Int’l Fund for Horses announces March for Wild Horses

March for Wild Horses. Wild Horses Galloping Image by Richard Wear / Fine Art America.

Every year since 2009 the Int’l Fund for Horses has selected a horse protection issue, to zone in on and give critical focus to, for the entire month of March. March campaigns in the past have been March Against Horse Slaughter (twice), March for Mustangs, and last year’s March for PMU Horses.

This year we have chosen the wild horse and burro issue, and are putting together several never-done-before campaigns. They are both bold and innovative.

These campaigns will require intensive lobbying in Washington DC. Your contribution is critical to making March for Wild Horses successful. We are not only talking donations here, but also your calls, faxes, letters, networking on social media and protests. We cannot stress how important it is for you to be active.

Naturally, we cannot give you too many details, as that would give the game away, but it will involve BLM funding, investigations and public lands management friendly to all wildlife.

Our March for Wild Horses campaigns are designed to be bipartisan so that what we ask will be appealing to both Republicans and Democrats.

However, if we do not get the desired response in a timely fashion to our March for Wild Horses, we are preparing to file a class action lawsuit against the federal government regarding fraudulent spending of taxpayer dollars.

Are you ready? February is a short month so we are just weeks away. Ken Salazar will be glad he left.

You can start helping right now by donating to March for Wild Horses.

Thank you!

Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar pauses during a Senate Committee hearing in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

WHAT DR SEUSS MIGHT SAY ABOUT AMERICA’S WILD HORSES AND BURROS

I do not like this, Uncle Ken,
I do not like this BLM.
I do not like these dirty crooks,…
or how they lie and cook the books.
I do not like when Congress steals,
I do not like their secret deals.
I do not like their blatant lies,
I do not like their secret ties!
I do not like this round-up spree —
It’s not just killing horses, it’s killing me!

by Tom Gaile, printed with permission by author

DONATE TO MARCH FOR WILD HORSES

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Image of Wild Horses: Richard Wear / Fine Art America.

Lobbying for wild horses

Twin Peaks Mustangs by Linda Hay

Get lobbying with us in Washington.

WILD HORSES AND BURROS

Secretary of Interior Ken Salazar needs to go. I think we can all agree on that. Word is Salazar is seeking a private sector job and will be out as early as the end of the year, and at the very latest before President Obama is inaugurated for his second term in January.

That leaves the burning question, who will replace him. Our choice is Rep. Raul Grijalva. Read more here >>

However, Washington State Governor and Democrat Christine “Chris” Gregoire may also be an advantageous choice for our wild ones in that she has shown a friendly eye toward horses and favors a ban on horse slaughter.

Gregoire served as the director of the Washington Department of Ecology from 1988 until 1992. While Ecology director she negotiated a three party agreement in 1989 with the Environmental Protection Agency and the Department of Energy to clean up waste at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation. Later, as attorney general she sued several times to try to get a more adequate cleanup job.

During a general election in 2004 she made the surprisingly forthright statement that she would “blow past the bureaucracy” and bring change herself. Gregoire would have plenty of bureaucracy to “blow past” with the renegade Bureau of Land Management who is mowing down one herd of wild horses and burros after another in their relentless destruction of this beloved American icon.

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Please make a donation to ensure our horses have the strongest voice possible in Washington.

We cannot stress too highly just how important it is that we make a lot of noise on behalf of good candidates and against the negative candidates nominated for the crucial position of U.S. Secretary to the Department of the Interior.

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Thank you for your wonderful support.

Obama whispered ready to fire Ken Salazar

PHOTO CREDIT: MANDEL NGAN / AFP / Getty Images.
Obama and Salazar in happier times. Word has it from the Obama camp he intends to fire Salazar, but he has promised this before.

Whispers from the Obama camp say the President may be ready to fire U.S. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar.

Who would welcome that more than wild horse and burro advocates?

Obama has hinted at ridding his administration of Salazar before, but it came to nothing.

Not long ago, Republican Presidential candidate Mitt Romney called for Salazar’s head on a plate, but that was all to do with energy issues.

For horse lovers, it is about America’s iconic mustangs and burros.

Energy and environmental issues are probably highest on the list of most U.S. citizens when it comes to Salazar. However, the heat has been on from the time Obama took office when cruel, escalated, costly and deadly roundups by Salazar’s rogue federal agency, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), began decimating what is left of America’s wild horse and burro herds.

During the Obama administration, citizens have continually flooded the White House with phone calls, faxes and emails, first asking, then pleading with the President to stop all roundups and investigate the BLM. He has even had thousands of wild equine advocates send in questions during social media based Question and Answer programs. Nothing.

Recently leading wild horse activist R. T. Fitch flew with his wife and a colleague to Washington D.C. and hand-delivered to an Obama staff member over 15,000 letters* calling for the President to take action to protect America’s wild horses and burros.

Obama has ignored it all, and refused to take any sort of action to stop the destruction of these federally protected equines.

Perhaps the latest revelations that the BLM are directly or indirectly sending wild horses to slaughter through its so-called sale authority has been the long-awaited, worked for and prayed for catalyst to get Obama to fire Salazar.

Particularly devastating in one report is that a known slaughter horse trader working out of Salazar’s home state of Colorado tried to raise money through Interior Secretary’s brother to open a horse slaughter plant to dump them in.

It also hurts the Obama Administration that the President signed a bill into law that allows horse slaughter to return to U.S. soil, although it was an important budget bill that he could not line veto.

For America’s wild horses and burros it cannot come a moment too soon for Obama to say, “Ken . . . you’re fired.”

Now is the time to put on even more pressure. Please keep working.

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* If I do not have that number right, I am sure someone will correct it. Thank you. –Ed.