Tuesday, June 17, 2014
BLM ASKED YOU A QUESTION ABOUT WILD HORSES
ARE YOU HAPPY
about
HELICOPTER ROUNDUPS?
NEVADA & UTAH BLM
WANT TO KNOW
Send your emails:
blm_ut_biblesprings@blm.gov
blm_nv_whb_motorizedvehicleco@blm.gov
Dear BLM:
A helicopter round-up begins far out on the range.
If you sat on a butte with a crest flat as a table top, you’d
still feel the helicopters, before you saw them.
Vibrations shudder down your bones and shiver your insides. You’d
guess the feeling came from a far-off explosion, if it didn’t come in quick
pulses like a heartbeat.
Wild horses which have never experienced a helicopter
round-up wonder if a thunderstorm is on its way. But the pounding is closer
than the sky, closer than a predator, unknown and terrible.
I've
been present at a dozen helicopter roundups and each year the
contractors get greedier and the roundups more cruel. No longer are
family bands kept together for days or even hours. They are instantly
split up and traumatized.
Wild Horse Annie said "People have different degrees of humaneness." That's true,
but it's not the issue addressed by the National Academy of Sciences
which said that roundups are backfiring --- triggering higher levels of
reproduction among wild horses.
Roundups are costing Americans millions of dollars, and a valuable piece of their heritage. Stop now.
Sincerely,
Terri Farley
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Labels: BLM . utah, helicopter roundups, Nevada, wild horses
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