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Action Alert: Protect Wyoming Sage Grouse & WIld Horses. Due 3/25/14!

Posted on March 23, 2014 by Denise Brown

BLM WYOMING NEEDS TO HEAR FROM YOU! http://act.wildhorsepreservation.org/p/dia/action3/common/public/?action_KEY=16974 . Photo by Carol Walker, Living Images Public Comment Deadline: Wednesday, March 26, 2014 The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Wyoming is now accepting public comments on its sage grouse conservation plan. Once again, the agency is turning a blind eye to the devastating impacts of … Continue reading »

Categories: we have filled out your form with the information you provided previously from postal code 03801. | Tags: 000 cows vs. just 2, 135 wild horses! Finally, 2014 The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Wyoming is now accepting public comments on its sage grouse conservation plan. Once again, a seriously threatened ground-dwelling bird that depends on the West's vast sagebrush habitat to survive. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has recommended that sage grouse be officially added to the, acreage, Active (permitted) AUMs, and actual AUM use for the past 5 years. 2. Clear charts and maps that disclose acreage and AUM allocations for livestock grazing in all three categories of sage grouse habitat. 3. Accurate and detail, and the DEIS does not adequately analyze the impacts of the LUP Amendments on wild horses. Nor does it properly disclose or analyze the impacts that widespread livestock grazing in the planning area i, and to convert the wild-free roaming horse population in White Mountain to a sterilized herd. 7. Incorporation of the June 2013 National Academy of Sciences (NAS) recommendations regarding the reform , BLM WYOMING Email:Sagegrouse_Amendment_WY@blm.gov Welcome back! For your convenience, BLM WYOMING NEEDS TO HEAR FROM YOU! . Photo by Carol Walker, despite the documented ill effects of the practice across the West. Alternatives under consideration would set the stage for reductions in wild horse populations, despite the vast landscape decimation caused by this unsustainable practice. None of the alternatives analyzed adequately protects wild horses and burros. The alternatives described would set the stag, given the gross disparity in resource allocation. The BLM allocates 47 times more forage to privately-owned livestock than to federally-protected wild horses in this planning area. This equates to an , Great Divide Basin, including a listing of all BLM/FS allotments, including closure of water sources. 6. Cumulative impacts analysis of proposed alternatives in conjunction with BLM’s plans to zero out wild horses from the Salt Wells Creek and Great Divide Basin HMA, including seven wild horse Herd Management Areas (HMAs) and at least five Herd Areas (HAs). The affected HMAs are: Adobe Town, including tax subsidies. Please give these comments your thoughtful consideration. Thank you for your time. Sincerely, including the prevailing American social preference for wild horse protection and the full costs of the federal livestock grazing program, indeed many of the sections regarding impacts of various alternatives to wild horses are apparently just cut and pasted from the livestock section! In summary, Little Colorado, Living Images Public Comment Deadline: Wednesday, making it difficult to determine how much livestock grazing occurs in sage grouse habitat. What is clear is that livestock vastly outnumber wild horses in the planning area -- 50 times more cattle (an, March 26, once livestock grazing is removed. Alternative C should also require mitigations to any impacts on wild horses caused by removal of livestock grazing, Salt Wells Creek, Stewart Creek and Lost Creek. The Environmental Impact Statement that BLM Wyoming has prepared is grossly inadequate, the agency is turning a blind eye to the devastating impacts of widespread livestock grazing on the land and on sage grouse, the BLM Wyoming does not consider livestock grazing to be a surface disturbing activity, the BLM Wyoming wrongly excludes livestock grazing from classification as a surface disturbing activity, the DEIS fails to consider the significant differences in range impacts caused by livestock vs. wild horses. The DEIS does not consider wild horses as distinct from livestock, the draft LUP Amendments do not adequately protect wild horses in accordance with federal laws and regulations, the final EIS must include the following: 1. Complete data on livestock grazing within the entire planning area, to reduce the Adobe Town HMA population by half, we have filled out your form with the information you provided previously from postal code 03801., where appropriate, while perpetuating the status quo regarding livestock grazing. Any reductions to stocking levels for cows and sheep would be strictly voluntary under the BLM's preferred alternative! Please do not let, while the BLM’s preferred alternative for livestock grazing perpetuates the status quo by making any reductions in stocking levels for cattle and sheep strictly VOLUNTARY. This is unacceptable, White Mountain | Comments Off

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Action Alert: Protect Wyoming Sage Grouse & WIld Horses. Due 3/25/14!

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