Wildlife Society wants to kill Wild Horses & Burros….Beware of their wicked ways

Posted on October 19, 2015 by Denise Brown

The Wildlife Society is advising the BLM to kill healthy wild horses and burros in the wild and in BLM feedlots!

The Wildlife Society made the following recommendation to the BLM:

“The current language limiting the use of humane euthanasia for unwanted or unadoptable horses should be removed to allow BLM to use all necessary management tools to bring populations of on- and off-range wild horses and burros within manageable range”

The Wildlife Society is a non profit, tax exempt organization that takes donations.
Before you donate to an organization, know where your donations go and what they are being used for…

From the Senate Hearings Before the Committee on Appropriations Department of the Interior,
Environment, and Related Agencies Appropriations Fiscal Year 2015 113th CONGRESS, SECOND SESSION:

“The Wildlife Society, part of the National Horse and Burro Rangeland Management Coalition, appreciates the commitment of BLM to addressing the problems associated with Wild Horse and Burro Management. We support the requested increase of $2.8 million for implementation of the National Academy of Sciences recommendations and findings and continued research and development on contraception and population control. However, with more than 12,000 horses above BLM’s stated Appropriate Management Levels on the range and nearly 50,000 horses in off-site long- and short-term holding facilities The Wildlife Society is concerned about BLM’s emphasis on fertility control alone. The current language limiting the use of humane euthanasia for unwanted or unadoptable horses should be removed to allow BLM to use all necessary management tools to bring populations of on- and off-range wild horses and burros within manageable range and additional funding should be requested to correct the habitat damage that has occurred due to overpopulation of these animals. The requested $80.2 million should be provided to BLM if they continue removing excess horses from the range at a reasonable rate and focus additional resources on habitat restoration.”
pages 462-463
http://www.gpo.gov/…/CHRG-113shrg…/pdf/CHRG-113shrg87250.pdf

Be sure you know the agenda of the organizations you donate to. Find out if they are supporters or enemies of our wild horses and burros. Find out who their partners and sponsors are…who they are in bed with. The Wildlife Society is partnered with:

“Premier Partner” the U.S. Forest Service, Department of Agriculture (USDA)

“Strategic Partner” the USDA Wildlife Services and many more. Wildlife Services has been called out numerous times for their horrific practices of killing animals. The following are some examples of this federal agency’s dirty work:

“USDA’s Wildlife Services killed 4 million animals in 2013; seen as an overstep by some”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/…/1de0c550-ecc4-11e3-b98c-72…

“The killing agency: Wildlife Services’ brutal methods leave a trail of animal death”
http://www.sacbee.com/…/wildlife-invest…/article2574599.html

“There’s a reason you’ve never heard of this wildlife-killing agency”
https://www.revealnews.org/…/theres-a-reason-youve-never-h…/

“EXPOSED: USDA’s Secret War on Wildlife”
http://www.predatordefense.org/exposed/index.htm

Read more here: http://www.sacbee.com/…/wildlife-inves…/article2574599.html…

Know the enemy…who really are these organizations that are asking for donations? Who do they support? Who supports them? …that knowledge will help to reveal what their true agenda is because their names can be very misleading.

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Wild Horses in America 4 million Years ago

Posted on October 14, 2015 by Denise Brown

The Surprising History of America’s Wild Horses

By Jay F. Kirkpatrick and Patricia M. Fazio, Natural History Magazine

http://rtfitchauthor.com/2009/11/29/the-surprising-history-of-americas-wild-horses/

Modern horses, zebras, and asses belong to the genus Equus, the only surviving genus in a once diverse family, the Equidae. Based on fossil records, the genus appears to have originated in North America about 4 million years ago and spread to Eurasia (presumably by crossing the Bering land bridge) 2 to 3 million years ago. Following that original emigration, there were additional westward migrations to Asia and return migrations back to North America, as well as several extinctions of Equus species in North America.

The last prehistoric North American horses died out between 13,000 and 11,000 years ago, at the end of the Pleistocene, but by then Equus had spread to Asia, Europe, and Africa.

Animals that on paleontological grounds could be recognized as subspecies of the modern horse originated in North America between 1 million and 2 million years ago. When Linnaeus coined the species name, E. caballus, however, he only had the domesticated animal in mind. Its closest wild ancestor may have been the tarpan, often classified as E. ferus; there is no evidence, though, that the tarpan was a different species. In any case the domesticated horse probably did not arise at a single place and time, but was bred from several wild varieties by Eurasian herders.

In recent years, molecular biology has provided new tools for working out the relationships among species and subspecies of equids. For example, based on mutation rates for mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) Ann Forstén, of the Zoological Institute at the University of Helsinki, has estimated that E. caballus originated approximately 1.7 million years ago in North America. More to the point is her analysis of E. lambei, the Yukon horse, which was the most recent Equus species in North America prior to the horse’s disappearance from the continent. Her examination of E. lambei mtDNA (preserved in the Alaskan permafrost) has revealed that the species is genetically equivalent to E. caballus. That conclusion has been further supported by Michael Hofreiter, of the Department of Evolutionary Genetics at the Max Planck Institute in Leipzig, Germany, who has found that the variation fell within that of modern horses.

These recent findings have an unexpected implication. It is well known that domesticated horses were introduced into North America beginning with the Spanish conquest, and that escaped horses subsequently spread throughout the American Great Plains. Customarily, such wild horses that survive today are designated “feral” and regarded as intrusive, exotic animals, unlike the native horses that died out at the end of the Pleistocene. But as E. caballus, they are not so alien after all. The fact that horses were domesticated before they were reintroduced matters little from a biological viewpoint. Indeed, domestication altered them little, as we can see by how quickly horses revert to ancient behavioral patterns in the wild.

Consider this parallel. To all intents and purposes, the Mongolian wild horse (E. przewalskii, or E. caballus przewalskii) disappeared from its habitat in Mongolia and northern China a hundred years ago. It survived only in zoos and reserves. That is not domestication in the classic sense, but it is captivity, with keepers providing food and veterinarians providing health care. Then surplus animals were released during the 1990s and now repopulate a portion of their native range in Mongolia and China. Are they a reintroduced native species or not? And how does their claim to endemism differ from that of E. caballus in North America, except for the length and degree of captivity?

The wild horse in the United States is generally labeled non-native by most federal and state agencies dealing with wildlife management, whose legal mandate is usually to protect native wildlife and prevent non-native species from having ecologically harmful effects. But the two key elements for defining an animal as a native species are where it originated and whether or not it coevolved with its habitat. E. caballus can lay claim to doing both in North America. So a good argument can be made that it, too, should enjoy protection as a form of native wildlife.

Jay F. Kirkpatrick, who earned a Ph.D. in reproductive physiology from the College of Veterinary Medicine at Cornell University, has studied fertility control for wild horses. He is the director of the Science and Conservation Center at ZooMontana, in Billings. Patricia M. Fazio, a research fellow at the Science and Conservation Center, earned her Ph.D. in environmental history from Texas A&M University. Her interests include reproductive physiology, the monitoring of wild horse ranges, and the evolution of equids.

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FL Horse Slaughter Investigation Results in 6 Arrests & Seizure of 750 Animals, Largest in US History

Posted on October 14, 2015 by Denise Brown
When greed for money is a man’s king, he does despicable things like animal cruelty, which leads to serial killers and abuse to women and children — and total lack of respect or caring for life. These people will burn in Hell someday. There should be a PRAYER VIGIL for all of the animals that were touched by these men in Florida and farms like this hidden in the shadows of these perverse and cruel beings. I hope they at least get life in prison with no mercy like they did to these poor innocent animals. It will be difficult to forgive them of these attrocious acts of greed for money. They are not people, they’re monsters. Read on…
Oct 14 2015

FL Horse Slaughter Investigation Results in 6 Arrests & Seizure of 750 Animals, Largest in US History

Source: West Palm Beach TV Channel 5

“There are dead animals throughout the property…”

LOXAHATCHEE, Fla. – An animal cruelty investigation resulted in six arrests Tuesday and the seizure of about 750 animals, according to the Palm Beach County Sheriff’s office.

Chopper 5 recorded police activity at property in the Loxahatchee area.

An organization called Animal Recovery Mission issued a news release stating that the activity is a raid on three animal slaughter farms and horse meat operations.

ARM staff members said the owners of three farms: Rancho Garcia, G-A Paso Fino and Medina Farm have been slaughtering horses to sell their meat.

ARM’s president Richard Couto says the agency witnessed grisly acts of brutality against animals. “There are dead animals throughout the property. There’s meat throughout the property. There are sick animals. Possibly diseased animals.”

He says horses were being butchered for their meat.

“Horses were being bought from the show horse communities throughout Wellington, from thoroughbred racetracks, from auctions, from Craigslist,” Couto said.

ARM describes itself as an investigative animal welfare organization and said it is working with the sheriff’s office and Palm Beach County Animal Care and Control.

The sheriff’s office has confirmed it is assisting with the ARM investigations.

The animals seized include goats, pigs, cattle, numerous species of birds, dogs, cats and fighting roosters, the sheriff’s office said.

The Lee County Sheriff’s Office is part of an Agricultural Task Force and says it took part in Tuesday’s investigation at the request of the Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office.

Lee County said it is assisting with the transportation and recovery of multiple animals which were seized.

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Action Alert: BLM plans to Sterilize all of Idaho’s Saylor Creek Wild Horses!

Posted on October 11, 2015 by Denise Brown

We’re almost there. . . . We need to raise $10,000 more to fund a critically important lawsuit to stop the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) from sterilizing every one of the beautiful wild horses living in Idaho’s Saylor Creek Herd Management Area. This action will set a very dangerous precedent for America’s remaining wild horse and burro herds…Will you help us defend these horses and stop this destructive plan?

– Suzanne

Dear Denise,

We knew this day was coming and now it’s really happening. The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is pushing forward with the destruction of America’s wild horses and we need YOUR help to stop the agency’s latest assault.
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The BLM’s current target: the population of wild horses living in the Saylor Creek Herd Management Area (HMA) in southern Idaho, which the agency wants to turn into a “non-reproducing herd” by permanently sterilizing all the horses living there.
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We know the BLM won’t stop with the Saylor Creek horses. If we let this happen, it will be the beginning of the end of our wild herds on public lands in the West.
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The BLM wants the historic Saylor Creek wild horses to die out so it can replace them with mustangs captured from other areas…. turning a protected habitat for wild, free-roaming horses into a holding facility for captured and sterilized mustangs. Unbelievably, the BLM is calling this devastating plan a “sanctuary,” as if destroying the Saylor Creek herd is a good thing for the horses!
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This is the definition of “managing to extinction” and it’s going to happen if we don’t stop it.
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We can’t let them get away with this.
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With your help, we stopped the BLM from sterilizing other herds in Nevada and Wyoming, and we prevented it from eradicating mustangs from a Nevada herd area. We also convinced two federal courts to toss out rancher lawsuits seeking the removal of tens of thousands of wild horses from our public lands.
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We’re ready to file a lawsuit to defend the Saylor Creek wild horses, but we can only do so with your support. . .  . Will you stand with us again?
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From the bottom of our hearts, thank you for continuing to stand with us as we fight to Keep America’s Wild Horses and Burros Wild.
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With Gratitude,

Suzanne & the AWHPC Team

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Unabashed propaganda film: Unbranded — Truth is there are NO EXCESS WILD HORSES

Posted on October 8, 2015 by Denise Brown

Unabashed propaganda film: Unbranded

from:  http://rtfitchauthor.com/2015/10/08/unabashed-propaganda-film-unbranded/

The film Unbranded, in part sponsored by BLM partner Mustang Heritage Foundation, uses the term “excess” to describe the wild horse population, when we know there are NO EXCESS wild horses or burros.  The film even features Gus Warr, the BLM Utah Wild Horse & Burro Lead, asking “What do we do with the excess wild horses that we have to remove?”

Well, Gus, the BLM doesn’t have to remove the wild horses.  The BLM can, and should, remove livestock, instead.  The truth is, most of the remaining herds of wild horses & burros don’t even have viable numbers.

In Unbranded, 4 young Texas A & M grads, including producer Ben Masters, live out a “frontier” fantasy by riding 16 wild horses adopted from the BLM, across 3,000 miles from Mexico to Canada, through the “wildest terrain in the west.” One trailer stated they went 20 miles between water sources.  The trails were described as nasty and steep, and they were obviously in snow for part of their trip.

The Unbranded website even states that one horse named Violent “could’ve easily died in a preventable halter-related injury that took him out of the trip.”   Another horse named Cricket supposedly “passed away from natural causes during the trip.”

The most accurate review I’ve read of this film was written by Shari Montana, Founder of the River Pines Horse Sanctuary in Missoula, Montana
riverpinesfarm.org, so I’m posting it below.  Thanks for taking the time to write this, Shari.  –  Debbie

UNBRANDED – a review

Unbranded is the latest, shameless cowboy documentary of a self-orchestrated, but failed, coming-of-age story. It was made under the guise of promoting conservation of public lands (except for grazing beef cattle on publicly-held lands, subsidized at pennies /day on the financial backs of the unknowing citizens of the United States of America).

The film appears to be sponsored by the U.S. Bureau of Land Management, as their point of view is heavily weighted (they also just happen to manage those cattle-grazing leases). This film turns out to be a not-so-subtle campaign against Wild Mustangs, our oldest known indigenous, North American large mammal species, while lobbying for the beef industry’s subsidized use of public land.  Wild Mustangs are now endangered due to inhumane and inappropriate BLM Wild Mustang “management practices”.

Unbranded was shown and, disappointingly, won Best of Festival, at our local film festival whose intention is stated below in their mission statement cut and pasted from the EIFF website. The EQUUS International Film Festival® returns to Missoula, Montana September 18, 2015.
The first all-equine international film festival and conference features films, television programs, Internet videos, music videos and other media that celebrate the equine arena. Our mission — education and understanding to enhance the equine/human bond and to improve the welfare of equines through excellence in film, television and other media.

A noble intention indeed! Throughout my review of this film, I give examples of the uncaring, ego-based decision-making regarding the 16 mustangs used in the film, while I honor the intention behind EIFF’s mission and deeply respect the festival organizers, Unbranded was anything but representative of their mission!

Instead of a film enhancing the equine human bond and improving the welfare of horses, Unbranded turns out to be a continuation of the cruel, inhumane, inconsiderate horse-breaking techniques long-abandoned by most contemporary horse lovers and horse advocates.
The horsemanship, training practices, decision-making and care of the Mustangs in this documentary are practices left over from the darkest ages of American cowboy “breaking” techniques and the continued abuse of horses as commodities rather than the sentient beings they are. A variety of kinder, gentle horsemanship training techniques have been developed and practiced by those who truly care for the welfare of horses for nearly 50 years – do the terms “natural horsemanship or horse whispering” sound familiar to anyone?

In the planning of this extraordinary 3000-mile trek from Mexico to Canada, the boys state they had a strict budget so they needed cheap horses and decided to go with captured mustangs, rounded up and held in pens for possible, eventual adoption by the BLM.  They then chose 16 horses for their journey and then sent them to “trainers” for their first 90 days of breaking.

On the first day of the trip, the four 22-23 year-old boys become lost and instead of stopping at a pre-determined 25-mile mark for the sake of the horses they’re riding, they continue to ride forty miles until after 2 a.m.  These boys comment on how exhausted they are but show no concern for their horses, those poor, tired mustangs actually doing all the work!  It appeared that no additional rest was set aside to compensate to the horses due for the lack of mapping competencies.

The first major horse injury occurs when one of the pack horses becomes distressed, escapes and runs hysterically through vicious “jumping” cactus, a variety of cactus with barbed spines that attach themselves like porcupine quills. The horse becomes covered in the cactus and it took them 4 days to remove them all.

In Unbranded, one horse dies tragically and others are injured due to the ongoing bad decision-making and poor planning of these boys.  The horses are left to their own devices on and off throughout the film.  The next injury shared with the audience happens to a horse as it panics and tries to jump a barbed wire fence, its hind legs becoming entangled in the wire, it struggles, pulls and eventually breaks free while the boys cringe and watch it struggle, in the end with an “oh well” remark.  No information was shared with the audience regarding the ensuing injuries that occurred from that wrestling match between horse and barbed wire fencing, which usually causes severe lacerations, and often, permanent injuries.

Several weeks into their journey, under the direction of the boys, all the horses struggle to climb a sheer rock cliff face and one of the horses actually tumbles and rolls down over and over itself as it struggles, exhausted, to follow and obey the lead of the cowboys in charge – definitely not an example of caring for the welfare of the horses – but rather consideration again, only for time constraints and yet another example of their poor mapping and planning.  Instead of altering their course, they push on regardless of the difficult terrain or welfare of the horses. We’re told in the film that the horse that tumbled “appeared” to be all right. I know from taking a few tumbles myself over the years that bruises, scrapes, concussions and worse often result from a fall of that nature.  I believe the same would be true for a 1000-pound horse carrying a full pack. Granted, about half of the 16 original horses actually complete the trek, though in the end, they all looked dispirited, spent and bone-weary!

The actual filming of Unbranded was magical as backcountry America is stunningly beautiful! There were only occasional moments of affection shown by some of the boys for the horses. A burro whose mysterious, unexplained appearance part way through the journey provided occasional humor interspersed randomly, and there was a bit of sentimentality offered up through a tenderhearted elderly cowboy. He watches over the boys and horses for much of the trip.  He helps the boys with decision making over injured horses, hauling them out for vet care and rest.  He meets them with food and supplies off and on throughout their journey. He has several emotional displays of affection including tears, when he has to leave them as they set off for another segment of travel through more roadless terrain.  His concern appeared real and was deeply moving.
Without the adorable burro and the sentimental old man, this documentary would have been nothing but a cold, uninspiring, unfulfilling 3000-mile test of endurance for both horses and boys, yet another example of the vicious consequences for horses that exemplifies their historical and abusive interaction with humans.

In addition, the angry exchanges between the boys including abandoned friendships and spent horses make this movie one of the worst examples of the equine-human bond or of the caring and welfare of horses ever!

Only the artistry of the camera operator and the film’s editor provide any redeeming qualities for horse advocates, horse lovers or anyone who commits to sitting through the disastrous and distressing treatment of these magnificent horses. It was heart wrenching and painful!
The cruel, inconsiderate and inhumane use of these beautiful Mustangs for this ego-centered and failed coming-of-age film once again is but another example of how humans have disregarded the welfare of horses to benefit our own selfish agendas, pocketbooks and egos!
The hype and excitement around this film are sky-rocketing it into the public view – please don’t let the general public believe that this film demonstrates acceptable use or treatment of the 16 mustangs “broken” for the film, or for any horse in contemporary times!

The current wide variety of kind and effective negotiation and collaboration techniques to work with and train horses is readily available on television channels devoted to equine management and horsemanship, through dozens of natural horsemanship trainers and horse whisperers selling their techniques, services, dvds, books and other products, to say nothing of the many horse science degrees offered through several fully accredited universities around the world. The current available knowledge base for humane treatment, training and partnering through relationship with horses leaves us without excuse for the continuance of the outdated and cruel “horse breaking” techniques once practiced in ignorance.

Thank you for your consideration.

Shari Montana, Founder
River Pines Horse Sanctuary
Missoula, Montana
riverpinesfarm.org

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OREGON WELFARE RANCHERS AND WILD HORSE DEVASTATION of 1500 Horses 10/2015

Posted on October 6, 2015 by Denise Brown

BEATYS BUTTE HMA: OREGON WELFARE RANCHERS AND WILD HORSE DEVASTATION

Oregon Wild Horses

Oregon Wild Horses (Photo: Vince Patton/OPB)

by Grandma Gregg

The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Lakeview District has announced that it plans to gather approximately 1,500 wild horses associated with the Beatys Butte Herd Management Area (HMA) in Oregon, in early October.  BLM will remove all but 60 stallions and 40 PZP mares.  This plan is based on a 2009 document – i.e. NO public comments are accepted and they say it is not open for appeal either, so we like it or lump it as far as the BLM is concerned.

What they do not mention is that as made clear by the Wild Horse and Burro Act’s implementing regulations, the BLM “may close appropriate areas of the public lands to grazing use by all or a particular kind of livestock . . . if necessary to provide habitat for wild horses or burros, to implement herd management actions, or to protect wild horses or burros from disease, harassment or injury.” 43 C.F.R. § 4710.5(a).

BLM’s handbook requires that an Environmental Assessment (EA) be performed for each proposed gather.  Therefore, BLM’s claims that one EA is to cover future capture actions is not acceptable – even to BLM.  “BLM’s recently issued ‘Wild Horse and Burro Management Handbook’ and manual section 4720 requires that an environmental assessment (EA) will be performed for each proposed gather.  The EA is a site-specific analysis of the potential impacts that could result with the implementation of the Proposed Action or alternatives to the Proposed Action.  Preparation of an EA assists the BLM authorized officer to determine whether to prepare an Environmental Impact Statement if significant impacts could result, or a Finding of No Significant Impact if no significant impacts are expected.”

At this time, all outside authorities, including Congress, rely solely on the data the BLM provides, although its accuracy cannot be verified or substantiated.  BLM is not in the cattle and sheep business and is not authorized to promote private for-profit ranchers.  Until BLM goes beyond using the Wild Horses and Burros as a scapegoat for range overuse and admits it is the destruction and abuse by the private domestic livestock over-use, then the true problem of public land destruction caused by private/corporate domestic livestock will not be corrected.

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Recent independent scientific research using BLM data on 5,859 wild horses from four different HMAs shows without a doubt that although a 20% foaling rate is possible, only half of those foals even live to be yearlings and therefore an average wild horse herd population will not exceed 10% – and with additional adult mortality factored, the annual population would be even less.  So … as you can see in the above chart, the BLM’s Beatys Butte population increases are IMPOSSIBLE.

So, we ask ourselves why the BLM insists on their scientifically impossible herd increases on the Beatys Butte and other Herd Management Areas.  Here are a few facts that show why money is the reason for their deception.

Wild horses and burros are legally DESIGNATED on the Herd Management Area (HMA) and livestock are only PERMITTED.  Definition of the word “designated” is to “set aside for” or “assign” or “authorize”.  Definition of “permit” is to “allow” or “let” or “tolerate”.  The Wild Horse and Burro lands and resources are set aside for, and assigned and authorized for, the use of wild horses and burros whereas the livestock is only allowed and tolerated and let to use the public range resources.

While commercial livestock grazing is permitted on public lands, it is not a requirement under the agency’s multiple use mandate as outlined in the Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976 (FLPMA).  Public land grazing clearly is a privilege, not a right, while the BLM is mandated by law to protect wild horses and burros.  Yet, the BLM clearly embraces the multiple use concept for all lands designated for wild horses and burros and further, to prioritize the private/corporate domestic livestock permittees.

Per BLM’s Rangeland Administration System (RAS), forage allocations for livestock in the Beaty’s Butte HMA are currently 26,121 AUMs of active use and 14,466 of suspended use, equaling a total of 40,587 livestock AUMs.  There is one grazing association that grazes in the Common Pasture of Beatys Butte Allotment #600, which is mainly the same area as the HMA.  Forage allocation is 500 AUMs for deer, 22 AUMs for pronghorn, 240 AUMs for California bighorn sheep, and 3,000 AUMs for wild horses (compared to the 26,121 active AUMs for livestock).

Here are Beaty’s Butte livestock grazing allotment permittees and their USDA farm subsidy data:
Dan Cron received farm subsidy payments totaling $56,079 from 1995 through 2012
USDA subsidy information for Beaty Butte Grazing Association:
Myron Steward received payments totaling $136,226 from 1995 through 2012
Conn Fitzgerald received payments totaling $15,759 from 1995 through 2012
James H Gipson received payments totaling $246,840 from 1995 through 2012
George Shine received payments totaling $102,442 from 1995 through 2012
Samuel Farr received payments totaling $401,039 from 1995 through 2012
Edward D Stabb received payments totaling $377,871 from 1995 through 2012
Michael Gravelle received payments totaling $83,128 from 1995 through 2012
Schadler Ranch Inc received payments totaling $138,007 from 1995 through 2012
L X Ranch Inc received payments totaling $572,374 from 1995 through 2012
Cahill Ranches Inc received payments totaling $172,283 from 1995 through 2012
Kiely Brothers Ranch received payments totaling $116,858 from 1995 through 2012
Glenn E Way received payments totaling $28,183 from 1995 through 2012
Richard E Bradbury received payments totaling $28,205 from 1995 through 2012

Misc. Oregon Welfare Rancher whining:
2013 News Article: [Beatys Butte livestock rancher] “Kiely said he fears that cows may have to be pulled from the area”. “The weight gains of the livestock would decrease, especially in the late summer and early fall, as the quality and quantity of available water and forage decreases. The level of livestock use would need to be or reduced to compensate for the excess number of horses. This, in turn, would affect the financial income of these operations.” Last December, the Lake County, Oregon Board of Commissioners Meeting recommended “a joint County letter be forwarded to Secretary Jewell requesting (demanding) the BLM work with the Cooperative Group on resolving the concerns that were established.” “Mr Davies requested this letter to include two important points: 1) the immediate need for AUMs for impacted ranchers and 2) for the BLM to actively pursue any and all solutions for the massive over population of wild horses.”

So it becomes obvious that these big dollar ranchers “demanded” removal of wild horses and obviously they knew whose buttons to push because now the BLM has agreed to capture and remove a massive amount of the Beatys Butte HMA wild horses. It sure makes me wonder what those “buttons” were and just exactly who the ranchers applied this pressure to? Is there something politically fishy going on here? Absolutely.

And again it is the wild horses living on their congressionally designated land that will suffer and die.

More information:
http://www.blm.gov/or/districts/lakeview/plans/files/BeatyButte_Gather_DNA_Monitor_Report_082015.pdf
http://rtfitchauthor.com/2014/04/28/report-wild-horse-population-growth/
http://www.blm.gov/or/districts/lakeview/plans/files/Beatys_Butte_EA_FONSI_DR.pdf
http://www.lakecountyor.org/government/county_commissioners/docs/Meeting_Minutes_12_17_14.pdf
http://onda.org/publications/newsletter/archived-newsletters-pre-2009/Summer2006.pdf
http://lakecountyexam.com/excess-wild-horse-numbers-a-concern-for-beaty-butte-grazing-assoc-ranchers/
http://farm.ewg.org/persondetail.php?custnumber=A11716051&summlevel=whois
http://farm.ewg.org/persondetail.php?custnumber=A10421636

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Californian earthworks reveal fossils of Ice Age horses

Posted on October 5, 2015 by Denise Brown
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Californian earthworks reveal fossils of Ice Age horses and other animals


Experts carefully unearth a mammoth bone at the construction site before preparing it for removal. Photos: Cornerstone Communities

The prehistoric remains of Ice Age horses, mammoths, turtles and a bison have been unearthed at a construction site in southern California.

The treasure trove of fossils were uncovered at the Old Creek Trails work site in Carlsbad, south of state Route 78, in San Diego County. The site is earmarked for more than 600 homes.

The prehistoric bison is only the second ever found in San Diego County,

All the fossils date from the Pleistocene Epoch, and range from 50,000 to 200,000 years old, said Tom Deméré, the curator of paleontology at the San Diego Natural History Museum.

Deméré says the fossils have the potential to tell scientists a great deal about the climate, the environment and ecology in the region at the time the animals were living.

“They are direct connections with the past, an ancient ecosystem that was once common here.”

Large construction projects in California must have a paleontologist on site when large amounts of earth are moved.

A mammoth bone is encased in plaster in preparation for removal.

Project superintendent John Suster admitted his surprise when the first fossils were unearthed in July. “It’s just rolling hills, nothing special,” Suster said. “I don’t think there’s any way you could have known.”

Work was temporarily halted to allow scientists to carefully remove the finds.

Ure Kretowicz, the chief executive of Cornerstone, the company behind the site development, said the firm had worked closely with paleontologists throughout the grading, which is expected to continue for another two months.

When a possible fossil is found, it is cordoned off and work stops within that area while paleontologists move in.

“We stop everything or go grade another area on the site. Once they’re gone, we start up again.”

The bison fossil, which includes a skull and partial skeleton, is the most unusual and probably the most complete of the larger animals found at the project site, said Deméré. The exact species hasn’t been identified, but is believed to be either a giant bison (Bison latifrons) or an antique bison (Bison antiquus)

“These are big animals, much larger than modern plains bison,” he said.

The specimen has been moved to the museum, where it will eventually be placed on temporary display.

The other fossils include at least two Columbian mammoths, an animal larger than the better-known woolly mammoths that lived in the northern latitudes of North America.

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White House Asked to Halt Experiment on Nevada Wild Horses

Posted on September 30, 2015 by Denise Brown

White House Asked to Halt Experiment on Nevada Wild Horses

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Washington, DC (September 24, 2015). . . The American Wild Horse Preservation Campaign (AWHPC) today announced that it has filed a complaint with the White House Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) against the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) to stop a precedent-setting plan to use an experimental fertility control vaccine on wild horses in the Antelope Herd Management Area (HMA) in eastern Nevada.

The vaccine, known as GonaCon, has never been previously used by the agency. The only available data on GonaCon in wild horses is from a study of just 15 free-roaming mares who received the vaccine and were tracked for one year after the vaccination.

AWHPC is calling on the CEQ to direct the BLM to halt the pilot program until the agency completes adequate environmental analysis as required by the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) and prohibit its use in the absence of a formal scientific study to accurately collect and analyze data on the physiological and behavioral effects of the vaccine on horses.

“The current Proposed Action involves experimenting on America’s wild horses without any scientific oversight, review, or, for that matter, any scientific method for determining the impacts of the experiments on the horses themselves,” wrote AWHPC attorney Katherine Meyer of Meyer, Glitzenstein and Eubanks. “Further, the use of GonaCon in this unscientific, unregimented proposal will place in jeopardy the individual horses’ long-term well-being and their natural, social behaviors, which are attributes that make wild horses celebrated American icons, treasured by Americans and others around the world.”

The BLM Ely District Office is proposing a 10-year fertility control “pilot program” for wild horses living in the Water Canyon area of the Antelope HMA. The agency intends to use helicopters to remove all of the estimated 60 wild horses in the area, and to return only 15 stallions and 15 mares to the range. All mares released would be inoculated with GonaCon.

In 2014, the BLM’s Northeast Great Basin Resource Advisory Council, a citizen advisory board for the Ely District, recommended initiating a humane pilot fertility control program using the PZP birth control vaccine which has been safely and effectively used in wild horses for more than 20 years.

“The BLM is pretending that science is guiding its wild horse and burro management strategies and yet the agency is galloping ahead with the first-time use of an experimental drug in the total absence of science and in contradiction of the recommendations of the National Academy of Sciences,” said Suzanne Roy, AWHPC director.

The current “pilot” program fails to incorporate a properly-designed, rigorous scientific study conducted in conjunction with a reputable academic institution as needed in order to determine the short- and long-term effects of GonaCon on wild horses.

The American Wild Horse Preservation Campaign (AWHPC) mission to preserve and protect wild horses and burros in viable free-roaming herds on public lands for generations to come is endorsed by a coalition of more than 60 horse advocacy, public interest, and conservation organizations.

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Action Alert TODAY: Protect Wild Horses in Wyoming’s Red Desert Complex

Posted on September 30, 2015 by Denise Brown

Take Action TODAY: Protect Wild Horses in Wyoming’s Red Desert Complex

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Comment deadline: October 9, 2015

The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is accepting public comments on an environmental analysis (EA) of a massive helicopter roundup and removal of nearly 2,000 wild horses living in Wyoming’s Red Desert Complex, which includes the Antelope Hills, Crooks Mountain, Green Mountain, Lost Creek and Stewart Creek Herd Management Areas (HMAs). The action would leave behind just 480 horses on this 700,000-acre (more than 1,000-square-mile) public lands area!
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The EA ignores over 6,000 public scoping comments submitted earlier this year calling for the humane management of Red Desert wild horses on the range with PZP fertility control, and for humane capture methods, instead of using helicopters to chase horses into holding pens. Alternative 2 — the Proposed Action in the EA — calls for removal of over 1,700 wild horses from the Complex — that’s 45% of the total estimated mustang population in the entire state — and includes the token application of PZP fertility control to just 23 mares.  Alternative 1, a second alternative analyzed but not proposed in the EA, would more fully utilize fertility control and return more wild horses to the range, but would still permanently remove approximately 830 wild horses from the Complex. Both alternatives call for using traumatic helicopter capture methods.
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It’s time to take a stand for Wyoming’s wild horses.  We must insist that the BLM stop ignoring the public and start humanely managing the Red Desert wild horses on the range, allowing the horses within the HMAs to remain where they are on our public lands! The BLM should raise the “Appropriate” Management Levels (AMLs) for the Red Desert Complex wild horse populations. The BLM must fairly allocate range resources to ensure that wildlife — including wild horses — have a fair share of the forage on our public lands, rather than giving exorbitant resources to the privately-owned cattle and sheep operations.
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Federally protected wild horses and burros deserve to roam free and with fewer cattle, and they can if we continue to speak up! Please personalize and submit the sample letter below to demand humane management and fairer treatment of wild horses on public lands in Wyoming. 
Subject: Red Desert Gather EA Comments

BLM, Red Desert Complex

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Comments are due no later than October 9, 2015. They may be emailed directly to: RedDesertComplex_HMA_WY@blm.gov (please include “Red Desert Gather EA Comments” in the subject line) or can be mailed or delivered to either field office:

Benjamin Smith, Wild Horse & Burro Specialist  BLM Rawlins Field Office, 1300 N. 3rd Street Rawlins, WY 82301

Jeremie Artery, Interim Wild Horse & Burro Specialist, BLM Lander Field Office, 1335 Main Street Lander, WY 82520

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:

Evironmental Assessment

Excerpts from the EA: 

Proposed Action (Alternative 2):

  • Approximately 80% of an estimated population of 2,185 wild horses of the Complex would be gathered (approximately 1,748 wild horses) and approximately 1,705 wild horses would be removed.
  • In contrast to Alternative 1, only 22 studs and 21 mares (numbers are approximate) would be returned to the Complex and the mares older than 1 year would be treated with PZP-22 before being released back into the HMA(s).
  • This would bring the population to low AML (480 horses) and would ensure long term health of the horses and ensure an ecological balance with other uses of the landscape The primary objective of this alternative is to reduce the population to the lower AML and slow the population growth within the Complex to increase the time interval before another gather would need to be completed.

Alternative 1:

  • Approximately 80% of an estimated population of 2,185 wild horses in the Complex would be gathered (approximately 1,748 wild horses) and approximately 402 wild horses would gathered and removed from outside of the HMA boundaries.
  • Approximately 713 mares would be treated with PZP-22, and approximately 1,320 wild horses would be released back into the HMAs. Every effort would be made to return the released horses to the same HMA from which they were gathered.
  • The estimated 482 horses residing outside of HMA boundaries at the time of gather was determined from the 2015 aerial survey that included certain discrete areas outside of the HMA boundaries of interest to the BLM.
  • The post gather population remaining in the HMAs would be approximately 1,800 horses.
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Why are Wild Horses and other Wildlife Starving on America’s Public Lands? Overabundance of Cattle!

Posted on September 29, 2015 by Denise Brown

Why are Wild Horses and other Wildlife Starving on America’s Public Lands? Overabundance of Cattle!

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1545031_649920625064634_1390514084_n “If the Bureau or Land Management or their Supporters say it, it is simply something of a misrepresented fact, or just a lie.  Profound that a government agency is and remains at that level — which includes lack of integrity, unethical behavior, and at times unchecked criminal conduct.”  Anonymous and Witness

Now it is obvious, more than every before, American’s can not trust our government agencies to complete tasks with responsible conduct, ethics, and honesty. Integrity is gone from such government agencies as the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) and their oversight agency the Department of the Interior.

Exclusion of Cattle Grazing

But rather than editorialize, let’s take a look at a situation, very real, very questionable in ethics and conduct. One can state in a blunt way that BLM can not only no longer be trusted due to their questionable manipulation of science and data gathering, but they are dishonest as well as criminal. Taking the effects of cattle grazing out of technical reports is simply dishonest, and costly to the taxpayer.

What is criminal in nature about this circumstance? Extremely large budgets are completed, and are based on the honesty of Science Data and the Technical Reports to follow. Also, Environmental Assessments, assumed honest data is included; give outright permission for all of types of projects on Public Lands to be conducted. But without complete honesty of data, then we can simply surmise dishonesty in not only fact, but they are conducting fraudulent circumstances to generate projects and roundups of wild horses, under the guise of falsified information.

“GRAZING PUNTED FROM FEDERAL STUDY OF LAND CHANGES IN WEST Scientists Told to Not Consider Grazing Due to Fear of Lawsuits and Data Gaps Posted on Nov 30, 2011  — PEER http://www.peer.org

Washington, DC — The U.S. Bureau of Land Management is carrying out an ambitious plan to map ecological trends throughout the Western U.S. but has directed scientists to exclude livestock grazing as a possible factor in changing landscapes, according to a scientific integrity complaint filed today by Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER).  The complaint describes how one of the biggest scientific studies ever undertaken by BLM was fatally skewed from its inception by political pressure. . .

Exclusion of grazing was met with protests from the scientists.  Livestock grazing is permitted on two-thirds of all BLM lands, with 21,000 grazing allotments covering 157 million acres across the West.  As one participating scientist said, as quoted in workshop minutes: “We will be laughed out of the room if we don’t use grazing. If you have the other range of disturbances, you have to include grazing.” In the face of this reaction, BLM initially deferred a decision but ultimately opted to –

  • Remove livestock grazing from all Ecoregional assessments, citing insufficient data.  As a result, the assessments do not consider massive grazing impacts even though trivial disturbance factors such as rock hounding are included; and
  • Limit consideration of grazing-related information only when combined in an undifferentiated lump with other native and introduced ungulates (such as deer, elk, wild horses and feral donkeys).”

One cannot discuss the effects on streams by grazing livestock without recognizing the interwoven and connected nature of watersheds, riparian zones, streams, and watershed activities. Activities affecting watersheds or riparian zones also affect stream ecosystems directly, indirectly, and cumulatively. So here I will simply peruse the situation from a common sense and well referenced perspective.

Impacts of vegetation removal can be placed into two categories: shifts in the plant community structure and removal of plant growth or biomass. Livestock can do both of these. Major changes in the plant community structure and usually a reduction in the number of species have been reported in the western United States.

When we discuss, for example, wild horses starving on our nations multi-use Public Lands, it is the result – most often – of over-grazing from cattle and sheep on Public Lands. Yes a comparative exists — the Canary in the mines of years past, currently the wild horses on Public Lands, are and remain speaking Loud And Clear:

Public lands are being and continue to be mismanagement by the BLM . . .

Summary of Effects of Vegetation Removal

  • Vegetation removal exposes soil to the energy of raindrops, facilitates sheet flow erosion, runoff, and the ability to move sediment, increase in floods, sediment clearing costs very high, et al . . .
  • In contrast, vegetation increases stream bank strength to resist erosion.
  • Stream channels along heavily vegetated areas are deeper and narrower than along poorly vegetated areas.
  • Sediment runoff is higher for heavily grazed watersheds compared to lightly grazed watersheds.

Summary of Temperature Effects

  • Removal of streamside vegetation can increase mean temperature and temperature extremes.
  • Streams along wooded riparian zones may be cooler in summer and warmer in winter.
  • Relatively small changes in stream temperature can shift aquatic communities a 3.6 degree F increase is sufficient to shift from a coldwater to a warm water habitat.
  • An increase in stream temperature from 3.6 to 9 degrees F is common when streamside vegetation is removed.

Sedimentation is recognized as the most prevalent and damaging pollution in streams in North America (Waters, 1995). Livestock grazing can increase sediment load from the watershed, increase in stream trampling, increase disturbance and erosion from overgrazed stream banks, reduced sediment trapping by riparian and in stream vegetation, decreased bank stability and increased peak flows from compaction. In streams assessed in 2000, the most common agricultural pollutant was silt, which was a contributing factor for 31% of streams considered impaired (USEPA, 2000).

Summary of Effects Due to Channel Morphology

  • Unstable stream channels and the loss of fish and invertebrate habitat are often attributed to cattle grazing practices in riparian areas.
  • Stream channels along heavily vegetated areas are deeper and narrower than along poorly vegetated areas.
  • Livestock management often causes local changes in habitat, thereby impacting fish, large mammals (vertebrates), birds, insects, invertebrates, and simply much wildlife that makes an Ecosystem or entire environment healthy.
  • Changes are much more pronounced in small streams than large ones; impacts on lakes are under-studied but appear to be mineralized or disturbed (Klamath Lake, Or. For example.
  • The natural variance among stream channels, lakes, and wetlands makes generic conclusions very difficult. Most impacts and most Best Management Practices will be site-specific. Site-specific BMPs depend on stream morphology.

Summary of Nutrient Effects

  • Excess nutrients in streams cause eutrophication to increase. Eutrophication is the process where aquatic vegetation grows quickly and decomposes, consuming oxygen from the stream.
  • Nutrient concentrations (various forms of N and P) in runoff increase with increasing grazing duration.
  • Retiring areas from grazing but maintaining grass vegetation reduces nutrient delivery, but dissolved N may be reduced differentially in relation to dissolved P.

Conclusion

Here I have merely touched upon things that are severe and directly related to Cattle Grazing on our Public Lands. It appears overwhelmingly foolish to take cattle and their effects on our Public Lands out of any investigation or technical report – or blocked from collecting data on cattle or sheep grazing on our Public Lands.

“The current environmental focus on controlling nonpoint pollution to protect our surface water has led to the discussion of management of our Public lands. The Environmental Protection Agency states that agriculture has a greater impact on stream and river contamination than any other nonpoint source. Grazing, particularly improper grazing or overabundant grazing of public lands areas can contribute to many nonpoint source pollution. Negative impacts downstream include the contamination, for example, of drinking water supplies and watersheds alike (55% of drinking water comes from surface water” (Brown, 1994) . . .

It is time American’s start asking, well no, demanding honesty, integrity, and responsible conduct from the Bureau of Land Management and the Department of the Interior. Then demand they stop lying to the American Public, manipulating science to their political agendas, and lie to the taxpaying public about constantly.

So the next time a BLM or DOLI, or BLM supporters discuss such things as Environmental Assessments, Wild Horse Herd Counts by BLM, or much of anything that deals with our Public Lands, it can be considered questionable at best – do your research, question them and then ask for proof, and not their proof, as that is questionable, but proof from independent science or people in knowledgeable of BLM and government misrepresentation and lies. . .

NOTE:  American’s, taxpayer’s, need to WAKE UP – this is ongoing and happening right before our eyes, and most people say nothing, and accuse the wrong people of spending taxpayer money irresponsibly!  Taxpayer’s have indeed paid BLM and their contractors nearly $410 million dollars, in the past 6 years, for the saving of dead-horses (ironic at its best), which they either killed on the range during roundups, or have killed or sent to slaughter — this is in accord with their own inventory and payment vouchers.  A good example of their misconduct and ripping taxpayers off — actually it is criminal as well, but no one of authority will investigate.

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