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Tonight’s show will be hosted by Marjorie Farabee, Dir. of Wild Burro Affairs for Wild Horse Freedom Federation, Equine Mgr. of Todd Mission Ranch (TMR Rescue) & founder of Wild Burro Protection League.
Wild burros are in real trouble. In January of this year, Mojave County Supervisor Steve Moss called for issuing hunting licenses to shoot wild burros in Arizona. His claims were that the burros were overpopulated based on aerial count done by the BLM. But, is this true? Are they overpopulated? We know the numbers are vastly inflated. We know the burros are not genetically healthy due to the fragmentation of their habitat. We know that their ranges are severely over-grazed. But, who is doing the damage? And, what are the guidelines the BLM should be following according to law? Why do BLM employees routinely ignore the grazing guidelines they are supposed to uphold?
Listen tonight and find out.
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1/20/16 – Carol Walker, Dir. of Field Documentation for Wild Horse Freedom Federation, on BLM’s plans to sterilize wild horse and burros. Listen HERE.
1/27/16 – Marjorie Farabee, Dir. of Wild Burro Affairs for Wild Horse Freedom Federation, on threats to shoot wild burros in Arizona. Listen HERE.
2/8/16 – Representatives of 4 major wild horse & burro advocacy groups and advocates speak out against BLM’s plans for barbaric sterilization experiments on wild mares. Listen HERE.
2/10/16 – Jonathan Ratner, Western Watersheds Project’s Director for Wyoming, Utah and Colorado, talks about the environmental toll of privately owned livestock grazing on public lands. Listen HERE.
2/24/16 – Kirsten Stade, Advocacy Director for Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER), on BLM’s skewed data minimizing the effects of livestock grazing on public lands. Listen HERE.
3/2/16 – Marjorie Farabee, Dir. of Wild Burro Affairs for Wild Horse Freedom Federation, Equine Mgr. of Todd Mission Ranch (TMR Rescue) & founder of Wild Burro Protection League, joined by local wild burro advocates fighting to save the wild burros of the Black Mountain Herd Management Area in Arizona. Listen HERE.
3/23/16 – Carol Walker, Dir. of Field Documentation for Wild Horse Freedom Federation interviews Susan W. Watt, Executive Director, Black Hills Wild Horse Sanctuary, located in South Dakota. Listen HERE.
5/4/16 – Gail A. Eisnitz, author of the book “Slaughterhouse” and Chief Investigator for the Humane Farming Association (HFA). Listen HERE.
6/22/16 – Charlotte Roe, Founder of Wild Equid League of Colorado, on BLM’s cruel experiments on wild horses and burros, including sterilization of pregnant wild mares, that are a launching pad for widespread use as “population suppression.” Listen HERE.
Aug 08, 2016 @ 16:49:13
Cross posted to my page Miss Abby
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Aug 07, 2016 @ 03:00:30
THROW THE BUMS OUT
FINDING COMMON GROUND (excerpt)
https://www.facebook.com/notes/wild-burro-protection-league/finding-common-ground/1107518069323543
Marjorie Farabee is the equine manager of TMR Rescue, Inc. where safe haven is provided for 46 wild burros and two mustangs in addition to the 350 domestic donkeys, mules and horses under their care. In addition, Marjorie is also director of wild burro affairs as a board member with Wild Horse Freedom Federation, and the founder of Wild Burro Protection League.
Clearly, until we can get the politics out of managing our public lands, we are all held hostage by each new threat against our wild herds. It is clear to us that our herds face the real possibility of being driven to extinction in the wild. The anguish we all feel for our wild ones is all too real and too raw. We hurt and we work to stop it from happening year after year. Our suffering and the suffering of our iconic herds is completely irrelevant to the profiteering policymakers. Yet, it is we who choose them by staying at home and not voting. If you care, look up the candidates running in your area and then look up their voting record. If they don’t have a record, ask a direct question to them by phone, at a rally or by letter. To save our wild lands and protect our beloved wild horses and burros we need to change the policymakers. Vote!
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Aug 06, 2016 @ 23:51:46
https://www.facebook.com/notes/wild-burro-protection-league/finding-common-ground/1107518069323543
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Aug 06, 2016 @ 17:13:12
These few remaining Wild Burros belong to US
WILD BURRO PROTECTION LEAGUE
https://www.facebook.com/Wild.Burro.Protection.League/
“We have so much to lose”
WILD BURROS SLIDESHOW
http://barbarawheelerphotography.com/burros/slideshow#h287fd2e9
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Aug 03, 2016 @ 21:24:21
Take special notice of this wording
“Comments are not considered substantive that are EMOTIONAL in nature or IN FAVOR or AGAINST THE PROJECT
The BLM does not take into consideration the amount of comments on one particular issue”
Release Date: 07/19/16
Contacts: Media Contact: Lee Tucker
928-505-1268, ltucker@blm.gov
BLM Seeking Public Comments on Environmental Assessment of Burro Contraceptive Pilot Program
KINGMAN, Ariz. – The Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM) Kingman Field Office is seeking public input on the Environmental Assessment (EA) of a fertility management pilot program as proposed by the Humane Society of the United States (HSUS).
Approximately 5,000 wild burros currently roam public lands in the state of Arizona. The BLM protects and manages wild horses and burros under the authority of the Wild Free-Roaming Horses and Burros Act of 1971 as amended, to ensure that healthy herds thrive on healthy rangelands. Because these animals have virtually no natural predators, their herd sizes can double nearly every four years.
The HSUS in cooperation with the BLM proposes to treat female burros in the Black Mountain Herd Management Area (HMA) with the immunocontraceptive vaccine Porcine Zona Pellucida (PZP), also known as ZonaStat-H PZP.
The HSUS’s focus for this project is to assess whether booster doses of ZonaStat-H PZP could be applied via opportunistic darting in a safe, effective, and economical manner as one method of reducing reproduction rates to wild and free roaming burros.
The BLM is accepting substantive comments through August 15, 2016 (for a total of 30 days). Substantive comments either question with reasonable basis the accuracy of information or present new information relevant to the analysis. Comments are not considered substantive that are emotional in nature or in favor or against the project. The BLM does not take into consideration the amount of comments on one particular issue.
The EA titled DOI BLM-AZ-C010-2016-0004, as well as online comment submissions are available on the BLM ePlanning portal at: http://bit.ly/BLM-AZ-KFO-WildBurro
A printed copy is available for public review during business hours at the Kingman Field Office located at 2755 Mission Blvd, Kingman, AZ 86401.
Written comments may be mailed or delivered to the Bureau of Land Management, Kingman Field Office, 2755 Mission Blvd, Kingman, AZ 86401.
All comments will be made available to the public.
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Aug 03, 2016 @ 20:18:47
Private/Corporate domestic livestock (cattle and sheep) are a non-native species and have no right to be on MY public land.
What can be done to address the problems associated with public lands livestock grazing? There is a simple answer: end it. Get the cows and sheep off, let the wild creatures reclaim their native habitat, and send the ranchers a bill for the cost of restoration.
Welfare Ranching: The Subsidized Destruction of the American West
http://www.publiclandsranching.org/book.htm
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Aug 03, 2016 @ 20:08:30
https://rtfitchauthor.com/2016/01/18/blm-photo-documents-72-wild-burros-but-submits-written-report-of-1378/
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Aug 03, 2016 @ 20:06:30
Please read and write your public comment – the burros thank you.
https://rtfitchauthor.com/2016/07/26/az-blm-to-black-mountain-wild-burro-herd-you-are-toast/
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Aug 03, 2016 @ 02:26:05
11-25-2014
EAGLE LAKE BLM Field Office (NE Ca / NW Nv)
Buffalo Meadows Ranch Bait Trap
Approx: 20 Burros removed in 2013
Burros were following feed truck
Permittee just closed the gate
Apparently these wild burros were enticed onto private property and trapped when the rancher admittedly allowed the burros to follow the feed truck and then just closed the gate behind the burros and they were trapped?
This enticement is illegal per the Wild Horse and Burro act and verified by this excerpt from the BLM.
Sec. 4. If wild free-roaming horses or burros stray from public lands onto privately owned land, the owners of such land may inform the nearest Federal Marshall or agent of the Secretary, who shall arrange to have the animals removed. Nothing in this section shall be construed to prohibit a private landowner from maintaining wild free-roaming horses or burros on his private lands, or lands leased from the Government, if he does so in a manner that protects them from harassment, and if the animals were not willfully removed or enticed from the public lands. http://www.wildhorseandburro.blm.gov/92-195.htm
Enticing wild horses or burros onto private land is in violation of the wild horse and burro act that states:
Any person who-
1. willfully removes or attempts to remove a wild free- roaming horse or burro from the public lands, without authority from the Secretary and/or
2. willfully violates a regulation issued pursuant to this Act, shall be subject to a fine of not more than $2,000, or imprisonment for not more than one year, or both. Any person so charged with such violation by the Secretary may be tried and sentenced by any United States commissioner or magistrate designated for that purpose by the court by which he was appointed, in the same manner and subject to the same conditions as provided for in section 3401, title 18, United States Code.
http://www.wildhorseandburro.blm.gov/92-195.htm
Although private landowners have the right to use and enjoy their property free from incursions, private landowners adjacent to federal regions are required by law to fence out unwanted animals.
Subsequently a call was made to nearby Palomino Valley BLM holding facility and the BLM employee admitted that a truckload of Burros had been brought in within the last 6 months …all Sale Authority. He didn’t have the exact data, but they were approximately 7 Jennies and 7 Jacks.
Reference:
CATEGORICAL EXCLUSION
DOI-BLM-CA-NO50-2015-03-CX
Removal of Nuisance Burros from Stony Creek, Heller and Buffalo Ranches
Allotment or Area Name:
Stony Creek Ranch-Deep Cut Grazing Allotment
Heller and Buffalo Ranches-Twin Peaks Grazing Allotment
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Aug 02, 2016 @ 22:45:45
Three wild burros in Arizona were recently found shot and I would for sure start the investigation for these burro killings with Mohave Supervisor Moss and his “associates” since it was his suggestion that wild burros be hunted.
https://rtfitchauthor.com/2016/07/27/video-three-wild-burros-shot-to-death-in-az-reward-offered/
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