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Saturday, October 24, 2015
BLM Cares Really, Truly, Deeply About Wild Horses BLM 2008: Killing captive wild horses “magic bullet for budget problems"BLM 2015: Killing captive wild horses sold to Tom Davis in 2008 was "deceitful"
According to
the Associated Press ”Steven Ellis, the BLM’s deputy director of operations, lamented
Davis’ ‘deceitful actions.’”
I mean, BLM had absolutely no idea what Davis had done with 1,794 federally-protected wild horses.
Really?
It’s been
almost 7 years to the day since my op-ed in the Reno Gazette Journal quoted then-BLM Deputy Director Henri Bisson who suggested killing captive wild horses might be a “magic bullet for budget problems".
At the same time, Susie Stokke, then Nevada’s Wild Horse and
Burro Program Manager, told KUNR that though BLM spends millions on many
programs, “aggressive management of wild horses is the magic bullet for BLM budget
shortfall.”
2008: Sally Spencer, director of program which sold wild horses to Davis:
I mean, it almost sounds like a policy had been born.
Still, after the publication of the Op-Ed and a longer blog on the same topic, I heard from Spencer
who asked why I’d turned on the BLM. I responded that I was tired of lies, and never heard from her again.
The Denver Post
quotes the report : “Between 2008 and 2012, Davis spent $17,940 on horses from
the BLM... “ and “BLM spent more than $140,000 delivering the horses to Davis…”
If this wasn't an attempt to balance the BLM budget on the backs of wild horses, what was it?
Before this report came out, I asked BLM questions about Tom Davis and other wild horse policies. They never answered, so I turned to government websites.
"Myth #2: It is the BLM's policy to sell or send wild horses to slaughter. Fact: This charge is absolutely false. The Department of the Interior and the Bureau of Land Management care deeply about the well-being of wild horses" But they sent them to slaughter, just the same. ------------------
Author's Note: Houghton-Mifflin-Harcourt pushed back its publication deadline
to give the agency over a year to respond to inquiries about wild horses, but BLM chose not to answer a single question
on the record for my recent non-fiction book, Wild At Heart: Mustangs and the Young People Fighting to Save Them
Labels: BLM, Department of Interior, Henri Bisson, horse slaughter, kill buyers, mustangs, Office of the Inspector General, Sally Spencer, slaughter, Steven Ellis, Susan Stokke, Tom Davis, wild horses Permalink to this blog post Posted by Terri Farley @ 1:13 AM 3 comments  
Monday, March 17, 2014 Nevada Governor must rescue Nevada Mustangs 
The Virginia Range wild horses fall
under the control of the Nevada Department of Agriculture. State laws
designate them “stray livestock” no matter how many generations they’ve roamed the sagebrush hills of the Silver State.
This means they can be and are taken to livestock auctions where they are sold by the pound to kill buyers. Wild horse advocates worldwide asked Nevada Governor Bryan Sandoval to halt the “trap – castrate – destroy” cycle.
October 4,
2013: private-public partnership is created to cut NDA costs and save mustangs.
January 2014: ,ASPCA’s Kevin O'Neill and
wild horse advocates meet with NDA to express concern at the Department's failure to implement agreement. Advocates are told action is pending.
February: wild horse trapping continues
March 2014
: silence from the governor’s office as NDA reverts to “trap – castrate –
destroy”
Today: Email, Phone, Fax the Governor and tell him to act on this win-win way to humanely manage the Virginia Range horses
ON THE RANGE through the proposed private-public partnership.
CARSON CITY - Phone: (775) 684-5670 - Fax: (775) fax: (775) 684-5683
LAS VEGAS - Phone: (702) 486-2500 - Fax: (702) 486-2505
Labels: Governor Brian Sandoval, kill buyers, slaughter auction, Virginia Range wild horses Permalink to this blog post Posted by Terri Farley @ 6:56 AM 0 comments
Tuesday, August 20, 2013 THESE LITTLE PONIES WENT TO MARKET   LIVE TWEETING feels like a cross between fast-breaking journalism and haiku poetry. It allows me to cover the most disturbing stories with controlled emotions. Many of YOU were disturbed because you don't know how to Tweet and weren't following the slaughter sale of wild horses on Saturday August 17. Below you can read my liveTweet coverage from Nevada's Fallon Livestock Exchange. If you need clarification of some of my funky abbreviations, just ask. Please forgive me misspellings and non-nimble fingers. I was trying to get the info out as soon as possible. As you may know, Twitter only allows 140 characters (letters, numbers and spaces) in each entry. This is what came before and during the auction. After the auction, hundreds of horses were saved. Hundreds went to slaughter. Tomorrow, we learn the future of the unbranded horses, as decided by a Federal judge. August 17 six a.m.
Come to Fallon livestock exchange. Get a bidding # so u can help search for unbranded
Have been ordered to leave
Sorting mares and goals w hot shot
Lots of neighing Still on property Terri Farley
Guy just came out of
Lots of limping
Terri Farley
Owner
Kill buyers: rallying of the clans 2 combat diminished income. Every buyer I have ever heard about
Sheriff deputies getting sick of auction staff sicc-ing them on advocates using their cell phones...Not shooting photos. Honest
Kill buyers are getting really rude just walking by and sniping at anyone they even suspect of liking horses. @Fallonslaughter
Office still locked. Need bidder # to tour horses . None issued yet? Parents w kids here, trying to explain
Lot of these guys in a quandary: blame Indians or wimmen(no matter that me advocates are here 2)?
Huge HUGE legal fees involved in Got my # to bid Terri Farley
Recharging cell and eating almonds. Should guarantee auction starts. No way am i spending money in
Interview w BBC. Super.Still no auction but more big trucks#fallonslaughter
Finally walking thru pens. Every girls dream horses.
About to start auction.
Arlo of ft McDermitt clarified these are all native horses
Farley
Palomino. Mare and foal sold. 800 dun pony w bay colt 200
Brown mare w buck foal 325 . Appy mom w dark foal 325. Both saved
Interior of auction.looks about the same as one I was able. 2 photo in Jan. Little. Cleaner
Frantic mare and foal sold 225 to killer
Perfect Indian paint w paint baby 300. Palomino and ivory paint with golden foal 300 Terri Farley
Horses are very banged up, face an chest esp. Some so damaged that
Advocates think they should be put down out of humanity
2 orphans. Auctioneer checking w Deniz to see if they can be sold even though unbranded. She said ok but lots of pressure Terri Farley
These beautiful horses are selling for Starbucks money.z
Almost all mares w foals and young horses have been saved. Advocates are really stepping up
Terri Farley
Have a mission: a grandmother wants me to find a young buckling
2 geldings- - paint w black swatches over eyes and his honey palimino buddy- - were in one of the big lots bought by killer
Someone talked the kill buyer into selling her the b n w paint w swatches but buyer didn't take palomino. Kill buyer got a pen of mares and foals why on earth?
Auction over. Horses loading. Most for the better
Labels: Fallon, fallon livestock exchange, horse slaughter, kill buyers, slaughter sale, tribal horses, unbranded horses, wild horses Permalink to this blog post Posted by Terri Farley @ 8:12 PM 1 comments
Friday, August 16, 2013 My First Trip to a WILD HORSE Slaughter Auction
Dear Readers, I'm counting down the minutes. Federal Judge Miranda Du set a hearing by teleconference for 1:30 p.m. today to decide whether to grant a temporary restraining order suspending the auction of over 400 wild horses. It's 3:35 p.m. I don't want to return to the Fallon Livestock Exchange tomorrow. My heart hasn't mended from the first time. My First Trip to a Slaughter AuctionFor years, I've known that wild horses and their tame cousins are sent to livestock auctions where they face "kill buyers." I wrote such an auction in GIFT HORSE. It was based on interviews and research. On January 9 of this year, I attended a slaughter auction. My heart falls heavy in my chest when I think about it and my throat aches like it's full of splinters when I try to talk about it. I went to this auction to find 41 wild horses which had been trapped by the Nevada Department of Agriculture. Members of the Hidden Valley Wild Horse Preservation Campaign hoped to use donations -- from people around the world! -- to buy back the wild ones. But the horses that I can't forget were domestic horses. Trailered for miles and then left in strange corrals, they neighed and whinnied after their owners. Before the auction Shannon Windle and I walked around looking for the mustangs, but the horses that came up to fences, puzzled and friendly, were cow ponies, race horses, a burned-out endurance horse and mounts that had helped children learn to ride. Herded down a chute and into the auction ring, many realized they were in danger. So, they did what they'd learned to do. They trotted up to the edge of the auction ring and nudged at boots of audience members. Those horses had been raised as pets or at least, trained to trust humans. They didn't know where they were. They didn't understand what was expected of them. They didn't know why they were in an unfamiliar place that smelled of fear. Ironically, they turned for help to the species that had betrayed them. I think the only thing that kept me using my head during that long, long day, was doing a series of live posts via Twitter, for horse lovers far away. I hope I don't ever have to do it again. Labels: fallon livestock exchange, kill buyers, live Tweet, Rambles, slaughter auction, wild horses Permalink to this blog post Posted by Terri Farley @ 4:36 PM 2 comments
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