This is a wild family in the Green Mountain Herd in Wyoming. For the past three days the BLM has been chasing hundreds of horses with helicopters and rounding them up and yesterday two foals died of what the contractor calls “capture shock.”
Here’s the BLM’s story in their Gather Reports: “Summary: BLM euthanized a captured horse with a pre-existing condition. Two colts were treated for capture shock during sorting at the holding corral. One colt died shortly after being treated and the other died while being transferred to the veterinary hospital in Lander”
Here’s our opinion: It was very hot. These foals likely ran as hard as they could to keep up with their mothers while being chased by a helicopter. The BLM ran them to death. So while the BLM attempts to put lipstick on a pig by blaming the deaths of the foals on “capture shock,” we place the blame directly where it belongs – on the BLM.
If the foals were treated, where are the vet reports?
This is so cruel and unnecessary – the forage and water is in great shape in Wyoming.
Aug 10, 2018 @ 15:59:31
From AWHC
Helicopter Cowboys
Rounding up horses with helicopters for the federal government is a lucrative business. At $500-$800 per head, it’s turned a number of Utah and Nevada cattlemen into multi-millionaires. Here’s the line up of BLM’s current helicopter wranglers:
Cattoor Livestock Roundup, the BLM’s helicopter roundup contractor of choice. In 1975, they began working for the BLM rounding wild horses and burros with helicopters as well as processing and transporting them. As of 2010, they had captured over 150,000 wild horses and burros for the BLM. Today, the number is closer to 200,000. From 2008-2018, the Cattoors have made $20,462,928 through 159 contracts with the BLM.
Sun J Livestock of Vernal Utah pulled in $7,738,566 via 33 contracts with the BLM between 2008 and 2018.
Sampson Livestock, headed by a former Cattoor employee, is newer on the scene. Sampson earned $1,682,994 through roundup contracts with BLM between 2012-2018
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Bait Trappers
Although it doesn’t involve expensive aircraft, bait trapping wild horses for the federal government is also lucrative:
Uhalde Livestock LLC of Ely, Nevada was awarded a $5 million contract in September 2017 to conduct trapping operations in the 10 Western states to remove wild horses and burros from public lands.
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Aug 10, 2018 @ 15:58:45
Utah wild horses ran into barbed wire during aerial roundup; four animals with pre-existing injuries were euthanized
“We call on the [Bureau of Land Management] to suspend the roundup underway currently in Utah by grounding the helicopters while an investigation is undertaken of the animal welfare violations documented by our observer,” said Suzanne Roy, executive director of the American Wild Horse Campaign. “Nearly hitting wild horses with helicopters, repeatedly causing them to crash into barbed wire, and stampeding horses in a manner that leaves foals behind is unconscionable.”
She cited her group’s concerns in a letter sent Tuesday to the BLM’s Utah director, Ed Roberson. The complaint targets the practices of BLM contractor SAMPSON LIVESTOCK, based in the Millard County town of Meadow, and demands the agency’s horse gathers comply with the agency’s Comprehensive Animal Welfare Policy.
The BLM acknowledged that horses hit the fence while a helicopter pursued them.
https://www.sltrib.com/news/environment/2018/08/09/deadly-aerial-roundup-ran/
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Aug 10, 2018 @ 15:28:39
VOTING RECORDS
Each year the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives take thousands of votes, some to pass bills, resolutions, nominations, and treaties, and others on procedural matters such as on cloture and other motions. Not all votes are recorded, such as when there is no one opposed. This page shows the outcome of all recorded votes on the Senate floor and House floor. It does not include votes in committee.
https://www.govtrack.us/congress/votes
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Aug 10, 2018 @ 15:28:17
Send a Fax to your Congressional Representative
https://faxzero.com/fax_congress.php
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Aug 10, 2018 @ 15:27:36
Send a Fax to your Senators
https://faxzero.com/fax_senate.php
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Aug 10, 2018 @ 14:17:29
And even the foals that DO survive the chase and capture …
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Aug 10, 2018 @ 13:38:58
The foals were literally scared to death.
“Fear isn’t just the mind-killer… it can actually kill your body as well. The notion of being scared to death may sound like a myth, but it does happen to people — and animals.”
– The Science of Being Scared to Death
Esther Inglis-Arkell
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