Authors: Kelsey Stangebye J.D. – Michael Harris J.D.
Each year thousands of wild horses are rounded-up and removed from public lands in the western United States. The majority of these horses are sent to holding facilities and maintained at great cost to American tax payers. Today, approximately 80,000 wild horses are being held off the range. As a…
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Is the Fire Brigade a partial solution to restore Wild horses and burro to Optimum Sustainable Populations without amending the basic Resource Management Plan (RMP)? https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2016/12/12/2016-28724/resource-management-planning.
Mountain States v. Hodel) ” In structure and purpose, the Wild Free-Roaming Horses and Burros Act is nothing more than a land-use regulation enacted by Congress to ensure the survival of a particular species of wildlife. At the outset, it is important to note that wild horses and burros are no less “wild” animals than are the grizzly bears that roam our national parks and forests.
Extreme prejudice against native horses is expressed by Kim Thorburn, Commissioner Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife declares that’ Those gorgeous herds of wild horses are non-native and destroying the West”. A petition filed on June 10, 2104 was rejected on the basis of the feral allegation. (see http://www.all-creatures.org/alert/alert-20140611.pdf) On September 03, 2013 when Barry Jones ( the principal biologist for the Ramona Grasslands Conservation bank) was asked to list San Deigo’s heritage herd on the inventory list of cultural and natural resources he replied “This is something I am not passionate about and am too busy even if I were to be of any assistance. Plus I have never heard of the USFWS listing an introduced species like the horse.
The extraction of non excess wild horses and burros from diminishing historic native ranges is facilitated by politically motivated/ technically flawed Resource Management Plans. (RMPs) which can be amended for compliance with the special status Species portion of the Endangered Species Act and 1966 National Historic Preservation Act.
By exclusion as an American Native/historic cultural RESOURCE from Resource Management Plans (RMPs) ,not only are the indigenous peoples denied their historic inheritance but is also being extorted from future generations of all Americans. For current Archeology findings see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4g_oFJc7lq4. Fast forward to 18:43.
Exceprt: The North American for wildlife model serves as both a historical narrative for understanding the origins and gradual development of North American conservation. It is the basis for current regulatory practices. It is also a possible prescription for future conservation success. The North American Model of Wildlife Conservation | PERCwww.perc.org/2019/06/19/the-north-american-model-of-wildlife-conservation/.
CA alone has 45, 864,800 acres of federal lands and 100,206,720 acres of State Land, a very small portion of the US federal government owned 640 million acres of PUBLIC land and about 28% of the nation’s total surface, 2.27 billion acres. The majority of this is not encumbered with livestock allotments and may be suitable as an American Native and cultural historic wild horse/ burro habitat.
Until your Congressmen are aware that funds are available to relocate our wild horse and burro herds, the atrocities against our National treasures will continue. The BLM budgeted program is based on extraction, conversion, warehousing, and adoption, all at taxpayers expense.
—–Original Message—–From: [email protected] Sent: Monday, April 05, 2010
Subject: Management Plan draft eis California Desert Conservation Area Plan, CA
The WH&B program has provision for developing an Herd Area Management Plan designed to implement management actions or areas designated as Herd Management Areas through the land use plan. The burden to demonstrate that BLM’s inventory of the 1971 WH&B areas of use was in error falls to the challenger. (via Resource Management Plan amendments) When the plan establishing areas of use was approved, it represented BLM’s decision based on best available data. If the public has quantifiable data which shows there may be an error, they need to provide those data to petition BLM to reconsider the decision. I know of only two cases where this has happened.
One in Tonopha where Joe Fallini won a decision in District Court greatly reducing the size of the Reveille HMA and the second in Phoenix where the public provided maps that had not been considered during the RMP/HMA decision.
Tom
Tom Pogacnik
Deputy State Director, Natural Resources Bureau of Land Management
2800 Cottage Way
Sacramento, CA 95825
(916) 978-4637
This is super exciting news!!!!
This is the most positive information that I have read about the problems of our wild equine
There is a solution I was so depressed. I was sure that no one on earth knew of a solution. Thank you so much for sharing this.
I have asked for a link as I can not find this listed in the government data base. I see something in appropriations that was in 2017. It could help with some horses in holding but would have to be a slow roll out. Wild horses learn generationally so if we were to release them, they would have to have somebody help move them to year round resources for survival for a least a year.