HERE IS THE UPDATE I RECEIVED TODAY 11/26:
Thank you to everyone who voiced outrage over the Fish and Wildlife Service’s (FWS's) dumping of 250 wild horses captured from the Sheldon National Wildlife Refuge in Nevada on a slaughter middleman in Mississippi.
Due to thousands of calls and emails from AWHPC supporters to Senators on the Energy and Natural Resources Committee, which has oversight over federal wildlife refuges, the FWS scheduled a special briefing for Capitol Hill staff specifically on this issue earlier this month
Last week the FWS was scheduled to conduct an on-site inspection of the middleman, Stan Palmer of J&S Associates, and our allies on Capitol Hill are pressing the agency to 1) visually confirm the current location of all horses sent to Palmer; 2) positively confirm, via microchips, the identify of all Sheldon horses placed by Palmer; 3) establish third party oversight by bona fide rescue groups over J&S placement of all remaining Sheldon horses.
We will keep you posted on this developing situation, but wanted to thank you for helping us elevate this to the attention of the Senate Energy and Natural Resource Committee. This attention will help us in our longer-term effort to stop Sheldon from eradicating all of the historic wild horses and burros on refuge lands.
