Read them together, the Salazoo Plan and the ROAM Act, and See how nicely it all ties in together. I am left wondering which came first, the "chicken" Pickin/Salazoo Plan or the "egg" of the ROAM Act? I am leaning towards believing that, because of the Pickins Plan Offer, that the Salazoo Plan came first and that the ROAM Act was designed to fit around it. How convienent for them that the FIRST thing the ROAM Act calls for is a removal of the statutory protections of the wild ones on their historic rangelands! Isnt that what the BLM has always wanted? The ROAM Act is designed NOT to the benefit of our WFH&B, no, NOT AT ALL, but soley to the benefit of the BLM! They will NOT have to maintain the WFH&B on their historic ranges (the BLM can have its land back!) but can place the wild equines anywhere they want under anybodies care, custody and control and sterilize them all at the same time to boot, and the beauty of it all for the BLM is that it wont cost them a dime of their regular expenditures!! The ROAM Act will create "new monies" for them to disburse for the creation of the Salazoos..What a sweet deal for the BLM, they get rid of the WFH&B off of their historic lands, shove them into "zoo-like" settings, sterilize them all and the taxpayers get to foot the $90M bill!
From American Herds Blogspot;
Salazar Sez's
The Thriving National Ecological Balance:
A Comparative Analysis of Wild Free-Roaming Horses & Burros
In Relation to Habitat, Wildlife and Livestock Populations”
by C.R. MacDonald, October, 2009
Recently, Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar Sez’s, “There’s just no room for wild horses and burros out West anymore”.
With the drought taking its toll on Western rangelands, wildlife struggling to survive, and out of control reproduction rates and populations of wild horses and burros constantly threatening fragile arid habitats, Salazar Sez’s, "The time has come to sterilize most of what is left, both on and off the range, and ship America’s Mustangs & Burros to private sanctuaries far removed from their native ranges on public lands".
Salazar Sez’s, “Let us not look behind the scenes at how we got here but only look ahead at this new solution for the Wild Horse & Burro Program”, a solution many are already coining the final one.
Never mind the fact that for two decades, the Government Accountability Office has repeatedly issued reports stating the obvious; BLM cannot provide evidence that removing wild horses and burros improves rangeland health and that the entire concept of excess is based on “informal decisions made by BLM Field Managers” – no data required.
Salazar Sez’s, “Who needs BLM to finally publish their long-awaited acreage report before they hustle more wild horses and burros off the range to multi-million dollar private sanctuaries instead?”
And, “Why bother publishing the new policy manual BLM has been writing (for 40 years now!) to establish guidelines on how BLM should go about determining what is appropriate use for wild horses and burros?” After all, BLM would just ignore it anyway like so much else - so why create a legal precedent before shipping most of them to privately owned sanctuaries?
Salazar Sez’s, “Who needs a Congressional investigation into what the Department of the Interior has done to get us to this point?” Despite the DOI’s abysmal reputation for ethic violations, never mind that now, Salazar’s here and those days are behind us!
Salazar Sez’s, “We don’t need an independent count of what’s in the holding pens” – despite the fact that nobody has ever seen all these “excess” horses causing such financial distress. And Salazar doesn’t seem too interested in looking into an independent census of what’s still remaining on the range because, as Salazar Sez’s, “We are going to create a new home for them now anyway!”
Despite nearly a decade of mass cleansings, which has swept the majority of our herds from their ranges, Salazar Sez’s, “Danger! Danger! Excessive wild horses and burros must go now!” and as a result, BLM has scheduled the removals of over 12,000 more wild horses and burros this year based solely on those ‘informal manager decisions’ – even though Salazar’s own home state of Colorado has reported their 292,000 elk have been “over population objectives for the last 20 years” (1) – what’s a decade or two when it comes to elk.
Before following what Salazar Sez’s – because this is not a game and we are not children anymore - let’s take a serious look at what “excess” wild horses and burros on public lands means to Secretary Salazar and BLM before we blindly follow the newest Judas horse just released before the public.
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Why would you want feral introduced species destroying your lands? Doesn't make sense to me.
Why would you want an ecological disaster?
I think you're mistaking a romanticised past when there was less pressure on the land, for a way of running an ecologically-sound present and future.
Horses are not native to your country, they destroy the land - like in here Australia, the introduced horses, water buffalo, foxes, cane toads, goats, rabbits, mice, rats, and so on do. We kill those, and we're trying to do it before they wipe out the native species and degrade the habitat further.
Oh, forgot camels - we have more camels than most places (more than Saudi Arabia), and they're introduced too. All in the last few hundred years. Only
someone with no regard for the environment would start saying they had a right to be running wild there.
It is the millions of privately owned cows that have been destroying the land for the last hundred years. There should be no cows grazing in wild horse (and buffalo) ranges.
Feral, wild or whatever, unclaimed free-roaming horses and burros have been grazing our public lands since the beginning of our history.....THEY ARE a part of our American Eco-system and belong there most certainly more so than the privately owned cows (and sheep)
stinginthetail ~ You don't know anything about our country, horses or even camels.
Horses AND camels ORIGINATED in North America - EVERY equid that ever lived descends from equids the originated in North America, and they lived here for millions of years, spreading to other places over the various land bridges that came and went over the eons.
They became extinct (although new evidence suggests some herds did survive) here and were reintroduced by the Spaniards in the 1500s.
New analysis of mitochondrial DNA proves that today's "domestic" horses are the identical species as the last known North American horses. They ARE those same horses and they ARE native.
I don't know the genetics of the camel that well, but I DO know they originated here.
So, although the horses (and camels) are not native to Australia, but they ARE native to North America. Your experience is like comparing apples to oranges.
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