Wednesday, January 11, 2017
In Storm-Struck West, War on Wild Horses Accelerates
As the West experiences historic flooding and snowfall, the Bureau of Land Management grabs the chance to capture wild horses.
These are some of the national headlines that came in on a single day's (9.11.17) Google Alert on Wild Horses. Please follow the links to the complete stories.
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Wild Horses in Massive Snow Bound Roundup
BLM to Roundup 700 Wild Horses in Milford Area
BLM Recalculates Desired Horse Population for Pryor Mountains
Massive Wild Horse Roundup Begins in Utah
Labels: BLM, Bureau of Land Management, Flooding, helicopter roundups, helicopters, snow, Storm, wild horses
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Terri Farley @ 6:09 PM
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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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Terri Farley @ 7:17 PM
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Thursday, June 14, 2012
WILD HORSES KILLED, out of kindness I suppose
Stallion fights back against helicopter
Photo by Stephanie Martin/Tara Tucker, www.wildhorsesfilm.com
What did you do last Sunday?
BLM admits to destroying at least 3
mustangs in Jackson Mountains. Why did they doom these wild horses? They deemed it humane because
A yearling with a low body condition score was "unlikely to improve"
A 9 year old stallion had a "deformed right leg due to a
pre-existing fracture to the knee"
A 17 year old stallion showed a "severe
developmental limb deformity"
How did these wild horses survive for years in the wild
and then, after being pursued and harassed by a helicopter, and then stampeded for miles, exhibit "non-gather related" conditions so extreme, they had to be killed out of kindness?
Tiny foals stampeded, chased and roped in Jackson Mountain
Photo by Stephanie Martin/Tara Tucker, www.wildhorsesfilm.com Labels: BLM, foals, helicopter roundups, Jackson Mountains, wild horse deaths
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Terri Farley @ 6:45 PM
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Sunday, June 20, 2010
Humans Have a Choice
The Hebrew word
timshel means
Thou mayest . It gives a choice. It might be the most important word in the world. It says the way is open. That throws it right back on a man. For if Thou mayest — it is also true that Thou mayest not...
paraphrased from John Steinbeck's
East of Eden 
Rachel Yoder - Artist
HUMANS HAVE A CHOICE. WHAT THEY DO WITH EACH CHOICE TELLS THE WORLD WHO THEY ARE AND WHAT THEY VALUE.
Labels: Hebrew, helicopter roundups, rachel yoder, steinbeck, timshel
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Terri Farley @ 10:55 AM
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Tuesday, April 20, 2010
Grass Roots Horses !
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GrassrootsHorse.comLabels: BLM, Cloud Foundation, Grass roots horses, helicopter roundups, IDA, mustangs, wild horses
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Terri Farley @ 5:40 PM
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Friday, March 26, 2010
Fallon Foal Death
Mare stands guard over new foal, photo by Tara KainThere's a new set of hooves in Heaven.
BLM's death tally for the week doesn't show what happened.
However, visitors are allowed to tour the tax payer funded Indian Lakes wild horse facility. It's land-locked inside a private ranch in Fallon, Nevada, but opened once each week by reservation only for two hours.
Three observers from the CalNeva Cloud Foundation and photographer Cat, visited Sunday, March 21 and took photos, video and notes.
Saturday, March 20 a pale dun foal is born to a buckskin mare
Sunday, March 21 11:00 Members of the public arrive to tour the Fallon facility. Director John Neill is their guide and he waits for a late arrival
11:37 tour begins
11:45 visitors observe buckskin mare and newborn foal in a pen with other adult horses. Foal looks like "he had melted into the contours of the ground" according to one observer and Mr. Neill said the foal was a weak newborn from the night before.
12:30? Sometime during the tour, members of the public notice a nursery pen with just six mare and foal pairs inside and wonder why the buckskin and her foal aren't with them*
(RIGHT: As adult horses move, mare makes a protective barricade of her body, photo by Tara Kain)1:45 Tour ends, passing by the buckskin mare and her foal. Mr. Neill agreed with visitors that foal might be sick and indicated he would check on it. If necessary, a vet would be called. He added that volunteers from WHOA might be asked to bottle feed the foal if it couldn't rise to nurse.
2:00 as observers depart, foal is still down.
Monday, March 22 no deaths are listed on the BLM's facility update, so CalNeva Cloud observers hope for the best
Tuesday, March 239:55 am
Still no deaths listed for the weekend**, but one observer calls and talks to John Neill who says "the colt was euthanized." She understands Neill to say the vet had determined the colt had a broken femur and must have been kicked.
The caller commented, "Oh, that's why he never got up."
Neill replied, "No, he was up that morning nursing." Sometime after that, he speculated, the colt must've been kicked."
Neill said the foal was destroyed via chemical injection.
(with freedom tantalizingly close, mare urges foal to rise and nurse, photo by Tara Kain)
Friday, March 26I reached John Neill at Palomino Valley wild horse corrals and he answered my questions about the Medicine Hat stallion I've told you about before and this foal.
He clarified two points from the timeline above:
* "Once we know the colt's strong, we put them in the nursery pen" along with their mothers
**
Live births are not entered into BLM's system until horses have been freeze-branded, which takes place after four or more months.
Since foals delivered "in facility" are not listed as born, they are not listed as dead. So, they are not posted on BLM's online Calico Round-up updates.
John Neill described the last hour of the little dun's life.
"He was down during the tour. Afterward I went out to check on him and he was packing a right hind leg and he had to be put down."
"When did the vet come?" I asked.
"He didn't."
"Was it a compound fracture so that you could see it was broken?"
John answered, "I could just tell, so I took care of it."
After our call ended, my English teacher brain flashed to "I am cruel only to be kind." Hamlet, I remembered, and knew that if I were watching over a newborn foal with a fatally fractured femur, I would not want it to suffer.
But "Hamlet" ends with a stage strewn with corpses.
I tried to get confirmation that such a leg injury is easily diagnosed, but the two vets I consulted disagreed on both diagnosis and prognosis.
John Neill told me "We have births daily and if something happens like this or there's a bad mother, we can't track them all accurately."
Is it fair to the public that our mustang foals are born and die without notice?
This is not Neill's decision; it is BLM policy. As with so many other BLM policies, the numbering of lives and deaths are rough estimates.
That's wrong.
There are no disposable mustangs. Taxpayers have no disposable income, especially for a system they hate.
There must be a moratorium on the capture of our wild horses, before a ruined system erases an entire species.
Labels: BLM, Fallon, helicopter roundups, Indian Lakes, mustang, wild horse deaths, wild horses
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Terri Farley @ 1:17 PM
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Thursday, February 25, 2010
BARREN
Rachel Yoder - Artist
Labels: BLM, helicopter roundups, mustangs, wild horses
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Terri Farley @ 8:20 AM
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