Ep #69: Interview with Manda Kalimian of Rewilding American Now: Petition to Audit BLM’s Wild Horse Sale Program
June 15, 2026Comments Needed for BLM’s Wild Horse Removal Plans for the Red Desert Complex in Wyoming
July 8, 2026Take Action Today Against BLM’s New Policies on Wild Horse Roundups
A new National Environmental Assessment is open for public comments until July 2 and it will shape wild horse roundups – how they are approved, planned, conducted and commented on by the public.
BLM is proposing one framework that covers about 80,000 wild horses and burros still on the range in 175 Herd Management Areas and 25.6 million acres. The BLM must prepare and Envirnmental Impact Statement for the program. An Enviromental Assessment is not sufficient.
Here are some sample comments – please use your own words:
- Do not use this EA to shortcut on the ground site specific analysis, allowing removals of wild horses without the necessary planning and public comment process.
- Stop helicopter roundups.
- Analyze and change limitations for wild horse removals during “foaling season” which does not fully cover the actual foaling season in each HMA.
- Protect genetic diversity in wild horse herds by leaving a sufficient number of horses in each Herd Management Area, at least 150-200 breeding aged adults.
- Review and reevaluate outdated population limits – Appropriate Management Levels for each Herd Management Area.
- Study the impacts of livestock grazing as well as of wild horses in order to make decisions on managing wild horses.
- Improve and enforce animal welfare protections.
- Protect wild horses from entering the slaughter pipeline.
Please comment before July 2, 12 pm Pacific Time. The future of our wild horses depends upon you.
How to submit your comments:
- Online (preferred): BLM ePlanning project page
- Email: BLM_HQ_260_WHB-PEA@blm.gov
- Mail: Bill Parks, WHB Information Specialist, BLM Oklahoma Field Office, 201 Stephenson Parkway, Suite 1200, Norman, OK 73072
*Please do not submit your comments on this blog – the BLM will not count them here. Please submit them at the online project page, link above.*
20 Comments
Stop helicopter roundups. And study the effects of livestock grazing on public lands and how it destroys the public lands. Where equine grazing does not have any negative impact on public lands.
Please submit your comments to the BLM here: https://eplanning.blm.gov/Project-Home/?id=F8129444-CA5D-F111-BEC6-001DD8029ED0
Please stop the round ups!
They deserve to roam free.
Tax payers do not want to fund this!
Will you please start to care about the horses.
The cattle are more destructive on lands than horses.
Horses can help with fires and have a place in our country.
I see the in the slaughter pipelines and know what happens.
They don’t belong in pens and separated from there families.
People care and are paying attention to what’s happening to them
Sincerely,
Glenda Deaton
Please submit your comments to the BLM here: https://eplanning.blm.gov/Project-Home/?id=F8129444-CA5D-F111-BEC6-001DD8029ED0
Please stop the helicopter roundups! Horses are injured and pregnant mares can abort foals during the chase, while young foals cannot keep up with the herd. Animals are injured and euthanized as a result of this terrifying pursuit! Many horses with disabilities can live full lives, with their bands, if you could leave them be.
Wild horses propagate the grasses by spreading seed through their manure. Cattle and sheep don’t as their bodies don’t pass intact seeds. Wild horses also help prevent forest fires as they regularly consume the lower quality grasses that spread fires.
Wild horses are iconic symbols that are cherished by most Americans, and people worldwide come to the US to view these animals.
These horses are not destroying the land, that type of damage is done by the cattle and sheep who greatly outnumber the horses. These livestock animals do not help the quality of our grasslands, nor do they help prevent fires. Tourists do not flock to our federal lands to view domestic livestock.
These horses in holding pens, and the roundups, cost the taxpayers millions. Release these animals, with fertility control, so they may cost the taxpayers nothing. All of the stallions that you have gelded and stockpiled should be released back onto the range. Use fertility control on the mares, which has already been established and approved for use in these matters.
Our wild horses should be free, not shipped to slaughter or kept in unprotected, filthy pens on the taxpayers dime. Please leave them alone.
Please submit your comments to the BLM here: https://eplanning.blm.gov/Project-Home/?id=F8129444-CA5D-F111-BEC6-001DD8029ED0
Our National Treasures! Stop the inhumane killings of such a intelligent sentient being!
Let FREEDOM ring!!!!!!!!
This needs to STOP. No more killing our wild horses.
Stop the inhumane roundups
Use fertility control measures. Not archaic, brutal roundups, holding facilities or slaughter. DO BETTER. TY.
Please submit your comments to the BLM here: https://eplanning.blm.gov/Project-Home/?id=F8129444-CA5D-F111-BEC6-001DD8029ED0
Please stop the helicopters from trapping the wild horses that should remain free on the wildlands. Please find something different to down their population then rounding them up with helicopters. It’s not humane to chase them down with helicopters.
Please submit your comments to the BLM here: https://eplanning.blm.gov/Project-Home/?id=F8129444-CA5D-F111-BEC6-001DD8029ED0
The bottom line is, we built on their land and now we have the audacity to say that the horses are the problem? If that isn’t the pot calling the kettle black, I don’t know what is.
Please submit your comments to the BLM here: https://eplanning.blm.gov/Project-Home/?id=F8129444-CA5D-F111-BEC6-001DD8029ED0
A more humane approach to round ups is necessary. Too many injured horses. They are worth taking care of!
Horses are God’s creatures and do NOT deserve to be killed. Private livestock does NOT belong on our PUBLIC LAND and does WAY more damage to the land than horses who roam.
Please submit your comments to the BLM here: https://eplanning.blm.gov/Project-Home/?id=F8129444-CA5D-F111-BEC6-001DD8029ED0
This is unacceptable behavior by the government. You have had plenty of time to come up with a solution to this what you call a problem. We are the greatest nation on earth celebrating 250 years of Freedom and yet, you have no problem taking the freedom away from OUR wild horses. Billions of dollars going overseas to fraud, but we can’t figure out how to manage these horses. It is just lazy, kick the can mentality, meanwhile these beautiful, native animals are being terrorized, seperated, starved by our own people. This is not civilized behavior.
Please submit your comments to the BLM here: https://eplanning.blm.gov/Project-Home/?id=F8129444-CA5D-F111-BEC6-001DD8029ED0