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photo: U.S. Forest Service
Our guests tonight are advocates Bonnie Kohleriter and Carla Bowers, who will tell you about the wild horses in the Devil’s Garden Wild Horse Territory in the Modoc National Forest in northern California. They’ll tell you about the recent roundup of over 900 wild horses from 258,000 acres. They’ll tell you what the Forest Service is planning to do with do with these wild horses. They’ll also tell you about the corrupt politics behind all of this. The devil is in the details.
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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Nov 18, 2018 @ 03:34:53
Notice that the same names keep showing up
AND SURE ENOUGH…they showed up in the Devil’s Garden
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MODOC FARM BUREAU
This year’s Distinguished Service Award went to SUSIE STOKKE
The was the creative force behind the development of Modoc County Farm Bureau’s Retired Worker Program which has been using Resource Advisory Committee funds, supplemented with matches from permittees, farm bureau and Modoc County to accomplish work on the Modoc National Forest that the Forest was not staffed or funded to complete. She was also the organizational mind that conceived developing the Wild Horse Territory Plan through the Retired Worker Program and along with ROB JEFFERS is responsible for its timely and efficient completion. This Plan was the essential first step in reducing the over population of wild horses.
https://www.facebook.com/Modoc-County-Farm-Bureau-355141114541710/
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September 30, 2016
DEVIL’S GARDEN PLATEAU WILD HORSE TERRITORY MANAGEMENT PLAN
Interdisciplinary Team (IDT) Members
IDT Leader(s): SUSAN STOKKE and ROB JEFFERS
Wild Horses: ROB JEFFERS
Range: SUSAN STOKKE
http://a123.g.akamai.net/7/123/11558/abc123/forestservic.download.akamai.com/11558/www/nepa/68506_FSPLT3_1452088.pdf
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AWARD – WILD HORSE GATHER, MODOC NATIONAL FOREST This contract was awarded to Cattoor Livestock Roundup Inc with a potential award amount of $480,000. Period of Performance 09/14/2018 – 11/14/2018 (2 months)https://www.usaspending.gov/#/award/68507872
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JACKSON MT. WILD HORSES (excerpts)
http://americanherds.blogspot.com/
Though BLM admitted to most of the Jackson Mountains wild horses having snotty noses and respiratory illness when they arrived at Palomino Valley, what BLM definitely was not admitting too is, respiratory complications are one of the known detrimental effects of driving wild horses by helicopter.
Wild horses have a history of often developing respiratory complications due to being driven for miles when they have not been conditioned for such endurance runs and by being forced to inhale large amounts of dust throughout the ordeal.
In the Animal Welfare Institute’s publication, “Managing For Extinction” regarding the
management practices and abuses occurring in BLMs Wild Horse and Burro Program, they reported, “In the fall of 2006, the Palomino Valley, NV and Litchfield, CA holding facilities suffered from outbreaks of strangles, a highly infectious and serious respiratory disease.
During the past two years, practically every BLM facility has experienced similar disease outbreaks, leading to the confirmed deaths of scores of animals…..”
As for what happened to those involved in the Jackson Mountains tragedy?
Nevada Wild Horse & Burro Lead SUSIE STOKKE and National Wild Horse & Burro Lead Dean Bolstad continue to serve in their respective positions.
Cattoor Livestock Roundups, Inc., the gather contractor and crew that drove the Jackson Mountains wild horses, continues to receive multi-million dollar contracts to remove wild horses and burros from public lands, as they have done for BLM and other government agencies for over thirty years.
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BLM’S SECRET PLANNING DOCUMENTS “ALTERNATIVE MANAGEMENT OPTIONS”
Documents obtained by the Freedom of Information Act:
BLM Alternative Management Options Draft Plan + Markup
BLM Implementation Team minutes + markup
BLM Implementation Team minutes + markup
https://thecloudfoundation.files.wordpress.com/2009/09/alternativemanagement_optionsblm10_2008_markup.pdf
https://thecloudfoundation.files.wordpress.com/2009/09/blm_implementation_team_minutes_2008_markup.pdf
http://www.thecloudfoundation.org/news/press-releases/archived-press-releases/350-blm-s-secret-planning-documents-alternative-management-options
Documents Reveal BLM Secret Plan to Destroy Wild Horses
Documents obtained from the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) via the Freedom of Information Act by a Phoenix-based non-profit, The Conquistador Program, reveal shocking and detailed plans to destroy healthy wild horses in government holding facilities as well as those still remaining in the wild on public lands.
BLM employees as well as a USDA veterinarian held weekly “Implementation Team” meetings beginning in July of 2008 in which they discussed and developed strategies aimed at ridding BLM of thousands of mustangs. In October they completed a 68 page document entitled “Alternative Management Options”. Tactics included in this document are reminiscent of those used to wipe out Native American tribes in the 1800s.
The BLM team created scenarios for killing mustangs using barbiturates, gun shots, or captive bolts. Bodies would be disposed of through rendering, burial or incineration. They discussed killing 1200-2000 wild horses per year. The document states that “the general public would be prohibited from viewing euthanasia.” Additionally, the Team felt that “increased support from public relations and management staff would also be needed to insulate those doing the actual work from the public, media and Congressional scrutiny/criticism.”
BLM’S FINAL SOLUTION FOR WILD HORSES & BURROS
TEAM CONFERENCE CALL/2008/FOIA DOCUMENT
ROB JEFFERS in attendance
BLM TEAM CONFERENCE CALL
July 29, 2008
Team Members
Lili Thomas (Note taker/Team lead),
Joe Stratton,
John Neil,
ROB JEFFERS,
Jim Johnson and
Al Kane
Euthanasia
How many could be euthanized during a gather without having NEPA?
What is the criteria used during a gather to euthanize a horse is it age, and if so what age?
How many could be euthanized at the preparation facility without causing a major change in the practice of disposal?
What would be the criteria for euthanizing at the midpoint and adoption facilities?
Would you contract disposal of the carcasses at gather sites?
Have a euthanasia and disposal contract?
Have a contract to sell horses at the gather site?
Are we euthanizing horses to save money to complete gathers?
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Nov 18, 2018 @ 03:31:26
The Devil’s Garden Wild Horses
Federal court orders restoration of 23,000 acres for wild horses
A federal appeals court has delivered a victory to wild horse enthusiasts, ordering the U.S. Forest Service to restore 23,000 acres of critical land as protected horse country in California — and showed judges taking an increasingly dim view of agencies’ decision-making.
The government had said the land was added by “administrative error” in the 1980s, and tried to erase it from the boundaries of the protected wild horse territory, but the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia said decades of history of protection can’t be tossed out so easily.
Judges ordered the Forest Service to go back and redo the decision, considering what impact the erasure would have on the horse population.
“This is a precedent-setting victory making clear that federal land management agencies cannot exclude federally protected wild horses or other key uses of public lands without grappling with the implications of such actions on the environment,” said William S. Eubanks II, a lawyer who helped handle the case for a series of challengers.
The horse advocates have been battling the government for years over wild horse roundups and protected lands, and the fight over the California area known as Devil’s Garden in the Modoc National Forest is the latest skirmish.
Horses are protected by what Judge Patricia Millett, who wrote the court’s opinion, called a “Matryoshka doll of nesting federal statutes.”
In the case of the California land, the 23,000 acres connected two other protected horse territories, creating one large swath. But the Forest Service said the land was added to a map in the 1980s by mistake and never should have been there.
It said removing the land wasn’t a change in policy, but rather just cleaning up what the actual policy was supposed to have always been.
The judges said decades of history and practice by the Forest Service can’t be swept away by calling the original decision a mistake.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/aug/6/federal-court-orders-restoration-of-23000-acres-fo/
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Nov 18, 2018 @ 03:27:27
Per USA Spending the U.S. Forest Service was the AWARDING AGENCY and the RECIPIENT was the MODOC FARM BUREAU.
HOW can that be legal?
https://www.usaspending.gov/#/
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Nov 18, 2018 @ 02:58:57
2018
Per usaspending.gov, we, the taxpayers, are paying Cattoor Livestock Roundup Inc. $704,490 to capture and remove our Devil’s Garden wild horses from the Modoc National Forest
AND we are paying the Modoc County Farm Bureau $501,396 to assist with the management of the capture and removal of our Devil’s Garden wild horses AND you and I are also paying John Ivie (media/photographer?) $28,400 for the Devils’ Garden capture and removal of our wild horses.
Those costs that we are paying to capture and remove our Devil’s Garden wild horses equate to $1,234,286!
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Nov 18, 2018 @ 02:58:21
2016
Modoc County (Devils Garden Wild Horse Territory) “funny business” that is NOT funny. (excerpts)
The local Farm Bureau and the Devil’s Garden Wild Horses “management” (excerpts):
“The Modoc County Farm Bureau Takes Charge of Developing the Revised Management Plan
The Forest Service subcontracted the development of the revised WHT plan to an entity representing local grazing interests. In August 2012 over one year after the Service issued the scoping letter the Modoc County Farm Bureau (“Farm Bureau”) entered into an agreement with the Service to develop the new management plan for the WHT.
(“The entire plan development, not just the data collection, will now be funded through a new challenge cost share agreement between the Forest and the Modoc County Farm Bureau.”).
Under this agreement, the Farm Bureau agreed to collect all of the data on wild horses, draft a monitoring report, prepare the draft EA and final EA, and oppose any appeal of the agency’s decision. AR04713. In return, the Service paid the Farm Bureau $203,000.
The Farm Bureau was not a disinterested party. Its purpose “is to protect and promote agricultural interests in Modoc County,” including the grazing allotments that overlap with the WHT that are used to feed the cattle that compete with horses.
The Farm Bureau “has many members whose livelihoods depend on grazing operations affected by the ever-expanding wild horse herd within or adjacent to” the WHT.
Almost immediately after signing this agreement, the scope of the WHT plan revision was dramatically revised. On October 31, 2012, Susan Stokke, Field Manager for the Farm Bureau’s project, informed the Forest Service that the Farm Bureau wanted to change the WHT boundaries.
Ms. Stokke is the wife of Sean Curtis, the Director of the Farm Bureau.” (https://www.scribd.com/document/318720720/Appellants-Initial-Opening-Brief-Filed)
https://rtfitchauthor.com/2016/09/30/devils-garden-wild-horses/
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Nov 18, 2018 @ 02:57:46
NOVEMBER 18, 2018 AT 1:07 AM EDIT
Devil’s Garden Wild Horse Emergency Rescue–SAVE the DG 300 from Slaughter!
Reader comment
It was so heartbreaking Carla. I passed a trailer on Main St, Alturas headed toward Litchfield. The mares were packed in the front and a single baby in back crying his little heart out…I pray they get homes soon.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/DevilsGardenWildHorseEmergency/
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Nov 18, 2018 @ 02:57:16
Devil’s Garden Wild Horse Emergency Rescue–SAVE the DG 300 from Slaughter!
Update from Placement Group member, Bonnie Kohleriter, who is at the Adoption/Sale Event at the Double Devil Corrals, 11/16 and 11/17/18 (paraphrased):
“The DG wild horses are majestic, beautiful animals. Plus, their dispositions are very calm compared to other wild horses I’ve seen just rounded up and in corrals. There are approximately 280 older DG horses at the DDC, which includes 25 horses under 10 years old that are available for adoption only at $125/horse (not sure of sex at this point). Out of approximately 124 stallions, 54 had been gelded before the event. There are approximately 156 mares available that have been processed. All the horses at the DDC have tags or numbers on their bodies for ID purposes.”
According to the Modoc FS, after the event, adopter/purchaser viewing opportunities will be by appointment on Wednesdays and Fridays every week and the first Saturday of every month beginning Dec. 8, 2018. Appointments must be confirmed at least seven days in advance by calling 530-233-8738.
There are 652 youngers DG wild horses and foals at the BLM Litchfield corrals. The management there is allowing the horses to settle and then they will start processing them in December. The management requested that people NOT call to inquire about the DG horses. They will put out a notice when DG horses are available for viewing and adoption.
We will post photos of the DDC horses and the ones at Litchfield when they are available or will refer you to other FB pages where photos can be seen.
Thank you for your interest in the DG horses and patience in this matter!
https://www.facebook.com/groups/DevilsGardenWildHorseEmergency/
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