoption program and was not happy with the way it was run. They look at these horses as either domesticate or eliminate. Return them to the land they came from and let them be!
As Carol has said many times here – Everyone: contact your Congressmen & Representatives – that will stir things up better than anything else. Ranting & raving (and we all feel like that) on social media or blogs doesn’t change anything.
And you can go to ASPCA website and sign their petition and you can write to your senators and congress and demand the protection of the Wild Mustangs!
Tell me how to come get some of them.
Here is the BLM information about adopting and purchasing wild horses: http://www.blm.gov/wo/st/en/prog/whbprogram/adoption_program.html
I would suspect the cattle industry has a big say in this. They do not want competition on grazing land boycotting beef is the best way to fight these aholes.
Dave, only a very small fraction of the beef produced in America spends any time on public lands, and among these, only a small percent of grazing permits conflict with legal wild horse management areas, so boycotting beef will accomplish very little that helps wild horses at all, sadly.
Pressuring Congress through voting in people not owned by lobbyists would be a good start, and the election this fall presents a lot of opportunities to change the faces in our Congress. Please vote to put more responsible and ethical people into office!
Bingo! You got that right!
Think about this. Many of these horses have lived in pens in misery for years. They have no “hope” of being adopted, because they can’t even know what that would be. Unless they were born in these pens, they know what they lost, though! Of course killing them is terrible, but if you ask me, keeping them alive is worse.
Wild mustangs don’t want to live in pens. They don’t want to be adopted and be “loved” by humans, or learn to be ranch horses or police horses. The situation is f*cked up, but if you told me I had two choices – keep my horses in pens for the rest of their lives or have them killed, I would have them killed, because it’s kinder.
This absolutely sucks for mustangs as a “species”. The loss of genetics is not good for herd health. But come on, let’s breathe a sigh of relief if they really do put all these horses out of their long standing and terrible suffering. Please don’t drag this out into a long legal battle. There ARE worse things than death.
Let’s turn our attention to helping mustangs who are still free to stay that way, and do some real good, rather than saying “Don’t kill the mustangs in the pens, because it will make me sad.”
Absolutely the mustangs in holding are miserable no question. The light has gone out of their eyes, they have lost everything important to them, their homes and families and freedom – BUT I value their lives their spirits – and having compassion for living beings is very important. I hope to one day get the horses in holding returned to the 22 million acres of public land that has been taken from them.
I wish they was closer and didnt cost so much I would be more than happy to take a few bit I’m in Missouri and if they dont want to take care of them set them free dont kill them.
Thank you Carol Walker ~ Blessings and Peace ~ Save the Wild Horses ~ Heartbroken :'(
Do something that will make a difference. Go to the ASPCA website and sign the petition they have to protect the Wild Mustangs !
is there a petition we can sign to save these horses. this is criminal as far as I am concerned.
Go to the ASPCA website there is a petition there!
I simply don’t ‘buy’ this number of 44,000! I would believe 4,400 and sadly I might even have to condone that number in order to get the severe problem under control. The numbers should NEVER BE allowed to get higher than a very small manageable herd. I have to believe this ‘wild number’ is exaggerated re: these ‘wild horses’….unless someone can provide better verification of the actual count. Breakdown of HOW many per each specific ‘holding station’…that can be validated by the person in charge at each.
The BLM has been rounding up and removing wild horses from public lands for decades. The problem is, if you round up 10,000 horses a year, and only adopt out 2000 and 50% of those 2000 are retuned, you end up with 9000 more horses in holding. There should be closer to 60,000 – the reason there are less is the horses that have been shipped to Slaughter. And the BLM is proposing killing the horses in holding because it costs too much money,while continuing to round up more horses this year. It is crazy BLM logic, the same logic that claims 40,000 wild horses on public lands cause all the degradation on the range, when there are 8 million head of livestock grazing our public lands.
I have seen first hand how the BLM treats the wild mustangs and the truth is if the govenment would stop interfering with nature, then nature would take care of the wild mustang population. Madeline Pickens and her Mustang Monument have a solution. Look her up on YOUTUBE. The BLM admitted that her solution would solve the whole issue so then why are they preventing her from implementing it? THE BLM IS CORRUPT ! FREE THE MUSTANGS, DISSOLVE THE BLM, LET MADELINE TAKE THEM TO HER SANCTUARY… PROBLEM SOLVED!
This is ridiculous. Has anyone here even looked into the reason this is happening? “Wild” horses are over populating the rangelands. Other native wildlife lives there, as well as ranchers trying to make a livelihood raising beef. The over population of any one species is to the detriment to the whole ecosystem. It’s estimated that there are 67,000 too many horses on the range, and since no one will let them research birth control methods this is what they have to resort to. I love horses and if I could reasonably save them all I would, but the overall health of an entire ecosystem should not be put on the line for a species that isn’t even native. Please do some research on your own and stop taking the word of websites demonizing the BLM to push their own sentimental and impractical views.
There is no overpopulation of wild horses on our public lands. There have been many studies proving that overgrazing and degradation of our public lands is the result of livestock grazing – livestock owned by the welfare ranchers who are massively subsidized by our government. Get livestock off of public lands where wild horses are.
Look up Madeline Pickens and her Mustang Monument on Youtube and EDUCATE YOURSELF. Your ignorance is appalling !
There os absolutely no reason to be rude about this. I have educated myself thank you. I have a degree in wildlife conservation and biology and I try not to speak on subjects that I haven’t researched myself. The fate of wild horses and burros is near to my heart as I’ve loved horses from an early age. However, there are several scientific papers published about the overabundance of wild horses. There are so many aspects to consider including that people dump horses on the range which contributes to the problem. Another aspect to consider is how the ranchers live. They need public lands in order to graze their herds as their own property often isn’t enough. I’m not hypocritical enough to not think that cattle are also degrading rangelands, however, there are many studies concerning how to mitigate some of these problems. There isn’t a perfect solution. There is no way you can cut back or shut down the way these ranchers have to operate as they supply us with beef. The most important aspect though in my mind is that these horses are not even native to North America and should not contribute to the degredation of the range other native species are reliant on just because they are cute and iconic. I love the idea of wild horses just as much as anyone else, in fact I hope to adopt a mustang once I’m in a stable position to do so, but I also believe that there must be active management. Even of you don’t agree with me from an ecological stand point then at least view it from the horse’s welfare. There isn’t enough food to support an unchecked population of horses. I would persobally rather have horses rounded up than starving to death. I wish these horses didn’t have to eithanized, but there aren’t many reasonable options. The budget is too tight to be feeding and supporting penned horses and people just aren’t adopting them as often as in the past. People also need to consider wild horse/car collisions. It happens, and the more over population the more often it will happen.
Please return them back in the wild. Horses are to be free they are apart of our history.
Welfare 4anchers get what welfare ranchers what an incredible bet their behind this.
“This is in fact murder, not euthanasia.”
Murder isn’t an act, but a charge. You kill someone, but you’re convicted of murder.
You are correct Bob.
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I EMAILED ALL OF THEM…SHARING AND PRAYING IN MINNESOTA. …WE NEED A PETITION TO SIGN PLEASE. …
You can create your own petition on Change.org. Before you do that, go to youtube and look up Madeline Pickens and her Mustang Monument. Then create your petition. There is also one on the ASPCA website.
This is definitely wrong. It is animal abuse of the worst kind. Have you tried to do something else besides murder these innocent animals. I am protesting to the nth degree. And it sounds like a cowardly way out of a problem that you let build up. Shame on you for your cruelty.
Thank you Pat! What care does the federal government provide for the wild mustangs? NO CARE IS THE ANSWER !!! The money is spend on the corrupt BLM and they call that care? I have seen first hand how the BLM treats the wild mustangs and the truth is if the govenment would stop interfering with nature, then nature would take care of the wild mustang population. Madeline Pickens and her Mustang Monument have a solution. Look her up on YOUTUBE. The BLM admitted that her solution would solve the whole issue so then why are they preventing her from implementing it? THE BLM IS CORRUPT ! FREE THE MUSTANGS, DISSOLVE THE BLM, LET MADELINE TAKE THEM TO HER SANCTUARY… PROBLEM SOLVED!
I’m sure this comment will make me unpopular with many. The greatest passion of my life is for animals, and horses are at the top. My entire career has been devoted to science-based animal welfare. It is tragic to hear of the warehousing or death of any animal. It’s estimated that over 1 million dogs and 1 million cats are euthanized in shelters every year. Why? Not enough people to give them homes. Not enough money to give them quality of life. Compare that to the cost/space requirements for horses. Why doesn’t everyone who complains about the wild horse problem actually go out and adopt a few? For the same reason that the government is struggling with the issue – the cost. The fact is that horses are incredibly expensive to care for. It is also a fact that they are an invasive species in North America. They went extinct here thousands of years ago. The “wild” horses in the west are feral descendants of horses brought to the continent just several hundred years ago. They have no natural predators, and are a disruption to the native ecosystem. Yes, there are many political and competing forces involved as well – but that does not change the fact that the land cannot support an ever-increasing population of horses. Tragic, sad, heart-breaking. But there it is. There are hundreds of thousands of innocent children in this country waiting for foster homes and/or adoption… most of them wait in vain. There are millions of cats and dogs waiting for homes… 2.5 million of these will be euthanized this year. There are tens of thousands of unwanted “wild” horses… is it really practical to think that the government (or other unnamed “others”) should spend millions of dollars each year to keep all of them alive in holding pens, or “free” and ever-multiplying? All these situations are heart-breaking. But the answers will be found when people stop accusing one another of being heartless, and come together to face the difficult task of wrestling with practical solutions. And again, unless each person who complains is willing to step up and spend thousands of dollars of their own money every year to “save” a horse, I don’t think that vitriolic judgments are justified.
What care does the federal government provide for the wild mustangs? NO CARE IS THE ANSWER !!! The money is spend on the corrupt BLM and they call that care? I have seen first hand how the BLM treats the wild mustangs and the truth is if the govenment would stop interfering with nature, then nature would take care of the wild mustang population. Madeline Pickens and her Mustang Monument have a solution. Look her up on YOUTUBE. The BLM admitted that her solution would solve the whole issue so then why are they preventing her from implementing it? THE BLM IS CORRUPT ! FREE THE MUSTANGS, DISSOLVE THE BLM, LET MADELINE TAKE THEM TO HER SANCTUARY… PROBLEM SOLVED!
I really appreciate your comment on her. It’s exactly the point I’m passionate about trying to get acorss to people who come off as unreasonable zealots. There is only so much money to go around and it shouldn’t go to an invasive species.
These public lands are are ours, We the People. We pay through taxes.
Americans need to know what these feds are doing to our wildlife and our animals.
This is outrageous and needs to go viral.
Tell the people who are interested in adopting a few of these wild horses. How to go about it.
I have seen a few posts of people who have asked.
And I would like to know myself. We have a large 25-30 acre pasture with a lake.
It is not millions of acres but it is nice for a few horses.
What care does the federal government provide for the wild mustangs? NO CARE IS THE ANSWER !!! The money is spend on the corrupt BLM and they call that care? I have seen first hand how the BLM treats the wild mustangs and the truth is if the govenment would stop interfering with nature, then nature would take care of the wild mustang population. Madeline Pickens and her Mustang Monument have a solution. Look her up on YOUTUBE. The BLM admitted that her solution would solve the whole issue so then why are they preventing her from implementing it? THE BLM IS CORRUPT ! FREE THE MUSTANGS, DISSOLVE THE BLM, LET MADELINE TAKE THEM TO HER SANCTUARY… PROBLEM SOLVED!
Two things I’d like to see happen and feel it is doable:
The Adoptions of the horses in holding need more visibility and publicity. We are having one here in Wisconsin that I stumbled across a flyer on. I shared this on FB, but it is not in the papers that I know of, and would be nice to have on the local news or all these horses will just go back to holding as nobody will show up to adopt them. I called the local BLM to offer to take pictures and to ask if they plan to put pictures on the internet adoption site. I got no reply at all, I placed 3 calls and 3 emails to different people.
If nobody sees a representative picture of what is available, why and what is happening if they are not adopted – their chances of adoption are meek.
There is a local horse trainer who specializes in starting horses and has done many mustangs. It could be a LOW COST (in comparison) way to acquire a horse.
Secondly, if going forward – we could pass a law or insist that no roundups are to be held until there is a list of enough adopters to take the horses home, this would end the holding pen issues. It would be hard – but if it were a law that wild horses need to be immediately homed perhaps the BLM would have more incentive and the money used to feed all these horses could be used to set up adoptions or training centers ahead of time. Holding pens are not the answer (the reason they cannot be killed is because they are protected, this should extend to maintaining their quality of life).
I adopted one this year and I’ll likely adopt another in the future. I wish I could do more.
Its no easy task.. And the Bureau of management does not care enough to even think of doing these things for the horses. Half of them want them all gone.. If it wasn’t for horse lovers rallying protesting and defending the horses.. We probably would not have the wild horses we do today. We need an inside investigator to find our how the hell they make their decisions.. Get it all public, let the publice be outraged and take action. Let the media cover this like theres no tomorrow. And then we will have the BLM by the balls. So they know to do the right things. Even then.. Its gonna be hard. Because of farmers, advertisers, most of all cattle owners. With their so called land of ownership rights.. That wont allow horse and cattle to graze side by side for whatever reason than making us american fat and happy with their cows. Hey lest starts at the very root of this problem. The meat industry.. Lets cut it into half and eat only burgers steak and other red meats to a bar minimum if not no cattle? Just eat the other meats. That will settle it.
This is horrific and MUST NOT OCCUR! What is wrong in this world? Too much destruction of life- human and animal.
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Beloveds,
Open your hearts .
We are all one. Imagine this coral full of children, your children, would you consider shooting them ? Bring your mind out of the dark ages.
Find another solution.
Killing is not an option. War is not an option.
In Peace, Harmony and Joy,
Joy Serin Clarkeson
I know some of our national parks manage buffalo herds. I suggest doing the same with the horses. Even if new parks are required. I know it is unlikely they will all be saved but we should do the best we can.
When Ever I See The Logo BLM I Think Of Black Lives Matter Maybe They Are One In The Same , This Has To Stop , You Can Not Keep Killing Our History Leave Them Alone , God Put Them Here And Who In The Hell Is The BLM To Think They Are Higher Than God These Wild Horses Have More Right`s To Live On This Land Than Anyone Or Anything , Wake The Hell Up People , WORTHLESS ASS WIPE`S.
If you think the two BLM-abbreviated groups are the same, then you have no idea of what either one is.
God did not put them here…we did when whites came to America…hello. True ancestors of the horse died off in America long before the modern horse arrived…they are totally different animals and the land could not support them then…they would die off if not for our intervention, they do not belong here…they may be romantic, but not sustainable…I own a BLM horse I adopted and love him! But truth is truth…
Wild horses are a returned native species.
Easier solution is to neuter the stallions. Less invasive surgetry, less necessity for killing hundreds of mares.
There is no need to sterilize stallions or mares. There is no overpopulation of wild horses on our public lands. 70% of the herds have less than 150 horses, which is below the level for genetic viability. They must be managed on the range, not rounded up, stockpiled, then killed.
Have been horse lover and owner my whole life of 63 yrs they are horses not children not pets most of you don’t know enough about the situation to make comments . When wild animals have no predators and and too much protection they become overpopulated and die horrible deaths and have even worse life’s become a danger to people and other wildlife the BLM can never find enough people to adopt even ten percent of these animals. They have to pay ranchers more than twenty five dollars per head per day for their care . We don’t eat horses dogs or cats but we do have to kill these animals .horse meat is eaten in many places around the world and should not be wasted but used to feed the hungry around the world. Just my educated opinion.
There is no need to sterilize stallions or mares. There is no overpopulation of wild horses on our public lands. 70% of the herds have less than 150 horses, which is below the level for genetic viability. They must be managed on the range, not rounded up, stockpiled, then killed.
How can you take something so beautiful that’s been here for a long time and want to kill them! Are you serious. .. it’s outrageous and simply ludicrous. . To even think let alone say it out loud
I’ve been thinking about this problem. I hate seeing this many horse destroyed. There has to be a better way to handle this in the future. The vaccination for mare to not get PG …from what I’m reading cost about $300 a shot. And it has to be repeated every year. Say an average lifespan of 30 years….that’s $9,000 per mare over her lifetime. We have to think about Spaying Mares (like we do with dogs and cats). Yes it is expensive …and from what I’m reading it would cost between $1,200 to $3,000 per mare. That is still a lot of money, but it is cheaper than the vaccination and if you vaccine….you have the other cost of rounding up the horses every year ….and while in holding pens you have to feed them…and do basic medical for them….so it’s more than just $300 a year. Once you spay a mare…you could put a very visible brand on her buttocks…she you would know that she was permanently fixed and would not be needing to be round up anymore….and if she was caught in a round up…she could instantly be noticed and released. Okay we still have to bring down the cost of spaying.
What if every single Equine Veterinarian School in the USA was given say 20 mares with their 20 babies each a year…. to raise the foals …and to spay the mares as part of their teaching program. Not only would the wild horses get some good population controls (without killing mares)…but the new vets would get some real world experience too. ???? I know I know ….sounds crazy ….but I think it might be extremely great learning experience for new veterinarians. ???
Many Equine Veterinarina Schools also have other Equine Study Programs (like Colorado does). The young foals could stay with their mothers until it was weaning time….then after weaning…the mares get spayed by the vet school and the foals get raised by a team of students (that includes vets and other equine related study students who are studying foal raising and training and riding skills)….for the next 4 years. When the students graduate, so do the horses that they have been caring for….for the past 4 years. The foals have had the best of foods, the best grooms, the best trainers, and they are now valuable riding horses…. At this point each student on each team that wants the horse that they have been working with for 4 years….gets to bid on who gets to temperamentally adopt this horse and take it. If no students want one of the foals…then that foal could be bid on by the public. All money raised by the sell of the foals would go back to the university to help cut the cost of raising and training it. I would imagine that theses foals would be in high demand…because I would think that they would get the best start and best training and would be the type of horse that everyone wants. The students get a wonderful learning horse ….and they get to follow it for 4 years of these studies. And in the end lots of foals get the best of life afterwards too. And their mom’s get to go back to the wild…and live a long peaceful wild live.
It’s a crazy idea…and it doesn’t save every mare and foal….but if all 28 equine vet schools took in 20 mares and babies every year. 560 mares would be saved and fixed (no more babies) and 560 foals would be saved and get the best start and best training to become highly desirable horses/partners for humans. Over 4 years ….this is 2,240 mares and 2,240 foals. If this test program worked out (and the bugs got worked out)….and it proved to be valuable for the student and the horses in the long run. The universities just might decide to take in more than 20 horses every year.
The universities could also ask their alumina (and the public) to help sponsor individual foals over 4 years maybe even giving a special consideration in the future adoption process at graduation time. I know this idea does not save all the wild horses….but I was just trying to brain storm some ideas on at least one solution that might be beneficial in the long run for both the horses and humans.
At the graduation of the students and the foals…each university could put on a horse show….showing off each of the horses at graduation time…and charge the public to come watch the show. It would be fun for the students and the public and a good graduation test for the mustang training program. They could even pick a winner….and each winner for each college would then go on to compete against all the other winners from all the other colleges.
I know it sounds like a crazy idea….and maybe it is just a crazy idea.
But maybe it would help train vets to be better vets.
And maybe it would train equine graduations to be better with equines.
And maybe it would save a lot of wild mustang from a death sentence.
And maybe ….just maybe the public would love the wild mustang enough that they would gladly sponsor the foal for 4 years…and this whole program could be a workable and economical win for the horses, the students, and the universities. Maybe just maybe…if this worked…the universities would take in more than just 20 mares and 20 foals every year….
Why are they corralled in the first place? and why can’t they be set free?
It took me awhile but I sent an email to everyone. I did thank Ms. Kathrens for being the lone no vote. It is so important for animal advocates to speak up. We must be the voice for the animals. America must stop killing the wild life.
Horses and donkeys, domesticated about 5000 BC, are feral in open grasslands worldwide. In Portugal, feral horses are called Sorraia; in Australia, they are called Brumbies; in the American west, they are called mustangs. Other isolated feral populations exist, including the Chincoteague Pony and the Banker horse. They are often referred to as “wild horses,” but this is a MISNOMER. The ONLY truly wild horse that has never been domesticated is the Przewalski horse. While the horse was originally indigenous to North America, the wild ancestor DIED OUT at the end of the last Ice Age. In both Australia and the Americas, modern “wild” horses descended from DOMESTICATED HORSES brought by European explorers and settlers that ESCAPED, spread, and thrived.
The wild horse in America is are a returned native species, not feral: http://www.thecloudfoundation.org/education/wild-horses-as-a-returned-native-species/143-the-wild-horse-is-native-to-north-america
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQmmaiWHYHQ
A pretty good documentary on the plight of the wild horses – from both sides.
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I have read almost all of the comments shared and while everyone is entitled to their own opinion, this horrific situation seems to have been created by cattle ranchers, cattle lobbyists, and corrupt BLM employees. Nothing much seems to have changed for the mustangs since the 1980’s when I first became aware of the political nature to their actual removal and slaughter. It sickened me then, and it sickens me today. I got my first mustang in 1987 and had him for 26 years before he died. My original three mustangs changed my life for the better—they were intelligent, loyal, protective, and had amazing personalities. There is no comparison between a mustang and a domesticated horse. I love horses—I have taken in so many that were starved and neglected—and will continue doing so, but my heart is forever with the mustang. Their hearts are great, their will, strong. I will do what I can to stop this latest atrocity, but I am left wondering about the people who so callously write the lives of these beautiful animals off, as if they were not living, not breathing. I question the character of those that think capturing these horses is okay, that think jailing them in holding pens is justifiable, that think ending their lives is up to a vote.
Is there an online petition that can be started and circulated? Not sure if there is enough time for this to be impactful. News outlets need to pick this up too. Shame and scare them into doing what is right.
Yes we need to contact Senators and Representatives and press. Forget the petitions.
Greetings Carol,
I’m reading your post with disgusted shock. What is the motivation behind their vote. Has anyone read the transcripts from the meetings to sort this out?
Perhaps I’ve missed something, but having the reasoning behind this would sure help when contacting politicans.
Thanks for bring this to the publics attention. While I might take issue with some of the emotional responses, on face value, this sucks big-time and just plain wrong.
All the best!
This was planned before the meeting. I believe that the BLM wants the Advisory Board to take the blame for this when in fact Division Chief Dean Bolsted has been working on Congress to do this for months. The BLM wants to get rid of the wild horses – kill the ones in holding, sterilize the ones on the range.
Unedited transcript from the meeting on Friday: https://app.box.com/s/xo1xlqq58stg8fdg99guskpk59u1nxr0
NO NO NO this is wrong. This is murder to kill 44000 helpless animals. They are not sick. You people on this board are pathetic. You would not sit on a board. Do not do this. These animals were caught. Let them go back to the wild where they belong.
Okay, I am not saying you’re wrong about this being sad and awful.
However, if you’re going to make a big deal about what the definition of euthanasia is and how this is not that, then you cannot then say it is, in fact, murder. Because it is not, in fact, murder. Murder is the unlawful premeditated killing of one human being by another. The horses are not human beings and, as such, cannot be murdered.
It’s inconsistent and disingenuous to criticize someone for using a term incorrectly and then turn around and describe their objectionable actions with an term you’re using incorrectly.
Words matter and that was sloppy of you.
I sure hope you are all vegetarians…what gives a wild horse more rights to life than a cow? Or even an unborn human? Yes save the horses, kill the babies…makes sense..I own a BLM horse that I adopted and love him, I highly recommend it..How many do you all have? Get adopting!!! Chop Chop!
Why? Why would you kill such magnificent creatures? There surely are places in this vast country where these horses can live and not bother anyone. This is murder. Why not put them up for sale. The government needs money, sell them.
Sell them?? Hell, they can’t give them away. There is an adoption plan, few takers have the room or money to support a horse.
Why do they hate wild horses so much!?? 🙁 What do they do!??? I don’t understand why so many have to die and get rehomed or get captured in the first place. Please how do I make this stop!? 🙁
It’s all about the cattle industry. They are in the pockets of cattle ranchers. Bought and paid for with the government’s help.
I’ll start by saying that I don’t agree with their “plans” to control the horse population, but people here are assuming quite a bit. 1. Horses are not native to North America, they came with the first Europeans. This means that wild horses are invasive just as much as wild boar are in North America. 2. These are WILD horses, not pets. And 3. Many cultures, including some Americans eat horse meat. Just because you consider your horse a pet, doesn’t mean that all horses are. My father and grandmother and previous generations considered horses an agricultural animal that both feed and worked for you (equivalent to an ox). That being said, I think the mass killing of the wild horses is ridiculous. We have other ways to control the population that are use for other wild animals. The same principles can be applied.
Horses are a species native to North America: http://www.thecloudfoundation.org/education/wild-horses-as-a-returned-native-species/143-the-wild-horse-is-native-to-north-america
Horses WERE native to America, until indigenous people hunted them to extinction for MEAT. To claim otherwise is be UNTRUTHFUL in an appeal to emotions.
“[T]his discovery raises the very real possibility that overhunting by the Clovis people played a significant role in the extinction.”
“European explorers reintroduced horses to the New World several thousand years after the ancient ones died out.”
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2001/05/0511_ancienthorses.html
http://www.thecloudfoundation.org/education/wild-horses-as-a-returned-native-species/143-the-wild-horse-is-native-to-north-america
Actually, you are wrong. Horses were here originally, but for unknown reasons became extinct on this continent. Only with the Spaniards were they reintroduced. There is a very well written and documented book about this. Perhaps you might want to read it.
Wild horses are a retuned native species: http://www.thecloudfoundation.org/education/wild-horses-as-a-returned-native-species/143-the-wild-horse-is-native-to-north-america
Why can’t they adopt them out? There’s alot of people out there who would love to get one and take care of it. I think it’s absolutely ludicrous and outrageous to slaughter these beautiful, magnificent creatures. At least try an adoption process.
Been there, done that. .. not working. Herd sizes double roughly every 4 years, with the number of adoptions dropping every year (takes land and money to raise a horse). Unfortunately, even some of those which are adopted get turned back out because the “new” owners cannot properly care for them.
Herd sizes do not double every 4 years.nthis is a ridiculous statistic made up by the BLM which does not account for deaths of foals which can be quite high or any mortality of the older horses. And it is very true that adoption is not the solution- they never should have been rounded up in the first place! They need to be managed where they live on our public lands.
Actually in 2012, Fact Checker confirmed that the current science backs the BLM’s claim that wild horses can double every four to five years. Apparently you hold to the belief all other wildlife and land is worth sacrificing for the sake of these herds. If you truly want to sustain them then you need to start spreading them across the U. S. because with only 5″ of precipitation a year and a 5 year drought our state lacks the resources.
This is not the information that even the National Academy of Sciences gave. They are sustainable on public lands where they are – it is the overgrazing of the livestock industry that is completely unsustainable.
I notice I am not able to respond directly to your comment about the National Academy of Sciences. Nowhere in that report did I find the opinion these horses are “sustainable on public lands where they are.” What I did find was acknowledgement that BLM has been given the task of “managing horses and burros in an environment with incongruent mandates not accompanied by required financial resource;” they must attempt “to manage the land for multiple uses, to preserve a thriving natural ecological balance, to prevent rangeland deterioration.” We live here and I can tell you these animals if not fed or watered would starve and our die of thirst. The BLM is currently hauling water to horses in the Big Sand Spring Valley because there is not enough water to support the herd size. There is no competition from grazing in this area. The BLM is damned if they do and damned if they don’t as I can only imagine the outcry for humane practices were nature allowed to take its course.
America’s terrorists. BLM and BLM.
After reading this article, something just kept niggling at the back of my mind. If we are to be the caretakers of this earth, if all things living are connected and equal, this slaughter is reminiscent of the extermination camps during the second world war or the Spanish inquisition etc. It seems we refuse to learn the lesson.
Why give wild horses and burros to the youth in Asia? There are plenty of young people right here in amerika who would love to own a horse or burro!
Now that I have your attention, you need to know that those animals were captured with every intention of murdering them in order to make room for beef cattle that ranchers will now pay the BLM for the privilege of grazing their cattle (that are also destined to be murdered for profit, btw) on grasslands that were set aside specifically as a reserve for wild equines that were designated a “national heritage” decades ago.
don’t the slaughterers know they INFRINGE THE LAW???
Aside from writing to congress? Is there anything else we can do? How would one go about adopting these horses? I know plenty of horse lovers with enough land to take on more.
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For those of you wanting a petition, Return to Freedom has one here: http://salsa4.salsalabs.com/o/51439/p/dia/action3/common/public/?action_KEY=19610
would like to see these horses purchase by someone, are they for sale, the entire lot? Crowdfunding effort across the country could be the answer…put on your think caps, folks!
to the people who are willing to kill one of God’s creations don’t ok we don’t need a bloodshed, it will be like killing our brothers and sisters or our parents or even our grandparents
I am furious over this. This has to be stopped. Those poor horses have no voice but ours. I signed a petition on facebook and also posted on facebook. Please everyone do all you can to help save them. There are people’s email addresses at the top of the page to email and also Obama. I am going to do all that.
What if we round up all the congressmen and euthanize them? Will that send a message?
The question that seems to remain unanswered is how would someone go about helping house a few of them and possible adoption…. I have tried looking thru the comments on this article and find myself wonderin why people feel the need to be rude and disrespectful about this topic. Wild horses were here long before us, they need to be moved to a mustang range away from harm not murdered. Disappointed to think that the army feels like it is necessary
Adoption information is here: http://www.blm.gov/wo/st/en/prog/whbprogram/adoption_program.html
Wild horses are not native, the Spanish brought them to North America after the originally went extinct here around 13,000 years ago. All wild horses are feral domestic horses. Some people believe that since they used to live here then they are native, but that isn’t true from a biological stand point. I do believe that they should be allowed to remain here though in more manageable numbers.
Thinking about this makes me want to cry, the second I get home from school I’m going to ask her to email these people and help me call them. We’re also thinking about adopting a mustang mare from a woman a few hours away from us and I hope that once we get this one, this woman will be able to house more mustangs to train and re-home. This woman sets an example for me and others. I hope she can adopt and rehome many many more mustangs and save them from the meat trucks. 🙁
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/adventure/features/wild-horses-euthanasia/
Thinking about this makes me want to cry, the second I get home from school I’m going to ask my mom to email these people and help me call them. We’re also thinking about adopting a mustang mare from a woman a few hours away from us and I hope that once we get this one, this woman will be able to house more mustangs to train and re-home. This woman sets an example for me and others. I hope she can adopt and rehome many many more mustangs and save them from the meat trucks. 🙁
If you vote Republican, this is your fault. Enjoy the fruits.
Why would you kill a beautiful and natural beauty…Who is getting paid off to do such a criminal thing….
[…] perfectly healthy wild horses, ostensibly to “make room for beef cattle.” One popular version of the rumor held […]
Horses Are Sentient Beings
Sentient beings are beings with consciousness, sentience, or in some contexts life itself and are composed of the five aggregates, or skandhas: matter, sensation, perception, mental formations and consciousness.
I have several friends who work with Horses as great healers, just as I also have several friends who have deep meaningful relationships with their horses.
In my teens I had such a relationship with a horse that shared a period of my life with me – we were the greatest companion’s one to the other.
I am aware of other who keep them for their earning potential as race horses, just as I know those who keep them as working horses on the land.
Many view horses as sacred1
This said, many see them as objects of pleasure, many as useful as money generating tools of the trade.
Horses to me are sacred, sentinel beings that bring joy, friendship, meaning and healing into our lives.
I once spent a day with a herd of healing/therapy horses in Gloucestershire and cannot truly put into words what this experience was like because it is one that is individual to each horse/pony and the soul with whom they interact .
One would need to be experienced this for oneself in order for each soul to gain his or her respective understanding.
These horses were kept in a natural herd rather than stabled as individual animals, something that gives them free expression.
Horses have a natural herd instinct and in the wild face many challenges from in-fighting between stallions and natural predators of the foals.
In one comment that I read on the attached feed it was said:
“Isn’t dying a natural death part of a “thriving natural ecological balance” as any ecologist would define it?”
This struck me because I feel that we have come to some strange relationship in relation to our ‘control’ over our natural habitat.
In England we have New Forest Ponies and more locally to me in Oxford there is common land where locals can graze their cattle, horses/ponies that are rounded up each year and checked for injury, disease and ailment.
I don’t know about you but I for one would adopt a Mustang to see them run free – could this be a solution over shamelessly slaughtering them?
According to a study, in a post that I posed earlier this week entitled “Humans have destroyed a tenth of Earth’s wilderness in 25yrs”, I ask how much more do we wish to destroy because ‘WE’ need the room, the space, the ‘this and that’ which puts us above any other living creature.
Gaia, in her Mother Earth – Earth Letter, says the following:
“It is time to remember that you ARE a part OF nature – rather than apart FROM nature.
Please join me in remembering your true understanding of your connection ‘with’ and ‘to’ me, and that – from this day onwards – you commit your love and respect to me, your Earth Mother – Mother to one and all.
Constant giver, carer, supporter and loving nurturer – ever patient guide and teacher – all life is born from Gaia, each with purpose, each with equal importance; the tree, the ant, the deer in the park and fish in the sea, the soil, the rock – all life – no more or no less important!” Excerpt Mother Earth-Earth Letter 12.12.2012
Solutions need to be found for this to be made so.
Culling the weak, sick, unhealthy is one thing – killing the strong and healthy is quite another and in my understanding is not the answer.
I have posted this upon my face book feed asking my contacts – “if you feel moved so to do – please do support this call for us to be the voice for those who do not have one.”
As ‘Flesh and Blood Guardians of The Earth’ – We are their voice!
BLM should round them up but the point is that foundations that care for any domestic or wild animals are set up and funded by private donations and grants should be the allowed to make the decisions,not the BLM. There job is to manage the resources of the land and not the animals that occupy the land.
The BLM is pushing off not only the wild horse but cattle ranchers. They use excuses like protecting a mouse to achieve their end game. Finding out what their plans are with the land after they’ve gotten rid of horses, cattle and the people that have ranched the land for generations would be a good plan as the fight goes on to save the horses.
Eating horse meat… seriously? Never gonna happen in this country. All those animal friendly groups will raise holy hell and the problem will get solved while in the background a pipeline with checmicaly treated crud is snaking through the country, risking spillage into waterways and destroying burial grounds from the east coast to the west coast and horses get more comments from the regular joe than a dire situation that threatens ALL life on the planet.
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/tell-a-friend/28950989
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Why don’t we contact this wildhoofbeats site? Why don’t we questions your lawsuits filed against the BLM and question your death threats to members of the advisory board who have fought to spay the mustangs and come up with a plan that would be beneficial? Why don’t you take a look in the mirror and see where the real problem there in lies? The mustangs need to be managed. Their populations are through the roof. Elk, antelope,deer, even sheep are hunted and their populations are regulated. Mustangs, however, have gone out of control. Either put slaughter houses back into effect and make dog food or spay them. Julie Wiekel is a very informed citizen and veterinarian, who has the best interest of the mustangs and preservation of the West in mind. Why don’t you quit making irrational decisions and quit pointing fingers? Yes, the mustangs are beautiful and iconic. They need to be preserved, but by making the management of their herd sizes impossible, YOU are putting their lives at risk. It is kind of like not spaying and neutering dogs…..it creates gigantic problems. Look how successful the 100 head that were spayed was, 98% success rate. Share the whole story. The people with blood on their hands are the activists. Let’s all be rational and work for the preservation and integrity of the American West.
How many thousands have they already killed?????
The best of news – this in today from Reuters, an announcement from the White House: http://www.inforum.com/news/4115243-after-uproar-us-government-says-does-not-plan-kill-wild-horses
People you wonder why we can’t get leadership in this country? It’s because when you get it, like the Advisory Board making a studied, difficult recommendation you go off half informed of the issues and come to places like this as your source.
Let me see if I understand this. You don’t want them sterilized, you don’t want them rounded up, and you can’t get enough of them adopted to even make a dent in the problem. You want to criticize the BLM for not managing them, and yet you have no idea what it costs in dollars nor land resources to manage these herds in their current sizes. And yet. . . .when we offer to send each state a 1000 to “run in your wild,” I don’t hear any takers. Looks like it’s a “not in my backyard moment.”
Let’s at least agree to let Mother Nature take her course and quit carrying water and feed to those “in the wild” now that sounds humane, doesn’t it?
I sent this to DrudgeReport, if anyone can stop this, it’s Matt Drudge. Fingers crossed.
I appreciate the passion expressed in the discussions here for the wild horses. Like many of you, as a concerned American and wild horse advocate, I do my best to keep myself informed, inform others, and do what I can by keeping in contact with the agencies and congressional representatives who are in a position to cast votes upon the decisions that affect the management of our public lands and the wildlife that exists upon it.
As citizens it is our first duty to participate in our government to the highest extent possible regarding all of the decisions of our Democracy. Like the wild horses, far too many of our rights have been and are being taken away from us.
There are no easy answers to this issue but it is only together as a united force that we can impact any of the tough decisions being made. I believe that continued and shared awareness, open dialogue, collective activism, and responsible behavior is ALWAYS a movement in the right direction with each of us doing what we can within our capacity, to not only make our opinions known, but to ACT when action is needed. We must remember the powerful words of Sitting Bull, “As individual fingers we can easily be broken, but all together we make a mighty fist.”
The varied opinions posted here, though not all agreed upon or accepted as viable solutions, are still vital to our ability to arrive at possible solutions. Bring your ideas without fear and be dauntless in expressing your views no matter the judgment of others. All voices are needed and may just be the spark that ignites the fires of innovation.
What I and many of you do know is that the holding facilities are, as most of our government systems, extremely inefficient and causing more problems and costing more money than they are worth. MISmanagement is what the government is good at. I have been to the holding facilities in my area (Nevada) and the conditions within them are dismal, the horses are miserable. But let’s face it, in our capitalist society money always speaks the loudest and the ranchers have a right to the public lands if they are going to pay to use them. The horses cannot be hunted as with the elk, buffalo, and deer, so they eat up resources and offer no return or profit from hunting license/tags and such. Adoptions are not really numerous enough to enhance their worth by private owners, but I think if more agencies used the wild horses for purposeful work such as mounted police, search and rescue, handicapped programs, therapy horses, and whatever else they could be suited for, we could turn the tide on some of the costs associated with them. Animals in general bring so much pleasure and healing to humans, we should be able to create more jobs for them to help with the excess and then come up with a comprehensive maintenance program. The government will not be able to do this, when have they ever done this?
No, it is up to us, citizens of the United States of America, we the people must save our wild horses if they are to be saved.
And that said, no, not the horses that are not wild. I say this because there have been many horses cast into the wild when the “Great Recession” took place in 2008 – 2010. Some of my rancher friends would be out working thier cattle only to return to find horses loaded into their trailers, horses dropped off in the desert like the unwanted dogs abandoned on our streets. These horses should be identified and separated from the herds, then rehomed as domestics. It is not that hard to identify them if one knows what to look for.
Yes, there is much to do and we must keep talking, keep fighting, and keep working with our passion to open us up to solutions!
Thank you all for all you do! Thank you Carol, everybody, and Keep up the good work. Please be kind to each other. We all want a solution for whatever our reasons. Together we can find many.
why would you feed wild horses?
They are in captivity, not in the wild. You have to feed them.
I appreciate the passion expressed in the discussions here for the wild horses. Like many of you, as a concerned American and wild horse advocate, I do my best to keep myself informed, inform others, and do what I can by keeping in contact with the agencies and congressional representatives who are in a position to cast votes upon the decisions that affect the management of our public lands and the wildlife that exists upon it.
As citizens it is our first duty to participate in our government to the highest extent possible regarding all of the decisions of our Democracy. Like the wild horses, far too many of our rights have been and are being taken away from us.
There are no easy answers to this issue but it is only together as a united force that we can impact any of the tough decisions being made. I believe that continued and shared awareness, open dialogue, collective activism, and responsible behavior is ALWAYS a movement in the right direction with each of us doing what we can within our capacity, to not only make our opinions known, but to ACT when action is needed. We must remember the powerful words of Sitting Bull, “As individual fingers we can easily be broken, but all together we make a mighty fist.”
The varied opinions posted here, though not all agreed upon or accepted as viable solutions, are still vital to our ability to arrive at possible solutions. Bring your ideas without fear and be dauntless in expressing your views no matter the judgment of others. All voices are needed and may just be the spark that ignites the fires of innovation.
What I and many of you do know is that the holding facilities are, as most of our government systems, extremely inefficient and causing more problems and costing more money than they are worth. MISmanagement is what the government is good at. I have been to the holding facilities in my area (Nevada) and the conditions within them are dismal, the horses are miserable. But let’s face it, in our capitalist society money always speaks the loudest and the ranchers have a right to the public lands if they are going to pay to use them. The horses cannot be hunted as with the elk, buffalo, and deer, so they eat up resources and offer no return or profit from hunting license/tags and such. Adoptions are not really numerous enough to enhance their worth by private owners, but I think if more agencies used the wild horses for purposeful work such as mounted police, search and rescue, handicapped programs, therapy horses, and whatever else they could be suited for, we could turn the tide on some of the costs associated with them. Animals in general bring so much pleasure and healing to humans, we should be able to create more jobs for them to help with the excess and then come up with a comprehensive maintenance program. The government will not be able to do this, when have they ever done this?
No, it is up to us, citizens of the United States of America, we the people must save our wild horses if they are to be saved.
And that said, no, not the horses that are not wild. I say this because there have been many horses cast into the wild when the “Great Recession” took place in 2008 – 2010. Some of my rancher friends would be out working thier cattle only to return to find horses loaded into their trailers, horses dropped off in the desert like the unwanted dogs abandoned on our streets. These horses should be identified and separated from the herds, then rehomed as domestics. It is not that hard to identify them if one knows what to look for.
Yes, there is much to do and we must keep talking, keep fighting, and keep working with our passion to open us up to solutions!
Thank you all for all you do! Thank you Carol, everybody, and Keep up the good work. Please be kind to each other. We all want a solution for whatever our reasons. Together we can find many.
I cant believe that is happening is not to be born free or wild or in a barn apart of horses life. to be sentence to death, is not the way the wild west or the green plans of north america and other parts of the world like mongol. not trying to save there rare breeds. this is out rage i own horses if i could take more on i fly and pick 12 up and bring them back to Europe. but killing is not the way to go about it, but it is yours horses you be losing not ours. and when you wonder what happened you can only blame yours self for there lose on the plans. i hope you solve this issue with a out lose of 44.000 animals and then we get more meat on the market and then we most likely have another huge meat scandal. like wall mart ordering Asian fox instead of donkey. google it the plans need grazers not man, man is the worst thing that killed natural world. blame who you want no what we did. but what we did to the whole world and animals there came before man and god. danny
From speaking from a bull rider, and understanding the love of roughstock I know the love for these animals. They shouldn’t be treated like this, find a better way to make soap, or whatever it is they’re trying to pull out of these animals. This is horrible! I am totally against this vote, horses are meant to be loved, and treated like ya best damn friend. Let’s all be against this vote please American!
It is ungodly to kill any animal unless it attacks you. Please save these horses they are in this world for a reason and purpose
God bless and keep them safe do not kill them
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