tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1691720833849001029.post7843352337177589105..comments2024-02-05T23:26:20.169-05:00Comments on Wild Horse (and Burro) Warriors: USA Today: Wild Horse Debate Gallops OnMz.Many Nameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03024590325712635526noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1691720833849001029.post-62132174405202221742009-11-11T16:09:13.404-05:002009-11-11T16:09:13.404-05:00Please send in comments to help stop the round up ...Please send in comments to help stop the round up of 2,500 wild horses in the "Calico Complex" areas of northwest Nevada. The BLM is accepting public comment through tomorrow (Nov 12, 2009)<br /><br />PLEASE take one minute to submit your comment:<br />https://secure2.convio.net/ida/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=1337&JServSessionIdr003=607gteeb42.app43bAction For Wild Horseshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01746791263230715250noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1691720833849001029.post-27648586643953105872009-10-27T15:08:37.640-04:002009-10-27T15:08:37.640-04:00The livestock industry and the BLM have been very ...The livestock industry and the BLM have been very successful framing this issue as a "wild horse problem" when the numbers show it is really a "BLM and livestock industry problem". 4 million cows on the public lands, and 20,000 horses, and who is destroying forage and consuming too much water?<br /><br />There is a solution to this issue and it's cost problem, and it is also the most humane for the horses, and frees the livestock industry from having to be concerned about Wild Horses in the future.<br /><br />Take the millions of acres of public land guaranteed to the horses in the 1971 act, and the numbers of horses granted protection at that time, and create a number of REAL sanctuaries for them in their natural herd areas.<br /><br />This would need to be a contained area using natural boundaries (cliffs, mountains, etc..) and perhaps some other man-made boundaries. Within this sanctuary would be a natural predator-prey balanced ecosystem. The horses would not be gelded, sterilized or PZPed. Some would be killed by mountain lions or wolves, some would die in harsh winter weather, the rest would live out there lives free and wild. <br /><br />We call them Wild Horses because they can live in the wilderness without man's intervention. <br /><br />This would eliminate the huge expense of round-ups, holding facilities, sterilization, PZP and hay. It would stop the ever increasing stockpile of horses that need to be housed and feed at taxpayer expense.<br /><br />Really Wild Horses living naturally, exhibiting true wild horse social behavior, could be a great eco-tourist attraction for people from all around the world. Carefully planned so as not to interfere with the horses, the public could observe these magnificent creatures and help support the sanctuary.<br /><br />Of course some livestock ranchers who lease public land where these sanctuaries would be created would have their leases terminated. To make this idea feasible to even the livestock industry I would suggest that this plan could include funds to reimburse these ranchers for the land no longer leased to them.<br /><br />Problem solved. <br />- WIld Horses get to live on into the future in the wild, protected as the law has demanded since 1971<br />- Taxpayer $$$ saved<br />- Ranchers have "contained" the wild horses in specific areas at no cost to their constituents.<br /><br />win-win<br /><br />spiceyspiceyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10445831813915899542noreply@blogger.com