Please Comment Today to Help the Fifteenmile Wild Horse Herd in Wyoming
February 20, 2019The Good, the Bad and the Ugly: Wild Horses and the Bureau of Land Management
March 19, 2019Please Comment Today Against the Decimation of the Wild Horses and Burros of Warm Springs
Please Comment by March 17 to Save the Wild Horses and Burros of Warm Springs in Oregon
by Carol Walker Director of Field Documentation for Wild Horse Freedom Federation
We won our lawsuit to prevent the gruesome sterilization experiments that the BLM proposed conducting on 100 mares from the Warm Springs HMA, which is almost 500,000 acres. I, American Wild Horse Campaign, the Cloud Foundation and Animal Welfare Institute blocked the study by our lawsuit. The BLM dropped the experiments from their plan for the HMA, and now they have decided to release a devastatingly small number of wild horses and no burros back into the Herd Management Area despite having removed almost 100% of the wild horses and burros during the roundup in 2018: The helicopter roundup removed 846 wild horses and 41 burros. These wild horses and burros are currently being held at the BLM Burns Corrals in Hines, Oregon. They plan to release only 66 wild horses and zero burros. This would leave 1 horse per 5000 acres and 1 burro per 17,000 acres! This is a plan for extinction, and cannot be allowed to happen.
This devastating plan will leave far less then the number of 150-200 wild horses needed to maintain genetic viability and a healthy, viable population. They estimate that there are 30 burros left but this is an extremely small number, and is the number of all the wild burros left in the state. The BLM needs to revise the Appropriate Management Level of this HMA to allow at least 150 – 300 wild horses and to allow at least 75 – 150 burros.
If the BLM has any new plans to manage the wild horses and burros here they must legally a separate environmental analysis including a public comment opportunity.
The wild horses and burros currently at the corrals face a very uncertain fate. The BLM will say “we are preparing them all for adoption.” This is simply not true. The youngest of the wild horses can be adopted but any wild horse 5 years old or older will be shipped to private “Off-Range Corrals” and “Off-Range Pastures” where the public will not be allowed to see or adopt these horses unless they want to purchase the horses older than 10 years old by the truckload at $10 a head. These “bargain” horses will most likely end up at slaughter.
Tell the BLM that you want at least 150-300 of the wild horses and all 41 of the burros to be released back into their homes where they belong, where they are safe and free, and where they belong.
Here is the link to the documents:
Warm Springs BLM Documents Online
The BLM is NOT allowing comments to be submitted by email.
Please submit your comments directly to the BLM by March 17th by going to this online form:
Or you can send your comments via USPS to:
Burns District Office
28910 hwy 20 Hines Oregon 97738
they must be postmarked by March 17.
Previous Posts
BLM Stops Sterilization Experiments But Returns Very Few Wild Horses and Burros to the Range
Breaking News! Wild Mare Spay Experiment Has Been Abandoned by BLM
To find out more about Wild Horse Freedom Federation and our work to keep wild horses and burros wild and free on our public lands visit: www.WildHorseFreedomFederation.org
43 Comments
Please leave the wild horses and burros on the range ! No real need to remove them ! Plenty of room !
Unfortunately they have already been removed. Please use the link in the post to tell the BLM to return at least 200 wild horses and all of the burros to the HMA.
Here is the link to send comments to the BLM:
https://eplanning.blm.gov/epl-front-office/eplanning/comments/commentSubmission.do?commentPeriodId=74826
Hi Carol, I will write to BLM about the return of wild horses and burros to their home in Wild Springs. On the BLM link you provided it asks for:
Comment title,
Chapter Reference and
Section reference
What should I be inputting into these areas?
Thank you for your guidance.
Kirsten
Thank you Kirsten. All you need to fill out the big field with your comments. You don’t need to pay any attention to the other things.
Carol
I sent my comments:
Please put back enough horses and burros to continue existence as we once knew as the Wild West. That’s mother’s nature as they are supposed to be roaming and breeding. I would love for my future family members to see them in their lifetime too. It’s a beautiful, breathtaking experience.
Please, PLEASE return at least 200 wild horses and all of the burros to the Warm Springs in Oregon.
Please make sure and send comments to the BLM using this link:
https://eplanning.blm.gov/epl-front-office/eplanning/comments/commentSubmission.do?commentPeriodId=74826
I wull vote against any politician who doesn’t let wild horses stay free. Round them up and I will publicly denounce you.
I osy my taxes without bitching. I always vote. I should be listened to. The BLM is a wholly-owned subsidiary of the corporate welfare state. Stop this madness or loose your jobs
The majority of Americans want the Burros and Horses to live free on Public Lands you must respect our wishes!! You were elected by a majority vote so do want the majority wants!!
Please make sure and send comments to the BLM using this link:
https://eplanning.blm.gov/epl-front-office/eplanning/comments/commentSubmission.do?commentPeriodId=74826
Please understand how you are ruining our country by taking away History. Read a book about The Wild West and who is there to help in many ways…Horses and Burro… please do not change the land scape for the children of our future… Do you have young ones??? Do it for them. PLEASE… I PRAY ????♥️????
Please make sure and send comments to the BLM using this link:
https://eplanning.blm.gov/epl-front-office/eplanning/comments/commentSubmission.do?commentPeriodId=74826
Stop BLM from these horrific roundups and slaughter of these beautiful horses and burros! They don’t deserve this……they have been here for hundreds of years……it’s all they know! It’s all about greed between the ranchers and BLM.
Stop BLM from these horrific roundups and slaughter of our beautiful wild horses and burros! They are icons of the west and have been here for hundreds and hundreds of years……they don’t deserve this…..it’s all they know. It’s all about greed between BLM and the ranchers!
Please make sure and send comments to the BLM using this link:
https://eplanning.blm.gov/epl-front-office/eplanning/comments/commentSubmission.do?commentPeriodId=74826
Tell the BLM that you want at least 150-300 of the wild horses and all 41 of the burros to be released back into their homes where they belong, where they are safe and free, and where they belong.
MUST EVERYTHING IN THIS COUNTRY BE DESTROYED………..PLEASE RETHINK WHAT IS BEING DONE……….LET THEM LIVE AS THEY ARE INTENDED TO BE…………WILD. PRETTY SOON THE GOVERNMENT WILL BE ROUNDING US PEOPLE UP THE SAME AS THEY DO THESE WILD HORSES. THEY WILL HAVE SOME REASON WHY CERTAIN GROUPS WILL BE ROUNDED UP AND EXILED.
THINK ABOUT IT PEOPLE.
Horses and burros are icons and important to our country’s traditions. Destroying them
will leave a terrible mark on the history of the West.
We respectfully ask that you return at least 200 of the wild horses and all of the burros to Warm Springs in Oregon. This is their home . They are part of the American landscape and American life. We, the public, are watching what politicians do to protect our wildlife history.
Please make sure and send comments to the BLM using this link:
https://eplanning.blm.gov/epl-front-office/eplanning/comments/commentSubmission.do?commentPeriodId=74826
I will vote against all my representatives if they vote against letting our wild horses and burros run free. The BLM must return all the captive horses and burros to the plain.
Humane birth control is the key. It was a mistake to stop the program.
PLEASE LEAVE THE WILD HORSES ALONE! THERE IS PLENTY OF LAND AVAILABLE FOR HORSES, AS LONG AS THE RANCHERS KEEP THEIR COWS OFF THE LAND. GO VEGETARIAN!
Please in the name of all that is decent place these animals back on their range . Roundups are horrific and cruel. Stop the roundups and the caging of these beautiful freedom loving animals.
Please return these horses and burros to their ancestral home where they belong. They are part of our history and heritage. They deserve better. Let ‘s stop destroying things just because they don’t make a profit.
We should be their stewards
YOU MONSTERS IN THE BLM DON’T KNOW THE PAIN, CONFUSION AND DEATH THAT YOU’RE CAUSING THESE BEAUTIFUL ICONIC INNOCENT HORSES AND BURROS WHICH HAVE DONE NOTHING TO ANYONE. I AM SO SICK AND TIRED OF THE RANCHERS AND THEIR BUDS TAKING THIS LAND THAT WAS GIVEN TO THESE HORSES. DAMN YOU, ALL YOU KNOW IS GREED, GREED, GREED! REMEMBER, GREED IS ON THE TOP OF THE LIST OF THE 7 DEADLY SINS!!!!! I’M SO SICK OF WASHINGTON DOING FOR ITSELF INSTEAD OF US, WE’RE THE ONES THAT PUT YOU IN OFFICE, WHEN ARE YOU GOING TO LISTEN TO US??? YOU ALL ARE DISGRACEFUL!!!! RETURN ALL THE HORSES AND BURROS TO THEIR GIVEN LAND, STOP MESSING WITH THEM FOR GOD’S SAKE. WHAT IS THIS COUNTRY COMING TO? PLEASE LOOK INTO YOUR HEARTS (THOSE OF YOU THAT HAVE ONE), GO LOOK AT OUR HORSES AND BURROS AND WATCH THEM, THEY ARE OUR HISTORY, WHERE WOULD WE HAVE GOTTEN WITHOUT OUR HORSES AND BURROS? GIVE THEM THEIR LAND BACK, RELEASE THEM AND DAMN YOU FOR THOSE INHUMANE VERY PAINFUL STERILIZATIONS. WHO DO YOU THINK YOU ARE? THOSE HORSES AND BURROS BELONG TO US AMERICANS, NOT YOURS TO DO WHAT YOU HAVE DONE. REMEMBER, WE WILL ALL BE JUDGED ONE DAY. I FEEL SORRY FOR YOU PEOPLE COME JUDGEMENT DAY BECAUSE OTHER THAN BELONGING TO US, OUR HORSES AND BURROS WERE CREATED BY GOD, THEY ARE HIS FIRST AND FOREMOST.
I sent my comments:
Please put back enough horses and burros to continue existence as we once knew as the Wild West. That’s mother’s nature as they are supposed to be roaming and breeding. I would love for my future family members to see them in their lifetime too. It’s a beautiful, breathtaking experience.
Please return the burros and horses back to the wild and their rightful place!!!
Please make sure and send comments to the BLM using this link:
https://eplanning.blm.gov/epl-front-office/eplanning/comments/commentSubmission.do?commentPeriodId=74826
PLEASE STOP THIS ABHORRENT CRUELTY, WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU, IS THERE NO COMPASSION LEFT IN THIS WORLD FOR OUR HORSES AND BURROS, OR ANY ANIMAL FOR THAT MATTER. I AGREE WITH THOSE WHO WILL NOT VOTE FOR ANY REPRESENTATIVE THAT VOTES AGAINST LETTING OUR WILD HORSES AND BURROS RUN FREE. WE HAVE TO GET THESE PEOPLE AT THE BALLOT BOX, PLEASE VOTE THEM OUT!!
This devastating plan will leave far less then the number of 150-200 wild horses needed to maintain genetic viability and a healthy, viable population. They estimate that there are 30 burros left but this is an extremely small number, and is the number of all the wild burros left in the state. The BLM needs to revise the Appropriate Management Level of this HMA to allow at least 150 – 300 wild horses and to allow at least 75 – 150 burros.
Please stop the unnecessary roundups & cruel treatment & illegal slaughter of our magnificent will horses and Burris!!!!!
Keep our horses and burros safe and free please.
Please keep the wild horses and burros free. It is wonderful to know that in our great country there are still wild animals that helped settle this great country!!! Their ancestors did their job we need to preserve them. I hope one day to make it there to see these amazing animals!
If you ever want to see them you’d better hurry before the blm gets their way and obtains permission from the Petition they have put to Congress for the mass killing of the wild horses and burros they have stockpiled!! They are also fighting in court to make horse slaughter yards legal again in the USA. that way they won’t need the kill buyers to do their dirty work for them anymore. The more they can stockpile the more it will cost the taxpayer so by doing that they hope to get the taxpayer to be more willing to go along with the mass killing of them….Sick head games they play on the public just to get their way. Their only god is money and greed.
I put in a thorough rebuttal to this outrageous plan. Burns BLM is just making a mockery of the Wild Horse & Burro Act and serving the smug self-righteous enemies of the wild horses!
The BLM needs to be revamped and restaffed with those that truely care about the well being of our wild horses and donkeys!! I hate what they are allowed to do. Someone needs to start auditing them! They need to put those horses they removed back since their plans were not approved! We are watching you BLM and the well being of those 200 horses you removed are being carefully monitored also!!!!!!
You need to check your facts. The BLM is releasing 200 horses, and they have stated that from the beginning. As for the burros, not only did they already leave a good number out there, they are pulling hairs and doing genetic testing on them. So far, they have come back very viable.
I realize you will likely not print my reply but please, do yourself a favor and do some fact checking.
They are not releasing 200 horses they are releasing 66. And pulling hairs to test genetic viability does not mean that only 30 burros remaining is genetically viable.
200 was the original number they were going to release when they were doing sterilization. Read the press release for the new number.
I spoke to the BLM. I saw the horses. THEY ARE RELEASING 200 HORSES. Show me the press release please.
How is leaving 30 burros in the whole state already leaving a good number of them? The very few wild horses their returning out of 846 removed makes it one horse for every 5,000 acres!!! BLM are monsters in the brutal way they choose to roundup these wild horses and burros and the hitting of them with their helicopters causing the flipping over of one burro on it’s head who was then not able to stand up any longer so the blm employees on the ground then tied a rope several times around it throat and nostrils tightly cutting off it’s oxygen trying to force it to stand which didn’t work so they started beating it by punching and kicking it and dragging the burro around by it’s ears!! God knows what happened to it then and this is all done on the taxpayers dime. The abuse that is forced upon these helpless animals that can’t fight back is about as chick sh__ and cowardly as you can get. The BLM wouldn’t know what a backbone was if you beat them over the head with one. Disgusting group of a pack of Rats that suck off of the taxpayers