The Bureau of Land Management Has Misinformed Americans About Wild Horses & Burros

American wild horses and burros are federally protected by a Congressional Act signed by President Richard Nixon in 1971. 

Since the passage of the Act, The Bureau of Land Management (‘BLM’) has systematically and shamelessly used American taxpayer dollars to crank-out garbage misinformation, pretending that it’s science. And sadly, many Americans have been fooled, including many elected officials.

The BLM has truly earned the name: ‘Bureau of Lies and Malfeasance’.

The BLM has been caught red-handed lying to Congress (in print) about wild horse ecology. Their fabrications about wild horses and their behavioral ecology and subsequent demonization of wild horses over the past many decades has resulted in what is now arguably the widespread abuse and costly mismanagement that wild horses suffer under BLM and USFS management, with American taxpayers footing the $200-Million/year bill for the BLM excrement show.

Here are a couple of many examples of criminal animal abuse caught on news-camera video of BLM contractors abusing Congressionally protected wild burros:

FULL INCRIMINATING VIDEO HERE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9zVUHwkPwW4

The BLM has been and is currently engaged in supporting the systemic dogma of willful ignorance and a campaign of misinforming the Congress of the United States and elected officials across America via their ongoing propagation of manifestly false statements, which they publish using tax-dollars, including but not limited to this whopper:

Wild horses have no natural predators …”  This is a false statement promoted by the BLM on page-1 paragraph 5 of their Report to the Congress of the United States:

That false statement appears in a so-called management plan that was presented to the Congress of The United States in writing titled; ‘Report To Congress – Management Options For A Sustainable Wild Horse And Burro Program’. 

Only a totally corrupted agency would propose to manage any resource starting with a lie.

The Truth about wild horses, as well as their predators is the exact opposite of the BLM falsely claims

Herein below is an excerpt from the abstract of a recent scientific study (2021) of the predation of wild horses:

The Journal of Wildlife Management 1–17; 2021; DOI: 10.1002/jwmg.22087
Research Article

Prey Specialization by Cougars on Feral
Horses in a Desert Environment

ALYSON M. ANDREASEN,1 University of Nevada, Reno, Natural Resources and Environmental Science, 1664 N. Virginia Street, Mail Stop 186,
Reno, NV 89557, USA
KELLEY M. STEWART, University of Nevada, Reno, Natural Resources and Environmental Science, 1664 N. Virginia Street, Mail Stop 186, Reno, NV 89557, USA
WILLIAM S. LONGLAND, USDA, Agricultural Research Service, University of Nevada, Reno, 920 Valley Road, Reno, NV 89512, USA
JON P. BECKMANN,2 Wildlife Conservation Society, Rockies Program, 1050 E Main, Suite 2, Bozeman, MT 59715, USA

“Diets of cougars in the Great Basin were composed predominantly of horses (59.6%, n = 460 prey items; 13 individuals). Ten cougars regularly consumed horses, and horses were the most abundant prey in the diet of 8 additional individuals in the Great Basin. Cougars on average killed 0.38 horses/week in the Great Basin (range=0.00–0.94 horses/week). Differences in predation on horses between the sexes of cougars were striking; Great Basin females incorporated more horses across all age classes year‐round, whereas male cougars tended to exploit neonatal young during spring and summer before switching to deer during winter.”

The BLM division charged with protecting American wild horses should be investigated and charged for these and other egregious crimes.

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