Call to Action: Wild Horses and Burros Need Your Voice NOW

“There is no time to waste! Please feel free to use the sample letter below and using the form (link below) send your own message to the US House of Representatives, Committee on Appropriations.” ~ Grandma Gregg

https://appropriations.house.gov/contact/contactform.htm

photo by Terry Fitch of Wild Horse Freedom Federation

“Do not allow the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), United States Forest Service (USFS), Farm Bureau and the extraction and mining giants and the domestic livestock grazing associations to pull the wool over your eyes. There are no excess wild horses and burros on their legally designated land. Per the unanimously passed United States 1971 Congressional Wild Horse and Burro Act, the land is to be devoted principally although not exclusively to the wild horses and wild burros’ welfare in keeping with the multiple-use management concept of public lands.

The recent National Academy of Sciences study found…

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Washington Wildlife Officials Too Quick to Kill Wolves

Straight from the Horse's Heart

Press Release from the Center for Biological Diversity

“Washington needs to protect its recovering wolf population — not make it easier to kill these amazing animals…”

OLYMPIA, Wash.— Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife officials late Thursday released a new protocol that would allow wolves to be killed too soon after incidents with livestock and without enough oversight.

The new “wolf-livestock interaction protocol” guides when the agency will move to kill wolves in response to livestock depredations. Conservation groups are concerned that the protocol allows wolves to be killed under dubious circumstances and lacks sufficient requirements for ranchers to exhaust nonlethal measures.

“This protocol fails to protect the state’s small wolf population or prioritize scientifically proven nonlethal measures to safeguard livestock,” said Amaroq Weiss, West Coast wolf advocate at the Center for Biological Diversity. “Wildlife officials should have left much more room for nonlethal measures and allowed…

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Oro Expedition ’14 And Then Some… With Hal Anthony

Oro Expedition ’14 And Then Some… With Hal Anthony. Tuesday, March 25th at 8pm edt; Host Oro Cas welcomes Hal Anthony, Host of Behind The Woodshed, joins tonight’s panel to discuss the BLM and USFS plans to close the access roads into the National Forest for ALL users whether recreational or producer/miners in Oregon and many of the other 11 western states. Information on making you comments for the public record.

News and updates on the rules and regulations that are constantly changing, and how they affect the small scale miner, plus there’s always a few surprises. Sponsored by PoBoy Dredge.