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Another Proposed Wild Horse Roundup Submit Comments By April 2!
Government proposes removal of more than 1,000 horses in Wyoming,
claiming 1.7 million acres can only support 1,165 horses
Please send the e-mail at the bottom of this page by April 2 to submit comments to the Bureau of Land Management (BLM). The BLM is continuing its business-as-usual roundup of wild horses. The latest proposal is to remove more than half of the 1,950 wild horses on 1.7 million acres of Herd Management Areas in southcental Wyoming.
This is the beginning of the BLM%u2019s process to remove wild horses in the Adobe Town and Salt Wells Herd Management Areas in Wyoming. It%u2019s important that we submit our comments now to oppose this newest proposed assault on wild horses.
The BLM claims that the Adobe Town Herd Management Area encompassing more than 472,000 acres can only have 610 to 800 wild horses and the Salt Wells Herd Management Area comprised of nearly 1.2 million acres can only sustain 251 to 365 wild horses.
Please submit your comments today with the form below. Protest against another massive Obama Administration wild horse roundup. Public comments must be submitted by April 2, 2010.
https://secure2.convio.net/ida/site/Advocacy?pagename=homepage&page=UserAction&id=1421&AddInterest=1028
The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) has been found repeatedly to arbitrarily set Appropriate Management Levels (AMLs) for wild horses. The BLM's contention that approximately 1.7 million acres in the two HMAs can only sustain approximately 1,165 horses is questionable.
The proposed massive removal of wild horses and burros from the Adobe Town and Salt Wells HMAs and the warehousing of these animals in government holding facilities violates the intent of Congress and the will of the American people that our wild horses be managed on the range in a humane and minimally-intrusive manner that preserves their wild and free-roaming behavior.
As a result, I urge the field offices to consider the following measures to improve management of the wild horses in the Adobe Town and Salt Wells HMAs:
* Re-evaluate and increase the AML for wild horses for this 1.7 million-acre area;
* Utilize the BLM's discretion under 43 C.F.R. 4710.5(a) to close or limit livestock grazing in the HMAs and/or or designate this area to be managed principally for wild horse herds under 43 C.F.R. 4710.3-2;
* Offer any ranchers grazing livestock in the HMAs the option to retire cattle grazing allotments or convert cattle grazing allotments to wild horse allotments to promote ecotourism activities;
* Implement and expand the current proposal of fertility control treatments to allow more horse to remain on the range;
* Implement range improvements and water enhancements that will benefit all animals, including wildlife and horses, living in the HMAs.
Further, any environmental assessment conducted for this capture plan must include objective evaluation of the above mentioned items, as well as a detailed economic analysis of the long- and short-term costs associated with the capture, removal and warehousing of these horses, and a full consideration of the impacts of capture, removal and warehousing on the horses taken from the range as well as those remnants of horses left behind.
Please use this opportunity to implement a humane and progressive management program for the Adobe Town and Salt Wells mustangs and reject the plan to massively round up and warehouse these majestic free-living animals.
Sincerly,
we, the Petition Signers
