Re: Stop the inhumane sterilization experiment on America’s wild mares now– Your opinion counts on this grave matter!
From: “Clark, Steve” <Steve.Clark@oregonstate.edu>
Date: Tuesday, April 19, 2016 at 1:43 PM
To: Denise Brown
Subject: RE: Stop the inhumane sterilization experiment on America’s wild mares now
Denise:
Thank you for reaching out and sharing your concerns. President Ray is out of the office and asked me to respond to you on his behalf.
By way of background, Oregon State University’s College of Veterinary Medicine has been asked by the Bureau of Land Management to research safe and effective alternative mare sterilization procedures. The role of the university research would be to evaluate and report on the safety and result of these procedures. Not to utilize these procedures as a continued practice. At this juncture, Oregon State has not yet determined whether to proceed with this research.
Oregon State’s first priority will always be the safe and humane treatment of all animals involved in any research we conduct. If the research was to occur in this matter, doctors in the College of Veterinary would lead this work. And the care of the mares would be ensured by other veterinarians, who are not engaged in the actual research, but who only would observe the research to fully ensure humane treatment, safety and proper care of the mares.
Once any research is completed, the findings of the research will be provided to the BLM and shared with the public. I understand that the BLM will then make publicly-reviewed decisions about next steps.
I understand and appreciate that you have very strong concerns about this matter. As a public university, it is not OSU’s role to enter that debate by providing our opinion on the overall matter of wild horses, but only to provide research-based information that includes evaluation of the mares’ safety for the BLM and public to be aware of.
Sincerely,
Steve Clark
Vice President
University Relations
Oregon State University
541-737-3808
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Dear Steve,
Thank you for your email.
I hope your peers at the University research more about wild horses and mares before you enter these precarious experiments. You don’t want to be known as the university that brought about and contributed to the final downfall and end of America’s wild horses. It will be the nail on the coffin for America’s iconic wild horses and burros if BLM determines anything like these 3 procedures are safe, necessary or useful for the extermination of the wild herds. Overall the herd populations are not viable numbers to sustain healthly herds for the future. Most are under 150 members which makes them genetically unstable and at risk of inbreeding like the Corolla herd horses.
Please investigate everything before accepting this inhumane and barbaric way of accepting money for the university.
It is totally unnecessary. There is no overpopulation of wild horses. The cattle ranchers are behind the elimination of all wild horses on public lands. They want you to believe they are multiplying like rabbits and over populating the whole country. They treat wild horses as feral cats and want to send them all to slaughter. Their cattle are the most destructive creatures on public lands and the cattle ranchers get practically free use of millions of acres of leased lands that were to protect the wild horse and burro in the 1971 Wild Horse and Burro Act started by Wild Horse Annie when the ranchers were running the wild horses off of cliffs and tying tires and ropes to the horses and let them drag them til they died.
It is all about money and if you don’t learn more about this and get on the side of the protection of the wild horses and burros, there will be no more mustangs for future generations to see. You will only see them in the movies.
It is a tragedy that so many wild species have been eliminated by man’s greed during the last 50 years of our existence.
Please research more about why this is such a wrong decision to involve yourself and the university and ally yourself with the Bureau of Land Management and cattle, gas, oil fracking, mining and hunters who want to eliminate the wild mustangs and burros so they have rights to the public land which they are buying up leasing rights all over the west, right in front of your eyes. Check the aerial photos of gas fracking…over 63,000 sites are operating on public lands now.
Please investigate this multifaceted string of events and management of our public lands so you will not be responsible for the end of the wild horse, America’s iconic symbol that both you and I and the American public own.
Shame on you, the BLM and OSU for being involved in these extermination techniques.
The future of the earth, where the wildlife are valued above money is so important.
Please choose the right side.
Thank you for your time. I am sure if you learn more you will see the importance of not conducting these inhumane experiments.
These wild mares will NO LONGER BE WILD when you take their reproductive organs out and make them useless to their families and future generations. Don’t let the foals be aborted. It is a terrible deed for you to be responsible for this and turn away from any feelings or caring about the animals as a purely scientific view with no opinion of the damage it will invite for the mustang’s future.
Please make the right decision and do the right thing and say NO to this project.
The BLM wants to utilize these procedures as a continued practice. Please read between the lines. They are using you for their plan to eliminate the wild horse.
it is the OSU’s duty to enter that debate by providing your opinion on the overall matter of wild horses, NOT to only provide research-based information that includes evaluation of the mares’ safety for the BLM and public to be aware of.
Shame on you if you think otherwise. I am sorry that you don’t value your own opinion better than your statements. Please reconsider what you wrote to me and:
Visit my ‘Wind’ blog to learn more about the plight of America’s wild horses and burros today and current events and research.
I have studied this plight for 12 years.
Denise Brown
Wild horse advocate
www.windwildhorse.com
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From: Denise Brown Sent: Monday, April 18, 2016 7:46 PM To: IACUC <IACUC@oregonstate.edu>; Clark, Steve <Steve.Clark@oregonstate.edu>; Tornquist, Susan <Susan.Tornquist@oregonstate.edu> Cc: Ray, Edward <Ed.Ray@oregonstate.edu>; Trustees <Trustees@oregonstate.edu> Subject: Stop the inhumane sterilization experiment on America’s wild mares now
Please do not participate in this barbaric and inhumane experiment on America’s wild horses.
1. there is no overpopulation of wild horses across the country.
2. cattle overgrazing is causing more damage to the range, plus produce methane gas and global warming climate change…all about the money from cattle ranchers and public land leasing by BLM. Oil, gas fracking, mining and cattle overgrazing are the most damaging acts on our public lands today.
3. horses graze to the ground due to the structure of their teeth but do not kill the grass, whereas cattle rip out the grass by the roots so they cause more damage to grasses and create competition between other horses, deer and elk. Horses one stomach passes the grass seeds out to refertilize the range. Cattle’s multiple stomachs digest the seed so do not benefit the land. Cattle ranchers put up fences so the wild horses cannot get to the watering holes. The 1971 Wild Horse and Burro Protection Act is supposed to protect them from this bad management.
4. equines first originated on the American continents and travelled north on route to Europe.
5. wild horses don’t roam the country nationwide today. There are estimates of only 20,000 left in the wild.
100 years ago there were over a million wild horses.
6. there are no positive outcomes from sterilizing the wild mares. They will abort there foals up at all stages of their pregnancy. There is no need for the barbaric sterilization. BLM already gelds the stallions they round up.
There is no need for the sterilization experiments because PZP eventually has sterilized the mares it has been used on after several years. These mares no longer get pregnant. They need to research why this is turning out to be non reversible. The wild horses need to have 150 or more healthy breeding stock to be a viable herd for the future of the wild horses and not deformed, imbreeding numbers like most herds are at risk of today.
7. Sherwood wants this program for the wrong reasons….all about money and politics, not for protection of America’s wild horses. They are the American public’s, yours and mine, wild horses and not the Oregon State U or BLM’s wild horses. THEY WILL NO LONGER BE WILD HORSES!
Stop this barbaric inhumane experiment on over 200 wild mares.
Protect the wild horses and burros for future generations to see in the wild and not just in the movies.
It is a right as a citizen to protect our wild horses. They are not owned by the BLM or OSU.
Many of these wild mares will die from infection from lack of sterile environment in a dusty, filthy corral on the range and lack of veterinarian care because they will be set free after the operation. There will be no pain management and many will continue to bleed.The stallions might not accept them back to the family unit. They will suffer, abort their foals at all stages and die on the range from lack of care that is give to domestic mares.
Denise Brown
Portsmouth NH
Owner of America’s wild horses and burros