NO TO CATTLE IN WILD HORSE & BURRO COUNTRY!

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THE PRESIDENT OF THE U.S. & THE BUREAU OF LAND MANAGEMENT

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Currently, the BLM Livestock Grazing Program encompasses 214 million acres of rangeland. Approximately 80 million of those acres were designated "principally" for wild horses & burros. Due to ongoing removal policies, wild horses & burros have been completely removed from millions of acres of land originally intended as their habitat (six states have lost their ENTIRE wild horse populations!) and now they range on only 34 million acres of federal lands where they are vastly outnumbered (200-1) by private livestock. Currently, there are approx. 28,563 wild horses and burros roaming on these lands, in contrast to 7,488,055 privately owned cattle permitted to graze there also. Still, it is the wild horses and burros that the ranchers are blaming for the rangeland being over-grazed. While the government rents the rangeland to the private ranchers at about 1/10 of the market-rate, administration of the Livestock Grazing Progam COSTS the tax-paying public over $130,000.000 dollars per year to manage. Meanwhile our government and the BLM, encouraged and supported by the private interests of the ranchers, have embarked on a systematic removal policy for the wild horses and burros that is designed to insure their extinction! We sign this petition in DEMAND that ALL grazing permits be REVOKED on the rangeland designated for the wild equines, and that the $130,000.000 dollars a year used to manage the Livestock Grazing Program be used to EXPAND, manage and KEEP the wild horses and burros FOREVER on our public lands for all the Nation and future generations to enjoy. NO MORE PRIVATE GRAZING ON OUR WILD HORSES PUBLIC LANDS! NO TO CATTLE IN WILD HORSE & BURRO COUNTRY!

* cat·tle: Any of various chiefly domesticated mammals of the genus Bos, including cows, steers, bulls, and oxen, often raised for meat and dairy products.
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Click link below to read more about the privatization of our public lands. Its an old article but nothing has changed or the better, only worse.

http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1G1-12514447.html

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We signed the "NO TO CATTLE IN WILD HORSE & BURRO COUNTRY! " petition!

# 265:

9:30 am PDT, Jul 3, Natali ME, Virginia

# 264:

3:39 am PDT, Jun 28, Name not displayed, New York
IT'S TIME FOR AMERICANS TO STAND UP AND REQUIRE FULL DISCLOSURE ON ALL OUR POLICIES! ITS NOT JUST OUR HERITAGE BEING SOLD DOWN THE RIVER, OUR COUNTRY IN ALL FACETS IS. GIVE UP THAT PIGGISH SUV,FORGET THE OIL BARRELS AND BRING BACK THE HORSES! FOLLOW THE MONEY TRAIL AND SHOW US FACTS, ALL OF THEM RIGHT DOWN TO WHO OWNS THE CATTLE. THESE HORSES AND BURROS ARE OUR TRANSPORTATION, THEY DON'T NEED OIL OR GAS TO RUN! WAKE THE HELL UP WILL YOU!?!

# 263:

5:36 pm PDT, Jun 8, Norman McIntosh, Oregon
I own breed and train Kiger Mustangs. They have proven to be the best horses I have worked with and on. As a Biologist I am mindful of the fact that through our breeding efforts with plants and animals we have frequently encountered bad outcomes requiring a return to original genetic stock. The Mustang is such a resource. We have great good and bad history with our surrounding lifeforms. We even thought Native Americans were not humans and thus could be killed without violating the laws of man. The days of poor drought stricken cattlemen needing pasture have long gone, we need to remove the cattle from public lands once and for all. Permafrost remains demonstrate the existence of horses on the North American continent so I'm not convinced that all the horses in the wild are the result of European conquest of this land. The Wild horse needs protection, the feral horse does not.

# 262:

9:52 am PDT, May 30, Judy Breech, Ohio
The land is designated for the wild horses and burros end of the story... KEEP the cattle OFF !!!! if the ranchers cant feed them then sell them . Don't try to take land thats for are wild horses..

# 261:

12:15 pm PDT, May 25, Sandra LaCoss, Indiana
It is Despicable what this country has allowed to happen to our most PRECIOUS AMERICAN ICON, OUR MAGNIFICENT WILD HORSES!! OUR WILD HORSES SHOULD BE PROTECTED AT ALL TIMES. THE CATTLE DO NOT NEED EVERY SPEC OF LAND THERE IS. The American people are finally realizing that the cattle do not graze up high where the wild horses graze. LEAVE OUR MOST PRECIOUS HORSES ALONE. THEY HAVE MORE RIGHTS TO THE LAND THAN THE CATTLE DO!!

# 260:

9:56 pm PDT, May 24, Elizabeth McKenna, Arizona
Considering that several cattle can damage land far more than any hundred mustangs as many people seem to be unaware, we need to make our voices heard. BLM biologists and others involved in the planning and implementation of round-ups and 'research plans' to remove mustangs from BLM land claim that horses are damaging the land. Hmm...it doesn't sound right does it? I live near quite a bit of BLM land, as well as areas where wild horses roam free, and I must say that the land the cattle graze upon is much more desacrated than the land the wild horses are found on. People need to know this and the facts surrounding the rental of BLM land to rich cattle ranchers. All who have read this petition need to further research this and they will inevitably find that this issue is very political and that is the only reason we are here today needing to sign this petition. Politics; oil, money, and greed is the only reason that these arguments are even going on. If we could remove these issues from the equation, wild horses will roam free, and cattle ranchers will be made responsible for their actions and business without the need to harrass wild horses and the lands they roam on. Stop allowing cattle to graze on BLM land, and horses and burros will thrive and roam free as they are meant to.

# 259:

9:25 pm PDT, May 14, Jenny Vegan, United States Minor Outlying Islands

# 258:

4:37 pm PDT, May 11, Robyn Reichert, Florida
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# 257:

1:20 am PDT, May 11, Christine Coleman, South Carolina
THIS IS OUTRAGEOUS. We are sick of politicians who are being bought by rich contributors, then taking their side at any cost.

# 256:

7:58 am PDT, May 10, Becky Wagar, Canada

# 255:

5:14 am PDT, May 7, Bogdan Kovacev, Macedonia, The Former Yugoslav Republic Of

# 254:

10:53 am PDT, Apr 28, Deb Rosen, New York

# 253:

12:55 pm PDT, Apr 26, JAMES SULLIVAN, Illinois

# 252:

4:27 pm PDT, Apr 20, Name not displayed, Massachusetts

# 251:

1:50 pm PDT, Apr 20, Robin Wright, Alabama
Well-to-do ranchers pay next to nothing per acre for grazing. The government rounds these horses up and spends thousands trucking some of them around the country for adoption or auctions. This is wrong and typical of big bureaucracy in that it makes no sense at all and is done because that is how it’s been done for the last 100 yrs. It’s cheaper for no cattle leases and spending money on the horses only for programs to geld the stallions.

# 250:

8:23 pm PDT, Apr 19, Marjorie Jonasson, New Jersey

# 249:

2:02 pm PDT, Apr 19, CK Yoe, United Kingdom

# 248:

12:02 pm PDT, Apr 19, Forever Barbick, Illinois
By letting these privateky "owned" cattle graze on those designated lands you are helping to starve an entire population of wild horses and burros. These animals deserve to live the way they were born, and have their land protected from grazing cattle from ranchers that should be able to rpovide thier own grazing lands for their own animals. This is a complete outrage and something needs to be done about this now!

# 247:

8:48 am PDT, Apr 19, Erin Russell, Washington
The land is designated for the wild horses and burros that should be the end of the story. Ranchers are complaining about overgrazing then they need to get their animals off of it so that the rightful animals have enough to eat and survive off of. The extinction of wild horses and burros would be a terrible loss to the American people considering what a major part they had in this countries history. They need to be preserved for future generations to enjoy.

# 246:

7:41 am PDT, Apr 19, Name not displayed, Nevada

# 245:

6:58 am PDT, Apr 19, Barbara Rizza, Nevada
Please stop leasing the land to the Cattle Barrons! America's Wild Mustangs and Burros need the land and it is rightfully theirs! What is this nation coming to when we can't even preserve and protect the very icons who helped make it what it is today! Please leave their land alone!

# 244:

12:40 am PDT, Apr 19, Julia Tawyea, Pennsylvania

# 243:

10:37 pm PDT, Apr 18, Name not displayed, Ohio

# 242:

9:17 pm PDT, Apr 18, Mari Dickson Jung, Wisconsin
The power the subversive BLM gives to ranchers is disgusting. The BLM was theoretically incurred to protect wildlife. They now have the reputation for destroying wildlife via mustang round-ups, buffalo hazing and hiring Western Services to shoot wolves, coyotes, and mountain lions from helicopters. The Department of the Interior could not be more corrupt...

# 241:

8:45 pm PDT, Apr 18, Christine Van Boening, Idaho
As the owner of two mustangs I urge you to allocate more land to the wild horse and burro populations. These animals are magnificent reminders of the freedom that we enjoy in this nation. Please protect them!

# 240:

8:13 pm PDT, Apr 18, Desiree Dorsey, Pennsylvania

# 239:

9:09 am PDT, Apr 6, Linda McKinnon, California
In looking at your site I am disgusted to see how the horses and burros are treated. I was just at Death Valley a week ago and saw a small herd of 6 burros. I was thrilled and mentioned it to the camp host. He also wanted to see them and filled me in on how the NPS had shot hundreds in the past. I have called 2 rescues and left messages as to where I saw them. If they don't want them at pplleeeeze treat them humanely and allow rescues.

# 238:

1:39 pm PDT, Apr 3, Name not displayed, Florida

# 237:

3:31 pm PDT, Apr 1, Asia Garcia, Pennsylvania

# 236:

2:20 pm PDT, Mar 26, CAROL SOCHOCKI, Tennessee

# 235:

11:06 am PDT, Mar 26, Ginger Geronimo, Alabama

# 234:

10:40 pm PDT, Mar 23, Gail Dair, Australia

# 233:

2:49 pm PDT, Mar 22, Maria Dixon, Spain

# 232:

7:05 am PDT, Mar 19, Brian Carnes, Texas

# 231:

12:13 pm PDT, Mar 13, Name not displayed, New York

# 230:

6:05 pm PDT, Mar 12, Noelle Pfiefer, New York

# 229:

12:23 pm PDT, Mar 12, Christina Tabacco-Weber, New York
The only ones who benefit from grazing livestock on public land are the people who own the livestock. Certainly the benefit of cheap grazing is not past onto the consumer! It is a disgrace that this still continues to this day! Once again it proves how the government is run by a powerful few with the intentions of keeping it that way. Stop this practice now! Leave the wild equines alone! Just because I live in NY does not mean I do not want part of my country left UNTOUCHED and WILD which includes the wild animals who belong there. There are national parks here in NY and they are the best thing about living here. The horse and burro are just as big a national symbol of the USA as the bald eagle. Where would human history, let alone the history of the USA, be without these noble, long suffering, animals? STOP LETTING PRIVATE LIVESTOCK GRAZE ON PUBLIC LANDS!

# 228:

9:30 pm PDT, Mar 11, Darlene Davis, Michigan

# 227:

5:44 pm PDT, Mar 11, Suzanne Hart, Canada

# 226:

5:45 pm PDT, Mar 10, Name not displayed, North Carolina
It's all got to be balanced. What ever it takes.

# 225:

5:44 am PDT, Mar 10, Natalie Van Leekwijck, Belgium

# 224:

9:35 pm PDT, Mar 9, Shirley Lofton, Louisiana

# 223:

2:08 pm PDT, Mar 9, Becky Visco, Texas

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1:25 pm PST, Mar 8, Mary Orbison, New York

# 221:

8:37 am PST, Mar 8, Aron Mihai, Romania

# 220:

4:16 am PST, Mar 8, Philippe Ducreux, France

# 219:

5:33 pm PST, Mar 7, Stela Vasques, Portugal

# 218:

8:09 pm PST, Mar 5, PipperLea Nicol, Canada

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1:31 pm PST, Mar 5, Liz Turner, New York

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11:00 am PST, Feb 29, Tarrasa Gariepy, Texas

# 214:

10:12 am PST, Feb 29, KATHY ALTER, New York

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2:39 am PST, Feb 29, Maria Pevere, Italy

# 212:

2:53 am PST, Feb 28, Sandra Stubbs, Delaware

# 211:

7:37 am PST, Feb 27, Jade Jandeska, Illinois

# 210:

1:22 am PST, Feb 26, Nicolas BELLEUDY, France

# 209:

3:01 pm PST, Feb 25, Cassandra Coleman, Washington

# 208:

10:36 pm PST, Feb 24, Lisa Buchman, Idaho

# 207:

6:28 am PST, Feb 22, Name not displayed, Colorado

# 206:

11:13 pm PST, Feb 21, TAYLOR WEIDNER, Colorado

# 205:

3:04 pm PST, Feb 21, Aileen O'Brien, Louisiana

# 204:

6:54 am PST, Feb 20, Molly Carson, New Hampshire

# 203:

10:56 pm PST, Feb 19, Theresa Schmersey, Kansas
Wild horses and burros are as much a part of our national heritage as the bald eagle. How can we,as Americans,allow these beautiful horses to be neglected and slaughtered, so that wealthy ranchers, with a lot of clout, can write their own rules,and take away the habitats of the wild horses and burros. Wild horses deserve their place in history, and they deserve to live free on their land.

# 202:

6:56 pm PST, Feb 19, Marie-Rose HECKMANN, France

# 201:

8:15 pm PST, Feb 18, Geneviève Pieroni, France

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