PPJ Investigative Reporter
Director of Wild Horse Affairs, Wild Horse Freedom Federation
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Photo by Kurt Golgart
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Debbie Coffey and Wild Horse Freedom Federation thank Animals Angels for their assistance with this investigation.
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In a telephone conversation with Jim Reeves, when asked about the 72 horses he bought as pack animals, he said “I’m told not to talk about this kind of stuff.” He said “I can’t talk about this” and “That’s BLM business.”
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Wild Horses sold to Kill Buyer by BLM Contractor
While the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) has been trying to convince the public that the BLM does not sell wild horses to slaughter, Wild Horse Freedom Federation has obtained proof that a BLM Long Term Holding contractor sold wild horses directly to kill buyer Joe Simon, who is well known for sending horses to slaughter, and who owns JS Ranch (“Farms”) in Perkins, Oklahoma.
To give you a little background, the BLM uses lame excuses to remove wild horses from their federally protected Herd Management Areas while letting other “uses” take over. For instance, BLM claims wild horses cause “degradation” to the range, but then allow oil and gas drilling (and fracking) on the same land. The BLM uses helicopters to round up the wild horses, then puts the horses in short term holding facilities, maintenance facilities, and ultimately, ships horses to same-sex long term holding pastures, where the public is led to believe the horses spend the rest of their lives.
Jim Reeves and Lyle Anderson own Spur Livestock, and have a contract with the Bureau of Land Management for a long term holding pasture for wild horses on private lands within the Cheyenne River Sioux Reservation in South Dakota, as well as on Indian Trust Lands administered by the Bureau of Indian Affairs. This facility is the Whitehorse Wild Horse Long Term Holding Facility.
Wild Horse Freedom Federation received records from the South Dakota Brand Board that reveal on 11/8/2008, while under contract with the BLM, “owner” Spur Livestock sold 34 horses with “BLM tattoos” to JS Farms, owned by kill buyer Joe Simon.
Animals Angels has written about kill buyer Joe Simon (scroll down to the 2nd article “What is the Price Tag for Suffering”) here It is important to note that state brand boards do not “recognize” BLM freezemarks
(which BLM puts on the left side of wild horses’ necks after they are captured) as official “BRANDS,” so the state brand board inspectors may completely ignore the BLM freezemarks and instead, note that wild horses have “NO BRAND.”
It is also important to note that if someone BUYS a wild horse from the BLM, they can then put their own brand on the horse, and state brand board inspectors may then note only the new brand in their records (since it is “recognized”) and NOT the BLM freezemark (which they don’t “recognize”) which would identify a horse was a wild horse on public records. State brand inspectors can omit any traces of wild horses on their official records.
On the Spur Livestock 11/8/2008 sale (besides the fact that 34 horses with “BLM tattoos” were sold), the words “Freeze brand” are written under the brand symbol for the other 36 horses in this sale (a total of 70 horses). The words “Freeze Brand” aren’t written under this brand symbol on any other Local Ownership Inspection Certificates, or under any other brand symbols.
Another important detail stands out. In looking at over 3 years of Local Ownership Inspection Certificates of horses by Spur Livestock, Jim Reeves and Spur Livestock, this sale of 70 horses seems to be the largest sale of horses.
Looking at the fact that Spur Livestock claimed itself to be the “Owner” of the wild horses on this South Dakota State Brand Board Local Ownership Inspection Certificate, did Spur Livestock claim to own the wild horses that the BLM warehouses on this property? Or were these horses the wild horses that Jim Reeves BOUGHT from the BLM?
BLM Sales records obtained through a Freedom in Information Act (FOIA) request indicate Jim Reeves bought 72 wild horses (2 truckloads) from the BLM about one and two months before he sold the 34 BLM wild horses with BLM freezebrands and 36 branded horses directly to Joe Simon.
On 9/9/2008, Jim Reeves bought 36 geldings, ages 11-13, from the Canon City Maintenance Facility (prison) in Colorado.
On 9/23/2008, Jim Reeves bought 36 mares, ages 11-12, from the BLM’s Palomino Valley BLM holding facility in Nevada.
Jim Reeves already had wild horses on his property, including younger horses, and he could easily have arranged to buy 72 of those wild horses. So why would he buy 72 wild horses from Nevada and Colorado and pay shipping costs (or make the BLM pay shipping costs with your tax dollars) to have them shipped out to South Dakota?
On the Sales Questions Document (application) form for Spur Livestock, a handwritten note at the bottom of page 1 claims: “Horses will be used as pack animals.”
Pack Animals?
How easy do you think it would be to train 11-13 year old wild geldings (castrated stallions) to be pack animals? If he was so knowledgeable about wild horse behavior, why wouldn’t he have bought younger horses that would’ve been easier to train?
In a telephone conversation with Jim Reeves, when asked about the 72 horses he bought as pack animals, he said “I’m told not to talk about this kind of stuff.” He said “I can’t talk about this” and “That’s BLM business.”
There’s more
While the information below may not involve any wild horses, it seems to show that Jim Reeves, Lyle Anderson and Spur Livestock have sold horses directly to slaughter buyers more than once. (However, keep in mind that BLM freezemarks can be noted as “NO BRAND” and a new brand may be added and recognized as the ONLY brand, so the public has no absolute proof that these horses were NOT wild horses, either.)
In reviewing other South Dakota Brand Board records of Spur Livestock, Jim Reeves and Lyle Anderson, horses sold included:
12/4/08 – 48 “No brand” horses were sold by Jim Reeves, and 2 “No Brand” horses by other Reeves family members, to Rusty Williams in George West, Texas. (not a known kill buyer)
2/25/09 – 31 branded horses belonging to Jim Reeves and other Reeves family members were sold directly to slaughterhouse Canadian Premium Meats, Lacombe, AB, Canada.
11/18/09 – 9 “no brand” horses and 3 horses Jim got only 6 days before (on 11/12/09) from Jess Starr of Dupree, SD, were sold to kill buyer (Randy) Musick of Mitchell, SD.
11/18/09 – Jim Reeves sent 19 horses, including horses owned by Reeves family members, 3 branded horses Spur Livestock got from Vernon Starr of Dupree, SD only about 10 days before, 3 branded horses Jim Reeves got from Larry Long only 17 days before, and 6 horses from Jeff Hunt (Jim Reeves got 3 of these horses on 10/3/09) to kill buyer (Randy) Musick of Mitchell, SD.
7/17/12 – Lyle Anderson sent 2 horses, (1″No Brand” horse and a palomino mare noted “Brand no registered. Horse comes from No Brand Area.” to an unknown buyer (the buyer line was left blank) in Pueblo, CO.
Canon City Prison – a BLM “Maintenance Facility”
Oddly, in reviewing FOIA documents of “Animals Shipped” out of the Canon City (Prison) Maintenance facility, and comparing these to FOIA documents on BLM sales, in September, 2008, when Jim Reeves bought the 36 wild horses, records from Canon City Correctional Facility indicate that no horses were shipped out in September, 2008, and only 1 horse the following month (October, 2008), and only 33 horses the month after that (November, 2008). So did the 36 horses that Jim Reeves bought from the BLM at this facility just walk past a SWAT team and out a back door?
This was not the only discrepancy in Canon City Maintenance Facility records. Tom Davis bought 120 horses in January, 2009, and Harry Vold bought 36 horses that same month (120+36 = 156), but Canon City records indicate only 4 horses were shipped out in January, 2009.
Tom Davis (only one of many this month) bought 111 horses in March, 2009, but Canon City records indicate only 77 horses were shipped out in March, 2009.
This goes on and on and on…the numbers don’t add up. I hope the person who’s counting the wild horses isn’t the same person who’s counting the prisoners.
My call to Mr. Fran Ackley (Program Lead for the BLM Wild Horse and Burro Program in Colorado) for clarification on this issue was not returned.
So what, exactly, is “BLM business?”
Question #17 on Jim Reeves’ BLM sales question document was “Do you intend to resell these animals? An X was typed in the YES box.
Right off the bat, the person in the BLM sales office should’ve wondered who the horses would be sold to, and for what purpose, really.
It was odd that although all of the answers were typed, there were handwritten notes at the bottom of the page indicating the horses were to be used as pack animals. It seemed like an afterthought. Did Jim Reeves write this? Or did a BLM employee write this? The document wasn’t signed, either. The BLM seems to keep very sloppy legal documents.
On the Bills of Sales for the horses Jim Reeves bought, above the line that indicates Authorized Officer, the words “Virtual Migration Person” was typed in. Who was this?
It is also unusual that the BLM’s contract with Spur Livestock (NAC070071) was dated 4/9/2007 and signed by BLM’s contracting officer, but this was almost 2 months BEFORE the Environmental Assessment (EA) was issued (July, 2007). Usually, EAs have to be completed to determine whether or not a federal undertaking would significantly affect the environment, before a project can go forward. Did the BLM jump the gun and skirt NEPA requirements?
Spur Livestock
The base year (2007) of the Spur Livestock 5 year contract with the BLM was for $506,250. Looking at fedspending.org, it seems Spur Livestock has made $2,952,210
since 2007.
(Links to Spur Livestock contracts are included at the end of article.)
- Jim Reeves also received $198,604 in USDA subsidies 1995-2011.
- Reeves is a member of the West Central Cattlemen’s Association in South Dakota.
- Reeves’ wife, Janna, is the office manager for the South Dakota Cattlemen’s Association, and
- Janna’s sister, Jodi Hickman, is the Executive Director of the South Dakota Cattlemen’s Association.
- In 2010, horse slaughterhouse pusher Sue Wallis’ now defunct United Organizations of the Horse claimed that the South Dakota Cattlemen’s Association made a “financial contribution” to the pro-horse slaughter cause.
- Jim and Janna Reeves, along with Jodi Hickman, are principals in the 3J Cattle Company.
- Jim Reeves’ brother is Tom Reeves, Pro Rodeo Hall of Fame Saddle “Bronc” rider.
- Jim Reeve’s partner in Spur Livestock, Lyle Anderson, has had a string of business ventures which the South Dakota Secretary of State now lists as “inactive.”
- Anderson also owns Anderson Construction, LLC, which is listed in the Secretary of State records as “Delinquent.”
- Lyle Anderson is also listed as the owner of Anderson Ranches Partnership.
- Lyle Anderson received $260,110 in USDA subsidies 1995-2011.
In August, 2012, Reeves and Anderson appealed a decline of their application for the U.S. Small Business Administration Business Development Program.
While the BLM cons the public into believing that the captured wild horses live out their lives on long term holding pastures, it seems that the BLM knowingly allows middlemen to cover their tracks in a pipeline of wild horses going to slaughter.
What the BLM consistently seems to “maintain” is fraud against the American taxpayer in its Environmental Assessments, a long history of inhumane handling of wild horses, lack of oversight and accountability, a waste of tax dollars, and lies to both the public and Congress, so every aspect of the Bureau of Land Management’s Wild Horse & Burro Program needs to be investigated in a long overdue Congressional Investigation.
SOURCES:
http://archive.constantcontact.com/fs022/1101655399670/archive/1110611139942.html (Scroll down to 2nd article: “What is the Price Tag for Suffering?”)
http://www.jshorsecompany.com/mares.html
www.jshorsecompany.com/2010_consignment_form.doc
http://www.manta.com/c/mmsg7sg/anderson-ranches-partnership
http://farm.ewg.org/persondetail.php?custnumber=A07674974
http://farm.ewg.org/persondetail.php?custnumber=A07620680
http://www.manta.com/c/mmsq254/spur-livestock-l-l-c
http://www.sdcattlemen.org/CMDocs/SouthDakota/Affilate%20Contacts2.pdf
http://www.worldofrodeo.com/008/reeves.htm
http://www.prorodeohalloffame.com/inductees/by-category/saddle-bronc-riding/tom-reeves/
http://texascowboyhalloffame.org/pages/inductees/reeves.html
http://www.manta.com/c/mmsg7sg/anderson-ranches-partnership
http://www.manta.com/c/mmythcq/anderson-construction
http://www.featherlitend.com/customers/
http://www.sba.gov/sites/default/files/files/Thune%202012.pdf
http://www.sba.gov/content/8a-business-development-0
SPUR Livestock contracts
http://ceq.hss.doe.gov/welcome.html#ea
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http://www.manta.com/c/mmdxtfp/williams-bookkeeping-service
http://www.manta.com/c/mmscgzd/williams-ranch
http://www.dondennisfamily.com/dupree_ranch/tornado_09/index.html
http://www.huntranch.com/old_index.shtml
http://www.sdcattlemen.org/sdcastaff.aspx
http://opencorporates.com/companies/us_sd/DL014459
Oct 24, 2015 @ 09:41:57
Watch this animated video of BLM’s wild horse management plan: https://youtu.be/uwERVyZOeKY
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Jun 02, 2015 @ 08:06:51
Why isn’t this A/hole brought up on animal cruelty charges! I’m sure Bubba wouldn’t mind a new room mate.
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Mar 11, 2013 @ 12:00:45
Please sign and share this petition to stop this madness. http://signon.org/sign/stop-horse-slaughter-5.fb23?source=c.fb&r_by=1775451
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Feb 14, 2013 @ 22:25:04
Thanks for your answer. Is this enough to go forward??? I’m just frustrated that Salazar gets to walk. I know he would claim that he did not know. But it is his
Mess
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Feb 14, 2013 @ 20:24:12
Polopaula (Paula Denmon) this information was missed by the Propublica article and Animals Angels worked with me on this investigation. This was the FIRST time that information on a BLM long term holding contractor sold to a kill buyer.
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Feb 14, 2013 @ 18:56:35
Why don’t you file the lawsuit? We’ll back you up! I doubt you saw this info anywhere else unless they picked this up and reprinted it. Majority of it came from more than 80 FOIA requests for documents no one else had requested. How and where would they get the info? It wasn’t published. Calen
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Feb 14, 2013 @ 18:30:03
It seems like this is the same information that I have read before in AA reports and the Propublica. . Is there information now that will be “court ready” I am just tired of reading the same accusations over and over, and nothing has been done to stop it… If possible , it is time for attorney familiar with Federal suits to take a look at this.
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Feb 11, 2013 @ 21:33:31
Animals’ Angels FOIA Request Uncovers Grave Discrepancy in BLM Mortality Rates | Save Animals Today
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Dealing With Cruel Ignorant People Regarding Horses Slaughtered For Meat | Save Animals Today
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Feb 05, 2013 @ 11:47:28
I’m so happy there are people like you who fights for .such beautiful creatures!
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Feb 04, 2013 @ 21:53:53
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Feb 01, 2013 @ 19:07:35
Excerpts from:
http://prophoto7journal.wordpress.com/2012/02/
BLM, Horse Slaughter, Theft and America’s Money
Essentially when the BLM culls horses from the Wild Horse Herds, by i.e. certainly questionable roundups, and state they are bringing them in for adoption – but lie. In reality, the agency often disposes of a huge part of a herd, often as high as 80 percent. One of their notices to the public of horse-culling declared that the agency would dispose of about 1,000 horses out of a herd of 1,200. Another notice declared the agency would bring in 280 animals from a herd of 330, (i.e. read any BLM publication notice of Horse Herd Roundup Statistics, but awkwardly have not been checked or confirmed by reliable sources, so who really knows the true or actual horse counts).
An interview with an informant that took part in hundreds of horse thefts and erroneous count situations stated what they do in one night: “…about 60, 70 head…Sometimes we do it during working hours…after the counts have been jimmied around, those horses are moved…drive to a certain location, open a gate and dump those horses out in with a bunch of other horses…at the satellite ranch.”
These satellite ranches cost the taxpayers millions of dollars each year, often used for stolen horses, especially stolen horses from the Wild Horse Herd Roundups, as the informant continues to describe here: “…a satellite ranch is a number of ranches throughout the different areas that we catch horses that we distribute horses too…They are paid so much money to just hold these horses . . . until we come back and pick them up again. . .”
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Wild Horses sold to Kill Buyer by BLM Contractor
Feb 01, 2013 @ 14:20:42
Citizen Investigation Exposes Evidence of BLM Wild Horses Sold to Probable Slaughter
Feb 01, 2013 @ 13:53:22
Jan 31, 2013 @ 21:37:16
Save Animals Today » Blog Archive » Is Ken Salazar and the U.S. Government Complicit in Slaughtering over a Thousand Wild Horses
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Fresh allegations of wild horses going to slaughter - News - Horsetalk.co.nz
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Jan 26, 2013 @ 10:34:16
Lynnae, you can call your representative and senator and ask them for a Congressional Investigation into the BLM’s Wild Horse & Burro Program. Sign petitions, make calls, tell a neighbor or friend what is happening to the wild horses & burros. You are the only voice the wild horses have. You can make a difference.
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Jan 26, 2013 @ 08:44:58
BLM ALTERNATIVE OPTIONS
http://www.equinewelfarealliance.org/uploads/BLMFOIA.pdf
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Jan 26, 2013 @ 08:44:18
BLM TEAM CONFERENCE
http://www.equinewelfarealliance.org/uploads/BLM.Team.Euth.FOIA_Cover.letter.pdf
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Jan 25, 2013 @ 15:56:13
What can people do to help stop this? What can I do to help? It feels so overwhelming.
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Jan 25, 2013 @ 07:08:03
“NEVADA IS “GROUND ZERO” IN THE WAR TO SAVE THE LAST OF OUR NATIONAL ICONS…..”
http://rtfitchauthor.com/2013/01/24/wild-horse-cash-cow/
WILD HORSE CASH COW?
By Cynthia Kennedy & Patrick Kennedy
Virginia City News
“Wild Horse Freedom Federation and SFTHH stand shoulder to shoulder with the astonishing advocates who are attempting to save the last of the vanishing Virginia Range Wild Horse Herd. The first true love of Wild Horse Annie these horses have earned a spot in the hearts of all Americans. Whatever it takes to stop the Nevada Department of Agriculture from not only ripping these horses from the range but putting them up, almost instantly, for sale to slaughter we will be there and we hope you will be too. Be it the BLM or the State of Nevada one thing is for certain, Nevada is “ground zero” in the war to save the last of our national icons. Keep the faith.” ~ R.T.
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Citizen investigation exposes evidence of BLM wild horses sold to probable slaughter | Protect Mustangs
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This is about more than just wild horses – it’s also about a lack of government oversight! Why has no Investigator General been appointed in what…5 years or more? The BLM and DOI have been getting away with breaking the law all this time and part of the reason is there is no other government agency checking up on their procedures – BLM can’t even fill out documents correctly much less follow the law. Don’t bother sending this to the BLM – they’ll just ask their PR department to come up with more euphemisms to explain it away. Our Elected officials need to see this!
A facebook twitter campaign to send this blog post to all of our elected officials has just been launched. If you have a twitter account – please join this event and start tweeting.
https://www.facebook.com/events/197806477030738/197821347029251/?notif_t=plan_mall_activity
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Jan 23, 2013 @ 22:58:32
http://www.igha.org/BLM2.html
I.G.H.A. / HorseAid’s Bureau of Land Management News
The First Public Signs of Internal Dissent…
DENVER (CSM feed) — More than 40,000 wild mustangs roam on public lands in the West, federally protected as living symbols of American heritage. Since 1971, the Bureau of Land Management (under the “Wild Horse Annie Act”) has been responsible for maintaining mustang herds and administering a popular adopt-a-horse program. But allegations of criminal activities within the BLM – including slaughter-for-profit schemes – are casting a shadow over the agency.
Former and current employees say shady dealings are customary in the BLM horse program. “The American public is being cheated out of millions of dollars a year,” says Steven Sederwall, a BLM law-enforcement agent who retired last year. “In 23 years as a cop, I’ve never seen anything like the depth of corruption I’ve seen in the BLM.” Last year, Mr. Sederwall and five former colleagues sent a nine-page letter to US Attorney General Janet Reno, detailing “an ever-growing list of felony criminal violations committed by the Bureau of Land Management.” Charges include BLM employees selling wild horses to slaughterhouses and rodeo circuits; falsified financial and horse inventory records; misappropriation of funds; and obstruction of justice during investigations.
Bureau officials say the accusations are unfounded. “The vast majority of these allegations are up to 15 years old. These are not things that are happening now,” says Bob Johns, Washington spokesman for the BLM, a division of the Department of the Interior. Walter Johnson, chief of law enforcement for the BLM, says he has seen no evidence to support the charges. “I am not aware of either myself or any member of my staff doing anything inappropriately, or involving any criminal action. I will not comment on anything unless it is firsthand knowledge to me.” But in a June 1993 memorandum to the Interior Department inspector general, Mr. Johnson wrote regarding a federal investigation in New Mexico: “Through the initial phase of the investigation, it is apparent that administrative actions by some BLM wranglers and program administrators have not been in compliance with the direction and guidance provided…. In many of the adoptions and group adoptions reviewed, personnel from BLM apparently promoted the adoption of horses for commercial gain.” Federal law prohibits the government from selling wild horses to slaughterhouses and other commercial operations.
To keep herd size in check, the BLM is charged with rounding up 6,000 to 9,000 wild horses per year and offering them for adoption. Adopters are required to pay a $125 fee and wait one year before taking legal title to a horse. The provisions are intended to reduce the incidence of profit-motivated adoptions. But sources inside the BLM say thousands of horses are taken illegally from rangelands each year. If money changes hands, it’s strictly off the books. As for documented adoptions, sources say backdated paperwork is a common tactic to give adopters quicker title to a horse. After one year, an adopted wild horse may be sold at will. A 1,000-pound horse will typically bring $700 to $900 on the slaughter market. An untrained riding horse, on the other hand, may sell for only $300 to $400.
BUT those accusing the BLM of wrong-doing suffered a setback last month. The Justice Department has aborted a long-running investigation in Del Rio, Texas, which involved group adoptions of hundreds of horses arranged by two BLM wranglers. A federal grand jury was convened in 1994 to investigate allegations by unnamed neighbors that James Galloway, a BLM-contracted wrangler, had taken 36 mustangs to his father-in-law’s ranch, reportedly to fatten them for slaughter. Mr. Galloway also allegedly kept untitled horses in other locations. But no charges were filed against Galloway.
John Murphy, assistant US attorney in San Antonio, says the case was dropped because it “lacked prosecutive merit.” Sederwall, who led the initial Del Rio investigation for the BLM, claims the agency is hiding something. “We’ve got all the evidence, but they successfully covered it up.” He contends that Galloway was ready to implicate BLM officials. “They couldn’t prosecute Galloway because he was going to turn evidence against the BLM. Galloway only did what they taught him,” Sederwall says. Sederwall says he was taken off the Del Rio case after he uncovered incriminating evidence against BLM management. He and 14 other investigators were ordered not to speak to the grand jury, he says. Eventually, these agents were all reportedly transferred, fired, or pressured into early retirement. Reed Smith, deputy state BLM director for New Mexico until he retired in 1994, maintains “BLM management fought the Del Rio investigation with everything they had.”
Karen Sussman, president of the International Society for the Protection of Mustangs and Burros, says the problem is an inherent BLM conflict of interest. “The BLM manages for land and cattle. Traditionally, they’re committed to ranching. Not wild horses.” Ranchers, who pay the government to graze their cattle on rangelands, consider mustangs a competitor for forage, making wild-horse rustling a longstanding and accepted tradition in the West. Another federal grand jury is reviewing allegations of internal fraud in the Jackson, Miss., BLM office. The US attorney there would not comment on the investigation. But a BLM employee in the Jackson office says, “What this program has done in reality is make a few people very rich…. You can talk to rangers, special agents, BLM people all over the US, who have independently come to the same conclusion,” he says. “If a dozen people are hollering smoke, smoke, smoke, there has got to be fire.”
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Jan 23, 2013 @ 22:39:10
Jan 23, 2013 @ 22:36:45
The BLM…..is the ones that need rounding up !!!! Drag them into court….and every family out there….that is being mently tormented….by being forced to watch what is going with the wild horses ! Barbaric torture…even a little foal…dragging his left hind leg already broken or injuried……urging the first 24 hrs. Of his life !!!!! Our GOVERMENT…SEEMS TO BE TESTING US….LIKE LAB RATS….HOW MUCH MORE WILL WE TAKE !!!!! For the most part America….is built up by law abiding citizens…..if any one of us…went out there…and brutely treated the wild horses the way the BLM has…..we wld be under the jail !!!! Every single citizen….out there…grab your cameras, cell lbs, video recorders…..get on your four wheelers, trucks or horses….and capture every single incident that you can !!!! Then everybody get together and file a billion dollar class A law suit against the BLM…for emotional distress, post Tramatic disorder, sleepless nights…..children not being able to concentrate on thier school work !!!! Nightmares !!! Anxiety disorders !!! SOCK IT TO THEM !!!! Demand Billions of dollars in settlements……or ” FREEDOM FOR THE HORSES “. !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Make a stand !!! Every single home owner post a sign in your yard……FIRE THE BLM !!!!! FREEDOM FOR THE HORSES !!!!!! AND MAKE SIGNS SAYING TO YOUR CONGRESS…..WE VOTED YOU IN…..WE CAN AND WILL VOTE YOU OUT !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Jan 23, 2013 @ 21:49:21
Like all .gov hacks they are hired and kept on becuz they were tested and found to be psychopathic or sociopaths. If they did not have these traits they would not be hired. the pain & suffering they cause to these animals and to people gives them a high. They should have signs on them that say ‘do not disturb—psycho-nut getting a fix’
anyone who would do such things and claim they are just following orders or that they have a family to support so they have to do it needs to go to a fema camp and get their self cleaned up. I suppose there is no fixing “nuts to the bone” syndrome
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Jan 23, 2013 @ 21:23:28
These articles & the sources they came from should be required reading for everyone. Its heartbreaking to think of the suffering these animals go thru just for some greedy so & so to make money. And for the BLM employees to just allow it to go on – what kind of human beings (supposedly) are they? Not much.
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Jan 23, 2013 @ 20:17:35
Julia, thanks for supporting the wild horses.
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Jan 23, 2013 @ 19:20:57
Anyone filing charges against these evil sick POS???
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Jan 23, 2013 @ 17:36:19
I am so proud of you for raising awareness about this atrocity!
I am working on a film to raise awareness about the wolf massacre going on around the country.
I will be checking in on the wild horses issue and doing what I can as well!
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Jan 23, 2013 @ 17:29:29
jb, blm has decided it’s a good idea to pipe groundwater to vegas since they already sucked the CO river dry! all those welfare cattle/sheep will be gone soon too.
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Jan 23, 2013 @ 17:26:43
Oversight is job of House subcommittee on Natural Resources https://naturalresources.house.gov/contact/ Sick of these arrogant freeloaders NOT doing their damn jobs.
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Jan 23, 2013 @ 17:14:21
Big Buisness needs to stop messing with wild horse and get some compassion and heart. Why does it seem the majority of people can’t see what is important?
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Jan 23, 2013 @ 14:48:19
interesting so many geldings go…and if you do the death rates in LTH the death rate for geldigs is 4 to 1…geldings are much larger then the mares.
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Jan 23, 2013 @ 14:05:58
jb, the cows are next. Have you heard about grazing allotments not being renewed? If not, you will soon.
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Jan 23, 2013 @ 14:05:06
4aileen, our next step will be demanding a Congressional Investigation. But also, please share this article far and wide. The truth needs to be known.
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Jan 23, 2013 @ 14:01:41
jb, the cows will be rounded up NEXT – have you heard about the BLM taking away grazing allotments yet?
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Jan 23, 2013 @ 13:37:25
@grandmagregg done i emailed them all. a petition can be started on the white house petition site we the people. if enough signatures are gathered a response from the white house is required
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Jan 23, 2013 @ 13:00:39
Thank you Deb for your research. I have to wonder if all this was arranged by the” infamous” Sally Spencer yet again and why did it stop? It could have continued right up until late last year when the Tom Davis scandal broke and no one would have been the wiser. Every time I read of captured mustangs going to Canon City, I shudder. They can do anything they want to there and no one would ever know.
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Jan 23, 2013 @ 10:54:43
get a grip. it’s protein without the vaccinations or gmo feed. what if they were wild cows?
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Jan 23, 2013 @ 06:27:36
Absolutely IMPECCABLE WORK, Debbie…as always and as always, every piece of evidence can be verified.
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Jan 23, 2013 @ 06:16:04
Debbie Coffey is an amazing investigative reporter with a knack for research and fact checking that is rare these days. Looking forward to reading more and watching the BLM house of cards tumble in honor of all the indigenous wild horses the government agency has heinously sold into the slaughter pipeline . . . It’s time for a deep investigation–done by an entity outside the BLM–to bust these crimes against the American mustang and champion the public who were fed lies by officials in charge of protecting our icons of freedom.
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Jan 23, 2013 @ 06:15:00
Excellent work Deb! I think you have enough facts here for a fraud case!
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Jan 23, 2013 @ 05:43:58
Carson City:
This is what happens to them when they are whisked out of sight to the prisons, never to be seen again.
Look at ALL of the pictures and scroll the arrow to the top to read the captions. These WILD HORSES have been through the trauma of helicopter roundups and being transported for miles, and GOD only knows what other things have been done to them along the way and then they CASTRATED….by WHO and HOW?
PICTURES
http://www.lvrj.com/multimedia/Prison-Wild-Horse-Training-126075388.html
Convict cowboys train horses, seek redemption at Nevada camp
Las Vegas Review-Journal
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Wild Horses sold to Kill Buyer by BLM Contractor | Protect Mustangs
Jan 23, 2013 @ 04:07:39
Save Animals Today » Blog Archive » Breaking News: Wild Horses Sold to Kill Buyer by BLM Contractor
Jan 23, 2013 @ 03:59:18
Jan 23, 2013 @ 03:15:13
The wild horses and wild burros are not giving up and neither can we.
Along with sending this article to government representatives and media and NAS and GAO [contact@gao.gov] below are some links to the BLM persons in charge of decision making. Although I realize that it is like asking the fox why he stole the hen from the hen house … I will be sending these BLM employees the article and asking the BLM to explain to me why they have allowed (encouraged and/or assisted) these illegal activities.
(I am not naive … just stubborn)
http://www.blm.gov/wo/st/en/info/directory.html
http://www.blm.gov/wo/st/en/info/directory/wo-270_dir.html
And if I can be so bold as to suggest:
Ed Roberson
Sally Spencer
Lili Thomas
Bea Wade
Dean Bolstad
Mike Pool
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Jan 23, 2013 @ 03:03:37
I believe they did this same thing with the wild horses that once lived in Mesa Verde. People privy with BLM had special arrangements/ dibs on these horses then sent them to slaughter. I was actually told this years ago. WIth the internet more widely used now so information can be disseminated quickly and easily, one would think we could pull together to stop this corruption! What is the next step for us?
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Jan 23, 2013 @ 02:45:30
Thank you Debbie Coffey and WHFF for airing the truth we are grateful for your hard work and courage to dig deep and crack open the truth for all to know, what we have suspected for long the BLM is selling our wild horses to kill buyers. Accountability for selling our federally protected wild horses is in order and long over due..Keep up the awesome reporting . We stand with you~: May the sacred ones who were tortured to death know.. we will not give up until justice reigns here for them and their relations.
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Jan 23, 2013 @ 01:59:43
this is way be bond stupid contrack from just to end horses life i cant be leave people do such a thaing if i
had the money the time and the place thes horses would not go to slaughter people that sing the from are horse heaters from hell
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Jan 23, 2013 @ 01:25:24
Excellent work Ms Coffey! Wherever the blm is working…corruption is the name of the game. what these fine psychopaths have done to our wild horses should be done to them. the sad thing is you could wave this under the nose of a hundred congressman and they will tell you there is nothing they can do aobut it. After all……lots of money comes in from oil drillers, frackers and miners……don’t want to mess that up!
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Jan 23, 2013 @ 01:20:34
Wow, excellent detective work Holmes and Watson!!
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Jan 23, 2013 @ 01:16:45
This is outrageous, you would think we could do something about it but as I’ve witnessed, no matter how many signatures you get, no matter how we protest to show our so called leaders in Congress that we want our Wild Mustangs and Burrows to stay on public lands, not abused and sold for Human consumption, nothing happens. No one is getting reprehended for these crimes, no one in Congress seems to even care about the Horses and Burrows much less us tax payers. It’s deplorable that our Government will not even take note of.much less do anything to correct this issue.. We the tax payers and owners of this land have no say in what happens to the land or the Wild Horses and Burrows on it. I’m just sick of the degrading, despicable and deploring conditions that continue to go on with BLM . Personally, I would fire the whole lot and replace them with Horse owners.
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Jan 23, 2013 @ 00:56:34
Or it could be that it came down from Wash DC, as it did in the Tom Davis sale–Lona and Fran were told by the office in DC to approve the sale–no questions asked. Who is it in Wash.
that has this pipeline to sell all these horses?
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Jan 23, 2013 @ 00:15:33
Jan 22, 2013 @ 23:21:32
And perhaps Francis Ackley (Colorado WH&B program leader) didn’t call you back because his assistant Lona A Kossnar is the person who signed the sales agreements for the sales to Tom Davis from Cannon City from 2008 to 2012 and most likely either he or she signed the sales agreements for Reeves’ purchases too.
To take it a step further, Reeves and Anderson were APPROVED by BLM as guardians for our Wild Ones.
Shall we start our list of “Who’s Who” in this big mess? So far, it appears that the BLM Washington D.C. office and the Colorado state office and some of the BLM short term offices/managers and some of the long term holding facility operators knew for years what was going on and had an active part in the conspiracy.
And our (yours and mine) wild horses and burros are GONE. As they say in the movies … “heads need to roll”.
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