Pregnant mares slated to be used in a STERILIZATION EXPERIMENT funded with TAX DOLLARS #TAKEACTION: Please write in your own words to oppose the wild horse sterilization experiment proposed on innocent and PREGNANT wild mares at Oregon State University. Send the letter to the address below and a copy to your 2 senators and your congressional representative. The deadline is February 3rd. Write to: Mare Sterilization Research Project Lead (541) 573-4411 BLM Burns District Office 28910 Highway 20 West Hines, Oregon 97738 Email: blm_or_bu_mareresearchea@blm.gov Fax: (541) 573-4411 — Attention: Mare Sterilization Research Project Lead Also fill out BLM's online comment form at: https://eplanning.blm.gov/epl-front-office/eplanning/comments/commentSubmission.do?commentPeriodId=30676 When writing your letter keep in mind the following: 1.) Your tax dollars are paying for the BLM’s programs, roundups and experiments if allowed to continue. 2.) There is no overpopulation of wild horses. They are underpopulated on the vast acreage of public land in the West. 3.) BLM’s harvesting model based management via roundups is disrupting herd dynamics and increasing the birthrate. 4.) BLM’s allegations of overpopulation are fraudulent based on false data. They don’t even account for the correct mortality rates in the wild. 5.) Predators should not be killed off and if there are none left then they need to be reintroduced for the thriving natural ecological balance. 6.) Wild horses are a return-native species that help reduce catastrophic wildfires and create biodiversity. We need the herds to reverse desertification. 7.) The BLM is creating a false overpopulation crisis to cash in on wild horses as laboratory animals for fertility control experiments while reducing the herds to nonviable levels. 8.) GonaCon™, PZP, SpayVac® are all pesticides that classify wild horses erroneously as PESTS–ultimately sterilize them and are not needed because wild horses are underpopulated. There are no “excess” wild horses. 9.) The BLM is trying to manage America’s wild horses to extinction. Links of interest: BLM Press Release on Plans to Experiment with Sterilization Wild Mares: http://www.blm.gov/or/districts/burns/files/BU_MareSterilizationEA_Jan2015.pdf Mare Sterilization Research Environmental Assessment https://eplanning.blm.gov/epl-front-office/projects/nepa/56292/67242/73184/MareSterilizationResearchEA_12172015.pdf Mare Sterilization Research https://eplanning.blm.gov/epl-front-office/eplanning/projectSummary.do?methodName=renderDefaultProjectSummary&projectId=56292 Sign and share the petition to stop the roundups here: https://www.change.org/p/defund-and-stop-the-wild-horse-burro-roundups Send your elected officials a handwritten letter as well as a copy of the email to BLM. Then make an appointment to go in to see them. You may print off information from our website www.ProtectMustangs.org to give them. Please contact your elected officials and politely request they take immediate action on your behalf to stop the experiments on wild horses. You can find their contact information for your elected officials here: http://www.contactingthecongress.org Share this with everyone you know by email. Check back on our website www.ProtectMustangs.org for daily updates. Together we can stop this and turn this around. With love, Anne Anne Novak Founder & Director www.ProtectMustangs.org Contact@ProtectMustangs.org Mission: To Protect and preserve native and wild horses