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Dear BLM, please protect the wild horses and burros for future generations to enjoy.

Posted by on January 14, 2016

Please protect the wild horses and burros.

Please do not round up and remove horses from White Mountain Herd Management Area. The horses are within AML. If you must round them up, use bait trapping at known water sources and never a helicopter roundup.

Please do not put deadly radio collars and tail tags on the stallions. This is unsafe and potentially fatal for the horses. Use observation of people in the field, interns or staff, to obtain information. The horses are easily identifiable and most are easy to approach – this invasive and dangerous method is not necessary.

Pleaes do not spay any wild mares. This is cruel, inhumane, potentially fatal for many of the mares. It is completely unnecessary. If you must use birth control on this herd, use the proven, safe, humane and reversible native PZP or PZP-22 that can be given using bait trapping and/or field darting.

These horses need protection by the BLM.

Oil, gas, mining, hunting and grazing of cattle and sheep are taking too much of the land and food that the wild horses and burros need to survive in viable healthy herds for all Americans and future generations to see as real living creatures in the wild and not just in the movies.

You must allow the horses and burros to live free and in viable herds with their families and not spay and sterilize them and change their natural behavior in the wild.

Future generations of Americans depend on the BLM to protect the wild horses and burros. Your work in not just about making money today or tomorrow, it is about the future of the public lands and the living creatures security and well-being and not just to make money mining and fracking and grazing cattle.

Thank you for your attention.

Denise Brown

New Hampshire wild horse advocate

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