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28 years old
Greenville, SOUTH CAROLINA
United States
Last Login: 2/28/2008
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YOU CAN NOW MAKE DONATIONS!! If you are interested in donating money please do so on paypal to wildhorsefoundation@hotmail.com if you do not have paypal then simply contact us through our email on here and title your email "donations". Your donation will go to helping our horses stay off the french dinner tables!! If you would like more information then please don't hesitate to contact us, such as where your money goes specifically and all of that. Any donation will help!
Please join our brand new group here! It's going to be a great place for open discussion in saving our beautiful mustangs!
Some Facts:
*In the 19th century, more than 2 million wild horses roamed the West, today, less than 25,000 wild horses remain on public lands.
*Although, over 4 million head of private cattle enjoy subsidized grazing on public lands. More than 200,000 wild horses and burros have been removed from public lands since 1971.
*The BLM plans to remove another 10,000 by Fall 2006.
*The current removal policy is costing over 39 million tax dollars a year.
Summary of history to current day:
In 1971, more letters poured into Congress over the threat to our nation’s wild horses than over any issue in U.S. history, except for the Vietnam War. And so Congress unanimously passed the Wild Free-Roaming Horse and Burro Act, declaring that “wild horses and burros are living symbols of the historic and pioneer spirit of the West; that they contribute to the diversity of life forms within the Nation and enrich the lives of the American people; and that these horses and burros are fast disappearing from the American scene.” The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) and the U.S. Forest Service (USFS) were appointed to implement the Act. Most herd areas are under BLM jurisdiction.
Fast-forward thirty years: in 2001, after decades of failed herd management policies, the BLM obtained a 50% increase in annual budget to $29 million for implementation of an aggressive removal campaign; in 2004, the 1971 Act was surreptitiously amended, without so much as a hearing or opportunity for public review, opening the door to the sale of thousands of wild horses to slaughter for human consumption abroad.
The current situation is the result of a long history of failed policies, land allocation issues, and an intricate money trail. The BLM and the USFS, among others, are responsible for managing the nation’s public lands and are foremost the managers of wild horses and burros. Their responsibilities also include issuing public land grazing permits to cattle ranchers. These grazing permits cover limited areas of public land that are available for lease. So, for every wild horse removed from a grazing permit allotment, a fee-paying cow gets to take its place, and a public land rancher gets the benefit of public land forage at bargain rates. This is the number one reason wild horses are removed from public lands.
The 1971 Wild Free-Roaming Horse and Burro Act mandated that wild horses be managed at their then-current population level, officially estimated by the BLM at 17,000 (three years later, BLM’s first census found over 42,000 horses). To the horses' detriment, both sides agreed to allow the government to manage wild horse populations at that “official” 1971 level. Eleven years later, a study by the National Academy of Sciences found BLM’s 1971 estimate to have been “undoubtedly low to an unknown, but perhaps substantial, degree,” given subsequent census results and taking into account the horses' growth rate and the number of horses since removed. But the damage had already been done; management levels had been etched in stone, and processes for removal of "excess" horses were well in place.
The fact is that the 1982 National Academy of Sciences report and two General Accounting Office reports have countered key points in BLM's premise for its current herd reduction campaign. These government-sanctioned documents concluded that: (i) horses reproduce at a much slower rate than BLM asserts, (ii) wild horse forage use remains a small fraction of cattle forage use on public ranges, (iii) “despite congressional direction, BLM did not base its removal of wild horses from federal rangeland on how many horses ranges could support,” and (iv) “BLM was making its removal decisions on the basis of an interest in reaching perceived historic population levels, or the recommendations of advisor groups largely composed of livestock permittees.”
From over 2 million in the 1800s, America’s wild horse population has dwindled to less than 25,000. There are now more wild horses in government holding pens than remain in the wild, with many of the remaining herds managed at population levels that do not guarantee their long-term survival. Still, the round-ups continue.
Over the past thirty years, federal law enacted by the people on behalf of their wild horses has been ignored. No strategic plan to keep viable herds of wild horses on public lands was ever developed.
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Please know, I am in no way affiliated with the wild horse prevention organistation, If you would like more information please visit: http://www.wildhorsepreservation.org/
I am here because I hope that I can inform others to take action on this crisis, if nothing is done, then nothing will change and just as a genocide we will see these beautiful animals vanish right before our eyes. If you don't want that just as much as me please don't hesitate to do something, or contact me for help. Thank you for your time.
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