American Wild Horse Preservation Campaign (AWHPC) is wanting 15,000 signatures on this letter to PZP our wild horses in Wyoming. Please do not sign this if you want our wild ones save from round ups! *** The State of Wyoming uses images of wild horses to promote itself as a place where the untamed and wild spirit of the American West still lives. Yet wild horses in Wyoming are hanging on by a thread, with just 2,500 left in the entire state. The BLM Wyoming Resource Advisory Council (RAC) is meeting in Laramie, Wyoming on February 2-4, 2015, This citizen advisory board has within its jurisdiction all of Wyomings 16 wild horse Herd Management Areas. AWHPC is submitting comments, asking for the RACs support for humane reform of the BLM wild horse program and fairer treatment for Wyomings last remaining mustangs. If you live in the vicinity of Laramie, please consider attending the meeting -- the public comment period begins at 8 a.m. on Feb. 4. For those who cant attend, you can still make your voice heard by signing on to the statement below. Well submit your signatures to the RAC to deliver a strong message that citizens across America want our wild horses protected on our public lands. To the Members of the BLM Wyoming RAC: The Bureau of Land Managements (BLMs) current approach to wild horse and burro management is unsustainable and inhumane. Its time for all parties to work together to implement humane and cost-effective solutions that will Keep Wild Horses Wild. In this spirit, we, the undersigned citizens and taxpayers, respectfully ask your advisory board to recommend the following actions to the BLM: 1. Implement humane and proven PZP fertility control to manage Wyomings wild horse herds on the range. This alternative was recommended by the National Academy of Sciences (NAS), which found that continuation of business as usual practices will be expensive for the BLM and the public it serves. 2. Re-evaluate “Appropriate” Management Levels (AMLs) for Wyomings wild horse Herd Management Areas (HMAs). The NAS found that the BLMs establishment of AMLs is not transparent to stakeholders, supported by scientific information, or amenable to adaptation. The current AMLs are based on the unfair allocation of the vast majority of forage resources in HMAs to privately owned livestock instead of to federally protected wild horses and burros. AMLs should be increased to reflect the social preference for protecting wild horses and the need to preserve genetically viable herds. 3. Discontinue any plans to sterilize wild horses by spaying mares and/or castrating stallions. Such procedures cause behavioral changes in wild horses, which, in turn, cause dramatic changes in herd dynamics and social organization. As a result, sterilization flies in the face of the Wild Free-Roaming Horses and Burros Act, which mandates treatment of wild horses as integral part of the natural system of the public lands and protects them from capture, branding, harassment and death. 4. Strengthen animal welfare policies for roundup, capture, handling and holding of wild horses. Wyoming has just 2,500 horses left on 3.6 million acres of BLM land in the state - a ratio of one horse per 1,400 acres - hardly an overpopulation problem. By contrast, livestock graze on 18.3 million acres of BLM land in Wyoming. Put another way, wild horses are present on just 20 percent of the BLM land available for livestock grazing in the state. Therefore, conflicts between wild horses and livestock in Wyoming can be resolved. With more than 80 percent of the American public opposed to horse slaughter and 72 percent strongly in favor of preserving wild horses and burros on our public lands, we must work together to implement solutions that protect these animals in the wild. The BLM’s endless, costly and cruel cycle of roundups, removal and stockpiling of wild horses in holding facilities must end. Please vote to recommend these common sense and publicly supported reforms. Thank you for your consideration.
Posted on: Sun, 25 Jan 2015 02:19:55 +0000
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