A Cruel Waste

In the worst economy since the Great Depression, President Obama and his Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar are asking for $75.7 million dollars in fiscal year 2011 primarily for more roundups and $43 million to buy one preserve likely in the East to warehouse some of the wild horses the BLM has condemned to captivity.

Get Personal: Call the President

Phone: 202-456-1414
Fax: 202-456-2461
Comments: 202-456-1111

Write a real letter and mail to:
President Obama
1600 Pennsylvania Ave NW
Washington, DC 20500

Please ask the President to:

1. STOP ALL ROUNDUPS until accurate and independent assessments of population numbers and range conditions are made
available.

2. Restore protections included in the 1971 Wild Free-Roaming Horse and Burro Act. Update existing laws that protect wild
horses by reopening certain public lands to the mustangs and burros, thus decreasing the number in captivity.

3. Return healthy wild horses and burros in holding to all available acres of public land designated primarily for their use
in 1971. If these lands are not available, equivalent and appropriate western public lands should be added in their place.

4. Reduce livestock grazing and reanalyze appropriate management levels for herd management areas to allow for
self-sustaining, genetically-viable herds to exist in the west.

5. Conduct Congressional hearings regarding the mismanagement of our wild herds and further investigate the inability of BLM
to correct the shortcomings of the program as audited by the Government Accountability Office’s 1990, 1991 and 2008 reports.

For further information, view these websites:
http://www.thecloudfoundation.org
http://www.equinewelfarealliance.org
http://www.wildhorsepreservation.com

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