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FREEDOM, A Fight Worth Fighting
Our opposition, the ranching and the mining industries, is well-organized, well-connected and extremely well-funded. They strike at animal protection laws, animal welfare advocates and pervert laws meant to protect all wild animals. Our wild places, and everything that lives and grows on them, is under threat as new policies loom large on the horizon that will “make or break” the ability of wild horses to stay free on the ranges they now occupy.
2016 is a big election year bringing “political season” into the forefront now.
Learn to dig deep and ask questions. Write letters and make telephone calls. The answer is NOT roundups or wiping wild horses off the range! The answer is NOT field spaying and surgical sterilization. The answer is NOT a resumption of “mustanging” and the resumption of selling wild horses to slaughter.
The answer IS accountability. The answer IS keeping them in protected areas on the range, supporting them in place, especially in rough times. The answer lies deep in management practices that fail miserably to hold other interests like livestock in check. We must protect the very range our wild horses and wildlife depend on to survive.
Without you, this work cannot be done and our wild horses and burros
will become a thing of the past, just a distant memory. We are headed into a time where very soon we will see herds zeroed out or sterilized permanently under the guise of protecting rangeland.
Wild Horse Education is a small effective force. What we have been documenting shows us that we are heading for very difficult times as big interests push to consume more of our battered rangeland for private profit. Our wild horses and burros are in trouble. We are truly standing at a crossroads that may lead to an “Eve of Destruction” of our wild places and our American wild horse. Please consider a donation to keep us in the fight.
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Exposing the Big Game 
The BLM, at somebody’s behest, and it isn’t the public’s, seems to be targeting horses all over the West at the same time. It will be a terrible shame if we allow them to get rid of them, especially with a law in place to supposedly protect them as our national heritage!!!! I’ve never regretted a moment of giving up beef and red meat – because it is the cause of a lot of problems. But it isn’t only ranching interests, but energy and mining that are the biggest threats to our wildlife, after a terrible Interior Dept.
What is happening to the wild horses and burros is sickening. The Bureau of Land Management is as much in the pocket of the ranchers and extractors as the fish and wildlife services are. I was hoping that when we finally got rid of Ken Salazar, the horses might have an advocate. Guess not. Unfortunately, I fear it will get worse, is that is possible. With the growing population, more and more land will be used for cattle and development, and everything wild will be defined as “pests” to be gotten out of the way of profit and progress.
As for the representatives, that depends on where you live and your particular official. Mine is Cathy McMorris-Rodgers who is a conservative Republican from ranching country. I don’t think she ever met a bill for animals she liked. She hears from me a lot, but nothing good ever comes of it.
I have shared the link for WHE.