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The majority of info, statistics, and records listed here come directly from BLM and the government. They are a self-regulating industry with absolutely NO oversight or accountability. There is no independent accounting of this program at all. Due to this one-sided version it is believed the numbers listed here of wild horse and burro estimates, and removals are inflated, suspect, and inaccurate. We will attempt to prove this with reviewing their claims with attached evidence and links to outside sources that have witnessed discrepancies and inaccuracies over the last 50 years since the passing of the Wild and Free-Roaming Horses and Burros Act of 1971
WILD HORSE AND BURRO INFO & STATS
For individual state information and full data base of all WHB related statistics pulled from the entire government records (individual, year by year in PDF and images already completed):
LOOK IT UP YOURSELF – KNOWLEDGE IS POWER
While you can go through the entire ‘Fight for Freedom’ data base and likely find exactly what you are looking for (already completed) in its pages, if you would like to explore our government and see how it works, I’ve pulled all the resources together for easy location so you can also research yourself.
Every link below has ‘direct’ connections to the wild horses & burros across America.
BLM – ALL ACCESS (#BLM)
IN THE NEWS – BLM – IMPORTANT – MUST READS #newsblm
jun 30 22 Wild horse advocate finds document of 760,000 aums for wild horses and burros in 1971, shows BLM lied about census count to Congress – Jennifer Robin #760000aum
2022 – Relabeling Of Acreage Created The Overpopulation Myth Of WHB – TJ Barbour (covers so much valuable insight) Video coverage of topic at 2022 WHB conference #relabeling
1997 – Wild horse investigation sparking new allegations – INVESTIGATION SHUT DOWN by officials #investigationshutdown
2016 – It’s time to dismantle the BLM, a criminal enterprise – Jack Ferm #dismantle
1997 – PEER – White paper – BLM Coverup – Horses to Slaughter #peerwhitepaper
2021 – Wild-horse-roundups-brutal-unnecessary – Craig Downer
2017 – WHFF – White paper – Focus on Problems Related to BLM Holding Facilities #whffwhitepaper
2015 – Mass removals of wild horses and burros from their rightful American Western ranges
2012 – Sam Olmsteads last message to his BLM colleagues
2017 – Wild Horse Advisory Board urges BLM to kill thousands of wild horses
2016 – BLM’s Wild Horse Advisory Board Just Voted To Kill All 44,000 Captive Wild Horses In Holding
2012 – blm-doi-tells-taxpayers-go-to-hell
2018 – The Bureau of Land Management’s extensive planning to send America’s wild horses to Guyana – Wild Horse Freedom Federation – WHFF Carol Walker
oct 26 17 The 22.2 million acres of Herd Areas that the BLM took away from wild horses & burros – RTFITCH
Critical areas to SEARCH OFTEN
(#search-often)
Knowing about things ‘before‘ its too late to make change!
ENERGY & MINERAL EXTRACTORS: OIL, GAS, MINING
IN THE NEWS – ENERGY & MINERALS IMPORTANT LINKS
https://www.epa.gov/superfund/abandoned-mine-lands
DOI – Final List of Critical Minerals 2018 – Federal Register
1872 Mining law – A century and a half of subsidizing irresponsible mining – Earthworks lots of important reading links, stats, info regarding toxic mining pollution
nov 21 19 Outdated Mining Laws Allow Foreign Companies to Mine U.S. Public Lands for Free lots of important reading links
What is a Brownfield – similar to a Superfund Site
water pollution
https://www.epa.gov/tmdl/impaired-waters-and-tmdls-program-your-epa-region-state-or-tribal-land – CHECK WATERS IN YOUR AREA
https://www.epa.gov/npdes/industrial-wastewater – toxic mining pollution / important links
https://www.epa.gov/toxics-release-inventory-tri-program toxic mining pollution
Liquid Assets 2000 America’s Water Resources at a Turning Point – EPA
feb 20 19 50M gallons of polluted water pours daily from US mine sites – Associated Press
USFS – FOREST SERVICE – WILD HORSE TERRITORIES
(#USFS)
USDA / USFS – GRAZING, CATTLE & MEAT INDUSTRY
(#USDA)
IN THE NEWS – USDA – IMPORTANT – MUST READS
EXPOSED: USDA’s Secret War on Wildlife / USDA – commits felonies for cattle ranchers
nov 5 21 Grazed to death : How the Livestock Grazing program on public lands cause dead zones & extinctions – Staci Lee
Mar 2018 How Welfare Ranchers Take Taxpayers for a Ride
2021 Advocate’s photos of cattle grazing damage in wild horse HMA’s – Heather Hellyer
jan 28 15 Study: Livestock Grazing on Public Lands Cost Taxpayers $1 Billion Over Past Decade
Cattle VS Environment
CONTRACTS, BIDS, & GRANTS
(#contracts)
Fix the issues from the inside
MAPS (#maps)
GOVERNMENT, LAWS & POLITICS
(#government)
IN THE NEWS – GOV
LAWSUITS & LITIGATION – Wild Horses – coming soon
ACTIONS & BILLS – that affect wild horses
UNDERSTANDING AND EXPLANATIONS
2021 WHE – Overview – How the Burns act affects Wild Horses
HSUSU – fact sheet overview of Burns Act & HR 249
ACTIONS & BILLS by GOVERNMENT
2005 – H.R. 249
2004 – Burns Act – Public Law 108-447 – Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2005.
“amending Section 3 of the Act that removed language which protected the horses and burros from commercial sale (slaughter). He added subsequent paragraphs that included such language as: “sale of excess animals,” “shall be sold if more than 10 years of age or been offered unsuccessfully for adoption three times,” “shall be made available for sale without limitation“and “any excess animals sold under this provision shall no longer be considered to be a free-roaming wild horses or burros for purposes of this Act.” – see 2021 WHE overview
ALTERNATIVE PLANS
(#alternative)
IN THE NEWS – Alternative Plans
LOBBYIST SEARCH
(#lobbyist)
LAW & COURT CASE SEARCH TOOLS
(#law-search)
PRESERVING ONLINE EVIDENCE (#evidence)
Rule 901 & Rule 1002. Authenticating or Identifying Evidence and original photos
Four Common Ways to Authenticate Webpage Evidence Under FRE 901(b)
Authenticating Digital Evidence at Trial 2017 ABA (American Bar Association)
Recent Federal Court Ruling on Admissibility of Online Evidence – 2015 ABA (American Bar Association) “Proponents of online evidence have faced difficulty with the personal knowledge requirement of Fed. R. Evid. 602. One federal court previously ruled that a person who has seen a printout of a webpage, but could not testify from personal knowledge that the printout accurately reflected the website, was insufficient to establish authenticity. See Cook v. J & J Snack Foods Corp., 2010 WL 3910478, at *5 (E.D. Cal. 2010). In September 2015, another federal court went a step further by excluding printouts of online news articles even with a witness who was able to say that the printout appeared as they did on the webpage. See Berrettini, 2015 WL 5159746. First, the court noted that printouts from Westlaw or other archives of articles that were previously published by separate newspapers or periodicals were not self-authenticating. Id. Additionally, it held that with regard to archive websites such as Westlaw, “any attempt by a user of the website to authenticate from memory must fail” because there needs to be personal knowledge of the reliability of the archive source“
Rule 901. Authenticating or Identifying Evidence – Cornell Law
Rule 1002. Requirement of the Original – Cornell Law (An original writing, recording, or photograph is required in order to prove its content unless these rules or a federal statute provides otherwise.)
ABUSE, SLAUGHTER INDUSTRY, KILL PENS
(#abuse)
future project…. stay tuned for updates.
SLAUGHTER & ABUSE – IMPORTANT – MUST READS
2015 – BLM took no responsibility knowing horses went to slaughter, wild horse buyer -Tom Davis walks free
2012 Protectmustangs.org – Horses to Slaughter -Anatomy of a Coverup within the BLM (1997-04-01) PEER report
1997 PEER -WHITE PAPER ‘Original’ Horses to Slaughter – Anatomy of a Cover-up within the BLM
‘Missing’ gov link, how convenient: https://www.doioig.gov/reports/investigative-report-bureau-land-management-wild-horse-buyer Missing link document located here and added above 2015: BLM… : Note…. always save government files for when they ‘disappear’ !
KILL PENS – IMPORTANT – MUST READS / SEE
Forced fertility treatments, birth control
(pesticides PZP & GONACON)
(#fertility)
LAWSUITS LITIGATION LEGAL – Fertility
2016 ? 17-1410 – Friends of Animals v. Pruitt, et al – EPA, HSUS interest, PZP
FERTILITY – Studies – Literature – Government
downloadable PDF’s of links below
FULL FERTILITY PDF FILES – Reports – Studies – Literature (some with notes and highlights by WHBA)
direct links
https://patents.google.com/patent/US10434171B2/en – GnRH
july 6 17 https://www3.epa.gov/pesticides/chem_search/ppls/086833-00001-20170706.pdf – HSUS approval for PZP pesticide label
feb 2 13 Observations of PZP contraceptive use in the Pryor Mountain Herd – Cloud
jun 6 12 Immunocontraceptive Reproductive Control Utilizing Porcine Zona Pellucida (PZP) in Federal Wild Horse Populations – Jay Kirkpatrick PHD – Director of SCC
feb 2004 GonaCon Versatile GnRH Contraceptive for a Large Variety of Pest Animal Problems
2002 (RV 2005) Treatment of wild horse mares with the immunocontraceptive porcine zonae pellucida vaccine : effects on populations and behavior by Singer, Francis J; Coates-Markle, L. (Linda); Hobbs, N. Thompson; Lubow, Bruce; McCue, Patrick M; Kirkpatrick, Jay F; Cothran, E. Gus, 1951-; United States. Bureau of Land Management; National Wild Horse and Burro Program (U.S.); Geological Survey (U.S.) Biological Resources Division; Colorado State University. Natural Resource Ecology Laboratory
1990 Fertility control in wild horses : final report – Universtiy of Minnesota / BLM library
June 1985, the BLM issued solicitation AA852-RP5-27′ which described three separate studies. We answered Part Three – of this solicitation, entitled “Fertility Control in WH Populations.” This report is composed of five summary papers. (pg4) 48 of the Clan Alpine animals died inside the capture area as they never found their way outside a small gap in the fence in unfamilar terrain.
GENETICS – Studies – Literature – Government – Letters #genetics
2013 HMA Genetic Viability Statistics – it shows only 28 out of 177 Herd Area’s meet acceptable level of ‘genetic diversity’ criteria. #2013herdgenetics
2013 A WAY FORWARD (pg 192) genetic table
2010 BLM handbook – 4.4.6.3 Herd Size (pg22)
“A minimum population size of 50 effective breeding animals (i.e., a total population size of
about 150-200 animals) is currently recommended to maintain an acceptable level of genetic
diversity within reproducing WH&B populations (Cothran, 2009). This number is required to
keep the rate of loss of genetic variation at 1 percent per generation. Animal interchange
between adjacent HMAs with smaller population sizes may reduce the need for maintaining
populations of this size within each individual HMA. Research has not yet established a
recommended minimum breeding herd size for burros.”
But according to Cothran he stated: “The minimum effective population size for maintenance of genetic variation in endangered species of managed populations is 50 but it must be understood that this number is what is required to keep the rate of loss of genetic variation at 1% per generation. Note, there is loss. Also, the key word is minimum and 50 is an absolute minimum. As has been stressed several times, the effective population is generally 1/4th to1/3rd of census population so that a census population size of 150 to 200 is required to achieve the minimum effective population size.”
“It is also important to understand that within a closed population, genetic
diversity does not increase without the input of new genetics from an outside source. What this
means is that if the size of a population is lowered and genetic variation is lost, which is
inevitable, then enlarging the population size does not increase the genetic variation, it only
slows the rate of loss of existing variation.”
“Loss of population size can occur by environmental conditions as well as by human interventions. My purpose here is to make sure that it is understood what the potential consequences of a reduction in population size are in terms of genetic diversity. Although genetic diversity in the PMWH has been relatively high, significant loss of genetic diversity can occur within a period of one of two generations within a small population.”
To read his letter in full: 2009 Dr Cothran’s letter to BLM #2009cothranletter
IN THE NEWS – fertility
dec 20 21 Wild horse birth control or sterility? Tainted horse groups push for drugs amid warnings – Staci Lee
nov 26 21 Advocates Lying About Virginia Range Darting Program
nov 22 21 Fertility program aims to control Nevada’s growing wild horse population humanely CBS News 8 I-Team Coverage
jun 8 20 Image of WH injection site damage from GONACON at Theodore Roosevelt NP – plenty more images can be found here of other horses with similar infections
sep 16 19 Video – Taxpayer-Funded Experiments on Wild Mares Rip Out Ovaries Dripping in Blood
jul 31 18 Planned Sterilization Procedure Puts Wild Mares At Risk
apr 19 15 Wild horse advocates disagree on contraceptives for mustangs
2015 Myths and Facts: Native Porcine Zona Pellucida (PZP) – RTF
ENVIRONMENTAL & SCIENCE
(#science)
Environmental research is also connected to this project. In order to connect the dots, we have to use the tools available to us. Use maps / links below to find the connections in your projects.
USGS – EXPLORING WILD HORSES 14 links to Wild horse info
USGS – America’s Wild Horses and Burros—Research to Support Management
USGS – Research for Management of America’s Wild Horses and Burros
USGS – Counting America’s Wild Horses and Burros: Better Estimates for Population Management
USGS – Herbivore-Ecosystem Interactions
USGS – Wild Horse and Burro Survey Techniques
USGS – Wild Horse and Burro Population Management
USGS – Molecular tagging
USGS – Annual Report for 2003 Wild Horse Research and Field Activities
USGS – Estimated abundance of wild burros surveyed on Bureau of Land Management Lands in 2014
USGS – Standard operating procedures for wild horse and burro double-observer aerial surveys
OFFICE (#office)
FREEZE BRANDS and Identification
GET THE WORD OUT, MAKE SOME NOISE
(#contact)
NEWS & VIDEO
(#news-&-video)
THE WILD HORSE ADVOCACY TEAM & WILD HORSE ENEMIES
This NATIONAL – HMA data base project will include gatherable information from a multitude of verified sources and combine it all together for a complete access point for wild horses and burros (WHB) state by state. It will show you FACTS and links to BLM, ROUNDUPS, MEDIA, ADVOCATES, SANCTUARIES, NON PROFITS, YEARLY HISTORY, STATISTICS, RECORDS OF ABUSE, RESEARCH, POLITICS, SLAUGHTER RECORDS, CATTLE INDUSTRY, and any other important data for complete oversight in relation to the BLM’s activity related to the Herd Management Area’s of this nation’s wild horse herds.
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All of this information is awesome. Will share. Many thanks.
You are a jewel, a wonderful sparkling diamond. I could never what you have done. i wish ALL hose advocats, experienced or not, should read every bit of your site!
Thanks Alison.
Thanks for this great compilation of facts and figures and guidance on how to act to reverse the terrible injustice to America’s last wild horses and burros!
Thanks… I feel this has been done too many times already, and needed to be better organized so it won’t have to be repeated in the future.
Please request your ELECTEDS to facilitate the addition of America’s Wild Horses as a Native American Cultural Resource to amend the fatally flawed resource management plans as I sent to Sara Bronin. https://www.ctpublic.org/news/2021-06-26/sara-bronin-taking-white-house-appointment-to-land-use-council.
Since the 1976 Kleppe v, New Mexico Supreme Court established the wildlife status for Wild horse and burro herd, the US Fish and Wildlife Service should be accountable for their PROTECTION under the Endangered Species Act. https://www.blm.gov/programs/planning-and-nepa/planning-101/special-planning-designations/acec. . https://www.blm.gov/…/special-planning-designations/acec
Failure to identify the Wild horse and burro as a Cultural Resource has extinguished many distinct population segments of Native North American Herds. It is the duty of the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation (ACHP) to correct this fatal flaw and facilitate the amendment of Resource Management plans.
In 2015, California legislature added a requirement for incorporating tribal cultural resources into the California Environmental Quality Act. However, existing US laws fail to incorporate assessments of the impacts and effects of proposed projects and activities on communities and American Indian tribes.https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/environmental-practice/article/perspectives-from-the-field-integrating-cultural-impact-assessments-into-environmental-analysis/D52F3CA95D7D714903A9E97BB594019F. The concerns in this article go beyond the scope of historic properties as defined by Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act (NHPA) and includes living cultures and their values as reflected by the environments within which their beliefs systems are based.
The wild horse/burro as a ”property issue “ was addressed in 1984 when the government had Hughes sign an agreement in which he acknowledged that the adopted horses remained the property of the United States. He was convicted for conversion of government property under Sec 641, a theft provision which requires a showing that the defendant knowingly converted property of the United States. Conversion of the protected inventory/property after capture takes many forms that are prohibited. See https://www.animallaw.info/case/united-states-v-hughes.
The evolution of the wild horse and burro today has resulted in herds that have been subjected and adapted to the harshest of environments and predators. But can they survive the biggest threat of all…a government with an extinguishment agenda of America’s Protected Icon?
Mandates see; https://www.achp.gov/blm-npa-executed.
https://www.achp.gov/digital-library-section-106-landing/achp-policy-statement-controversial-commemorative-works?fbclid=IwAR0Jg1CcXA6Hick-LsA1P0y-vlbIX4IkILJep-cS-WHwKh7X3Ei0C1nNdyI.
The First Americans, Their Customs, Art, History and How They Lived
Chief Consultant Stanley Fried PH.d. ,
Curator Dept of Anthropology: The American Museum of Natural History
Brief Summary of multiple tribal horse cultural references:
The Southwest Indians were the first of all tribes to own horses. They initially tended those of the Spaniards and Europeans, and inevitably came to own and selectively manage their own herds. Being responsible for the horses’ care, Tribal women’s lives were also radically altered as her bridal value was calculated on the number of horses her suitor gave her father.
By 1770 nearly every grassland tribe was well supplied with mounts and became peerless riders and breeders. To the white man coming onto the Plains, these pintos, duns, and splotched cayuses appeared no match for their own heavy grain fed mounts, yet in battle or on the hunt the Indian’s horses far excelled those of the Europeans. See more: https://www.academia.edu/25786156/We_Shall_Remain_A_Native_History_of_Utah_and_America?email_work_card=view-paper.
The evolution of the wild horse and burro today has resulted in herds that have been subjected and adapted to the harshest of environments and predators. But can they survive the biggest threat of all…a government with an extinguishment agenda of America’s Protected Icon?
Mandates see; https://www.achp.gov/blm-npa-executed.
https://www.achp.gov/digital-library-section-106-landing/achp-policy-statement-controversial-commemorative-works?fbclid=IwAR0Jg1CcXA6Hick-LsA1P0y-vlbIX4IkILJep-cS-WHwKh7X3Ei0C1nNdyI.
About extinct,no equine needs fertility control. Court ordered pendley to end roundups and put them back. He instead began historical roundups and haaland stands w dts agenda breaking more laws. The cruelty is heartless. The balance ecosystems cattle are destroying our lands. 1 horse stands amonst thousands of sheep theres No emergency roundup of sheep n cattle! It is a meat mafia. All will die. Its unamerican. They built this country. Foight our wars. Its sickening what blm calls management!
I’m gong to have to look that up I wasnt aware of that court action . thanks Janet!
Thank you so much!! Just what we need in this fight of Our & their (Mustangs) lives!!!
Thank you for from the bottom of my heart for all of this!!! All of God’s creations means everything to me. I protect, preserve, fight and speak up for them! I will share this info with all I know. It is so valuable! ~Tiger