05 August 2010
Congressmen Grijalva and Congressman Rahall circulated a letter in Congress to place an immediate moratorium on roundups & protect the last remaining wild horses and burros. The letter was sent to Secretary Salazar, with a cc to BLM Director Bob Abbey on July 30th. In total, 54 Congress people signed the letter! Thank you to all signees- the time is now for hearings and independent and accurate censusing of the wild horses and the much-reduced areas they have left to roam. Read the letter online here and please include it in your correspondence to Senators, another letter is needed on the Senate side. Statement:
"We applaud the 54 members of Congress who support protecting the wild horses on their land," states Ginger Kathrens Executive Director of The Cloud Foundation. "There are very few viable wild horse herds remaining due to BLM's policies of gutting herds, reducing them to token numbers while allowing millions of head of welfare livestock to populate legally designated wild horse ranges. We want the BLM to place an immediate moratorium on their lethal round ups before the American mustang is just a memory."
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Read more: Members of Congress write Salazar to halt the roundups http://bit.ly/54sign -- read more in a press release from the Animal Welfare Institute as well, & see their excellent advertisement "Home on the Range?"
