Friday, March 26, 2010

Bureau of Land Management Wants to Remove 1000 horses

My personal words preceding the opposition letter:

"Being part of the change in the enlightened America now being evolved means looking carefully at the customary approach to "wild" animals who are our co-inhabitants of the planet. We need to question, with appropriate respect, human ideas about "management." Imprisoning, culling, removal, killing -- those methods belong to the atavistic past. Along with the original human inhabitants, most of the non-human animals living on this continent were killed in terrible and persistent massacres. Life itself now has reached a point where we must learn from, not blindly copy, the past, when we must not unthinkingly resort to solutions that were wrong even at the time."

Following from 'In Defense of Animals.' The link is at the bottom.

The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) has been found repeatedly to arbitrarily set Appropriate Management Levels (AMLs) for wild horses. The BLM's contention that approximately 1.7 million acres in the two HMAs can only sustain approximately 1,165 horses is questionable.

The proposed massive removal of wild horses and burros from the Adobe Town and Salt Wells HMAs and the warehousing of these animals in government holding facilities violates the intent of Congress and the will of the American people that our wild horses be managed on the range in a humane and minimally-intrusive manner that preserves their wild and free-roaming behavior.

https://secure2.convio.net/ida/site/Advocacy?pagename=homepage&page=UserAction&id=1421

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