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Save Wild Horses!
UPDATE November 18, 2008: the U.S. Bureau of Land Management, in charge of maintaining wild horse herds and taking care of captive wild horses, has decided to delay decisions about killing horses in captivity. Read on to get the background information, or go directly to the "comment" at the bottom of the blog to get the full update. TAKE ACTION by signing an online petition to save the captive horses and better manage the wild herds.
Date: 11/17/2008 4:42:08 PM ( 16 y ) ... viewed 3325 times please SIGN THE PETITION, and/or write your U.S. Senators, U.S. Congressional Representative, and Pres. Elect Obama to ensure that wild horses are not killed. Blessings, Liora
TAKE ACTION:
EASY: SIGN THIS PETITION "DON'T KILL OUR WILD HORSES"
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/266046279?z00m=15674424&s_kwcid=wil...
AN EASY WAY TO WRITE TO YOUR REPRESENTATIVES: go to the Petition site above and copy and paste what the petition says into your email. simple, and you don't have to "reinvent the wheel" when writing your reps!
to contact your U.S. Senators, go to this website:
http://www.senate.gov/general/contact_information/senators_cfm.cfm
to contact your U.S. Representative, go to this website:
https://writerep.house.gov/writerep/welcome.shtml
to contact Pres-elect Obama, go to this website:
http://www.change.gov/page/s/yourvision
| From Deena Metzger Wild Horse Population Threatened by Proposed U.S. Government Action |
| A decision on the fate of thousands of Wild Horses, known as mustangs, is expected TODAY, Monday, Nov. 17, 2008, when the Bureau of Land Management's National Wild Horse and Burro Advisory Board meets in Reno, Nevada. | |
| How To Make Your Voice Heard TODAY The Bureau of Land Management's National Wild Horse and Burro Advisory Board will meet TODAY (Nov. 17th) in the Reno Ballroom at the Silver Legacy Resort Casino, 50 E. Fourth Street in downtown Reno. The meeting runs from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. and is open to the public. Email board administrative assistant Ramona DeLorme at Ramona_DeLorme@blm.gov. Please use the identifer "WH&B" in the subject of the message and include your name and address in the body of the message. She can also be reached at 775-861-6583. |
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Wild Horses Appear Headed for Extermination The government is proposing that the Bureau of Land Management should implement euthanasia as a tool in handling wild horse populations. The BLM is the government agency tasked with overseeing the country's wild horse population. That means that the 30,000 wild horses now in goverment custody (more than are left in the wild) may soon be eradicated. The wild horses, already threatened by other Bush Administration actions, are drastically endanger by this "cost cutting" measure. A century ago, there were around 2 million wild horses roaming the West; now the BLM wants to cut that population to 27,000. |
| How You Can Help NOW Please get in touch with President-elect Barack Obama, as well as your representatives and senators, and let them know that extermination of wild horses is unconscionable and that Congress should take a hard look at exactly why so many wild horses have been rounded up in recent years. Incidentally, Obama was a backer of the anti-slaughter legislation that Congress passed a couple of years ago which shut down the country's three remaining, and foreign-owned, horse rendering plants. This legislation was passed by a huge margin, thanks to a massive grass-roots campaign. The original law, the Free-Roaming Wild Horse and Burro Act, was signed in 1972. This announcement is edited from a blog by Deanne Stillman, whose extraordinary book Mustang (Houghton Mifflin 2008) was endorsed by Deena Metzger. |
Deanne Stillman on Wild Horses |
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Deena Metzger | P.O. Box 186 | Topanga | CA | 90290 |
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