The atrocities committed by the BLM against our wild horses and burros are flagrant and noxious, and too many to list here.
Horse advocates together with wild horse and burro experts have been calling for a moratorium on these roundups for many months so that Congress can investigate the mismanagement of our wild horses and burros. The BLM are directed by an Act of Congress to protect our wild horses and burros, not abuse and destroy them.
The BLM has ramped up the gathers of wild horses and burros, secretly moving one scheduled for August 2010 in the Buckhorn herd area of Northern California/Nevada to the middle of December 2009 with no windbreaks or shelters in place leaving captured mares and their foals exposed to freezing wintry conditions.
Now, not even two weeks later, the BLM begins this immense roundup of wild horses in the Calico Complex in Nevada, housing them on private land where the BLM can hide the suffering and death they will inflict.
There can be absolutely no trust left in this agency charged by Congress to manage this living icon of the American Spirit. An outraged American public should contact President Obama and DOI Secy Ken Salazar and demand an immediate halt to these roundups and to conduct a full investigation into the BLM for unlawful and corrupt practices.
President Obama > White House Switchboard > 202-456-1414
Department of Interior Secretary Ken Salazar > 202-208-3100
I’m no great fan of the government, but you should get your facts straight and try to contain your emotions. This article is not fit for publication.
But are not this struggle and even the mistakes one may make better, and do they not develop us more, than if we kept systematically away from emotions? ~Vincent Van Gogh
Carlo ~ What facts do you think aren’t straight in this article. I’ve been quite close to this situation for a long time, and I didn’t see anything in this article that I don’t know to be true.
As for emotion, there are times when emotion is called for and this is one of those times.
Thank you, Suzanne. The information contained in this article were gathered and reported by the most trusted names in wild horse documenters supported with eyewitness accounts, photographs and video recordings. Insofar as emotion, why should there not be outrage in the face of such suffering and destruction? Is it because animals are involved and they are not deemed worthy, and such sentiments be reserved for human tragedy?
I am so angry with Secy Salazar. When will our President Obama do something about the illegal actions made by The BLM. Who owns the land that the BLM is using to torment our wild horses and burros? Call law enforcement to arrest these criminals. STOP THESE UNLAWFUL ROUNDUPS!!! SAVE OUR MUSTANGS!!!
The BLM, Salazar and all of them who have conspired to murder our horses are a national disgrace and have betrayed the American people.