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Sunday, May 15, 2016
Book Kids are Wild at Heart Q&A with Terri Farley Meghan Goel of BOOK PEOPLE, an independent bookstore in Austin, Texas, interviewed Terri Farley about her new book Wild at Heart and the fired-up kids that inspired her. Meghan Goel: Why did you write this book for kids now? Terri Farley: I had to write Wild at Heart before it was too late. I’d been writing The Phantom Stallion fiction series since 2002 and young readers fell in love with the West’s wild horses. In my stories, I could write happy endings for mustangs, but if round-ups continue at the current hectic pace, my readers might never see mustangs running free. And oh, do they want to! Kids from all over the world write to me, vowing to come West just to see them. Like most adults, kids don’t know that mustangs and the lands they roam actually belong to them — the American public. Wild horses captured by the government are not going from homes on the range to greener pastures. Often, they go to Mexican slaughter houses. and they want to know how they can help. My book got its sub-title – Mustangs and the Young People Fighting to Save Them — because I want to empower kids – not crush their hopes. Kids are relieved to learn the young people I interviewed for Wild at Heart are not perfect. Some of the featured young people were able to turn their own pain from abuse and bullying to empathy and action for the mustangs. Other kids in the book use their skills – singing, social media skills, and understanding of animals – to make a difference. No matter how much these kids may struggle in other aspects of their lives, when they stand up for wild horses, their courage is contagious.
MG: What do you hope kids will take away from Wild at Heart? TF: I hope I show them they’re worth having the author of a book come to talk with them. That may sound strange, but just today, in Austin, two little girls asked me why I was so dressed up. When I told them it was because I was coming to see them, they were giddy. Kids don’t live in the past, so I search for up-to- the-minute facts on everything to do with wild horses. The scientists I interview admit they’re generous with their time because they want to give young readers access to non- politicized facts. To read the complete Q&A and more about WILD HORSES click here Labels: Austin, BLM round ups, BookPeople, books, children's books, HMH books, horse slaughter, independent bookstores, Meghan Goel, mustangs, phantom stallion, public lands, school visits, Texas, Wild at Heart, wild horses Permalink to this blog post Posted by Terri Farley @ 11:43 AM 0 comments  
Sunday, March 22, 2015 Will BLM be Cowed by Ranchers, Miners?
May 19, 2015 Fallon, Nevada
About 170 people crowded elbow-to-elbow in the Churchill County
Commission chamber. More spilled outside, eager to hear about BLM’s new Carson
City Resource Management Plan (RMP) for public lands.
Along with a few other wild horse advocates, I came to dispute a plan that would zero-out bands of mustangs but leave livestock
home on the range. BLM figures 4.8 million acres can sustain only 2,508 wild
horses but 12,600 cattle.
Right off, the crowd was disappointed. BLM staff wouldn’t
answer questions; they came to listen.
Four speakers mentioned wild horses and three represented
the Washoe, Paiute and Shoshone tribes. The
rest of the 6-8:30 pm comment period belonged to the Fallon Tea Party, mining and
livestock industries. Samples from my notes:
"Churchill County is not Sherwood Forest and BLM is not the Sheriff of Nottingham" (speaker dons green Robin Hood hat) "We have enough trees" "We have enough protected lands" "We got enough wilderness" "We’re not going through a drought; it’s just a dry period and mining’s our cash cow"
Why worry? Throughout
the West legislation is being introduced to prohibit the Federal government from managing lands within a state. That would mean an end to public lands and
the meager protection afforded to range, water, vegetation, sacred sites, wild
horses and other wildlife.
Remember Cliven Bundy, a rancher backed by an armed militia
(ladies in front, please) protecting his “right” to skip out on a million
dollars in grazing fees? On March 31 the Bundy Ranch gang, headed by
Cliven’s son Ammon, are coming to the Nevada Assembly to support a Resource
Rights Bill.
Nevadans only (sorry): Want to enter your opinion of AB408, which would turn all public lands over to the state? .Click here to vote AGAINST giving wild horse lands to ranchers & miners _______________________________________________________________________________ Please watch and listen for further developments.
Read Bundy’s letter to the folks, here at Ralston Reports
Labels: BLM, Bundy, Fallon, Jon Ralston, public lands, wild horses Permalink to this blog post Posted by Terri Farley @ 5:19 PM 8 comments
Thursday, January 01, 2015 3 New Year’s Resolutions You'll Stick To For America's Wild Horses
These are three New Year's resolutions you'll stick to, not because they're easier than going to the gym or spending less time online, but because the lives of America's mustangs are at stake. If you do nothing else today, put #1 on your list!
1. Shovel out your old vocabulary: There are no Bureau of Land Management lands,
nor BLM horses. There are public lands and American wild
horses. Feel free to inform others
online and in person.
2. Follow the money trail: as you read wild horse news – especially round-up
announcements -- ask yourself, “Who profits?”
It won’t be Nature until livestock numbers
are lowered. Livestock outnumber wild
horses at least 50-1. Memorize that statistic and repeat as needed.
3. Question press release propaganda: When newsrooms are short-staffed, press releases become stories, so it’s your job to find
the source behind the headline. Just because “news” is repeated verbatim in a
dozen sources, doesn’t mean it’s true. Agencies send out hundreds of press
releases. Who’s quoted? If all represent a single viewpoint or source, return
to resolutions 1 and 2, above.
Labels: 2015, BLM, mustangs, New Year's Resolutions, public lands, wild horses Permalink to this blog post Posted by Terri Farley @ 1:55 PM 2 comments
Sunday, August 03, 2014 BLM Cowed into Eliminating Wyoming's Checkerboard Horses
WHO: The Bureau of Land Management WHEN: August 20, 2014 WHERE: Wyoming Checkerboard lands WHY: request from Rock Springs Grazing Association of Wyoming What are Checkerboard lands?Though Congress mandated the protection of wild free-roaming horses and burros “in the area where presently found, as an integral part of the natural system of the public land,” BLM declared millions of acres “unsuitable for management."
The largest percentage of these
“unmanageable” lands – 7,522,00 acres according to BLM’s most recent (2011)
statistics – were dubbed checkerboard lands. This meant that private and public
lands shared boundaries that BLM found “infeasible” to manage. (read more here: BLM Myths & Facts)
Checkerboard lands may also include treaty lands which
have not yet been transferred to Native American tribal holdings.
A lawsuit filed by Carol Walker, Director of Field Documentation for Wild Horse Freedom Federation seeks to halt this roundup.
 Labels: BLM, BLM round ups, Carol Walker, cattle, checkerboard lands, natural resources, public lands, Rock Springs Grazing Association, Wild Horse Freedom Federation, wild horses, Wyoming Permalink to this blog post Posted by Terri Farley @ 12:06 AM 0 comments
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