Gather includes site of Madeleine Pickens’ proposed sanctuary rejected by Abbey
Cross-posted from the Elko Daily Free Press
Written by ADELLA HARDING
ELKO — (Jan. 28, 2011) The Antelope Complex Gather in Elko and White Pine counties is “going great,” said Lesli Coakley, public affairs officer for the U.S. Bureau of Land Management’s Elko District.
“We couldn’t ask for better weather,” she said, reporting 167 wild horses had been gathered through Thursday in White Pine County. There have been no horse injuries in the early days of the roundup that started Sunday.
The gathering started out in the Antelope Herd Management Area in the Ely BLM District and then moves to Elko County, including the herd management area involved in the ranch property Madeleine Pickens bought in hopes of creating a wild horse sanctuary.
BLM Director Bob Abbey said late last week he was rejecting a proposal from Pickens to create the sanctuary on two ranches she bought south of Wells, a decision the Humane Society of the United States criticized this week.
“The BLM claims that it wants to engage in public-private partnerships, but if the agency refuses to work with a private partner as passionate and creative as Madeleine Pickens, it begs the question: With whom can this agency work?” said Wayne Pacelle, president and chief executive officer of the Humane Society of the United States.
Humane Society wildlife biologist Stephanie Boyles said Wednesday the Pickens plan is the “most promising proposal” for a partnership. “I really hope the BLM will reconsider and come back to the table with Madeleine. That would be a huge step toward solving the wild horse problem.”
The BLM plans to round up between 1,917 and 2,278 horses from in and around the Antelope Complex during the course of the gathering. Read more >>
OMG !!! Now we have Leslie sugarcoating round ups , there is never a round up that goes well !!!!! There are only needless round ups………………………………. How can they,????? There will always be Helicopters , blowing dirt , rocks at a tremendous speed into the faces of Our Wild Mustangs needlessly, noise scaring them half to death…. so whos the Round up going well for?????? the Bureau of Morons………. Just what does a Good round up consist of for them??????
Somone please do the math! BLM said the foundation’s claim that the BLM will spend $85 million to remove 10,000 wild horses from public lands this year is false. It says the BLM budgeted $65 million total, including $37 million to care for horses in long-term and short-term facilities, $7.7 million to gather animals and $6.8 million to adopt out horses and burros . We are talking $65 million dollars a year of taxpayer dollars. They are just wasting yours and my tax dollars on this cruel and inhumane treatment and destruction of our Treasured Wild Horses.
Boyles says;
“That would be a huge step toward solving the wild horse problem.”
I don’t think there is a wild horse problem per se but rather a BLM/Government problem and their despicable need to destroy nature to further the nations wealth.
And its not just horses, they control all of the indigenous animals on the land. A harsh reality of what humankind really is and their malignant manipulation of the earth.
No wonder we are in crisis.
Question: How can BLM go onto private land without the owner of the private lands permission??? Mrs. Pickens owns much of this land and it is now private land – not public. So, how it is that BLM can go onto or over private land to round up horses that the law would probably say now belong to the private land owner? I am certain she did not give them her permission. Would then this be BLM again breaking the law of the land. They say that horse advocate cannot go on private land to watch roundups unless we have the owners permission, as they apparently do, yet they can go where ever they damn well please and take what they want and do horrendous cruel damage to the horses and the herds on that PRIVATE LAND????
Smells to high heaven to me! Where are our American Constitutional freedoms? And don’t tell me to go read the Constitution and its Amendments because I have a full copy here along with all the background information that went into the making of the Constitution which I purchased in Washington DC at the National Archives where I also saw the actual Constitution and I have read all of it. Where are our legal minds and supposedly upholders of the Constitution now?
I would love to get into a helicopter and chase the BLM, cattle industry and anti horse people and run them through all kinds of weather, over rock beds etc for miles on end. The barbaric treatment of horses needs to end. I used to believe in karma, but now I am not so sure. The BLM needs to let Madeline take these horses onto her PRIVATE PROPERTY where they will be cared for and can live like they were ment to. I am heartbroken about the treatment of all horses.
The round up is going well–the weather is good and there have been no horse injuries. Of course BLM would say this. Federally protected horses that belong to the people of the USA have been removed from federally designated rangelands against the wishes of the people of the USA–and removed to where? Somewhere you (the owner of the horses) are not allowed to go. So you have paid a federal agency to destroy your wild herds–and you will pay a farmer to feed said horses on his ranch/farm–and the animals disappear into the BLM black hole. But the weather was good…. and the horses are gone…..