NEVADA'S WILD HORSES an ENDANGERED SPECIES!
Nevadans are beginning to get a taste of how business is conducted in Washington, D.C., where politicians and bureaucrats manufacture the truth in order to implement policies not favored by their constituents. Such appears to be the case with former Congressman and current Governor Jim Gibbons' most recent appointment to lead the state's Department of Agriculture, a former sagebrush rebel named Tony Lesperance.
Lesperance appears to be taking the counsel of Don Alt, a local cowboy outlaw and liar who has on various occasions claims to own much of the eastern Virginia Range, regardless as to the fact that his claimed properties include public lands and sections owned by other individuals and entities.
The following news article appeared in the region's newspapers. Locals were astounded by both the number and depth of false statements that the article contained. Here is a reprint of an article that appeared in the Reno Gazette-Journal on April 11. These purported facts will be addressed point by point further on in this article.
NO MONEY TO FEED NAVADAS WILD HORSES
CARSON CITY (AP) Nevadas new Agriculture Department director says the state cant afford to buy hay to feed stray horses, although many of them may be starving in mountains near Virginia City.
Director Tony Lesperance also says that while people refer to about 200 horses in the Virginia Range as wild, they're mainly stray horses set free by their owners.
Lesperance told the Legislatures Interim Finance Committee that he will come up with a plan to remove many of the horses.
I am far more concerned about the decline of the Virginia Range as an environmentalist than I am concerned about those horses, he said Wednesday. There is a total loss of forage.
A 1997 law gave the Agriculture Department responsibility for managing the horses wandering the Virginia Range, mountains that run from near Dayton past Virginia City and the south edge of Reno. The stray horses run on state or private land. The U.S. Bureau of Land Management oversees wild horses on federal lands.
Assemblyman Tom Grady, R-Yerington, said he has been getting calls from people concerned about starving horses.
There are over 1,200 horses up there now and no feed for them, Grady said. Where are you going to get the money to buy hay for them?
Lesperance and Deputy Agriculture Director Rick Gimlin said it is not their intention to buy hay for horses. It costs about $4.60 a day to buy hay to feed horses, according to estimates made by the Agriculture Department in January.
It is a serious, serious problem. It is going to be dealt with, Lesperance said. We are going to bring the number of horses down as rapidly as we can.
He gave no indication on what plan for managing the horses he is considering, although he did say there is little public demand for adopting the horses.
In material given the committee, Agriculture Department representatives said they are concerned there would be picketing and demonstrations if they tried to auction off stray horses.
PLEASE sign this petition to tell Mr. Lesperance and the rest of the Nevada Agricultural Department, the Nevada Govenor and anyone else who will listen, the Ag Reps are right, ....there WILL be MUCH "pickiting & Demonstrations" if Nevadas Herds arent preserved and perserved PROPERLY. Let the beaurocrats know that Americans WILL NOT sit still while our wild horse herds are being declimated.
Just Say NO to Declaimation! Just say NO to NO MORE LIES! The horses are not a threat to the environment! You are using that for an excuse to get the wild horses off the range. The American Horse-Loving Community wont stand for it!
Horse-lovers, humanitarians, fair-minded people all over the world, look what they are doing to our American Wild Horses! Are we "OK" with this? I think NOT! Make your voices heard now! Sign the petition and make the calls. The Nevada horses need us now more than ever!
Here are the numbers to call:
Gov. Gibbons (775) 684-5670
Nev. Dept. of Agriculture: (775) 688-1180
Tell them WILD HORSE ANNIE & LEO HEIL told you to call!
Thanks!
Nevadans are beginning to get a taste of how business is conducted in Washington, D.C., where politicians and bureaucrats manufacture the truth in order to implement policies not favored by their constituents. Such appears to be the case with former Congressman and current Governor Jim Gibbons' most recent appointment to lead the state's Department of Agriculture, a former sagebrush rebel named Tony Lesperance.
Lesperance appears to be taking the counsel of Don Alt, a local cowboy outlaw and liar who has on various occasions claims to own much of the eastern Virginia Range, regardless as to the fact that his claimed properties include public lands and sections owned by other individuals and entities.
The following news article appeared in the region's newspapers. Locals were astounded by both the number and depth of false statements that the article contained. Here is a reprint of an article that appeared in the Reno Gazette-Journal on April 11. These purported facts will be addressed point by point further on in this article.
NO MONEY TO FEED NAVADAS WILD HORSES
CARSON CITY (AP) Nevadas new Agriculture Department director says the state cant afford to buy hay to feed stray horses, although many of them may be starving in mountains near Virginia City.
Director Tony Lesperance also says that while people refer to about 200 horses in the Virginia Range as wild, they're mainly stray horses set free by their owners.
Lesperance told the Legislatures Interim Finance Committee that he will come up with a plan to remove many of the horses.
I am far more concerned about the decline of the Virginia Range as an environmentalist than I am concerned about those horses, he said Wednesday. There is a total loss of forage.
A 1997 law gave the Agriculture Department responsibility for managing the horses wandering the Virginia Range, mountains that run from near Dayton past Virginia City and the south edge of Reno. The stray horses run on state or private land. The U.S. Bureau of Land Management oversees wild horses on federal lands.
Assemblyman Tom Grady, R-Yerington, said he has been getting calls from people concerned about starving horses.
There are over 1,200 horses up there now and no feed for them, Grady said. Where are you going to get the money to buy hay for them?
Lesperance and Deputy Agriculture Director Rick Gimlin said it is not their intention to buy hay for horses. It costs about $4.60 a day to buy hay to feed horses, according to estimates made by the Agriculture Department in January.
It is a serious, serious problem. It is going to be dealt with, Lesperance said. We are going to bring the number of horses down as rapidly as we can.
He gave no indication on what plan for managing the horses he is considering, although he did say there is little public demand for adopting the horses.
In material given the committee, Agriculture Department representatives said they are concerned there would be picketing and demonstrations if they tried to auction off stray horses.
PLEASE sign this petition to tell Mr. Lesperance and the rest of the Nevada Agricultural Department, the Nevada Govenor and anyone else who will listen, the Ag Reps are right, ....there WILL be MUCH "pickiting & Demonstrations" if Nevadas Herds arent preserved and perserved PROPERLY. Let the beaurocrats know that Americans WILL NOT sit still while our wild horse herds are being declimated.
Just Say NO to Declaimation! Just say NO to NO MORE LIES! The horses are not a threat to the environment! You are using that for an excuse to get the wild horses off the range. The American Horse-Loving Community wont stand for it!
Horse-lovers, humanitarians, fair-minded people all over the world, look what they are doing to our American Wild Horses! Are we "OK" with this? I think NOT! Make your voices heard now! Sign the petition and make the calls. The Nevada horses need us now more than ever!
Here are the numbers to call:
Gov. Gibbons (775) 684-5670
Nev. Dept. of Agriculture: (775) 688-1180
Tell them WILD HORSE ANNIE & LEO HEIL told you to call!
Thanks!
Wild Horses are the trees and flowers of the desert I see every day. Please leave them alone.
The wild horses are something I saw once when I was 4 years old and they made me feel 100% freedom now I have a daughter and I want her to experience a piece of America where everything is not owned, these animals are more then just wild horses they are a peaceful or inspirational sight.
Don't slaughter the horses. They are wild,free creatures of God. They are not a problem. Big business and wacky government control is the problem.
Love horses,don't kill them.
shame!!!!!
TO TOny Lesperance: I am shocked,disgusted and angered that you think you can just kill whatever you think is a problem. I will and everyone I know will not be visiting NEVADA ever again if the wild horse herds are declimated!!
These animals will only survive so long. The human race needs to find another way to satisfy its needs for food, profit, or whatever?
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2:19 am PDT, Apr 12,
Celia Russell, United Kingdom
I think wild horses should be forever free. People are already obsessed with taking control of everything and this is just another example. Some have a fear of the natural world and this leads to massive disrespect. Wild horses are a symbol of freedom, courage and beauty, all things that politicians and those sort of people shrink away from. Just let them live their lives for once, I'm so sick of them taking control of EVERYTHING!!!!!!!! |
These horses are a part of our heritage. We already lost alot of our past by bulldozing and pollution. Why make it worse? In a hundred years our kids and grandkids will look back and say 'what were they doing?' Wild horses will just be a legend to them. Just stop the madness; let the horses live like they always have. I'm ten years old, and I think taking those horses away from their home is wrong.
What kind of country is the United States if we can't save wild horses--the very symbol of freedom and history? What does this say about Nevada, which could promote wild horses as a draw for tourists but instead plan on destroying the wild horses population? It's the same kind of lamebrained thinking that has our country sinking into the muck and mire. Use your brains and see the potential that the beauty of wild horses gifts to the state of Nevada.
It is about time that this country grasp the severity of how wild horses are being mismanaged. Tony Lesperance is in a position to better the integrity of our country with respect to the way we treat the wild horse. The solution to the problem of wild horses is not slaughter. "MANAGEMENT" is the solution.
Save the Nevada's horses. They need protecting.
This has to stop now
in these times its both sad and diss hearting to see amrecia wild horses being wiped out and destroyed wild horses are a symbole of are nations freedome it is sicking to know this is happen to these beautiful animals
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6:51 am PST, Feb 25,
Kindle Gonzales, Texas
wild horses are part of our history, & beauty! its totally wrong to ignore, or destroy the history and animal spieces that belong here and are part of our world. GIVE THESE HORSE BACK THEIR FREEDOM & SAFETY TO ROAM. |
I feel that the BLM need to account for there actions Not with Lies, but with giving the WILD HORSES back the ranges that are there to start with. It makes more ecological sense to have the horses on this land then the cattle. The horses don't look like there starving to me and there would certainly be more pasture for horses with less catle there. There would be far less dry grass to worrie about fires as well.
Get all the politics out of this and just let the wild horses roam free
help please horse
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