Sign the Petition and make the Calls, Today!!
Cloud and the wild horses of Montana’s Pryor Mountains are world famous but fame it appears is not going to protect the herd from a drastic government round up planned to begin September 1st in their spectacular wilderness home.
Recent photo of member of Cloud's herd (Sandy Church/Rimrock Humane Society)
There are currently only 190 wild horses (one year and older) living in the Pryor Mountains. The BLM plans to remove 70 of them, plus foals. According to the foremost equine geneticist, Dr. Gus Cothran, 150-200 adult horses are needed in the herd to ensure their genetic diversity, which is vital to their long term survival.
These 70 horses would be placed in jeopardy. Any horses over 10 years of age can be bought directly by killer buyers and transported over the Northern border to Canadian slaughterhouses or south into Mexico. Younger horses not adopted would be put into government holding with 33,000 others that the BLM has removed from the wild and has proposed killing because they can no longer afford to feed them.
BLM cites poor range condition as the reason to remove the horses but abundant snow and rain for the past two and a half years has produced wonderful range conditions according to all who have visited Cloud and his herd. The Agency is not listening to anyone. They want this herd gutted. Nearly all the mares returned to the range would be given an experimental two-year infertility drug, PZP-22.
This helicopter round up is just one among many that the BLM is trying to complete, before the Obama Administration can catch up with what is going on.
The Pryor Mountain wild horses are descendents of the Lewis and Clark horses who were stolen by the Crow Indians in the early 1800’s. They can be traced further back to the horses brought over with the Spanish Conquistadors in 1500 making them the most Spanish of all wild horse herds in North America.
Call and email President Obama and Vice President Biden and tell them that you do not want a misguided agency destroying Americas wild horses. 202-456-9000 or 202-456-1111 or write. Tell them to intervene on behalf of the Pryor Wild Horse Herd! The BLM appears to be on a rampage to manage wild horses to extinction.
UPDATE: A kind insider, within the BLM, has a word of advice for us: “You might remind folks that letters to the State Director of the BLM in Billings and/or their Federal Representatives (Senators and Congressmen) are worth their weight in gold. The later (letters to Congressional reps expressing your concern or horror and asking for your Congressional rep to get answers/details from the BLM) are more effective than petitions. Petitions are viewed as “one comment” instead of many, many comments of concerned citizens: one letter = BIG pile of correspondence that the BLM must respond to.”
Please contact The Cloud Foundation for more information.
www.thecloudfoundation.org, info@thecloudfoundation.org, 719-633-3842
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Categories: Wild Horses/Mustangs
Straight from the Horse's Heart 
I think i know how to handle these bastards…having read about Agent orange being sprayed on Oregon forests..and protesting and petitions did not work.
What worked was Vietnam vets in the area writing to the company and saying…”we know the names and addresses of your helicopter pilots”.
Use the internet.
Find out the names and addresses of the officials at BLM and POST THEM ONLINE.
Since the government no longer functions in OUR interests, and hasn’t for a very long time…the best way to handle it is to put the disinfectant of transparency everywhere.
Let people know who they are and where they live, and they will no longer be some faceless bureaucrat who can hide behind a government agency.
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