Friday, October 21, 2011

RALLY FOR SOLUTIONS

October 25, 2011
1:00 P.M. At the Nevada Legislative Building - 401 S. Carson St., Carson City
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NO SLAUGHTER 
FOR NEVADA’S WILD HORSES
STOP 
NEVADA’S  DEPARTMENT  OF  AGRICULTURE  FROM SENDING
THE HISTORIC VIRGINIA RANGE HORSES
INTO THE SLAUGHTER PIPELINE

Under  management of the Nevada Department of Agriculture, Virginia Range horses removed from freedom on the range are sent to auction in Fallon, Nevada.  Most are purchased by meat buyers  for pennies per pound then transported across our borders to slaughter facilities in Canada and Mexico. There is no need for this to happen. 
REINSTATE 
COOPERATIVE AGREEMENTS 
In past years, cooperative agreements were issued to local nonprofit horse groups pursuant to NRS 569.031.  This law allowed groups to help keep horses off our highways.  It also allowed the groups to foster horses that had to be removed until such time as permanent placement was arranged.  Horses were not exposed to  “kill buyers” at auction.

 COOPERATIVE AGREEMENTS WERE CANCELED IN 2009 - THEN THE PROBLEMS BEGAN

PREVENTATIVE MANAGEMENT
The Virginia Range management program was scuttled in 2009 due to lack of funding.  There has been no management since then.  Coupled with the cancellation of  cooperative agreements we now face the very results that horse groups have been warning would occur.  The current administration has inherited a broken system with no funding for repair.  The reinstatement of cooperative agreements would create preventative management at no cost to the State or the taxpayer.

WHAT CAN YOU DO?
JOIN US at the Rally for Solutions - Oct. 25 - 1:00 p.m. - 401 S. Carson St, Carson City
For more info, call   775-461-2121  or 775-220-6806

Tell Nevada   “STOP EXPOSING HORSES TO THE SLAUGHTER PIPELINE”
Call or e-mail:
                                   Governor Brian Sandoval                               Nevada Department of Agriculture
                                            775-684-5670                                                           775-353-3638
                                           email form at                                                jrbarbee@agri.state.nv.gov
                                   http://gov.nv.gov/contact/ 


Carrol Abel
Hidden Valley Wild Horse
Protection Fund
310-343-5543
775-461-2121











 

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