Source: Wild Hoofbeats
Adobe Town Family
Stop the BLM from Destroying 5 Wild Horse Herds in Wyoming
By Carol J. Walker
The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) has released a Scoping Document with a 30 day public comment period on 5 of the largest wild horse herds in Wyoming:
Adobe Town, Salt Wells Creek, Great Divide Basin, White Mountain and Little Colorado.
I have been visiting, observing and photographing the wild horses in these 5 herds since 2004.
The BLM claims that these herds are “overpopulated” even though they completed a roundup of three herds, Adobe Town, Salt Wells Creek and Great Divide Basin only 2 years ago. The last roundup and removal in White Mountain and Little Colorado was in 2011.
The BLM provides figures of their wild horse population estimates in these 5 herds using a flyover and a statistical double-count method, and one of the new changes is that now any horse over the low range of AML is considered “excess” – this is not how an excess determination is made. For example, the BLM says there are 929 wild horses in Adobe Town and the AML is 600-800, so the actual “excess” is only 129 horses not 329. This change does make a difference and is the creative math that the BLM uses to justify their actions. They are also now counting foals which they have never done before in their population estimates. This allows them to pad their counts and justify a roundup.
The population estimates for these 5 herds swing wildly and unbelievably from year to year. Basing the need for a roundup on the BLM’s figures is absurd. There is a need for an actual count of wild horses to be done in EVERY HMA by an independent agency. Without that, it leaves the BLM open to distort their statistics any time they want to justify “excess” horses to do a roundup.
READ THE REST OF THIS ARTICLE HERE.
The plan to remove 2702 wild horses from these 5 herds and then experimenting on and sterilizing the wild horses that remain is the BLM’s endgame for America’s wild horses. We must oppose this plan and save our wild horses.
Please comment in your own words by December 20, 2019 on this proposed plan.
Some points I would suggest you mention:
-The correct alternative is the NO Action Alternative.
-The BLM must prepare on EIS for this project given the scope and public opposition.
-Do actual counts of wild horses using an independent agency.
-Opposition to spaying wild mares, gelding stallions, chemical vasectomies and the use of Gonacon.
-Opposition to skewing the sex ratios of the herds.
-Manage these 5 herds on public lands where they are found.
-If birth control must be used, use the proven, humane, PZP.
Please make your comments by the end of the day, December 20, 2019.
You can submit comments through the BLM website:
You can also email comments to: blm_wy_rsfo_wildhorse_hmas@BLM.gov
And send them by mail to:
BLM Rock Springs Field Office
High Desert District
Multi-Year Wild Horse Gather
280 HWY 191 North
Rock Springs, WY 82901
The PPJ Gazette 
Dec 23, 2019 @ 03:30:15
James Kleinert
December 20 at 12:11 PM ·
From our New Book: No Country For Truth Tellers
available at this link: http://www.amazon.com/Country-Truth-Tellers-globaliza…/…/173374097X
CHAPTER 10 – THE WILD HORSE ROUNDUP
From my first round up in November of 2003 continued from last post. When I looked again, I saw swamp-man crawl into the semi truck that would haul the horses from the range to the slaughter pipeline, and I figured that he was most likely a kill buyer.
The brutality continued all day; I estimated that over two hundred horses were brought in. At some point I observed that I was the only civilian on the scene – everyone else with either BLM or a contractor. Had I not been there this would have been totally off the radar. I thought about the brief mention in the paper that had alerted me to the roundup, and wondered if there had been any other notice informing the public. I suspected that there hadn’t been; no civilian could watch what I had just seen and be alright with it. I packed up my gear and drove away from the crime scene.
As the sun set in the west and the full moon rose eerily in the east, I spotted a lone wild horse running for cover; it was one I had seen jump out of the enclosure. He’d escaped capture, but was now separated from his family, and alone he looked like a ghost wandering aimlessly, hurt and afraid, calling for his loved ones, now on a truck bound for no place good.
I hit the main highway and headed north back to Jackson, eager to leave this harrowing day behind. The glow of the full moon stirred my already-heated mind into a steady burn, blending my reality into a feverish vision as I drove. I felt like I was running in parallel worlds, running with the horses, running for their freedom today as they had a hundred years ago. The twinkling glare from the frack jobs along the Powder River became the glow of campfires at Wounded Knee Creek; the carcasses of mule deer and elk, fresh road kill, were the massacred bodies shot down by Cavalry; the screams of women and children were the same screams the horses made as their lives were torn apart. Adrenaline, anger and disgust pumped in my veins; it was clear that Manifest Destiny was alive and well in the Wild West. Who were the savages, fulfilling their sick American dream? I had just documented a genocide being committed to one of the last vestiges of freedom in the American West. I pumped the gas a little harder, impatient to get back to Jackson and start reviewing the footage I’d captured. I was shocked and sad, but I realized I had documented something extraordinary, something that cut straight to the heart of our democracy, that put a name to the hypocrisy that threatened the liberty of every one of Mother Nature’s children.
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