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TS Radio: Horse slaughter plants….targeting small communities
March 27, 2013
radio, Wild horse slaughter Debbie Coffey, horse slaughter, horse slaughter plants., John Holland, Marti Oakley, slaughter by-products disposal, targeting small communities, TS Radio, Wild Horse Freedom Federation, Wild horse slaughter 5 Comments
BLM “Drought” Plans Get Rid of Wild Horses & Livestock
March 22, 2013
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Debbie Coffey PPJ Investigative Reporter Copyright 2013
Director of Wild Horse Affairs, Wild Horse Freedom Federation
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The Nevada Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Drought Management Environmental Assessments have omitted any mention of the big water guzzling uses, like mining, oil and gas development and solar, but go into detail in an array of plans to get rid of more wild horses and livestock (which compared to these other uses, hardly use any water).
The BLM has gone all out to make the public believe that man-made causes of drought (less water and 
forage because of huge water use by extractive industries), don’t even exist. While the BLM feigns concern about severe drought in Environmental Assessments (EAs), the BLM doesn’t mention one peep about curtailing any usage of water or land by mining, oil and gas development, or solar (which can also use a lot of water) on public lands.
This is the Industrialization of the West, under the guise of “drought.”
On the BLM Nevada Drought Information webpage, the Nevada BLM Drought Handbook mentions a few other issues, like closing roads and recreation permit stipulations.
But the BLM District Drought Management Environmental Assessments for the Ely, Elko, Winnemucca and Battle Mountain BLM Districts, all contain similar language and focus on removing and diminishing the wild horses and livestock, but NOT one word about mining, oils and gas development, or solar. The BLM has just buried this.
Below are my comments on the Ely District Drought Management Environmental Assessment.
OPEN LETTER TO THE BLM: More
Fracked in Elko County, Nevada
March 19, 2013
BLM corruption, WATER BLM corruption, BTEX compounds, contaminating ground water, Elko County, fracked, fracking, fracking operations, Halliburton loophole, known carcinogens, NEVADA, Nobel Energy, proprietary chemicals, Safe Drinking Water Act 4 Comments
Gary Jacobucci, Wells P&Z
Opinion:
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Fracked in Elko County
The open communications forum on fracking hosted by the Bureau of Land Management at the Red Lion March 14th proved to be a love fest between the BLM and Nobel Energy.
Gary Johnson, the BLM Deputy State Director for Minerals, was there to tell us how much money had been
brought in from fracking operations nationwide and to assure us that the BLM was going to monitor surface disturbances. Jeff Schwarz was there from Nobel Gas was there to tell us that we didn’t need to be concerned about the contamination of our ground water and could go back to sleep.
Schwarz presented a list of chemicals they were going to be using in their hydraulic fracturing operations along with a listing of how these chemicals were already used in other household products; implying that because they are already in use, that putting them into our drinking water was OK. Schwarz made reference to the FracFocus website, saying that there was transparency in what chemicals they were going to be using.
But when asked if he could assure Elko County that BTEX compounds, and known carcinogens, like known carcinogens were not going to be use in the drilling process, Schwatz hesitantly responded yes, but quickly added that there are proprietary chemicals that will be used. Proprietary, meaning secret.
This lack of disclosure of what chemicals are actually going to be injected underground is known as the Halliburton loophole and makes the listing of chemicals on the FracFocus website both deceptive and meaningless. The Halliburton loophole refers to the Halliburton legal team finding a loophole in the Safe Drinking Water Act that exempts fracking operations from having to disclose what chemicals they are injecting underground. More
Mitigating the damage from fracking: Wyoming asks for $50 mil
March 8, 2013
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Protect Mustangs™
Taking action to inform, protect and help America’s wild horses
Requesting a 50 million dollar fund to
mitigate environmental damage from
fracking for wild horses in Wyoming
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SUBMITTED ELECTRONICALLY
Bureau of Land Management
Attn: Mark Ames
Rawlins Field Office
P.O. Box 2407 (1300 North Third Street)
Rawlins, WY 82301-2407
Email: BLM_WY_Continental_Divide_Creston@blm.gov
RE: Continental Divide-Creston Natural Gas Development Project (CD-C Project)
Dear Mr. Ames,
We are against this massive fracking Continental Divide-Creston Natural Gas Development Project (CD-C Project) and ask you to stop this project before it ruins the environment and endangers America’s native wild horses in Wyoming.
The drilling proposed will not only displace native wild horses but also threaten the wild herds with environmental dangers/disease.
If you choose to go forward with this during the environmentally risky CD-C Project then we ask that you do the following: More
TS Radio: Equine Welfare Press Conference and Rally live coverage
March 4, 2013
BLM corruption, Wild horse slaughter BLM kill buyers, BLM’s Wild Horse and Burro Advisory Board, Debbie Coffey, eco-sanctuaries, Ginger Kathrens, herd management areas, Lisa Friday, Marti Oakley, public lands, RT Fitch, wild horses 26 Comments
Join us live at 11:30 a.m. on March 4th 2013 as we cover the conference and rally in Oklahoma City! More
Madeleine Pickens’ $1,200 (per night) Teepees
February 25, 2013
BLM corruption, Debbie Coffey, Wild horse slaughter 66 water rights, BLM corruption, Debbie Coffey, eco-sanctuaries, Herd mangement areas, Madeleine Pickens, public lands, Wild Horse Freedom Federation, wild horses 10 Comments
Debbie Coffey PPJ Investigative Reporter
Director of Wild Horse Affairs, Wild Horse Freedom Federation
Copyright 2013 All Rights Reserved.
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Madeleine Pickens (whose organization is called Saving America’s Mustangs) plans an “eco-resort” called Mustang Monument, as part of a Bureau of Land 
Management (BLM) eco-sanctuary plan to put wild horse geldings (a non-reproducing herd), which were rounded up and warehoused on a BLM holding facility, onto another fenced in area (with a more glamorous title).
While Madeleine’s idea included putting horses on a grazing allotment on public land, the BLM’s plan will likely eradicate 3 federally protected wild horse Herd Management Areas (HMAs). The BLM will likely roundup the remaining family bands of wild horses currently on these 3 HMAs, ship the wild horses to short term holding, then to same sex, long term holding pastures on private property for the rest of their lives. (Which may not be very long, but that’s another story.)
In this particular public-private partnership, approximately 14,000 acres are private land, and a whopping 508,000 acres are public land. But who will benefit the most? More
Interior Nominee Sally Jewell Stumps for Multi-National Corporations
February 14, 2013
BLM corruption, Wild horse slaughter biopiracy, BLM, Debbie Coffey, farming, herd management areas, Monsanto, PPJ Gazette, ranching, Sally Jewell, Wild Horse Freedom Federation, wild horses 5 Comments
Debbie Coffey PPJ Investigative Reporter
Director of Wild Horse Affairs, Wild Horse Freedom Federation
Copyright 2013 All Rights Reserved ___________________________________________________________________ You’ve gotta love a gal who’d enter into a conference call with Directors of the National Parks Conservation Association by saying "What we need to be concerned about is that we don't become the icing on a turd” and this observation alone would make Sally Jewell seem uniquely qualified to revamp the Bureau of Land Management’s disastrous Wild Horse & Burro Program. 
Sally Jewell is President Obama’s new choice to replace Ken Salazar as the Secretary of the Department of Interior.
While it was amusing when Secretary Salazar recently threatened to punch out a journalist and then had to apologize after a lot of bad publicity, it was the only thing to smile about during his tenure at the top of the heap of BLM’s mismanaged and unethical Wild Horse & Burro Program. Not to mention the whole BP disaster that happened under Salazar’s watch.
Since Sally Jewell worked in banking for many years, maybe she’ll be able to help the American public get an accurate count of the wild horses on their federally protected Herd Management Areas.
While wild horse advocates hope that the new Secretary of the Department of the Interior will do something to stop the BLM’s eradication of wild horses, just because we see photos of Jewell paddling a kayak or read that she likes to hike, we shouldn’t automatically assume that she’ll want to help save the wild horses.
The extractive industries that are leasing public lands for as little as $2 an acre have their hopes up, too (and they have a lot of money and lobbyists). “Tim Wigley, president of the Western Energy Alliance, said he hoped that time in the fields would translate into expanded oil and gas drilling on federal lands. ‘We hope to see a better balance of productive development on non-park, non-wilderness public lands that enhances the wealth of America and creates jobs while protecting the environment.”
What do we know about Sally Jewell? More
BLM “Spin Doctor” is “Out to Lunch”
February 6, 2013
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Debbie Coffey PPJ Investigative Reporter
Director of Wild Horse Affairs, Wild Horse Freedom Federation
Copyright 2013 All Rights Reserved.
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“When wild horse advocates contacted the BLM with questions about my article and the sales of wild horses to Jim Reeves of Spur Livestock, Debbie Collins, BLM’s “Information Center Coordinator” sent an inaccurate reply……….
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In what could be the “perfect storm,” my last 2 articles tied together, because those busy bees in BLM made a feeble attempt to disparage my article about Spur Livestock (which has a BLM contract for a wild horse long term holding pasture and is co-owned by Jim Reeves) selling wild horses to a kill buyer and also seemed to illustrate points I made in my article about BLM public relations manipulation.
When wild horse advocates contacted the BLM with questions about my article and the sales of wild horses to Jim Reeves of Spur Livestock, Debbie Collins, BLM’s “Information Center Coordinator” sent an inaccurate reply (portions below). Debbie Collins’ comments are in black.
My clarification is in red.
Debbie Collins (BLM)
: “The BLM did sell 72 horses to Jim Reeves, of Spur Livestock, in 2008.
DEBBIE COFFEY
: That’s what I said.
Debbie Collins
: The BLM sold him 36 geldings on September 9, 2008, from the Palomino Valley Facility in Sparks, NV and 36 mares on September 23, 2008, from the Canon City Correctional Center in Canon City, CO.”
: You’ve got it backwards. On 9/9/2008, Jim Reeves bought 36 geldings, ages 11-13, from the Canon City Maintenance Facility (prison) in Colorado and on 9/23/2008, Jim Reeves bought 36 mares, ages 11-12, from the BLM’s Palomino Valley holding facility in Nevada.
“The White Horse long-term pasture is an all-gelding facility; therefore, it would not have been possible to sell him mares from the White Horse gelding facility.”
It doesn’t matter what facility the wild horses came from. The BLM states that they do not sell our wild horses to slaughter, but their contractor sure did.
“Since Mr. Reeves is a partner in Spur Livestock, he was strongly advised that any wild horses he purchased had to be kept completely separate from the wild horses in the White Horse long-term pasture.”
Nowhere in my article did I say the wild horses he bought WERE in the same long term pastures as wild horses, or that they were kept “together.” More
Bureau of Land (mis)Management excels at manipulation training
February 4, 2013
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By Debbie Coffey PPJ Investigative Reporter
Director of Wild Horse Affairs, Wild Horse Freedom Federation
Copyright 2013 All Rights Reserved.
“The BLM also showed a video, but since a copy wasn’t included in the materials that were sent to me, for all we know, it could’ve been old episodes of “Mr. Ed.”
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BLM’s Manipulation Training
Did you ever wonder what made Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Wild Horse & Burro Specialists so “special?” Was it because they had extensive training in equine sciences? Was it because they were range management specialists or biologists who took a BLM Wild Horse & Burro Program “training” class? Was it because they had a big shiny rodeo belt buckle?
After filing a Freedom of Information Act Request (FOIA) for documents relating to the training the BLM gives to Wild Horse & Burro Specialists, I wasn’t too surprised to see that the classes that the BLM offered, in which you, the taxpayer, paid for BLM and USDA employees to attend, (probably their travel, hotel accommodations and food), taught them to regurgitate boilerplate wild horse & burro “gather” plans(to round up the wild horses), and reviewed 82 pages out of the BLM manual (couldn’t they just read that at their desk, back at the office?).
It also included litigation, the history of the program, fertility control, the training and adoption agreement with the Mustang Heritage Foundation, and hundreds of other pages that stressed BLM’s range management and policies. Many of the instructors had backgrounds primarily in range management.
But how many pages, out of about 1,000 pages, actually dealt with wild horse behavior or health? More
A Devil’s bargain: Pacific Southwest to become UN Bio-region
January 31, 2013
Agenda 21, Forestry Service Forestry service, General Exchange Acts, land theft, Marti Oakley, PPJ Gazette, PROPERTY RIGHTS, rip & ship, Siskiyou County, states resources, The Federal Land Policy and Management Act, Weeks Act 5 Comments
Marti Oakley ©copyright 2013 All Rights Reserved
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While we have been diverted with the governments plan to disarm us, that fine collection of corporatists, new world order advocates and United Nations servants have been busy using the federal register to implement United Nations Bio-regions within the United States. While these land and resource thefts will be accompanied by some fluffy scripts about how they are saving the planet for future generations and how the federal government and the United Nations are the only ones able and willing to protect these vast resource rich areas, the fact is, the plans they have for these areas are have nothing to do with preservation or protection. This is all about money and stealing from the states and their communities any and all resources that can be sold to corporations for massive profits.
Operating under the direction of the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), the Forestry Service has begun to establish bio-regions in accordance with United Nations demands, focused now on vast areas of forests in the Pacific Southwest. These are forests that the government has made off-limits to local timber industry’s except for favored contractors, including timber stands located on private property, decimating many local communities and economies. It has also initiated the closing off of public access roads.
All of this was done supposedly to protect natural resources and prevent exploitation of the forests. Yet if you read the Federal Land Management policy, you can clearly see that preserving the forests or the land is not even an issue. This is land and resource theft from the states themselves, to profit a federally created and unlawful agency that has no real authority to do any of the things it does do.
The Federal Land Policy and Management Act (FLPMA) of 1976 (43 U.S.C. 1715, 1716), as amended, supplements the Weeks Act and General Exchange Acts (sec 20.1).
Exchanges permit great flexibility to trade anything that is an interest in real property. The Forest Service can trade land, timber, oil, gas, minerals, road rights-of-way, scenic easements or development rights, buildings, power line rights-of-way, and/or other real property rights, including leasehold interests. More
