While everyone is distracted, committee members in the U.S. Senate are making life and death decisions for wild horses and burros on your behalf. Did you know that? You can use your voice for the voiceless before it’s too late! Read the sample letter below to help you with phone calls, faxes and emails: Dear Senator Feinstein, Senator Murkowski ,Senator Blunt and Senator Udall: We realize you are about to decide on the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) wild horse and burro budget for 2017 on behalf of the American people. The BLM has been influenced by the livestock, oil and gas and other mining interests stating that Herd Areas are designated for multiple use, conveniently and illegally ignoring the fact that wild horses and burros under Sec. C get ‘devoted principal presence of their range areas’. We ask that you stand up for them. Will the BLM use Americans’ tax dollars to kill off our wild horse and burro herds since the BLM’s own Advisory Board has recommended that 45,000 wild horses and burros be destroyed? This suggestion is disgusting and against the law and against the Wild Free Roaming Horse and Burro Act of 1971 passed to protect these incredible national treasures. Therefore we ask that all BLM monies be specifically utilized for the following usages. 1.) First, American tax dollars be allocated to maintain, feed and care for all the wild horses and burro’s in holding. 2.) Get an independent headcount of all wild horses and burro’s in holding and on public land with public and press participation to insure that the head count is accurate as requested in this petition (https://www.change.org/p/u-s-senate-investigate-the-wild-horse-burro-count-in-captivity-and-freedom) This will insure BLM cannot skew their numbers for more BLM monies. Read more here: http://protectmustangs.org/?p=10116 Please share this petition. It's very close to 100K signatures saying no to roundups, slaughter and abuse! For the Wild Ones, Anne Novak Volunteer Executive Director Contact@ProtectMustangs.org www.ProtectMustangs.org