We are asking for an additional 90 days to develop a more appropriate plan to save the lives of the approximately 45,000 wild horses in question.

By signing this petition you are stating your agreement that NO ACTION WILL BE TAKEN prior to an additional public comment period of 60 days. Thus allowing further consideration for new discoveries and decisions to be made 30 days following the additional comment period.

There are other options available for the board to take.

 

Please read the following reasons for this petition:

September 9, 2016

BLM advisory board recommends euthanasia for 45,000 wild horses.

Flouting humane management options, board condemns wild horses and burros to death.

The Bureau of Land Management’s National Wild Horse and Burro Advisory Board voted to recommend euthanasia of all unadopted wild horses and burros now in government holding facilities throughout the United States. In response, Humane Society of the United States Senior Vice President of Programs & Innovations
Holly Hazard, said:

“The decision of the BLM advisory board to recommend the destruction of the 45,000 wild horses currently in holding facilities is a complete abdication of responsibility for their care. The agency would not be in this situation but for their long-term mis-management. Alternatives to this proposal have been ignored for over 20 years. The HSUS stands ready to implement these alternatives at any time.”

Over the past 20 years, the BLM has maintained round-up and removal as a primary management strategy for wild horse and burro populations on America’s western       range-lands – an effort which has led to a financially unsustainable Wild Horse and    Burro Program. By focusing massive efforts on removing horses and burros from the range, without treating those horses remaining on the range with any form of fertility control to limit population growth, holding facilities throughout the United States have   become overburdened.

In fiscal year 2015, BLM spent $49 million maintaining these horses in off-range   facilities, which constituted 46 percent of the entire budget of the agency’s wild horse and burro program. Such a large expenditure has limited the agency’s ability to properly manage wild horses on the range. The HSUS has long recommended the humane and sustainable option of implementing fertility control programs throughout the West.

Media Contact: Anna West: 240-751-2669; awest@humanesociety.org

site:
http://www.humanesociety.org/news/press_releases/2016/09/blm-recommendation-090916.html

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The BLM fac sheet can be found here:
http://www.blm.gov/wo/st/en/prog/grazing.html

 

Clearly the reason for the situation is for ranchers to be allowed to graze cattle on public lands, lands that our wild horses are entitled too.

 

 

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