Join us on Wild Horse Wednesdays®, January 27th, 2016
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Our guest is MARJORIE FARABEE, Dir. of Wild Burro Affairs for Wild Horse Freedom Federation, the Equine Mgr. of Todd Mission Ranch (home of TMR Rescue) and founder of Wild Burro Protection League.
For over a year, Marjorie has been investigating the situation at the Black Mountain HMA in Arizona, and alerted the public that the BLM, catering to developers of wind, gas, and agriculture, threatened to roundup many of the few remaining wild burros. Recently, there has been an even bigger threat: the Mojave County Supervisors recklessly suggested selling hunting permits to shoot the wild burros. Find out the latest details in this update.
Wild burros on Black Mountain HMA in Arizona (photo: Marjorie Farabee)
Tonight’s show is hosted by Debbie Coffey, V.P. and Dir. of Wild Horse Affairs for Wild Horse Freedom Federation.
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1/21/16 – Carol Walker, Dir. of Field Documentation for Wild Horse Freedom Federation on BLM’s heinous plans to STERILIZE wild horses, including experimentation trials on 225 wild mares using ovariectomy via colpotomy, tubal ligation, and hysteroscopically-guided laser ablation of the oviduct papilla. Listen HERE.
Jan 31, 2016 @ 12:27:35
Nature is and always will be evolving. It does not exist in stasis. So, the idea that an entire environment can be managed for a single species like bighorn, is doomed to fail. All animals have impact on their environment which creates opportunities for other species. These relationships are complex and often not always as they appear. For instance, seeing a burro eat a cactus appears to be the distruction of that cactus. However, cactus respond by new growth. Additionally, the seed of the cactus is spread through the dung of the burro. They do not break seed down during digestion like rumanints do. Their dung is fibrous and excellent for building soil retention, which is also desirable in the desert. When they dig holes for water, many species benefit and then the hole becomes a germanation point for new growth. History is full of disasterous attempts to remove a species to protect others resulting in the collapse of the very population they were attempting to protect. Invasion biology does not work. This could not be more clearly demonstrated than to look to our desertification patterns in the west. The burros are an asset to the desert as part of a diverse population of wildlife. For people who chose to live in areas of known wildlife habitat, get a fence, and enjoy nature.
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Jan 31, 2016 @ 10:21:28
Jan 31, 2016 @ 03:57:18
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January 17, 2016
The area of land that is Bullhead City was a part of the original HA. A whole three mile wide section running down the bank of the river was carved away. It is glutenous inconsideration for the natural world that city planners would not include wildlife in their infrastructure planning. The land, that was once set aside for the principal use by our wild horses and burros, means the burros needs should have been included in all city planning. The knowledge that they were building where protected wild burros live should have made the burro’s access to water an imperative.
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Jan 31, 2016 @ 03:44:23
BLM Photo Documents 72 Wild Burros but Submits Written Report of 1,378?
Black Mountain Wild Burro Herd Management Area: Analysis of Bureau of Land Management Aerial Census
April and October 2014 Flights
The following independent review of the Bureau of Land Management’s 2014 burro population census aerial flight was completed using information, photographs, and other documentation that was collected through a formal Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request for the raw data of the BLM’s 2014 population census aerial flights. The aerial census data documentation over the nine days of flights fails to adequately document the BLM’s wild burro population count.
Click (HERE) to Download Compete Report
https://app.box.com/s/nnz534rc0py4xeev105fxv31ey885zj0
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Jan 29, 2016 @ 10:47:04
I have lived in AZ off and on since the early seventies, and have seen what the burros do to the prickly pear cactus, not good! and compete as do the cattle with the deer and other wild species that are the real victims of both these alien species, they need to be managed or they will keeping destroying cactus because there isn’t enough food.
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Jan 28, 2016 @ 03:30:09
New perspective on wild burro ecology
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Jan 28, 2016 @ 03:20:05
Burros Plead Innocent
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Jan 27, 2016 @ 12:53:38
The Bureau of Land Management’s Wild Horse and Wild Burro environmental assessments are always aimed at eliminating or zeroing out the wild horses and burros in favor of increased development and recreational use, mining, and cattle, but in a recent court case, The Court concluded, to wit:
“It would be anomalous to infer that by authorizing the custodian of the wild free roaming horses and burros to “manage” them, that Congress intended to permit the animals’ custodian to subvert the primary policy of the statute by capturing and removing from the wild the very animals that Congress sought to protect from being captured and removed from the wild.”
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Marjorie Farabee with latest update on threats to shoot wild burros in Arizona (Wed., 1/27/16) | ronaldwederfoort
Jan 27, 2016 @ 09:58:46
Jan 27, 2016 @ 09:58:33
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