by Debbie Coffey Copyright 2014 All Rights Reserved.
Boyd Spratling (Photo: BLM)
Boyd Spratling, a past President of the Nevada Cattlemen’s Association who’s currently serving as a BLM National Wild Horse & Burro Advisory Board member, manages to further undermine whatever shreds might be left of BLM’s credibility by taking a seemingly prominent part in the pro-horse slaughter propaganda film “Horses in Crisis,” made by a group called Protect the Harvest.
At the end of this film, credits show the Protect the Harvest logo “in conjunction” with United Horsemen (the pro-horse slaughter group whose President is Dave Duquette).
The horse-eating “Doinkster”
This propaganda film is shockingly inaccurate.
While rancher Mike Stremler talks about horses starving on the range, the film shows a photo of a foal that was taken INSIDE of a BLM facility AFTER a roundup.
And you might wonder if Protect the Harvest bothered to get releases signed by wild horse advocates before inserting their images into this film. Or, don’t they even know enough to Protect their Asses?
The film states that there are about 52,000 and possibly up to 100,000 wild horses on the range. I wish. But “Where’s the beef?” This film omits any mention of the huge numbers of cattle and sheep that are devouring forage on public lands in the West.
Protect the Harvest was founded in 2011 by oil magnate Forrest Lucas (Lucas Oil Products), who also serves as its President. Lucas also owns the Lucas Cattle Company of Cross Timbers, MO. Lucas Oil has investments in Professional Bull Riders, Inc., and sponsors professional bull riding stars.
Forrest Lucas (photo: celebritynetworth.com)
Protect the Harvest formed a “Super PAC” (a political action committee that can raise unlimited amounts of money) called “The Protect the Harvest Political Action Committee.”
This Super PAC’s treasurer, Brian Klippenstein, also serves as the Executive Director of Protect the Harvest. Klippenstein spent 26 years in Washington D.C., and worked for Senators Roy Blunt and Kit Bond.
While the word “harvest” in “Protect the Harvest” may sound like it’s about protecting crops, most likely it’s the definition that means “to gather, catch, hunt or kill for human use, sport or population control.”
It appears that “Horses in Crisis” promotes the slaughter of wild horses.
Last year, Protect The Harvest aired radio ads in Oklahoma promoting legislation to re-instate horse slaughter.
Pro-horse slaughter groups seem to consist of cattle ranchers who dislike “animal activists,” so it’s ironic that since cattle and sheep are animals, and since the ranchers are cattle and sheep activists, the ranchers are actually “animal activists” themselves.
SOURCES:
http://www.nevadacattlemen.org/history.aspx
http://money.cnn.com/2012/02/15/smallbusiness/lucas_oil_forrest.fortune/index.htm
The PPJ Gazette 
Aug 15, 2014 @ 09:37:50
*****”Boyd Spratling and Callie Hendrickson should never have been appointed and should be removed.”*****
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Aug 14, 2014 @ 19:12:16
These individuals needed to step down immediately the conflict of interest is overwhelming and the covert action of theses individuals only makes BLM maken ore and more suspective of covert corrupt organized criminal behavior .
We call for there resignation immediately!
BLM must cut ties with these individuals or Rico investigation should be immediately !
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Aug 05, 2014 @ 02:23:26
I feel sorry for you all Because who kill Horses & Cows by slaughtering ;-(. You all will be next by God when he steps in & you all will be no more as well! I can’t explane it but read the bible
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Jun 20, 2014 @ 20:10:55
Obvious[y the BLM has no idea what an advisory Board is, and what its structure should be ………..
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Jun 20, 2014 @ 04:57:27
From AMERICAN HERDS
Gubmint Cheese
http://americanherds.blogspot.com/2010/10/gubmint-cheese.html
The NCA’s Monthly Message also showcases Past President Boyd Spratling, currently masquerading as a Representative of Veterinary Medicine on the National Wild Horse and Burro Advisory Board. Dr. Spratling (or is it Past President Spratling?) has been busy providing testimony on wild horses in the Interim Public Lands Committee and recently met with Senator Ensign to discuss wild horses and the “El Paso/WWP” situation. (It would seem Senator Ensign is incapable of recognizing a conflict of interest situation even if it is sitting on his lap….)
This is the same Boyd Spratling who refused to address, much less develop, humane handling guidelines for helicopter rounds ups back in 2007 and who stated the deaths of almost 200 wild horses from the Jackson Mountain were the results of “The very people that claim to care the most about those horses were actually the ones driving the death nail in their coffin”.
This same ex-President Spratling also developed the current BLM approved on-the-range stallion castration policy, refused to participate in repeated requests regarding review of BLM management plans and AML decisions for our wild herds, ignored evidence indicating BLMs on the range wild horse and burro population data is in error and failed to address critical issues found within new census techniques now being used to substantiate biologically impossible populations.
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Jun 20, 2014 @ 04:56:59
NEVADA BOARD OF AGRICULTURE MINUTES
Click to access nboa_minutes111206.pdf
Minutes December 6, 2011
BOYD SPRATLING:
Financial strategy on getting slaughter house
going because that is when the river is going to meet the road
is when they slaughter the first horse. Think looking at
putting facilities on Indian reservations which takes
legislature and everybody out of the equation.
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Jun 19, 2014 @ 04:11:35
Jun 17, 2014 @ 23:26:41
Well now isnt that just a peachy arrangement , the Former President of the Cattlemen assoc serving on the BLM Board , ohhhh Please give me a break, I am sure he will unbiased to the Mustangs??????? And to refer to the Mustangs as Protect the Harvest sounds like a cheap Low Budget Horror Movie about selling human bodyparts !!!!! I believe they call this stacking the deck in favor of Cattlemen !!!!!!
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Jun 17, 2014 @ 17:05:46
These ranchers are only thinking of the all mighty dollar in their pockets! They want to get rid of the horses so they can put more cattle on the land! More money for them! Seems to me, a birth control for these horses and cutting back on the number of cattle grazing free on this land would be a fix. I’m sick of these so called “do gooders” making it seem the horses are the problem. The greed of these ranchers , to me, is the problem!
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Jun 17, 2014 @ 16:50:14
Well that shows politics and business in bed together… again.
And regarding Advisory Board selections (Boyd Spratling and Callie Hendrickson especially), here is a quote from Debbie Collins, BLM WH&B: “We can’t share who applied, only the final selectees. The selections start with recommendations from a BLM-FS team and moves up from there. The White House and DOI/DOA have the final say. The BLM-FS team memebers change based on the needs of the team.” It is clear that the “needs of the team” focus on pro-slaughter and anti-wild horse and burro people. Tim Harvey of the National Wild Horse & Burro Advisory Board is NOT pro-horse slaughter and has been a strong voice for the horses on many occasions. I doubt if June Sewing supports horse slaughter, and she also seems to care about the horses and burros.
Boyd Spratling and Callie Hendrickson should never have been appointed and should be removed.
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