Save the Wild Horses & Burros

I am passing this info along for those who are interested:


I found this from following a woman and her Wild mustang horse that she rescued. She is attempting to walk from the East Coast to the West Coast. It it a wonderful story and think you would enjoy reading about her. Here is her link www.walkingwithwinnie.com

I found the information below from one of her friends and decided it should be passed along to other people who might care to. To me is just one more example of special interests getting around a law already in place which is supposed to be protecting these animals and this should not even have come up! If you care, please help now! Write and call right now!

Below is a letter that I would like to pass along and ask that if anyone cares about this issue, they will start contacting Congress, their representitives as soon as possible regarding this issue. Otherwise they will be slaughtered next month!

Dear Ann,

You might like to know about (well, you WON'T like this!) a new plan by Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar to slaughter 30,000 wild Western horses and, if I understand correctly, burros.The horses and maybe the burros are already penned up, at huge taxpayer expense, ready to be rounded up in August -- next month -- for slaughter.

Apparently Secretary Salazar thinks that they've been eating too much grass on the plains they've roamed for goodness knows how many thousands of years.A lovely woman named Madeleine Pickens, President of the National Wild Horse Foundation, http://www.madeleinepickens.com/sanctuary-qa/, is organizing to stop this.

Being a genuine American Mustang, and all, perhaps you'd like to help.Here's a link (or will be, if Mr. Albino will kindly intervene) to a 4 July 2009 article about this, entitled, Wildhorse Mass Extermination Planned by Secretary [of] Interior Salazar; Stop This: http://oxdown.firedoglake.com/diary/6125.

Ms. Pickens and the Foundation propose instead the use of horse birth control to limit the size of the herds (this works in the East), and a large Wild Horse Sanctuary.

There's a petition to Secretary Salazar that people can sign if they support saving the wild horses. It's at http://capwiz.com/madeleinepic.....38;type=ANAnd of course they can contact their Senators and Member of Congress.

A change in the law will require the Secretary of the Interior to protect the wild horses.H.R. 1018 was introduced into the House on 02/12/2009 to protect our wild horses and burros. Bill Sponsors are Representatives Nick Rahall (D-WV) and Raul Grijalva (D-AZ); Legislative Status: In Session.

About H.R. 1018, the website (www.hus.org) of the Humane Society of the United States says:"In addition to preventing the commercial sale and slaughter of wild horses, H.R. 1018 prevents wholesale killing of healthy wild horses, prioritizes on-the-range management over roundups (including immunocontraception as a population control strategy that will save tax dollars), and prohibits particularly cruel round up methods, such as the use of helicopters and other airborne devices.

"So our Senators and Members of Congress need to hear from those of us who use phones and computers! Passing this legislation would be a win for wild horses and for taxpayers alike.

And people can tell Secretary Salazar directly at the Department of the Interior what they think of his wholesale slaughter plan. Just click on www.doi.gov
and click on the 'Contact Us' link near the top of the homepage.People may also phone Secretary Salazar at 1.202.208.3100; email him at feedback@ios.doi.gov; or scroll down that page to the form for sending questions or comments.

Or, of course, they may do all of the above!I knew that you, Mr. Albino, Winnie, and the wonderful people and horses you are meeting would want to do everything you could to help.
Now I'm off to tell the compassionate people at www.firedoglake.com
(click on the Oxdown Diaries button), who informed me about the wild horses, about y'all and your and Winnie's trek!Happy trails and best wishes,Your friend Sarah