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Adobe Town Family
Stop the BLM from Destroying 5 Wild Horse Herds in Wyoming By Carol J. Walker
The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) has released a Scoping Document with a 30 day public comment period on 5 of the largest wild horse herds in Wyoming:
Adobe Town, Salt Wells Creek, Great Divide Basin, White Mountain and Little Colorado.
I have been visiting, observing and photographing the wild horses in these 5 herds since 2004.
The BLM claims that these herds are “overpopulated” even though they completed a roundup of three herds, Adobe Town, Salt Wells Creek and Great Divide Basin only 2 years ago. The last roundup and removal in White Mountain and Little Colorado was in 2011.
The BLM provides figures of their wild horse population estimates in these 5 herds using a flyover and a statistical double-count method, and one of the new changes is that now any horse over the low range of AML is considered “excess” – this is not how an excess determination is made. For example, the BLM says there are 929 wild horses in Adobe Town and the AML is 600-800, so the actual “excess” is only 129 horses not 329. This change does make a difference and is the creative math that the BLM uses to justify their actions. They are also now counting foals which they have never done before in their population estimates. This allows them to pad their counts and justify a roundup.
The population estimates for these 5 herds swing wildly and unbelievably from year to year. Basing the need for a roundup on the BLM’s figures is absurd. There is a need for an actual count of wild horses to be done in EVERY HMA by an independent agency. Without that, it leaves the BLM open to distort their statistics any time they want to justify “excess” horses to do a roundup.
| Herd Management Area | Adobe Town | Salt Wells Creek | Great Divide Basin | White Mountain | Little Colorado |
| Nov. 2019 | 929 | 745 | 1069 | 391 | 411 |
| March 2019 | 994 | 766 | 1096 | 401 | 412 |
| March 2018 | 767 | 576 | 791 | 284 | 408 |
| March 2017 | 820 | 835 | 650 | 265 | 367 |
| March 2016 | 1037 | 728 | 670 | 321 | 396 |
| March 2015 | 602 | 117 | 199 | 241 | 259 |
| October 2014 | 519 | 29 | 91 | ||
| March 2014 | 624 | 251 | 831 | 194 | 104
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| March 2013 | 520 | 686 | 527 | 88 | 246 |
*October 2014 immediately follows the Checkerboard Roundup, BLM posted these figures on BLM WY Facebook page
**roundups of Adobe Town and Salt Wells Creek and Great Divide Basin in the winter of fall of 2014 and fall of 2017, a roundup of Adobe Town and Salt Wells Creek in the winter of 2013
Here is the online BLM site for all the documents on this plan:
White Mountain Family
Here are the alternatives that the BLM has come up with to manage the wild horses in these 5 areas:
- Gather and remove excess wild horses and apply PZP (porcine zona pellucida) or Gonna Con fertility control vaccine to a group of mares that will be released back into the HMAs. Establish a 60% to 40% male to female ratio within the HMAs.
- Gather and remove excess wild horses. Spay a group of mares and neuter a group of studs that will be released back into the HMAs. Apply PZP or GonaCon to the remaining mares released back onto the HMAs.
- Gather and remove excess wild horses, without conducting any population growth suppression activities.
- No Action – Do not conduct any gather or removal activities, and do not conduct any population growth suppression activities.
The only acceptable choice is number 4, No Action. The BLM likes to throw as many possible things together as possible. Birth control has never been meaningfully used or studied in these areas. Treating a handful of mares every 4 – 10 years then removing the mares that have been treated does not give using PZP birth control any sort of chance to work at maintaining or slowing population growth. In 2010 the BLM treated 39 wild mares from Adobe Town and 60 wild mares from Salt Wells Creek with PZP. In 2013, 40 wild mares were treated with PZP and released into Adobe Town. Many wild mares who were removed during this roundup were marked as having received PZP in 2010. No birth control was used in the 2014 Checkerboard Roundup of Adobe Town, Salt Wells Creek and Great Divide Basin. In 2017, no birth control was used in the roundup of Adobe Town, Salt Wells Creek and Great Divide Basin. Again, many mares with markings from having been treated in 2010 and 2013 were removed.
I am strongly opposed to any type of surgical sterilization of wild horses. The method that BLM has been wanting to use on wild mares, ovierectomy via colpotomy is dangerous, cruel and inhumane. Thousands of members of the public as well as members of Congress and over 80 veterinarians have spoken out against the use of this method of spaying: https://www.thecloudfoundation.org/comments-and-articles/2019/6/8/blm-resurrects-cruel-plan-to-sterilize-wild-mares
Gelding stallions should not be a part of this analysis. The death rate for gelding wild stallions can often be as high as 5%. And the effect on both the gelded stallions and on the social and behavioral structure of the herd and family bands can be extremely detrimental. If you remove what makes wild horses wild, a very large degree of that is their family and society structure, then you are destroying wild horses.
Gonacon is a birth control treatment that has not been sufficiently tested on wild horses. There is currently a study of Gonacon use on wild mares going on in Theodore Roosevelt National Park. It has not been studied sufficiently to rule out sterilization or dangerous side effects such as stillborn foals. The effect of the use of Gonacon on social behaviors of wild horses has also not been sufficiently studied.
Skewing the sex ratios of the horses in the herds can have an extremely detrimental affect on wild horses and also has not been studied scientifically. In nature, wild horses exist in about a 50% mares to 50% stallions ratio. The BLM thinks that if they change the ratio to 60% or more stallions to 40% or less mares then the birth rate will grow less. What happens instead is there are more bachelor stallions, smaller families, more aggressive fights between stallions where mare and foals are injured. The stability of the family band becomes disrupted and I have observed this in the McCullough Peaks Herd in Wyoming where they skewed the sex ratio 66% to 33% in 2009.
If birth control must be used in these herds to limit population growth then PZP is the only choice – it has been studied for over 40 years being used on wild horses and since it can be delivered by dart in the field or in a pen using bait trapping to capture the horses instead of dangerous and costly helicopter roundups it is by far the most humane option.
Salt Wells Creek Family
This plan for removing and experimenting upon wild horses in these 5 Herd Management Areas is discussed in this document as a multi-year plan, meaning the BLM would like to only allow the public to comment once even though the BLM will then continue these actions without any public input. They have not done this in the past for these 5 herds.
The BLM must prepare an Environmental Impact Study, EIS, for the roundup and removal of wild horses in these 5 herds due to the breadth and scope of the project. It will span 10 years and impact 3.5 million acres of our public lands with inhumane roundup, removals and experimentation on our wild horses. Using a Environmental Assessment, EA, here instead of an EIS is counter to NEPA. There is extreme public interest in these actions, and strong public opposition to inhumane sterilization experiments also warrants the preparation of an EIS.
The plan to remove 2,702 wild horses from these Herd Management Areas in Wyoming is wrong, and adding these horses to the 45,000 wild horses currently in BLM Holding Facilities is outrageous. These horses should be managed on our public lands where they live. After the 2014 Checkerboard Roundup, when the American Wild Horse Campaign did a FOIA request for the deaths of wild horses, in just a couple of months over 75 horses died, and that did not count the foals that died before being freeze branded. Helicopter roundups and stockpiling wild horses is cruel, dangerous, life-threatening and very expensive to the American taxpayer.
https://www.wildhoofbeats.com/news/death-toll-mounts-from-blms-wyoming-wild-horse-roundup
The plan to remove 2702 wild horses from these 5 herds and then experimenting on and sterilizing the wild horses that remain is the BLM’s endgame for America’s wild horses. We must oppose this plan and save our wild horses.
Please comment in your own words by December 20, 2019 on this proposed plan.
Some points I would suggest you mention:
-The correct alternative is the NO Action Alternative.
-The BLM must prepare on EIS for this project given the scope and public opposition.
-Do actual counts of wild horses using an independent agency.
-Opposition to spaying wild mares, gelding stallions, chemical vasectomies and the use of Gonacon.
-Opposition to skewing the sex ratios of the herds.
-Manage these 5 herds on public lands where they are found.
-If birth control must be used, use the proven, humane, PZP.
Please make your comments by the end of the day, December 20, 2019.
You can submit comments through the BLM website:
You can also email comments to: blm_wy_rsfo_wildhorse_hmas@BLM.gov
And send them by mail to:
BLM Rock Springs Field Office
High Desert District
Multi-Year Wild Horse Gather
280 HWY 191 North
Rock Springs, WY 82901
Great Divide Basin stallion
212 Comments
Pls listen to our voices .. leave our wild horses and burro alone and let them b wild and free in OUR public lands.
Ty
-The correct alternative is the NO Action Alternative. Those wild horses were here before you or I and the cows they share land with. They are a part of American History. Why do humans always feel the need to destroy landmarks and beautiful creatures?!
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Please leave these wild horses AND burros alone to live in peace!!!!!
Please leave our wild horses alone that we the people that pays taxes alone.
Do not kill these animals.
They deserve to live. It is not even ok to think about killing these animals.
They were here long before us and we like our Western US free.
Thank you and, thank you for the research. I’ll use it along with other that I find.
I’ll donate $100 if everyone else does to hire the best attorney firm in the Country to fight the BLM an stop this B/S it’s our land to begin with
I will help with attorneys fees
Thank you that will be very helpful. I will post where to donate once the lawsuit is filed.
I’ll donate towards attorney fees as well. This must be stopped.
Please leave our Wild Horses alone. They are part of our heritage and are National Treasures. They have a right to remain Free and Wild !
– Victoria Williams
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Leave the wild horses to roam free. They don’t deserve this kind of treatment.
Wild horses in Wyoming are unique to the area…unfortunately cattle ranchers carry way too much clout in eradicating the horses. Raising cattle in Wyoming is like pounding spa square peg in a round hole, as cattle are not indigenious to the area. Cattle were brought from Europe and the cattle men have been FORCING them on the land since the 1700s.. Taylor Grazong Sct initiated in the 1030s set up the welfare rancher program subsidizing ranchers. More Eco sanctuaries in Wyoming like the Deerwood Ranch is a positive solution for wild horses. Revise the Taylor Grazing Sct to reduce cattle from destroying public lands, which belong to the WILD animals, including horses.
if you want to destroy the grasslands, just put cattle on them and take away the wild horses. The way they eat improves the grassland (horses) or turns it into a desert (cattle).
As a concerned horsemen… I feel our government is going to far in the destruction of these herds of Mustangs. These numbers are small enough and are not in any way a threat to the cattle or other wild species. Please hear what we have to say about what is going on with these herds. OUR PUBLIC LANDS are just that… PUBLIC! If we need to have a petition signed with millions of signatures to support the mustangs being kept on these lands then so be it… we can manage that. This issue is as important as the fight for the Bald Eagle as the mustangs have been and still are important to many NATIVE AMERICAN CULTURES !!!! What has been done to these horses in the past under the rights of the BLM is horrific. People would like to adopt them when the auctions come however the cost for a trainer and for board is for many out of the question. We the People can pay if need be to keep these horses where they reside in their natural habitat. There has to be another way to help these incredible symbols of AMERICA other than destruction !!!! Thank You!
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Please stop destroying are wild horses. They are part of our history and need to be around for our childrens futher.
YEs let them be free and wild and not kill any of them!
I am with u these wild horses. and burros deserve. to live wild n free like they have for many years now please leave them alone n let them live
Please leave our wild horses alone. They are part of nature and a wonderful asset to the country side.
Please keep these beautiful animals safe! They have been a part of our heritage for so long & deserve freedom!
Carole Powell if any active wild horse sanctuaries exist in WY and have dependable people who can move to 160 acres just nw of Casper (to be there to care for and look after the horses, burro, etc.), please friend me and contact me
BLM listen to anyone?? NOPE NOT IN YEARS. CHECK IT OUT TRUMP TOLE THEM GET RID OF THE WILD HORSES AND , BUFFALO, WOLF AND ALL LIVING THINGS ON RANGE AND RYAN ZINKIE IS STILL DOI9NG IT FOR HIM TOO. HE WANT TO DRILL MORE OIL WELLS. HE WANTS TO GET RID OF NATIONAL FOREST AND NATIONAL PARKS AND EVEN DRILL OIL IN GRAND CANYON AND RUIN WATER IN IT AND THE BEAUTIFUL PLACE IT IS TOO. HE HAS PLANNED IT SINCE BEFORE IN OFFICE.. HE WANTS OIL NOT ANIMALS HE HATES ANIMALS AND SAYS SO ALL THE TIME ON TV IS YOU SAW HIM DO IT.. I DID ENOUGH TIMES, HE ADMITS HE HATES ANIMALS NONE IN WHITE HOUSE IS THERE!!! IS HE THERE MUCH NOPE IN FLA. ON HIS PLACE WE HAVE TO GUARD AND IN HIS CONDO AND WHERE HE WANTS TO GO WE SPEND SO MUCH ON WHAT HE OWNS AND WANTS TO GO STAY AT IT IS AWFU $$$$ EXPENSE WE COULD FEED MANY PEOPOLE AND HELP SO MANY HOMELESS AND POOR PEOPLE.
These horses belong to all Americans. Past. Present. And future. 1971 many were given land to protect them. Today ranchers for greed want to destroy the horses. It must stop. Preserves must be set up and be protected and safe. Ban on slaughter of horses and sale for slaughter must carry penalties. Save the horses today fir future.
These roundups are inhumane, unjust and unnecessary. FIND A WAY TO COEXIST. The BLM should be looking out for the wildlife population, not terrorizing and mindlessly killing it off. These horses, their herds are their family and no living creature has the write to take that from them, harm them, cause them anguish, panic and undue stress. This is a violation and as a species of higher learning we must protect these animals. Not harm them. Right is right but this is wrong and must be stopped.
I am becoming more ashamed to admit that I am a citizen of the USA, Our government needs to just stop with the removal of ANY & ALL Wild Horses & Burrows from all PUBLIC LANDS.
NOT 1 time has anyone asked ME not 1 question about what they have been doi g or going to do, I AM a member of said PUBLIC that the lands belong. I say STOP & leave then ALL the hell alone forever. This is for every horse & Burrow , in the USA !!
These horses are very important to Americans’ Their safety & freedom are a national treasures! We feel that cattle ranchers should buy ranches! The fact that some or any of these horses are terrified by helecopters, & trapped & some are sold for slaughter is not acceptable ????. We do not want to pay for this way of managing the wild horse population! Sincerely Elaine Mancini
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Please stop this absurd path…we have worked with the BLM in the past in regard to wild horses…we took them. Trained them and used many in our dude string..I had one that was the best saddle horse rver..roping riding and giving lessons. Adoption, education and responsibilities dible use…
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We adopt them when we can .why caint you put them someplace else .we have alot of land that is not used .or using .check each state .stop hurting our plant animals .we are trying to stop our animals from disappear ing .cattle ranchers need to find there own land .this world has enough room for us all and God takes care of population.the cycle of life .please leave them .cattle people find your own place .your just about money .they are about extigtion.if what we say don’t matter …why ask us ?.but thanks for thought ,I guess. Save them ..God takes care of his own .not you .we don’t weed out humans and kill ,and spayed ,or nutered…or do we .
What are you thinking BLM? These beautiful animals should be left allow. Held the stallions. Leave the nest alone to breed. I have three mustangs wonder horses.
The blm just needs to do a better job. This inhumane spaying of mares is dangerous, especially when there is no anesthesia used to perform this invasive procedure. Blm, you need to do better! Its appalling, you’re appalling! Do the right thing.
Is this even a land of the people for the people anymore? These horses were here far before us yet the government thinks they should stick their hands in everything even if it’s against the wishes of the majority. Our country is ran by some sexist, money driven pigs. Pull the left string of the Trumpet (Trump puppet) & he yells profanity, pull the right string and he agrees to any bill. Animals just “gained their rights” in our country, I don’t think they would like to be removed from the place they have called home forever. Would you?
America’s wild horses have been betrayed by BOTH political parties.
ps the BLM ppl seem to know absolutely nothing about how horses and cattle eat and interact with the grasslands……and the US is paying them money?!?!? Hire me…i’ll work for less than these guys, and i actually know how the grasslands and animals function!
Well well well , I think it is time to do the same to the people who are doing these, Tables turned people and now you are in the HOT seat! Let’s do this to your herd and see how you like it, Mmmmmm or or we can seperate you out and diminish your population. You guy’s just don’t get it, the land’s belong to the Wild horse’s and other Animals, MAN! was the one to come in andn take over and push them out, and for what space for whatever they want! This is all because cow’s are more important than saving Our History, If it was’nt for Horses, none of what they had back would have ever been! Horses are still a major part, take them out, and you mess with the Balance of thing’s, but of course None of you care about that, Oh why you ask, because you don’t live in the Wild, Maybe you should! You can learn a lot from Not just Horse’s BUT ALL Animal’s. Final thought, just remeber what you do today, WILL affect you later down the road, and KARMA will be the biggest part of it!
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PLEASE LEAVE OUR WILD HORSES ALONE. THEY ARE ALL THAT’S LEFT OF OUR HERITAGE. PLEASE DON’T LET MONEY BE YOUR GOD……. GOD MADE THESE ANIMALS TO BE FREE.
This has to stop! There is no reason for removing these herds. It’s a waste of taxpayer money.
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Stop killing leave our wild horses on the land set aside for them , do not believe the lies being told be the government, horses harm no one . In God’s name I pray .
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I think that the horses should NOT be gathered. If there is going to be a choice I pick number 4. No Gather. If there is going to be any kind of Burth control I would go with the least traumatic and humane PZP method. Please leave OUR Wild Horses Alone. Leave them FREE where God has put them. They are Wild animals and should be protected as other wild animals are.
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This is UNACCEPTABLE
I am so disgusted with this plan…
Please leave all these animals alone.the wild horses and burros have a god given right to be free… where is your conscious…. your sense of Morality!
You are no better than Vick’s, torturing these sacred and majestic animals.
Please do the right thing… you k ow deep in your heart that this plan is disastrous and cruel!
Please respect them and our voices in pleading for their lives.
Remember God is watching you…
Thank you,
Connie Grasso
There has to be a better, more humane way about this. The horses have more rights to be on Public Land than cattle!! Let ranchers graze their cattle on their own land!! That would solve everything. Leave natural predators to keep nature in balance.
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This is a senseless waste of tax payers money. It is cruel to harm innocent animals. We are better than this. You are ruining one of the most sacred treasures in the world.
Please stop.
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Stop these horrific roundups by BLM! We the public are against all of what BLM is doing……when will you listen to us??? These beautiful wild horses and burros don’t deserve this……they are icons of the west and belong free as they have always been and know! It’s all about greed between BLM and thecattlemen!
Stop these horrific roundups by BLM! When will you listen to us, the public? These beautiful wild horses and burros don’t deserve this ……they are icons of the west and belong free as they have always and know. It’s all about greed between BLM and the cattlemen and it’s wrong! So so sad!
BLM needs to leave the wild horses alone. Nature has controlled the horse’s survival for generations and controlling the environment without human intervention.
Leave them roaming our lands for our enjoyment and for generations to come.
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…Horses went extinct in North America between 13,000 and 11,000 years ago, humans brought them back to North American in the 1500s….
Its absolutely awful what they doing to these beautiful horses. It makes me so sad the destruction of the horses and American history. This need to stop now. What are you people thinking. You are not it’s all about the mighty dollar. I been following them for years and I love them . The beauty is just amazing to see them free and they are absolutly stunning. So stop this.
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Please leave our wild horses alone. They have a right to be free as they are a protected species. Herds are being completely wiped out or their numbers brought to a point that the herds are no longer self-sustaining. I grieve for my great-grandchildren and future generations who may never have the chance to see wild horses as they should be: FREE! What will you tell yours when they want to see them? Please reconsider this vote. Vote for the horses.
The wild equines should be left free. The BLM should be disbanded due to their destructive methods of mananagene. The BLM is NOT for the equines but are in the pockets of GREED. I do not want a penny of my taxes used to support this insanity. Stop this assault on wildlife.
The BLM is corrupt, out of control, serving special interest groups who have financial gain as their motive. The ASPCA and the HSUS should never have backed this travesty, and have lost support of the true horse community. I stopped my automatic monthly donations to them for their short sightedness, and failure to understand the big picture behind the BLM actions. They are charged with protecting our wild horse herds, and they are doing just the opposite. Are they that ignorant, or have they simply sold out the horses?
Stop killing wild horses & interfering with nature. No birth control either. It is wrong! How do you justify all of this?! Listen to the people.
This is a senseless waste to k8ll these animals. Spend the money & sterilze them. They are on public land. The public says stop!
Mo the brutal Slaughter of these Majestic animals is vile and disgusting. It is just the ranchers who want more and more land to graze their cattle Etc. Birth control of horses has been known to work and my question is why are they not willing to do this. Running these horses into the ground buy a helicopter closest Tim great pain and suffering. Little Colts have been known to have their legs broken during this horrific Air Attack on them. This is akin to the inhumane gunning down of wolves in Alaska via planes and helicopter. Pure bloodlust buy greedy self-seeking Ranchers. When in fact they could learn to live together if they would use more Humane methods. These horses were here before the cows Etc. Greedy Ranchers have to learn how to share the land to annihilate all these horses is against God and nature.
Control of herds is critical for them to survive and not starve, BLM must create a humane way to protect and preserve these historic herds to remain in their Wild Territory. Tagging and releasing for PZP Birth Control is working.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/adventure/features/environment/wild-horse-management-options/
Please STOP THEDE HORRIC ACTS AGAINST THESE BEAUTIFUL ANIMALS THAT HAVE DONE NOTHING TO ANYBODY BUT WANT TO RUN FREE
This is senseless, barbaric , and outlandish! Destroying our planet for pure greed! They wild horses have roamed these lands for many years and for humans to cone in and wipe them out? Clearly the ones that need to go are the humans
The only moral choice is to leave the wild horses alone. Stop selling our public land for private owners to use.
Geld some Stallions, but leave them alone to be free, no animal in the world’s history has served mankind more than the horse.. They are part of American Landscape. Please let them be. We have been asking for years, as China, Mexico and Canada slaughter our precious horses.
please stop the slaughter. the horses role in our construction and wars are not respected to the level that they contributed. their roles were important. we owe them this small moment in time for peace. they deserve their freedom. it’s not our place to deny them that. we should be ashamed
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Leave these beautiful, natural horses alone. This is beyond to cruel to destroy them .
Leave the horses in peace !! Protect the land !! They’re born free .
Please do as Carol asks: submit your comments, using her well researched information above, to the BLM, by letter or by email before December 20th, this coming Friday. Although I know your comments are appreciated here, they are useless unless the BLM hears directly from all of us here. Hopefully we , together, can turn the tide and thwart this evil plan.
Nothing represents our environment or enhances it more than horses, and while were all fixated on global warming we must consider as bad as oil is it likely will not be available in less than 100 years. Then what? None of our pie in the sky, or Green New Deal plans consider only oil is portable and therefore perfect for personal transportation. One argument for the consideration for Wild Horses must be the potential need once more for horses in the survival of mankind. Large numbers of genetically unmodified hurds must remain to safeguard against disease and the option that that day may someday arrive when horses once again pull wagons. unless the BLM knows of an oil replacement.
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The BLM and Land Management are a evil part of our government and have been for many many years. They think nothing but clearing off the lands of our Beautiful historical Wild Horses who have with government permission roamed freely on our land. These beautiful creatures have done nothing wrong..they take care of their families and protect their herd. They do not destroy the land they live on it is the cattle and sheep that the government wants on their land that destroy it. WHY….FOR THE LOVE OF MONEY..DIRTY MONEY…FOR THEIR OWN POCKETS…NOT TO PROTECT THE LAND (which is their job) BUT TO DESTROY IT THEMSELVES. iT IS SICK…THEY ARE SICK..THE GOVERNMENT FOR ALL THESE YEARS THESE 2 DEPTS. ARE CORRUPT AND EVIL AND IT SEEMS NO ONE CAN STOP IT. They could if they really wanted it but the Cattleman ASSociation are Greedy and WANT TO KEEP THEIR POCKETS FULL..THEY HATE THE WILD HORSE…MONEY IS THE ROOT OF ALL EVIL AND THE BLM AND BUREAU OF LAND MANAGEMENT AND THE HEAD OF THESE DEPTS. ARE TOTALLY EVIL…GO TO HELL IS WHAT YOU DESERVE. KILLING GOD’S CREATIONS IS A GRAVE SIN..
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Plz leave God’s Magnificent creatures alone. Man wants to destroy everything !!!!!
All these Wild horses and donkeys should be giving their freedom and go wild on public lands. It’s their rights and are a great symbol of the great USA.
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Please stop killing tgecWildcHorse herds of America!!!
Please stop choosing cattle leases money over wild horse freedoms!
Please realize that killing wild horses is not your job!!!
Please stop terrorizing these beautiful creatures with your barbaric
Helicopter round ups that injure, mane, and kill these animals!
Please listen to the outcries of people other than cattlemen!!!!
Please consider the wild horses have value to the equine gene pool!!’
Please find another way to control wild horse populations than to kill the horses!!!
Please stop appointing these profit-oriented Cattlemen to panels given the right to decide how the wild horses will be disposed of!!!!
Please listen to us, horse and donkey advocates, who beg you to stop this madness that will kill our beloved animals!!!
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They’re free and wild…..leave them that way! They were here first!
I’m so sad and grieved to even imagine our land without our beautiful wild horses. They are so beautiful yet so tough! They are truly amazing given to us by God to admire and take care of them ❤️???????? I believe no action should be taken to remove them from the wild only exception would be to use humane, proven PZP birth control. The people, tax paying citizens should have a say so in this, not a handful of cattle ranchers. I pray that God intervenes in all of this and puts this ridiculous mess to rest????♥️
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The BLM get money from our taxes, The Cattle ranchers and to send OUR wild Horses to slaughter, it cost the tax payer 50,000 dollars a year to have horses in holding pens. I do NOT want my tax dollars to go for the killing of wild horses, and I really don’t want to pay the devil disciples( THE BLM) the BLM is robbing the American people, their playing God when God creatures take our money and killing off what make America beautiful, and wild horses are an icon for the U.S.A
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This needs to stop it’s barbaric all animals have the right to roam the land.
Magnificent animal, how can they kill them, what is wrong with our society?
Stop killing these beautiful Creatures (Horses) they have a right to live just like u and me …There are SPIRITS of the wild …If they die we Die….STOP…..PLEASE!!!!!!!
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There is no answer to WHY that could ever be reasonable or right. This is just WRONG, WRONG, WRONG!! Greed and plundering of resources are the real reasons these magnificent animals are under a death sentence. Despicable and unAmerican. Shame on the BLM and the American Government that is so shortsighred
and run by robber barons.
Why would God make these beautiful creatures ? NOT FOR MANKIND TO DESTROY. Stop this now.
So sad that this is all about money! They were here before we were! Funny how humans are systematically destroying everything God gave us. These beautiful animals were instrumental in forming this country. And all so the fat cat ranchers can let their precious cattle graze on land that we all pay taxes on. I’m disgusted and speechless but I will find out which of my representatives voted in favor of this and they will not get my vote on Election Day!
To: blm_wy_rsfo_wildhorse_hmas@blm.gov
-The correct alternative is the NO Action Alternative.
-The BLM must prepare on EIS for this project given the scope and public opposition.
-Do actual counts of wild horses using an independent agency.
-I am adamantly opposed to spaying wild mares, gelding stallions, chemical vasectomies and the use of Gonacon. 80 veterinarian associations oppose this cruel experimentation on horses. It amounts to felony animal abuse and needless deaths.
-I am opposed to skewing the sex ratios of the herds as this disturbs the natural behavior of existing family bands and may cause compulsory reproduction.
-Manage these 5 herds on public lands where they are found as mandated by Congress. These herds are beloved by photographers and tourists from around the world; they generate tourism dollars into Wyoming’s economy.
These wild horses are supposed to be preserved for perpetuity and protected from capture, branding, harassment, and death. This proposal is in violation of the FRWHBA because it proposes sterilizations, castrations, sex skewing, etc. that will cause the extinction of these beloved herds which are already below genetic viability. I don’t want my tax dollars used to destroy America’s last remaining wild horses on Public lands for special interests. Wild horses in the wild cost taxpayers zero, mitigate wildfire fuel, and replenish grasses. To remove them is detrimental to the Great Basin Public lands and violates the wishes of the majority of Americans who are all stakeholders in the Management of our Public lands.
Denise Smith
Taxpayer
US Citizen
Hi Denise,
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These lands belong to the taxpayers not the cattle industry and I don’t concent to you using my taxes to destroy the most beautiful creatures in my country. I don’t even eat beef. The more people that boycott the beef industry and hit them in the pocket then they will have to listen BOYCOTT BEEF
They took everything away from the Native Indians why should they care for horses. I would like to be standing next to them when they face God and he asks them why they killed his horses. The cattlemen’s have no right to demand all of the grasslands for their greed. God help us all for we could be next. Just like what happened in Germany
Please leave them alone!! They belong to us the American people! Key them be free, they’re our living history! LET THEM LIVE FREE!!
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Blm people have no concepts of eco systems! Those horses are very important! It may sound disturbing. But with out a balanced circle of life there are issues…horses keep lands clean, the can eat and stop plants that can be dangerous, and for livestock…stop lerting catylw on ranges.if lazy ranchers cant kerp their cattle on the land they own then maybe they shouldnt raise cattle…i come from a eanching family and would never let out cattle destroy public land and effect wild life.not including without the normal food chain , you take out horses, deer, and others those predators have no other options but to eat beef! And if you take out predators it leaves the land open for more disease and other harmful illnesses to their cattle- pink eye, hoof and mouth, and so much more…its all distructive.these natural animals. Have a way to keep the land balanced, ranchers should be respectful and concerned about the only ones they are hurting are themselves…your beef are sick before going to aution thats why thousands of cattle are murdered just to have infected meat recalled by thousands of pounds!! Im very educated in veterinary medicine and ranching personally..stop being so stupid and fix the problem by crwating balance there are by far way less horses than sick range cattle..quality not quantity should be considered !!! Git them cows on their owners property and leave them horses alone!!! Its killing the preservation of our future…
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Leave them alone. That is there home. They deserve to be free and live. Man kind is taking away all of the animals habatats! Thats theirs not ours!
This is totally unthinkable!! How could you abandon the promise of protection given in 1971?? These horses are ancestors to ones the helped build America with their labor and companionship!! These are America’s Horses that are our LAST true example of Freedom!!
Do what American Tax payers want!! Not Big Business, Ranchers or Oil companies!!
These horses deserve protection.. NOT desecration!!
Do Your Job!!
We Are Watching!!
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These beautiful animals deserve to roam the him lands as much as the cattle the ranchers let loose on the lands. Cattle destroy the eco system way more than the horse does. They tear up the land and eat everything up. These horses deserve our protection. BLM land belongs to the people of America anyways not just cattle ranchers and the people need to b listen to. These horses didn’t do anything !!!
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NO let them Be !!! Public Land ! America’s Horses , they have a right to be free . Nature will take it’s course if they aren’t disturbed by man . Cruel Helicopter round ups , sterilization, and experiments , the BLM in Cahoots with the Cattle owners who want this land to graze their cattle on . On Behalf of the beautiful Mustangs of America We say NO !
Our wild horses are our legacy . Destroying them will destroy our future generations ever knowing what a wild horse truly looks like or why they are here. These horses do not hurt anyone they are not aggressive nor mean in any way and it’s not right or humane to experiment and destroy helpless wild horses who can not defend themselves except by running from their predators. So I SAY No to this BLM destruction eliminating our wild horses.
Please let the wild be wild. They were here before us & deserve every chance to live free. Let God & Mother nature take care of them. All humans do is kill & destroy. Haven’t we had enough of that?
Do NOT continue this decimation of our wild horses, you assholes.
BLM,please stop removing and killing our wild horses and burros from the range.They have been there for hundreds of years and managing to take care of themselves they do not need to be removed.Please stop this before its to late,they are supposed to be protected and from what i have seen this is not happening and they are being mistreated and slaughtered.Please stop sending them to Canada and Mexico to be used for meat. Thank you!
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NO NO NO…. Stop destroying part of America’s legacy…!!!!!
Leave our Wild Mustangs for future generations…
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This nonsense and waste of our taxpayer money needs to stop. They have a right to live as we all do.
Please, please do NOT go forward with this large gathering of our horses and burros.
These wild animals are a part of our History that needs to be preserved. The gathering is not humane an destroys families, even injuring an killing many.
Our wild mustangs are our legacy..stop destroying that..do not destroy them so ranchers can put their cattle on it..who was there first..
Please leave the wild horses and burros live in peace and nature.
Stop abusing our world of nature….
I would love to know how many of you would adopt a wild mustang, care for it, train it and “save it” from the BLM. If you leave them to over populate, they starve and die. Now the public has an outcry about that. The birth control shot is hardly that effective. You know what is? Adopting out all the horses in holding pens so more can be brought in and the range can remain healthy to support the future generations. It’s only $125. And thru the TIP program that Mustang Heritage Foundation created (and the BLM funds) , you can adopt a gentled one. But no, I don’t hear anyone trying to DO anything. I bet the BLM would happily adopt out the entire range of horses to a land owner wanting to house and feed them so they don’t starve to death. Or let them die of natural causes. I’d rather you all adopt one, as a TIP trainer, it’s really hard to get people to take one and care for it. They can’t stay and populate in the wild without regulation.
Adopt a mustang or burro if you really want to help.
I have 2 adopted mustangs. There are not enough homes for trained domestic horses let alone untrained wild horses. Adoption is not the solution – managing wild horses where they live and belong using humane birth control is.
This is COLD BLOODED!
Inhumane!
Uncaring!
Unloving!
Unforgiving!
Noone is ABOVE. God’s Laws!
The sick species of Human beings is FRIGHTENING!
Horses are our heritage and so much of this land as we are and should be allowed their freedom from when they first came on this planet. The Bad Land Monsters have no brains!
I’m going to push back AGAINST this groups point!? Just HOW MANY WILD HORSES IS ENOUGH in Wyoming? Most of you seem to advocate that these animals NEED NO CONTROL!? I think that HORSES, along with every other animal, need population control! It appears from the numbers posted above-that there are already over 3,000 head-just counted in these areas shown-do you people need 10,000 or more, in order to protect the horses and to insure you will KNOW they’re out there!???
There are humane methods of birth control that have NOT been used in WY – the wild horses should be managed where they live with safe and proven methods of birth control.
People are destroying everything that is good. Wild horses have been around forever. Unfortunately for them, greed is taking over. The land that they have roamed has been theirs forever. We need to adjust to them. I feel that the only way we should be interfering with the wild horses is in rare cases, which Humane euthanization would be necessary, injuries Etc.
Live and Let Live. We would not like terrorists coming in and separating our families and destroying our lives, what makes them think that it’s okay to do it to animals? And sending them to holding facilities after Roundup is no better than putting humans in a concentration camp!
Basta!!! Leave the mustangs and Burro’s alone. I have traveled By car and truck all through the west many times and I can count on one hand how many times I have seen a Mustang, maybe twice.
This is horrifying and the government should NOT be allowed to do such things. Stop this madness immediately.!!!
These beautiful horses deserve to live God created them they deserve to live this much as you do please have a heart and do what God would want you to do. Just like he let you live.
LEAVE THE WILD HORSES ALONE,THE CATTLE RANCHERS DO NOT NEED ALL THE GRAZING LAND,THERE IS ROOM FOR THEM ALL. REMOVE THE HORSES WHATS NEXT? WILL THE RANCHERS SAY THE DEER EAT TO MUCH REMOVE THEM TOO,WHAT ABOUT THE RABBITS AND OTHER GRASS EATERS ARE THEY GOING TO WANT THEM ALL DESTROYED,,STOP THE INSANITY NOW.
I just sent my comments to Rock Springs Field office, Wyoming. I used the information above to compose my email. It took me about an hour, but worth it since I know the BLM dismisses general, emotional comments and tends to take factual comments a little more seriously. In the past, I read if you send a a pre written letter through an advocacy group, even if they receive 10k, they count it as ONE! SO , guys, take a little time to hopefully make a difference. It is sometimes successful.
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They are our history and.deserve to live freely without intervention.
This is terrible, terrible injustice to these wild iconic horses! Please remove your cattle and leave our horses alone!!
Keep the horses and other animals free. You’re breaking up family groups and taking our beautiful stallions away to only castrate and sit in a corral. How would you feel if that was done to you?
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And we complain about poachers in Africa? Poachers in Africa almost destroyed entire populations of wildlife to the brink of extinction and many species are now extinct. Why not let these animals live in peace? It has been found that there are actual benefits by leaving these horses and burros in the landscape. Why is this even an issue? Are we planning to put cement buildings and parking lots and strip centers on every square foot of land in the US? Why don’t these animals warrant our protection? Senseless killing of wildlife should be a crime.
Why do you have to destroy everythung? what can you possibly gain that is more important than the dicersity of wildlife that we have. Will you be satisfied when you have killed all non human animals? will you then go on to kill people that don’t conform in some way or ther.? STOP THE KILLING BEFORE IT S TOO LATE
Can you please provide the Chapter Reference and Section Reference. How will they know what we are commenting on? Thank you!
The documents in the Scoping are available on the explaining site, you can find the link to that in my blog post.
We always should work to preserve nature and wildlife and protect animals. Public lands are meant for all and it is the role of the BLM to cater to parties with money. There is another way. These horses should be saved and they should be free.
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I am asking you to stop the awful helicopter rounds ups and capture of our, the taxpayers, wild horses. I think using the darting method of birth control is the way to go. Castrating and releasing is definitely not an option. Sterilization of the wild mares is barbaric and should never been used. That is major surgery on an animal that can’t have follow up care. If they are not kept in pens until they are fully healed, releasing them to the wild is setting them up to be hunted down by the native predator animals and killed which is also barbaric. Thank you for your time is reading this. We love our wild horses and really hate what the BLM wants to do to the herds.
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Stop this ASAP
Leave them horses alone they were there before most people their beautiful why would anyone want to hurt them this world has come so evil they wont leave gods cremation alone that’s their land to run an be free how r they hurting people their not their just running free so leave them alone an let them be.
Leave them alone! Do not destroy this beautiful life.
Stop hurting horses that been around so long so many years in now it’s all the sudden all these problems that you guys created U badd people
Please stop killing there beautiful wild horses!
Leave them ALONE
Finally done. So, so freaking tired of all the games they keep playing with ATSW & Divide Basin. Those poor horses deserve a break already.
I just sent my comments to Rock Springs Field office, Wyoming. I used the information above to compose my email. It took me about an hour, but worth it since I know the BLM dismisses general, emotional comments and tends to take factual comments a little more seriously. In the past, I read if you send a a pre written letter through an advocacy group, even if they receive 10k, they count it as ONE! SO , guys, take a little time to hopefully make a difference. It is sometimes successful.
Just submitted my comments via email. Took about an hour to compose using Carol’s expert info. BLM discounts emotional comments.
Hopefully if many people contact them it might make a difference.
Leave the wild horses alone, you have no right to destroy them, capture them, nor send out people to shoot them. If you had left it a line people would still be rounding them up, breaking them and using them. But you got greedy had to have the almighty dollar from adoptions and slaughter.
Butcher’s
Liars
Murderers
Leave our wild horses alone.
Leave the wild horses and burros alone..! They are part of OUR heritage…OUR history..! They represent FREEDOM of which we in America our loosing our freedoms and rights every day..! They are a symbol of freedom and spirit in America as much as the bald eagle is…and they were protected..! And the wild horses and burros should be protected as well..! You can’t think about the history in America and not conjure up the image of wild horses and burros when America was being born ..! They do not ruin the land…they protect it…they eat dried grasses and sage brush (that cattle don’t eat) and prevent forest fires..! When they eat grass they cut it off with their teeth…they don’t rip out the roots and kill the grass..! They fertilize the land..! They do protect the land and preserve it..! So you as the BLM should be protecting them…not rounding them up..to be sent to slaughter..! You can try and sugar coat it and say they will be adopted out and that is bullshit..! Very few will get an adopted home and taken care of..! Most even when they get adopted end up in kill pens and sent to slaughter..!!!! I would pray that there are some compassionate human beings working in the BLM…and not money grubbing greedy people looking to make a buck by selling these magnificent animals..! You have to ask yourself what kind of person are you..? When 80% or more of the american public want to save the wild horses and burros on OUR TAXPAYER land…our funded money land ..that should tell you something..!! And it tells us alot about the BLM and this current administration when you lie about the numbers of horses saying they are overpopulated..! You need to learn how to count…and not count horses twice or even three times..! Wild horses move around alot…and counting them twice is not an accurate count of the amount of horses out there..! They have many wild animals that stalk them as a food source like bears…wolves…mountain lions..! So Mother Nature as a way of keeping the count down…as well as old age…and sickness…and all the foals that are born and don’t make it…or die way before their time..! We don’t need the BLM to play God..!! I am really shocked that with Ryan Zinke being gone that this shit is still going on…cause everyone knew what a POS he was in the BLM..! We all had hoped that things were going to get better for these wild horses with him being gone..! Let’s prove it has…and stop this nonsense now..!! Leave them alone with their wild spirit and let them live the way God intended..! You know what kind of surprises me that with as many people who are fighting for these horses right to live wild and free..! And I’ve seen some posts…that it is just gonna be a matter of time before some of them (not me) that are going to start shooting those helicopters down on round ups…and people that are working at the holding pens and are abusing the poor scared horses are going to get shot..! I pray to God that…that never happens..! And as much as I dislike these people I don’t condone that happening…! But please…please…please leave these wonderful wild animals alone….and enjoy these magnificent horses for their loving family values..! Watch how much they love and protect their family like people do…!! Watch how lovingly and tender a mare is with her foal..! Or even more touching when a stallion touches muzzles with his new foal…or puts his neck around a young one and hugs it..! Or watching a mare with a new foal drinking in it’s scent…so she will be able to find it..when it walks a few yards away…or if it lies down to take a nap while mom is grazing..! Or watching a wild stallion fight with another stallion…with every ounce of his spirit to protect his loving family from harm…or being stolen..! You have to see these things for yourselves…and then you can see why we so passionately love these wild horses and burros..! Please Do The Right Thing And Leave Them Alone And Let Them Live Their Life Wild..!!
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This act of violence is cruel and inhumane. It is unwise and unnecessary to remove and sterilize these horses. It is abuse and will only cause harm, no good will come out of this. It will only increase more aggressive fights between stallions and the mares and foals will be hurt. I strongly disagree with this act and I provoke against it. Wild horses are meant to be free and unharmed. So please, I beg of you, leave the horses be.
BLM and Pres Trump need to leave the wild horses alone so my grandchildren can have and know there udescribable beauty. What they are doing is inhumane!
Please start PROTECTING our wild horses using humane methods like birth control. Stop the round ups and other cruel methods. I would love for lawmakers to start voting for their protection and not their annihilation. These are some of our last American symbols they should be cherished!!
Please stop the illegal roundups of our horses! They belong to the public and have been here for centuries. What you are doing can never be reversed and they are our heritage of America.
Are they nuts? It is not the wild mustangs that are causing the problems it is the overstocking of
cattle in these lands that are causing the problems. Leave the horses alone and remove half the
cattle and things will be fine!
PLEASE LEAVE THEM FREE AND WILD TO ROAM THE PLAINS IN PEACE
Please leave the wild horses alone! They are a symbol of the Wild West! They are supposed to be protected! Stop listening to the cattle ranchers!!!
Leave the horses alone! Enough damage already done to wild horse herds. You are incapable of rational thoughts because you are bought and paid for by cattle ranchers. Just STOP — NOW!!!
BLM ( the Government!) is trying to do to theses beautiful wild animals the thing the Govt did to Native Americans. As much public AND private land in this country available, the solution is : LEAVE THEM ALONE! Kill the ferral hogs and other destructive animals and quite listening to Washington politicians!
Please let the wild horses alone! I love the grace and beauty of a free running herd. Our PUBLIC lands were meant to be for their use, to live and roam as they have since the west was wild. They have a right to live their lives wild and free! Keep the domesticated animals off of THEIR ranges!
PROTECT not decimate our wild horse herds. They are national treasures and should be protected. Use the money for some real problems in this country!
Do NOT do this to our historic wild horses. We need these iconic reminders of where we are from and that we value our history and protect our history. Manage these herds through nonprofits who want to see them thrive, do not destroy them.
Please leave the wild animals alone. There is room for all of them and the domestic animals.
Protect theses amazing animals
Why does the government always destroy that’s something of value but create something useless to try and make a dollar leave the dzmn z imsls how would u like to be chased and shot at let them roam wild and free
These wild horses belong to posterity. It is a great injustice to distroy this last vestage of our American history.
I live on the Outer Banks in NC. We also have wild horses that have thrived here since the 15th century.
We DO NOT DESTROY these majestic creatures, as they are a part of our history. We have space that is allotted to them to rosmand continue to live free and wild as they should be able to.
I plead with you to come up with s solution that causes no harm to your precious history icons of the wild west.
Contact the Corolla wild horse fund here in NC for a living outcome solution.
Its NOT your right to play God and kill them.
Please stop the killing of your beautiful horses.
Please leave tje horse’s alone to live and prosper.
Maybe humans should start looking at our population and how we are destroying so many things. Leave the horses alone!!
3.5 million acreas of public land are available to these horses. That is a lot of land. As long as the grass is not eaten down too much, and there is no other purpose for this land, then why is there such an interest in them at all? Putting so many in pens seems ridiculousness due to the expense when they could roam for free. If you sell the penned up horses it still costs money to feed them while waiting for a buyer, not to mention vet bills. Trump probably is going to try and sell off the public land no doubt. If the herds are overpopulating the area, then get rid of some, don’t change the herd dynamics with less of one sex or the other. Sterilizing is costly also and sort of a lost cause if you only sterilize a few and then get rid of them. I don’t know who is in charge of this land management but it sure isn’t a level headed farmer. This shouldn’t be costing anything except to cull the herds once it reaches the true amount over the limit.
Do you seriously have 45,000 wild horses in holding pens? Are you kidding me? Why? That is called land management?
Yes and there will be over 65,000 at the end of 2020.
There is no reason for that! Let them live free and you live free like them.
Leave our wild horses alone. They are one of the great sights and treasures seen when traveling across the US.
Let them be, keep them free.
BLM stands for Bad Land Management, they only manage land for cattle owners probably getting a nice cut of that industry for removing our wild horses for cattle grazing. Our wild horses are a national treasure, not cattle nor are the arrogant ignorant ranchers!!!
Don’t do it.
Please don’t destroy these herds. I would like one day to bring my grandchildren out to see these beautiful creatures. I’m sure your grand and great grandchildren would also like to see them. Leave them run free so that can happen. Don’t kill them or regime them. Roads fine but not cities or towns.
Stop wasting money on a problem that doesn’t exist. No other wild animal is rounded up and kept in pens. Everyone knows horses are a reintroduced species, not a feral species. Wild animals deserve to live unbothered by humans. If ranchers want to lease public lands, then they should do so knowing that they will have to share resources.
THIS IS ABSOLUTELY UNACCEPTABLE!!!!!!!????????????
I want these wild herds to remain wild.
THIS IS ABSURD . THRE IS PLENTY OF LAND FOR THESE HORSES , NOT CATTLE, BIG OIL BIG MINNING . STOP THIS . PLEASE CONTACT YOUR REPS. IN CONGRESS . I HAVE EACH MONTH . SAVE OUR AMERICAN ICONS .
They must stop. These animals are American Icons. Leave them be!
Please leave the wild horses alone.
Let these beautiful wild horses be! They have been running free long before the BLM came into existance.
There is about 3.5 million acres of public-owned land they should be free to run on, and no government agency should try to get rid of the most beautiful national treasures we as Americans love and respect!
Please leave the wild horses alone. Don’t destoy them. I disagree with those who want to kill them off.
I love horses more than anything and it breaks my heart to know what all you do to the wild horses. They deserve to be left alone to run wild and free like they’re suppose to. I think the BLM needs new people taking care of our wild horses…someone who cares about the horses and wants to save their lives. People don’t want the cattle and sheep ranchers leasing the wild horses’ public land. We the people of the United States of America deserve to have a say to whether we don’t approve of the way the BLM are handling things. We want our wild horses free from brutal, torture and awful roundups.
These wild horses are part of our heritage and history of the American West and would be a huge loss if eradicated.
Leave the horses and burros alone. They have just as much right to live as the cattle that will replace them. I vote NO. Leave them alone.
Leave the horses and burros alone. They have just as much right as the cattle trust you want to replace them with. I Vote NO!!!! Leave the horses alone.
Leave them in peace to roam the public lands! Stop this atrocity and put the cattle elsewhere!
Protect not destroy the wild horses and burros. We do not need more land for cattle – keep America wild.
Let future generations see these wild horses roam free . They have been here longer then any of us, they deserve to remain free. As a long time resident of Wyoming i against this proposal.
The wild horses are part of American history! They’re part of the land! Leave them be! They have the right to be here and deserve to be here!
Eco tourism surrounding these wild horses would bring in millions to Wyoming in diversified modalities. Restaurants, motels, gas stations and truck stops, and local guides would make money from.keepibg these horses on their current locations. People come in from around US to see the Missouri Jack’s Fork herd. I’ve got nothing against cattle, but for the money, ecotourism can’t be beat.
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Click on the link above, and look down to the first line that says “Wild Horse Amendment” – on the right there is a button that says “Comment on Document.” Press this.
Please do not destroy any more wild horse herds! There must be alternatives that will preserve the herds. Wild horse herds are part of our heritage!
Do not harm any of thoses horses!!! And because of money??!! They are the owners of the land before humans and they deserve to be free in peace.
Let those horses be free like humans
This is all insane, obviously the BLM continues to give priorties to the big animal agri businesses. Looking at the charts the number of horses in comparison to livestock is such a smal number. The BLM is not giving accurate numbers attempting to convince the public that what they are doings in planning their round up is the right thing to do. Their ideas are absolutely the cruelest. There is no more room in existing pens of rounded up horses, thousands are being sent to slaughter in Mexico. What kind of humanity is this. Perhaps some PZP birth control is in order is some situations, nothing more. The idea of surgically sterilizing wild mares will definately cause their deaths, they may bleed to death or die of infections. Its all wrong, and our congress must look at these BLM plans and ban most all of these cruel plans. The public lands belong to our wildlife, and not to big agri business, therefore the lands belong to our wild horses and all other wildlife. I am furious. What are the children being taught, that it is all right to simply kill everything. Natures balances are already all out of whack, and these imbalances are human caused.