Friday, March 18, 2011
Thursday, March 17, 2011
Tell Nevada Legislature and Governor: DEFEAT SJR5!
American Wild Horse preservation Campaign
Last Friday, March 11, 2011, the Nevada Senate Natural Resources Committee passed Senate Joint Resolution (SJR) 5. This resolution, while non-binding, opposes solutions currently being explored by the Interior Department's Bureau of Land Management (BLM) to create mustang preserves in Nevada. Sadly, a small group of special interest ranchers have gotten Nevada legislators to put special interests above the public good and created SJR5. This anti-mustang resolution must be stopped - it is not good for Nevada and it's not good for mustangs and burros.
Tourism is the #1 industry in the state of Nevada - more money and jobs are generated by tourism than any other industry in the state. With more than half of all wild horses and burros residing in Nevada - wild horses are one of the state's most valuable untapped assets. Now is the time to put Nevada's two best assets together - tourism and mustangs - and create a world-class wild horse and burro eco-tourism industry. This is a promising new opportunity for Nevada - with preserve proposals from Return to Freedom and Saving America's Mustangs currently under review with the BLM.
However, SJR5, if passed, would send a message from the state of Nevada to the Interior Department that the state does not want wild horse preserves and prefers to continue the decades-old unfair and unsustainable wild horse management program, which favors the interests of livestock ranchers over the wishes of the general public.
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Nevada Senate Natural Resources Committee Passes Anti-Mustang Resolution
Last Friday, March 11, 2011, the Nevada Senate Natural Resources Committee passed Senate Joint Resolution (SJR) 5. This resolution, while non-binding, opposes solutions currently being explored by the Interior Department's Bureau of Land Management (BLM) to create mustang preserves in Nevada. Sadly, a small group of special interest ranchers have gotten Nevada legislators to put special interests above the public good and created SJR5. This anti-mustang resolution must be stopped - it is not good for Nevada and it's not good for mustangs and burros.Tourism is the #1 industry in the state of Nevada - more money and jobs are generated by tourism than any other industry in the state. With more than half of all wild horses and burros residing in Nevada - wild horses are one of the state's most valuable untapped assets. Now is the time to put Nevada's two best assets together - tourism and mustangs - and create a world-class wild horse and burro eco-tourism industry. This is a promising new opportunity for Nevada - with preserve proposals from Return to Freedom and Saving America's Mustangs currently under review with the BLM.
However, SJR5, if passed, would send a message from the state of Nevada to the Interior Department that the state does not want wild horse preserves and prefers to continue the decades-old unfair and unsustainable wild horse management program, which favors the interests of livestock ranchers over the wishes of the general public.
Please take a moment to personalize the message below by editing the subject line and first few sentences. This message will be sent to the Nevada Governor and legislators urging them to reject the anti-mustang SJR5.
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Wednesday, March 16, 2011
Obama’s BLM Squandered Wild Horse Funds Now Looking for Help
Straight from the Horse's Heart
(In My Humble Opinion) by R.T. Fitch ~ Author/Director of HfH Advisory Board
As part of the Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM) alleged “New Strategy” the agency claims that it is extending its hand “soliciting proposals for private-public partnerships to establish wild horse ‘ecosanctuaries’ on non-BLM managed land.” In a press release, dated 03/16/2011, the BLM states that they will entertain said partnerships in an effort to help the BLM care and feed the “excess” wild horses the BLM have removed from their rightful homes.
On the surface this would appear to be a wonderful new and revolutionary idea but in reality it is not even a concept that the BLM can claim to be its own. Madeleine Pickens has made the commitment to acquire half a million acres of grazing land, in the west, in an effort to give a better home to the horses that the BLM has unjustifiably removed from their lawful range. Years of research and lobbying went into the plan and BLM Director Bob Abbey give Pickens a thumbs down after months and months of reassuring her that the plan was viable. Of course, Abbey now says that he was misquoted but what do you expect from a guy who has been gorging himself at the government’s feed trough for his entire career, the truth?
A glaringly obvious consideration, with this entire scenario, is that it is nothing more than Secretary of the Department of Interior Ken Salazar’s “Zalazoo Plan” only in a different flavor with someone else helping to pay the bill. The proposal still calls for separate, “non-producing” herds of gelded stallions and chemically sterilized mares segregated onto different land. Abnormal, death herds of shattered former families living out their lives separated from their natural partners simply waiting to die. No bands of wild horses, no births or babies but instead just herds of gelded stallions running separate from herds of mares. Ain’t that sweet?
As usual the BLM is looking at the backside of the horse versus making corrections and guiding the head. Don’t get me wrong as I would welcome anything to help improve the quality of live for those that are in holding but again, the collective bureaucratic mind of the BLM can only see to treat the symptom versus curing the disease and now that they have squandered away tens of millions of your dollars on senseless and deadly roundups they want help with the very problem that they created.
Fix the problem you knuckleheads!!! Stop swelling the bank accounts of cruel stampede contractors Cattoors and Sun-J. Settle into the idea of accurately COUNTING the ACTUAL number of horses on the range and partner with professionals who can recommend humane management practices and stop fueling the problem by recklessly removing wild horses and burros from their rightful homes. It’s an easy fix but to continue down the road of ripping every single wild horse and burro off from their rightful land and then shoving them into long term holding has proven to be a failure. Fix it!
If the BLM were forced to function within the private sector they would have failed in business many decades ago. The roughshod concept of full speed ahead at all costs without proper numbers, planning and finances would run a private company straight into the dirt but instead the BLM has used your money, destroyed your herds, ignored years worth of public protest and now that they are out of money, they want you to help. It’s time to put some business sense into the running of our government and if we can’t succeed in doing it at the top then lets run the leaders of this agency out of town on a rail and build a bureau of professional, compassionate and accountable business personnel who realize that 1+1 does not equal 20.
(In My Humble Opinion) by R.T. Fitch ~ Author/Director of HfH Advisory Board
After years of wasting money on deadly Wild Horse Roundups the well has run dry
BLM: "Please, you can trust me."
On the surface this would appear to be a wonderful new and revolutionary idea but in reality it is not even a concept that the BLM can claim to be its own. Madeleine Pickens has made the commitment to acquire half a million acres of grazing land, in the west, in an effort to give a better home to the horses that the BLM has unjustifiably removed from their lawful range. Years of research and lobbying went into the plan and BLM Director Bob Abbey give Pickens a thumbs down after months and months of reassuring her that the plan was viable. Of course, Abbey now says that he was misquoted but what do you expect from a guy who has been gorging himself at the government’s feed trough for his entire career, the truth?
A glaringly obvious consideration, with this entire scenario, is that it is nothing more than Secretary of the Department of Interior Ken Salazar’s “Zalazoo Plan” only in a different flavor with someone else helping to pay the bill. The proposal still calls for separate, “non-producing” herds of gelded stallions and chemically sterilized mares segregated onto different land. Abnormal, death herds of shattered former families living out their lives separated from their natural partners simply waiting to die. No bands of wild horses, no births or babies but instead just herds of gelded stallions running separate from herds of mares. Ain’t that sweet?
As usual the BLM is looking at the backside of the horse versus making corrections and guiding the head. Don’t get me wrong as I would welcome anything to help improve the quality of live for those that are in holding but again, the collective bureaucratic mind of the BLM can only see to treat the symptom versus curing the disease and now that they have squandered away tens of millions of your dollars on senseless and deadly roundups they want help with the very problem that they created.
Fix the problem you knuckleheads!!! Stop swelling the bank accounts of cruel stampede contractors Cattoors and Sun-J. Settle into the idea of accurately COUNTING the ACTUAL number of horses on the range and partner with professionals who can recommend humane management practices and stop fueling the problem by recklessly removing wild horses and burros from their rightful homes. It’s an easy fix but to continue down the road of ripping every single wild horse and burro off from their rightful land and then shoving them into long term holding has proven to be a failure. Fix it!
If the BLM were forced to function within the private sector they would have failed in business many decades ago. The roughshod concept of full speed ahead at all costs without proper numbers, planning and finances would run a private company straight into the dirt but instead the BLM has used your money, destroyed your herds, ignored years worth of public protest and now that they are out of money, they want you to help. It’s time to put some business sense into the running of our government and if we can’t succeed in doing it at the top then lets run the leaders of this agency out of town on a rail and build a bureau of professional, compassionate and accountable business personnel who realize that 1+1 does not equal 20.
Click (HERE) for BLM press release
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BLM solicits proposals to establish wild horse ecosanctuaries
Tuesday's Horse
The latest public relations exercise by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), who issued a news release yesterday announcing they are soliciting proposals to establish wild horse “ecosanctuaries” on non-BLM managed land to “help the BLM feed and care for excess wild horses that have been removed from Western public rangelands,” exposes the hypocrisy that runs rampant through the Department of Interior agency. Read MORE....
The latest public relations exercise by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), who issued a news release yesterday announcing they are soliciting proposals to establish wild horse “ecosanctuaries” on non-BLM managed land to “help the BLM feed and care for excess wild horses that have been removed from Western public rangelands,” exposes the hypocrisy that runs rampant through the Department of Interior agency. Read MORE....
STOP-THE-ROUNDUPS PRESS CONFERENCE IN PHOENIX; SAVE OUR WILD BURROS AND HORSES DEMONSTRATIONS AT NATIONAL ADVISORY BOARD MEETING OF OUR WILD HORSES
Humane Observer: Elyse Gardner
With numerous supporters of our American wild horses, I traveled to Phoenix to attend the first 2011 meeting of the national Wild Horse and Burro Advisory Board, as well as the press conference we held to Stop the Roundups.
Here are a few clips for you from the press conference officiated by Ginger Kathrens, Emmy winning filmmaker of the Nature series on Cloud, the inimitable wild Palomino stallion of the Rockies. I will be posting more as I get the clips ready for you.
Michael Blake's statement at the March 10, 2011, Stop-the-Roundups press conference.
Read MORE...(More videos)Michael Blake's statement at the March 10, 2011, Stop-the-Roundups press conference.
Sugarcreek Horse Auction in Ohio
Animals Angels reports. Animals' Angels undercover investigation at Sugarcreek Horse Auction in Ohio.
Warning: Graphic Content!
Warning: Graphic Content!
Tuesday, March 15, 2011
Rep. Mike Simpson Critiques BLM Budget that Robs Resource Management
The State Column
Rep. Mike Simpson released the following statement:
Idaho Congressman Mike Simpson, Chairman of the House Interior and Environment Appropriations Subcommittee, questioned BLM Director Bob Abbey regarding a number of issues, including the Wild Horse and Burro program, grazing on public lands, and the Administration’s new “Wild Lands” policy. Simpson’s subcommittee examined the President’s FY2012 budget request for the Bureau of Land Management. Read More...
Rep. Mike Simpson released the following statement:
Idaho Congressman Mike Simpson, Chairman of the House Interior and Environment Appropriations Subcommittee, questioned BLM Director Bob Abbey regarding a number of issues, including the Wild Horse and Burro program, grazing on public lands, and the Administration’s new “Wild Lands” policy. Simpson’s subcommittee examined the President’s FY2012 budget request for the Bureau of Land Management. Read More...
BLM still not making wild horse sense
Las Vegas Review-Journal
You don‘t have to be a Nevada native or a liberal horse hugger to appreciate the unadulterated economic nonsense of the Bureau of Land Management’s hilarious helicopter mustang roundup.
Boulder City resident Barbara Pennelle writes, “I consider myself a social conservative as well as an animal lover. I am concerned that perhaps some day the only place you might see an American mustang is in a zoo. That would be a real tragedy.” Read More...
You don‘t have to be a Nevada native or a liberal horse hugger to appreciate the unadulterated economic nonsense of the Bureau of Land Management’s hilarious helicopter mustang roundup.
Boulder City resident Barbara Pennelle writes, “I consider myself a social conservative as well as an animal lover. I am concerned that perhaps some day the only place you might see an American mustang is in a zoo. That would be a real tragedy.” Read More...
Take action for Sugarcreek Auction horses with Animals Angels
Tuesday's Horse
Posted on Mar 15, 2011 by Vivian Grant
Dying Horses at Sugarcreek Auction in Ohio
Join Animals' Angels to put a stop to atrocities against horses and other animals auction at Sugarcreek in Ohio.
You have read reports here on Tuesday’s Horse about Sugarcreek Auction and the atrocious acts of cruelty committed against horses. Horses, of course, are not the only ones who suffer at the hands of Sugarcreek Auction, owned and operated by Leroy Baker.
Animals’ Angels state:
After four years of solid work at the Sugarcreek Auction, Animals’ Angels current investigations show that the conditions remain unacceptable:
Typically upon arrival, investigators find emaciated, injured, lame, sick, infected, blind, heavily pregnant and dead horses; horses subjected to extremely rough handling, hitting horses with full force across the face; extreme overcrowding, and horses being trampled to death – due to ignorant and cruel handling. Virtually without exception auction veterinarians refuse care.
Animals’ Angels ask you to help bring Baker to justice and put an end to his shameful enterprise.
Animals’ Angels is currently filing new complaints at state and federal levels. To be as effective as possible, Animals’ Angels is asking you to help push these efforts to the next level. We have damning evidence against Baker and you can make Baker’s cruel history roar and resonate more in the ears of authorities.
Will you help us raise our voices to say no human being can continue to accept this cruelty and ignorance?
Thank you for making a difference and for being there for these animals!
Please contact:
Sugarcreek Mayor
Jeremiah Johnson
Phone: 330-852-2271
Jeremiah.Johnson@VillageofSugarcreek.com
Tuscarawas County Visitors Bureau
124 East high Avenue
New Philadelphia, OH 44663
Phone: 330-602-2420
Fax: 330-602-2433
info@ohiotimelessadventures.com
County Commissions of Tuscarawas
Chris Abbuhl, Kerry Metzger, Jim Sheldenright
125 East High Avenue
New Philadelphia, OH 44663
Phone: 330-365-3240
Fax: 330-602-7483
commissioners@co.tuscarawas.oh.us
Sugarcreek Police
Chief Kazzar
202 Fairview Rd
Sugarcreek, OH 44681
KKSugarpd@neohio.twcbc.com
Tuscarawas County Humane Society
6895 Dover-Zoar Rd
Dover, OH 44622
330-343-6060
contact@tuschumanesociety.org
Tuscarawas Chamber of Commerce
1323 4th Street NW
New Philadelphia, OH 44663
Don Hoffman (Iterim President/CEO)
donh@tuschamber.com
Ohio Livestock Care Standards Board
8995 East Main Street
Reynoldsburg, OH 43068
livestockstandardsboard@agri.ohio.gov
James Zehringer (Chairman of the Board)
administration@agri.ohio.gov
Ohio Department of Agriculture
Dr. Tony Forshey (State Veterinarian)
Phone: 614-728-6220
tforshey@agri.ohio.gov
State Representatives
Ohio Senate
State Senator Joe Schiavoni, D. (33rd District)
Senate Building, 1 Capitol Square, Ground Floor
Columbus,OH 43215
Phone: 614-466-8285
SD33@maild.sen.state.oh.us
State Senator Jason Wilson, D. (30th District)
Senate Building, 1 Capitol Square, Ground Floor
Columbus,OH 43215
Phone: 614-466-6508
SD30@maild.sen.state.oh.us
Ohio House
State Rep. Al Landis, R. (96th District)
77 S High Street, 11th Floor
Columbus, OH 43215
Phone: 614-719-6996
district96@ohr.state.oh.us
Contact the above individually OR compose a message suitable for all of these individuals and send it out in a single email.
Copy and paste the following into a new email message:
To: Jeremiah.Johnson@VillageofSugarcreek.com
cc: info@ohiotimelessadventures.com, info@ohiotimelessadventures.com, commissioners@co.tuscarawas.oh.us, KKSugarpd@neohio.twcbc.com, contact@tuschumanesociety.org, donh@tuschamber.com, administration@agri.ohio.gov, tforshey@agri.ohio.gov, SD33@maild.sen.state.oh.us, district96@ohr.state.oh.us
Baker owes back fines of $162,800.00 to the USDA for abuse violations, and those are the fines we know about.
EVIDENCE
– Animals’ Angels Video
http://www.animalsangels.org/media-center/video.html
Warning! Graphic!
– Animals’ Angels Leroy Baker and Sugarcreek Auction Violation Compilation Reports Obtained through FOIA
http://www.animalsangels.org/the-issues/horse-slaughter/foia-requests.html
Posted on Mar 15, 2011 by Vivian Grant
Dying Horses at Sugarcreek Auction in Ohio
Join Animals' Angels to put a stop to atrocities against horses and other animals auction at Sugarcreek in Ohio.
You have read reports here on Tuesday’s Horse about Sugarcreek Auction and the atrocious acts of cruelty committed against horses. Horses, of course, are not the only ones who suffer at the hands of Sugarcreek Auction, owned and operated by Leroy Baker.
Animals’ Angels state:
After four years of solid work at the Sugarcreek Auction, Animals’ Angels current investigations show that the conditions remain unacceptable:
Typically upon arrival, investigators find emaciated, injured, lame, sick, infected, blind, heavily pregnant and dead horses; horses subjected to extremely rough handling, hitting horses with full force across the face; extreme overcrowding, and horses being trampled to death – due to ignorant and cruel handling. Virtually without exception auction veterinarians refuse care.
Animals’ Angels ask you to help bring Baker to justice and put an end to his shameful enterprise.
Animals’ Angels is currently filing new complaints at state and federal levels. To be as effective as possible, Animals’ Angels is asking you to help push these efforts to the next level. We have damning evidence against Baker and you can make Baker’s cruel history roar and resonate more in the ears of authorities.
Will you help us raise our voices to say no human being can continue to accept this cruelty and ignorance?
Thank you for making a difference and for being there for these animals!
Please contact:
Sugarcreek Mayor
Jeremiah Johnson
Phone: 330-852-2271
Jeremiah.Johnson@VillageofSugarcreek.com
Tuscarawas County Visitors Bureau
124 East high Avenue
New Philadelphia, OH 44663
Phone: 330-602-2420
Fax: 330-602-2433
info@ohiotimelessadventures.com
County Commissions of Tuscarawas
Chris Abbuhl, Kerry Metzger, Jim Sheldenright
125 East High Avenue
New Philadelphia, OH 44663
Phone: 330-365-3240
Fax: 330-602-7483
commissioners@co.tuscarawas.oh.us
Sugarcreek Police
Chief Kazzar
202 Fairview Rd
Sugarcreek, OH 44681
KKSugarpd@neohio.twcbc.com
Tuscarawas County Humane Society
6895 Dover-Zoar Rd
Dover, OH 44622
330-343-6060
contact@tuschumanesociety.org
Tuscarawas Chamber of Commerce
1323 4th Street NW
New Philadelphia, OH 44663
Don Hoffman (Iterim President/CEO)
donh@tuschamber.com
Ohio Livestock Care Standards Board
8995 East Main Street
Reynoldsburg, OH 43068
livestockstandardsboard@agri.ohio.gov
James Zehringer (Chairman of the Board)
administration@agri.ohio.gov
Ohio Department of Agriculture
Dr. Tony Forshey (State Veterinarian)
Phone: 614-728-6220
tforshey@agri.ohio.gov
State Representatives
Ohio Senate
State Senator Joe Schiavoni, D. (33rd District)
Senate Building, 1 Capitol Square, Ground Floor
Columbus,OH 43215
Phone: 614-466-8285
SD33@maild.sen.state.oh.us
State Senator Jason Wilson, D. (30th District)
Senate Building, 1 Capitol Square, Ground Floor
Columbus,OH 43215
Phone: 614-466-6508
SD30@maild.sen.state.oh.us
Ohio House
State Rep. Al Landis, R. (96th District)
77 S High Street, 11th Floor
Columbus, OH 43215
Phone: 614-719-6996
district96@ohr.state.oh.us
Contact the above individually OR compose a message suitable for all of these individuals and send it out in a single email.
Copy and paste the following into a new email message:
To: Jeremiah.Johnson@VillageofSugarcreek.com
cc: info@ohiotimelessadventures.com, info@ohiotimelessadventures.com, commissioners@co.tuscarawas.oh.us, KKSugarpd@neohio.twcbc.com, contact@tuschumanesociety.org, donh@tuschamber.com, administration@agri.ohio.gov, tforshey@agri.ohio.gov, SD33@maild.sen.state.oh.us, district96@ohr.state.oh.us
Baker owes back fines of $162,800.00 to the USDA for abuse violations, and those are the fines we know about.
EVIDENCE
– Animals’ Angels Video
http://www.animalsangels.org/media-center/video.html
Warning! Graphic!
– Animals’ Angels Leroy Baker and Sugarcreek Auction Violation Compilation Reports Obtained through FOIA
http://www.animalsangels.org/the-issues/horse-slaughter/foia-requests.html
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