Wild Horses: Please Comment by June 10 on BLM’s Wyoming Wild Horses Removal Plan
May 24, 2013
Last Chance to Comment on BLM’s Destruction of Wyoming’s Wild Horse Herds
September 27, 2013
Adobe Town Wild Horse Family
The Rock Springs Scoping period has been extended for comments about wild horses until September 27 and we need people to go and speak at the public meetings September 11 4-7 pm in Rock Springs, WY and September 12 4-7 pm in Rawlins, WY. We also need comments on this scoping plan which will virtually eliminate all wild horses in Adobe Town, Salt Wells Creek, Great Divide Basin and White Mountain, 4 of the largest remaining wild horse herds in the country. This is the link to the second press release with the information about the meetings and where to send comments:
http://www.blm.gov/wy/st/en/info/news_room/2013/august/27rsfo-whbscopmtg.html
The original press release dated two weeks earlier,August 16, 2013 about these new meetings outlines the Bureau of Land Management (BLM)’s plans for destroying all four of these herds: http://www.blm.gov/wy/st/en/info/news_room/2013/august/16rsfo-rmpsnoi.html
“The Rock Springs Field Office is presently revising its RMP (Resource Management Plan) through the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) process. Wild horse management, including HMA (Herd Management Area) boundaries which encompass RSGA (Rocks Springs Grazing Association) lands and appropriate management levels (AMLs), will be reviewed and reanalyzed during the NEPA process. This process allows for public involvement throughout with several opportunities for interested parties to comment and review. The BLM will prepare to remove wild horses from the checkerboard lands within the respective HMAs once the population is estimated to exceed 200 wild horses for the combined Salt Wells Creek/Adobe Town Complex, or 100 wild horses for the Great Divide Basin HMA. The yearly gather/removal commitments are Salt Wells Creek and Adobe Town HMAs in 2013, Great Divide Basin HMA in 2014, and White Mountain HMA in 2015, with additional gathers in 2016, if necessary. Between 205 to 300 wild horses will remain in the White Mountain HMA where the BLM will institute fertility control measures to maintain the numbers to the lower range of the AML (Appropriate Management Level). The BLM also commits to consider an amendment to the RMP to manage the White Mountain herd as non-reproducing.“
This is a vastly different and much more radical removal plan than the Decision Record issued for the Adobe Town/Salt Wells Creek roundup, issued in July, 2013:
“The ATSW Complex’s current wild horse population is nearly 1,447. This decision authorizes gathering approximately 85 percent, or roughly 1,229 wild horses, and removing 586, leaving 861 mustangs in the complex. Removing the mustangs would reduce the current population to the low AML of 861-1,165 wild horses. All released mares would be treated with the Porcine Zona Pellucida vaccine.”
The Scoping process for the Rock Springs Resource Management Plan has been going on since January of 2011 and there are currently only 10 comments about wild horse management on record, all very much in favor of this new plan. We need to flood the BLM with comments that we want to preserve wild horses on our public lands in these four herd areas, and not submit to pressure from the Rock Springs Grazing Association to virtually wipe them out.
Here is a link to the Final Scoping Report:
And all the documents related to the Scoping Document:
http://www.blm.gov/wy/st/en/programs/Planning/rmps/RockSprings/docs.html
Here is the information for submitting comments:
Comments may be emailed to BLM_WY_RockSpringsRMP@blm.gov (please include “Wild Horse Scoping” in the subject line), faxed to (307) 352-0329, or mailed to the Bureau of Land Management, Rock Springs Field Office, Wild Horse Scoping, 280 Highway 191 N., Rock Springs, WY 82901.
59 Comments
leave the mustangs free…they deserve this..they have saved many lifes during the wars…keep them free..so many have been slaughtered due to money hungry people..just leave them free and cut down on cattle the mustangs had the land first they deserve to be left alone…
These horses need our voice to stop Government & others who are trying to slaughter them. They have a right to be free & left in God’s hands. Stop this action now!
These horses belong to the public and they are on public land and supposed to be protected from round-ups why do you want to put them in pens for what reason. That is not fair to them. Please stop the round-ups helicopters scare them and the babies can’t keep up so they end up dying what is fair about that?
Does anyone know just how many cattle and sheep are allowed to graze on these same ranges? Its very discouraging that the BLM just ignores our comments because we “add nothing new.” We keep telling them to remove cattle and sheep instead of our horses but they say they must allow grazing. Is that true? I know they must have multiple use ranges but really what does that mean? Is there anyway we can get the cattle removed instead of the horses? It will take some thought to get around the BLM policies but there must be a way.
82.5% Of the land is allocated to livestock 17.5% is allocated to wild horses – The cattle outnumber the horses 50 – 1 – One of the hardest animals to spot are wild horses as there are very few left in the wild because of the BLM, most are in BLM holding pens!
Another one of our counties icons being destroyed. Cattle ranchers tell lies about the wild mustangs. I dont buy beef anymore. Or pork or lamb. I would like to see the horses released back on federal land where they belong.
STOP KILLING THESE INDIGENOUS horses!
The land is being snatched in favor of RANCHING.. OIL, mineral rights, recreational use.. it is being sold out under and away from the horses and our heritage..by BLM..these land grabbers which are supposed to care for this land are prostituting it for the sake of $$$$$$; and destroying the mustang population.
Will SOMEONE stop this disgusting organization!
Mustangs should be protected like all other endangered species! They are a huge part of our American heritage! They have the right to run free! If there is a need to control what remains of the population after so many have already been slaughtered. There has to be a happy medium somewhere between both parties. Maybe only sterilize the older mares and a few of the stallions? I don’t know! But I do know we owe them the right to exist! No one has the right to destroy them or sterilize them into non-existence!!!
The way the world is going we might need them again someday, you never know!
With stable bred horses you ride the trails, with mustangs you blaze them.
A kitty cat you pet, a Tiger you respect!:)
We need to take care of our wild animals and land. More and more humans are encroaching on land that our wild animals need to live on.
I keep writing and calling peeps don’t know what else to do. I am so afraid this is going to continue until they are all gone! 🙁
Let OUR wild horses free.. it is their land. Mustangs need to be protected. no more roundup, let our horses out of jail and be with their families , running free on THEIR land, get them out of holding facilities … it is cruel to keep them in jail. OUR tax money is paying for these facilities and that is NOT want I want to pay taxes for. Set OUR horses free on their land.
To continue to capture, hold and/or put the wild horses and burros of America in these awful situations is a betrayal of the American public’s trust! Greed, fracking and the oil idustry are behind this and we are not so stupid as not to see it! I’ve done everything an activist can do short of throw myself in front of the BLM hired helicopters. No one hears us, at least no one (in our government) that cares enough to do anything but turn a deaf ear. The majority of Americans are against this, yet our government and the BLM do what they please. I used to be proud to ba an American. The older I get, the more I hang my head in shame.
this scoping is another way of saying genocide; destruction of these herds is criminal and against Federal law;what else can be said/ BLM is betraying everything they promised to uphold in favor of big ranching/big business.
This is unconscionable!
Reducing our natural heritage to zero..scoping is MURDER; dressing slaughter up in pretty phrases is a lie and deceitful and needs immediate HALT and immediate prosecution by the Federal LAW..
This is UNCONSCIONABLE
Hoof beats across the ages…Where will we be when the beauty of the wild ones has been destroyed? What kind of world are we leaving our children and grandchildren? What lessons are we teaching them by failing to celebrate these beautiful creatures? Please lend your voices to the silent cries of these majestic animals. Please…
Mustangs should be protected like all other endangered species! They are a huge part of our American legacy! They have the right to run free! We need to take care of our wild animals and land. More and more humans are intruding on land that our wild animals need to live on. These horses need our voice to stop Government & others who are trying to slaughter them. They have a right to be free & left in God’s hands. Stop this action now!
These creatures deserve to be free as they’ve always been. They are doing no harm to anyone. They’re a big part of American history and deserve our respect and compassion. Please do no get rid of these horses. Let them stay in familiar grounds.
These horses deserve to be free. They are a symbol of America just like the eagle. They have been trough enough leave them alone!
The proposal will lead to extinction and also cause what is known as the “bottleneck” effect in the few horses that are released. The bottleneck effect leads to a very limited genetic pool that eventually leads to death of the species. This must be stopped.
I pay taxes these are my horses running on my land…Leave my horses alone!!!!
There will nothing left, From animals to land!!! The wild mustangs should be on the endangered list!!!!! Stop this NOW these animals have been here through generations with no problems and now that man has taken over they have no one to speak for them. The native American Indians respected and still respect all of nature. The mustangs were part of their livelihood and no matter what they treated these beautiful animals with respect,like they were part of their family. Leave these majestic wild animals alone.. If you see them and look into there eyes you see true spirit and a true soul and a heart that aches for true FREEDOM. The only animal I am afraid of is MAN and that is a sad statement!!!!! Leave them wild and FREE
THIS IS JUST SO STUPID TAKING ONE OF NATURES MOST PRECIOUS THINGS AWAY N THE AMERICAN WESTERNS ICON AS WELL-PLZ DONT DO THIS. FUTURE PPL WILL NEVER BE ABLE TO SEE THEM.
The wild horses of America deserve to be protected by America. I want my children to be able to see these magnificent creatures wild and free. Without these horses we are nothing. We will lose our humanity and our integrity will be lost. Wyoming is the great west and without the wild horses the west will be lost forever in our hearts and our souls. The BLM already has bad publicity and people across America are disgusted with BLM practices. They are supposed to protect the wild mustangs. Without the mustangs ALL hope is lost.
Leave the wild horse’s alone. Surly you can find something better to spend our hard earned tax dollars, that you take from us, on. I know, how about we round up all you government guys and lock you up for a while. That would really put the money to good use.
Please let these horses stay free!
Save the mustangs of America. Our humanity is a stake. These beautiful creatures are supposed to be protected! This is an atrocity!! Please do not do this! They need to run free!Wyoming is forever west and without the mustangs the west is lost.
mother nature can manage these herds much better than the federal government, and the cattlemen can graze their cattle on their own land. these beautiful creatures are one of the few legacies we are leaving for our future generations.
These wild mustangs represent the American spirit. These animals deserve to have a place to live and roam, free. We deserve to have them there! I agree with all the comments I’ve read before mine. It is disgusting and should be criminal to ignore the protests of the masses in order to favor the few with the big money and political connections. The American people want our wild horses FREE, in their lands! STOP THIS HORRIFIC ACTION!!!!! I say NO to “The Scoping process for the Rock Springs Resource Management Plan”!!!!!
A law of Protection was passed in 1971. Did you fail to understand, read and obey the law? We the people thought getting rid of Salazar would be the answer and we wind up with Sally Jewel who is even worse than what we had to begin with. Big Government, Big Oil and making a Deal with China to have them buy our Beef which means more money for the Big and powerful Beef industry. Greed is the driver of this industry.
America no longer resembles herself. You fly a flag which you wave proudly but in truth you are destroying what little heritage we have left. This is a deep scare that will never heal. We the people ask you to dig deep, realize the damage you are doing. We have lost so much and you will be remembered as a pariah, Un American Please stop the insanity. And your practices are cruel.
Maybe the BLM should concern themselves with protecting our borders both north and south from illegals entering into the US. Let the mustangs roam free where they were long before the BLM had to interfere. LEAVE THE MUSTANGS ALONE Bastards!
Can we judge our moral progress by the way we treat our animals? The answer is a resounding YES!
Horses are used in all kinds of therapy for humans…there is something magic in the emotional connection of horses and humans the can’t be found in any other relationships! Protect these incredible animals!
Leave the wild horses alone, it is their land !!! It is shameful and shocking how you spend our tax dollars on this atrocities!!!
The only money you should spend should be in protecting them. You should be locked
up for this, or better yet receive the same treatment you give to the horses.
That would do justice !!!
I have bad dreams about wild horses being slaughtered! God made these horses for us to use but not to eat! The bible speaks of the 4 horses of when Christ comes back…I love all my horses and they are a very beautiful animal…I think we need to worry more about people having abortion than slaughtering horses…The government needs to let them be free!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I say NO to slaughter!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
this freedom is their home…..it is what our country is based on—-why wars are fought…..and those that can make that decision to enforce freedom need to comprehend WHY it is so important for the horses to have theirs
I FEEL THAT GOD PUT THESE MAGNIFICANT ANIMALS HERE TO ROAM THIS EARTH AND LIVE FREE AND IT SHOULD BE KEPT THAT WAY. WE NEED TO TAKE CARE OF THESE ANIMALS AND SPEAK FOR THEM CAUSE THEY CAN’T SPEAK FOR THEIRSELVES. IF WE KEEP MESSING WITH GOD’S WORL AND ANIMALS THEN IN THE END WE WILL NOT HAVE ANY LIVING THING LEFT BECAUSE OF MAN AND HIS GREED. GREED IS WIPING OUR PLANET AND ANIMALS OUT.DON;T YOU PEOPLE HAVE ANY FELLINGS OR HEART FOR MANKIND AND GOD’S CREATURES ???????? PLEASE PROTECT THESE ANIMALS,MAN JUST KEEPS ON MOVING IN MORE AND MORE ON THESE ANIMALS HOMES. GOD PLEASE HELP THESE ANIMALS.
Thank you everyone for your heartfelt comments. Please remember to send them to the BLM so that they can have them in the Scoping Process, by the end of the day September 27.
Here are the ways to comment and have your voice heard:
Comments may be emailed to BLM_WY_RockSpringsRMP@blm.gov (please include “Wild Horse Scoping” in the subject line), faxed to (307) 352-0329, or mailed to the Bureau of Land Management, Rock Springs Field Office, Wild Horse Scoping, 280 Highway 191 N., Rock Springs, WY 82901.
Our meat as well as some of our other foods, pet food & other produces are shipped in from other country’s. Our farmers & ranchers are going broke & have to sell their land. So why do we have to catch, sell to slaughter our wild horses so other country’s have their special food. If this country ever lost it’s technology & ability to have & run vehicles(which it will come to this). We will need horses to help us survive. Sad thing is there won’t be any wild horses for us to use. this is because our great government has sold them all off to help pay for the many wars we are in. So the government is using the resources that the public don’t know about to fund their over spending budget that to help cut the interest on. Which it won’t help at all. We the Americans need to start helping take care of our country. Our homeless is growing. People are not eating right(cant afford food). Gas keeps going higher & higher. Not to mention the cost it takes to fix the vehicles. Many of our citizens are about 1 pay/disability/retirement check away from being homeless. Lets keep out wild horses & wildlife so that we have our heritage, history, present & future needs from them. Cause when they are gone & we need them. We won’t have them to help us. Because we didn’t help them.
Why can’t blm leave these horses alone? they are not destructing your range. If you want to do oil and gas, there is plenty of land in the united states for you to explore.
As a citizen of the United States I do not believe you have the right (BLM) to eliminate our wild horses from their range. They do not ask anything of you, but to be left alone. They destroy nothing of ours, they are simply trying to exist just like we are on earth. these horses are part of our heritage, our history. The horse has carried man for many years, and it is a privledge to have them.
BLM needs to learn how to manage themselves, not for an agenda for govn’t exploration.
Leave the herds alone. You do not need to wipe 85% of the herd and send to slaughter. That is inhumane and unexcuseable.
As shepards of the land, you need to manage how to take care of what you have without wiping out your heritage. Giving vaccines and fertility control to wild horses is a slow wipeout. Let them be, and do onto others as you would want someone to do onto you. Sending these horses to auction where you have the killbuyers lined up for horse meat is disgusting, and more than sad .
BLM should think of ways to co exist with these herds of horses. Some can be trained for therapy horses. think of the wild horses in the outer banks and chattigue in va. They have been there for thousands of years. Learn to live and let live.
BLM needs to leave these horses alone. If they would quit leasing lands to the ranchers there would be plenty of range lands for the horses. It all comes down to money. Soon there will be no more wild horses, Burro’s or anything else because BLM managed them to death…
I think we the public are going to have to make a stand and stop this abuse of power before it is to late.
YES, PLEASE LETS TAKE A STAND … CLAIM YOUR PORTION OF THE LANDS AND THE WILD HORSES/BURROS YOUR TAXES HAVE PAID FOR… WE EACH OWN A PIECE…I have been paying Federal Taxes almost 40 years…Lets see…I WOULD SAY I OWN AT LEAST ONE HERD: A STALLION, 6 COLTS, 6 FILLIES AND 22 MARES…MY TAXES HAVE PAID TO ALLOW THIS HERD TO RUN FREE, TO BE PROTECTED TO RUN FREE ON OUR PUBLIC RANGES AND LANDS..TO HAVE FREE WATER,FREE GRASS, FREEDOM TO LIVE AS HORSES HAVE LIVED ON OUR PUBLIC LANDS FOR CENTURIES…My math may be off but YOU SEE MY POINT…THE BLM CLAIMS THERE ARE TOO MANY WILD MUSTANGS AND BURROS ON OUR AMERICAN LANDS… THE BLM HAVE :
>>> 50,000<<< HORSES/BURROS IN PENS ! OUR WILD MUSTANG HORSES <<>> THEY HAVE SEPARATED THE STALLIONS AND MARES AND BURROS FROM THEIR HERDS…I WONDER HOW THEY HAVE DRUGGED THESE WILD ANIMALS TO STAY CALM IN THESE PENS…SOMEONE KNOWS…BLM IS GELDING/SPAYING THEM , POSSIBLY FEEDING THEM DRUGS, THEY HAVE SAID THEY ARE SHOOTING THE MARES WITH A SHOT OF CONTRACEPTIVE…THEY ADMIT THEY TRAP OUR HORSES AND DO LIVE SURGERY ON THEM TO STERILIZE THEM IN THE WILD…NO SANITARY CONDITIONS…
…..BLM STOP STEALING AND MURDERING OUR WILD AMERICAN HORSES AND BURROS… STOP NEGOTIATING “FRACKING” FOR GAS CONTRACTS THAT NEED MILLIONS OF GALLONS OF OUR WILD HORSES/BURROS/WILDLIFE WATER THEY NEED TO LIVE, STOP MAKING VERBAL LAND LEASES WE DON’T WANT OUR PUBLIC RANGES/LANDS FULL OF GAS/OIL PUMPS,PIPES AND WINDMILLS YES<<>>CLAIM YOUR PORTION OF THE 30 MILLION ACRES AND LESS THAN 10,000 FREE ROAMING AND 50,000 CORRAL-ED HORSES/BURROS…
BE AN ADVOCATE TO FOREVER PROTECT THEM AS THE 1971 LAW DEMANDS!!
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Sandy, I could if not express it better & right to the point!! Why call it public lands, when we the people (PUBLIC) have no say. The BLM is “aloud” to break the LAWS!!! Please everyone HELP SAVE OUR WILD MUSTANGS & Burros.
These horses should be allowed to roam free. No one is paying for feed or hay. Let the wild horse act stand! The Native American Indians were cheated out of their land because greedy people wanting it, now the wild horses are suffering in round ups, holding pins, and until recently, slaughter houses. This country needs to stand together, not destroy our history. And horses have always been in it. Leave them alone!!!!!
leave the wild horses alone. they have been here for hundreds of yrs. they should be pretected just like any wild animal. they are apart of the west the history. let them roam free like they are meant to be
BLM needs to leave the Mustang all around ALONE!!! These horses were here before anyone of them were here!!! Its not fair that the “haha” Government can do this to the wild horse when they are the symbole of the Amarican west!! These horses need to be protected!!……………..
The mustangs are a living symbol of the Western spirit that has made Wyoming what it is today. My grandfather was born in Sheridan (then Johnson) County in 1884. Through the years he became a successful cattle rancher. In addition to his working horses, he kept 100 head of unbroken pinto horses simply because he loved them. Let the mustangs live on in the open areas, not sequestered in unnatural holding pens without adequate cover. Manage the wild population through birth control methods, not misery and slaughter.
Please let them be free,they are born to be wild and we have NO right to capture them .
They are NOT our slaves.!!
They have the same rights as we do .
So please let them be FREE and WILD
Pleasee don’t destroy anymore of our beautiful wild world. This is the spirit of our world. We need the wild horses, wild animals, wilderness more than you think. Treasures are rare.
These beautiful animals need to be free and protected! They are a beautiful part of our heritage and what makes our country great,and we need to value that and take care of it-
Soon there will be no more wild horses, Burro’s or anything else because BLM managed them to death…
I think we the public are going to have to make a stand and stop this abuse of power before it is to late.
As always, when I see all of these comments on Carol’s blog, or any other blog in support of the wild horses, that are basically directed at the BLM, do the people who left these comments understand that it’s not very likely that the BLM comes here to read them?
Again, as always, I fear that people think they’ve done their bit by commenting here when they haven’t done anything but preach to the choir. I hope I’m wrong about this, but this is how it always strikes me. People are well intentioned and think they’ve added their voice when in fact they’ve done nothing that could possibly impact what happens to the wild horses. Comments must be sent directly to the BLM.
I’m glad you, Carol, reminded people of this same thing a few comments up from here. I’m adding another reminder, but again, I fear that those who have already commented here have gone off thinking they’ve done their bit–and they haven;t done anything at all. 🙁
Please let our Wild Frontier history remain FREE! These magnificent creatures are part of our history and part of many races heritage! DO NOT displace the wild horses, like you displaced our native americans! Keep them WILD!!!!!
What is wrong with our government. Destroying more and more of our Nations Animals as well as our freedom.
I say that these Wild Mustangs deserve the right to live on government land as any other of animals do.
I do not agree with horse slather or abuses in any way. Like cheating with helicopters to round horse up.
I ask you to please listen to the people.
I believe our country is a country made up for votes. I believe that your state should honor the people by offering a vote. To destroy nature for greed is wrong.
Please stop all the round ups . These horses are a national treasure and should be allowed to survive as they have for a hundred years. It’s too bad that the ranchers out there don’t see the beauty right below their eyes. The BLM is not doing the job for the people of America. We are a nation of rights and it appears that we have no say in what is happening to the wild horses of Wyoming!
All these previous statements are Are so true n well said SPEND OUR TAX DOLLARS ON MORE IMPORTANT THINGS!!! LEAVE OUR WILD HORSES ALONE!!!!
Allow the (ALL) Lakota,Dakota,Nakota and native kids across THIS Turtle Island to have and care for these horses and BLM protect all life on the land you are responsible for (?) Do it with Love for future generations . Let reparations and condolences be forthcoming NOW. Save The Wild Horses and Water and Permaculture Save all life in the waters and on the lands Save The PRICELESS And Sacred ALL .
I don’t understand why you would want to have such beauty disappear from the land. I came out here from Ohio and have NEVER in my whole life seen anything so beautiful as wild, free horses. I didn’t even know they still existed. And if you round them up my grandchildren will never even know the beauty of these precious, graceful animals. Unfortunately the government thinks they are doing a good things. Well I’m here to say THEY ARE NOT!!! Leave the horses alone and let them do what God himself put them here to do. Live free!!!
Back the F… off!!! U money hungry greety bastards!! I pray the horse will have its day & this goverment who seeks blood will pay for what they are doing & have done for many years!you reep what you sew & there will be a judgment day by something far greater than you grubby greedy people can even imagine & not all the money & power in the world will save you!..I hope I am still alive to see that day!! i am disgusted to be an “American” The men & women just died for nothing in this country..Because horses represent freedom & have carried man & woman for ceturies!this is how we repay all of them???! mother nature knows best!look what happens when people like you butt in,the damges are happening as we speak! look around!She is crazy furious & that day will come & then i hope not to be here.LET THEM FREE!!!
This would be an atrocity. Leave Americas wild horses alone. These horses belong to the American people. They are not starving or thirsting. Out tax dollars are being wasted. Do not give anymore land designated for our wild horses to ranchers it is wrong!!!
Ought to qualify this by saying I agree to the sentiment but as Nancy (above) succinctly put it, contacting the BLM as well would do more good. Out of interest has anyone who had a different opinion ever been bold enough to comment here? Genuine reason for asking.
As long as we as a species continue to believe that we alone have souls,
that we alone are the Elect who can rape the earth and murder those who cannot fight back at will and justify it in the name of Progress and God or the Common Good (ever the weasle words of the rascal) we will not end the slaughter of the innocent until we ourselves have died as a direct result of the ecological disaster created by our ignorance and lust – that will take us all out – but not before it wipes out these horses.
Sorry, but writing to a fracking company and asking them NOT to extinguish the mustang of America is about as useful as telling all of those settlers back in the 19th century NOT to wipe out the Buffalo and send the carcasses to Chicago.
IF we want to truly save anything start with your own folks and backyard and be prepared to die for both. Nothing less shall suffice.
Good luck all of you and Bless the souls of the coming departed Beautiful Ones.