End the Roundup and Slaughter of Sheldon Horses Now!

  • by: Susan V
  • recipient: Interior Secretary Sally Jewell and US Fish and Wildlife Service

As Americans celebrate the contributions or warhorse have made in battle last week, America is turning its back on The Sheldon Horses of Nevada, whose ancestors were used in battles since WWI.


As operator of the Sheldon Refuge since 2010, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, has captured and sent hundreds of Sheldon horses to Mississippi middlemen. Worse, middle man Stan Palmer of Pelahatchie, MS had been compensated nearly $1 million by the government to dispose of these horses.

Just this fall over 200 horses were sent to Mr. Palmer, and they have since been seen leaving his property by truckloads very likely on their way to slaughter.

The money the government is spending to dispose of these horses would be far better spent on their survival.

In honor of December 13’s National Day of the Horse, we demand that the relocation and slaughter of these horses stop immediately.

We, the undersigned, believe these horses that are an important part of our heritage and ecosystem should be preserved and that government monies being paid to exterminate them should be used instead to support their habitat.

Not only are the horses healthy and thriving on this refuge, but the land is as well, says American Wild Horse Preservation. The refuge gives us a picture of what our public landscape could look like without livestock grazing. “Lush and beautiful, the Sheldon ecosystem is healthy and robust and forage is plentiful.”

Despite the reciprocal benefit between the horses and the ecology, the refuge adopted a “Conservation” plan in 2012 that would eradicate the horses and burros within five years. But now the plan has been fast-tracked to removal of all within two years, and just last September a horrendous helicoptor stampede began this final solution.

Although the removal to Palmer was supposed to be part of an adoption plan, it was discovered in 2012 that this was a laundering scheme. Despite that discovery, the US Fish and Wildlife Services contracted with Palmer again, and horses have held in his processing corals and kept off-limit to public observation.

American Wild Horse Preservation says that as of October over 15,000 citizens have called, emailed and faxed Interior Secretary Sally Jewell urging her to stop FWS service from turning horses over to Stan Palmer.



We join the thousands in this request to end this slaughtering of Sheldon horses and burrows now!

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