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Our guests tonight will be Susan Wagner, President & Founder of Equine Advocates and Carol Walker, Dir. of Field Documentation for Wild Horse Freedom Federation.
The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) recently presented Congress with a new plan for managing America’s wild horses & burros, titled “Management Options for a Sustainable Wild Horse and Burro Program.”
There is nothing “sustainable” for America’s wild horses & burros in the BLM’s new plan. This new plan is a blueprint to kill, to sterilize and to ship wild horses & burros overseas, where the BLM has no jurisdiction. With this new plan, the BLM will quickly rid themselves of the wild horses & burros they were supposed to “protect,” and will manage the remaining ones to extinction within the next generation or two. Carol and Susan will discuss all of the details. And, we’ll tell you what you can do to help the wild horses & burros.
You can read the BLM’s new plan HERE.
You can read the recommendations for managing wild horses & burros prepared by Wild Horse Freedom Federation HERE.
This show will be hosted by Debbie Coffey (V.P. and Dir. of Wild Horse Affairs) of Wild Horse Freedom Federation.
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1/17/18 – Carol Walker, Dir. of Field Documentation for Wild Horse Freedom Federation, on BLM denying her access to photograph wild horses at Axtell (Utah) and Bruneau (Idaho) off range corrals (where the public is not allowed to see them) to help facilitate adoptions. Listen HERE.
1/19/18 – Erik Molvar, Executive Director of Western Watersheds Project. Erik is a contributor to The Hill and his blog posts can be found here. Listen HERE.
2/21/18 – Ann Marini, Ph.D., M.D., and John Holland of Equine Welfare Alliance on veterinary drugs banned in animals used for human consumption that the BLM gives to wild horses & burros. Listen HERE.
3/14/18 – Jonathan Thompson, a Contributing Editor at High Country News and the author of River of Lost Souls: The Science, Politics and Greed Behind the Gold King Mine Disaster, on the 2015 Gold King Mine disaster, and other environmental disasters. Listen HERE.
3/21/18 – Kirsten Stade, Advocacy Director for Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER). Listen HERE.
3/28/18 – Stephany Seay, Media Coordinator for the Buffalo Field Campaign (BFC), working to stop the harassment and slaughter of America’s last wild buffalo. Listen HERE.
May 10, 2018 @ 04:58:47
GAO REPORT/1990
RANGELAND MANAGEMENT
Improvements Needed in Federal Wild Horse Program
August 1990
Not Linked to Rangeland Conditions
Because of a growing backlog of wild horses in BLM holding facilities,
BLM initiated the so-called “fee-waiver” adoption program in 1984. This
program allowed individuals, and Native American tribes under powerof-
attorney arrangements, to take, free-of-charge, wild horses determined
by BLM to be unadoptable because of age or physical imperfections.
After a l-year waiting period, the fee-waiver adopters obtained
titles on the horses from BLM. Under this program, BLM disposed of about
20,000 horses, surpassing adoptions under the Adopt-A-Horse program
in 1987, In September 1988, BLM terminated the program in response to
intense public and congressional criticism.
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May 10, 2018 @ 04:54:28
GAO REPORT/1990
RANGELAND MANAGEMENT
Improvements Needed in Federal Wild Horse Program
August 1990
Not Linked to Rangeland Conditions
GAO found that existing information is insufficient to determine how
many wild horses the range can support, the extent of degradation
caused by wild horses, or consequently the number of wild horses that
should appropriately be removed from individual herd areas. For
example, for the five BLM areas GAO visited (covering 46 wild horse herd
areas), BLM had not assessed the land’s carrying capacities in over 20
years in three cases and in over 10 years in another case. The one
resource area with data less than 10 years old did not use it to set target
wild horse population levels and removal objectives. Despite the lack of
data, BLM has proceeded with horse removals using targets based on perceived population levels dating back to 197 1 and/or recommendations
from BLM advisory groups comprised largely of livestock permittees.
BLM could not provide GAO with any information demonstrating that federal rangeland conditions have significantly improved because of wild
horse removals. This lack of impact has occurred largely because BLM
has not reduced authorized grazing by domestic livestock, which
because of their vastly larger numbers consume 20 times more forage
than wild horses, or improved the management of livestock to give the
native vegetation more opportunity to grow. In some areas, GAO found
that BLM increased authorized livestock grazing levels after it had
removed wild horses, thereby negating any reduction in total forage
consumption and potential for range improvement. According to BLM
range managers, BLM has not acted to reduce authorized grazing levels
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May 10, 2018 @ 04:42:50
POGO (Project on Government Oversight)
Public Interest Group Wins Legal Fees in Transparency Lawsuit
April 18, 2018
In a landmark decision, a California court recently awarded thousands of dollars in legal expenses to a public interest organization that successfully fought a government contractor’s attempt to block the release of public records.
In a press statement, JMA hailed the decision as “the first of its kind” in a California reverse-FOIA case, and declared that “companies will think twice before attempting to hide information from the public.” The organization says it is now reviewing the documents to confirm whether New Flyer complied with job creation commitments in its contract.
This case is a reminder that an attack on governmental transparency anywhere-whether at the federal, state, or local level-is a threat to transparency everywhere
http://www.pogo.org/blog/2018/04/public-interest-group-wins-legal-fees-in-transparency-lawsuit.html
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May 10, 2018 @ 04:42:11
ALL IS NOT WELL IN THE SWAMP
Pruitt’s Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day
April 6, 2018
If you’re one of President Trump’s Cabinet members, it’s always a bad sign when Fox News tears you apart in an exclusive interview. And it’s especially rough when that happens before your no good, very bad day has even begun. Maybe Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt should have listened earlier this week when the White House told him not to make any public appearances.
It started with posters appearing in his own agency’s halls calling him a “swamp monster,” and only got worse from there, with a series of ethics-related revelations. At the top of the list is the charge that he fired or reassigned at least five EPA officials-four career officials and one political appointee—for challenging him on his spending and management of agency resources. Efforts that the officials had objected to, and which didn’t ultimately come to fruition, included a $100,000-a-month charter plane membership and a $70,000 plan to replace two desks in Pruitt’s office and add a bulletproof desk to the security station outside his office. (Don’t feel too sorry for him-he got other perks like being allowed to use his motorcade’s sirens to get to the airport or dinner when he was running late, despite officials’ protests.)
Pruitt got into even deeper hot water yesterday when it became clear that the hasty ethics review he requested of his sweetheart condo arrangement with the wife of lobbyist J. Steven Hart is now in question, at least in part because ethics officials claim they were given incomplete information about the deal. A copy of the condo lease shows that Hart’s name was actually crossed out, in pencil, and replaced with his wife’s name, although officials had previously said Hart had not been involved.
http://www.pogo.org/blog/2018/04/pruitts-terrible-horrible-no-good-very-bad-day.html
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May 10, 2018 @ 04:32:19
This battle has already spanned more than one generation
As the older generation leaves…replacements have arrived
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May 09, 2018 @ 18:21:25
Reblogged this on World4Justice : NOW! Lobby Forum..
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May 09, 2018 @ 12:53:08
I am appalled at the current BLM “plan” to extinguish OUR wild horses and OUR wild burros on OUR public lands and those horses and burros that came from and belong back on their congressionally designated legal lands. In addition, I am angered and saddened and frightened for our entire country at the disregard and lack of respect of the law and policy of our congress that clearly states, “wild free-roaming horses and burros … shall be PROTECTED from capture, branding, harassment or death”.
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