Secret Documents Leaked
The following excerpt is from the Youths’ Equine Alliance.
We must continue to shout it from the roof tops that there is corruption and secrecy in the wild horse and burro management program. Here is the proof: http://www.yeaspage.com/#!Secret Documents Leaked/cwjb
Many of you are experiencing compassion fatigue after speaking out time and time again for the horses and burros to seemingly deaf ears – me too! This week the Bureau of Land Mangement (BLM) began rounding up wild horses in Wyoming. The BLM will remove 800-950 wild horses. They want to zero-out the area, no wild horses are allowed on that land because it is “checker-boarded” with public and private land intermingled. It breaks my heart.
How could this deal have been made that strips the land of the horses? The BLM is adamant and so are the courts that due to a previous ruling (2013 Consent Decree between the BLM and the Rock Springs Grazing Association) the horses must be removed.
I am here to tell you: Never get tired of doing good. Momentum is building. More and more people are finding out about this.
Here is a great way to raise awareness for the cause. In a challenge issued by The Cloud Foundation, they asked us (and you) to tweet the Department of Interior about the BLM with the hashtag: #Justice4Mustangs.
Here is another way: attend your local Regional Area Council (RAC) meetings. Laura Leigh of Wild Horse Edcuation suggested this in a recent post and we are listening. Leigh says, “RACs are often very vocal in recommendations to land use planning, where the WH&B Advisory Board is not. Land use planning, and the subsequent documents, literally create the legal framework that specific actions are based on, including wild horse and burro roundups.”
With your support, we will attend the RAC Meeting in Las Vegas tomorrow. The last time I attended a BLM staffer suggested that I apply for the Wild Horse and Burro Specialist position. (Not within the BLM but within the RAC). I am considering “throwing my hat in” and I wonder what you think about it? Should I persue a volunteer position with my RAC?
Yes, I am just a kid. But I have a big passion. I will not stop speaking out for wild horses and burros until there are “management options” that make sense and until corruption is rooted-out from the program.