Time for the last roundup
The Bureau of Land Management is rounding up our wild horses and our tax dollars. Their agency is overseen by the cattle and rancher interests, and Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar himself is a rancher, not a wildlife biologist or zoologist.
BLM claims wild horses are overpopulated, starving and destroying the ecosystems.
The pictures of fit, healthy horses being rounded up tells a different story. Lush growing landscapes where they live also tell another story.
Sixty-seven million of our tax dollars have been spent to round up these horses on their rightful lands.
Over 37,000 wild horses are now in feedlots and private holding areas; 2,000 are missing, according to BLM’s own numbers.
Our representatives are doing nothing about this outrageous waste of tax dollars and lawless stealing of our wild horses.
Please contact your representatives and ask them to join Sen. Mary L. Landrieu and 51 other congressional representatives who are calling for a moratorium on all BLM roundups and a criminal investigation into their management practices.
Liz Earlywood
Valley, Wash.