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Round-up season is now in full swing. On the heels of the Sheldon debacle, we have received yet another disturbing report of abuse at a round-up site, this time in Utah, home of the treasured Sulphur herd: one mare reportedly was run into a panel and broke her neck; a lost foal, carelessly turned in with other horses, was kicked and died; and a mare who had suffered neck injuries apparently from roping, was left for days to agonize on the ground of the corral. For a full report and pictures, please click here. Please protest this abuse by emailing Gene Terland, Utah’s Associate State Director at Gene_Terland@blm.gov and Kathleen Clark, BLM Director, at kathleen_clarke@blm.gov. For a list of upcoming round-ups, please click here (wait for file to load).
High Rock, NV round-up - please send your comments to BLM The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is proposing to remove 402 of the estimated 482 wild horses of the High Rock Herd Management Area in Washoe County, NV, citing “lack of forage and available water.” Yet, the environmental assessment states that “the canyons are relatively well-watered.” The BLM is working with the Department of Wildlife to permanently re-route the horses’ water to “water developments” for big game and cattle. The absolute minimum estimated cost of this round-up and annual containment of the captured horses is $203,000. Please protest this gross misuse of our natural resources and tax-dollars by sending your comments before August 23 to: E-MAIL: assurian@ca.blm.gov Or write to: SURPRISE
FIELD OFFICE Make sure to include your name and signature, and this reference number: # CA-370-06-16
House of Representatives to vote on horse slaughter ban We are pleased to inform you that the time has finally come for the American Horse Slaughter Prevention Act (HR 503, S 1915) to be voted on by the U.S. House of Representatives! Sometime in the next few days, the House will vote on HR 503, a bill that bans the inhumane practice of horse slaughter in the United States. While our Campaign’s main focus is on keeping wild horses in the wild, we must also ensure that the thousands of wild horses unnecessarily rounded up each year do not end up at the slaughterhouse. Slaughter is our wild horses’ greatest threat once they have been removed from the range, and nothing the BLM says or does will change that sad reality. Contact your federal Representative today by calling the Capitol Switchboard and providing your zip code: (202) 224-3121. Ask them to support HR 503, the American Horse Slaughter Prevention Act. After calling, take a moment and send an email or fax. You can find and email your Representative online through www.house.gov. Please remind your Representative that:
June 14, 2006 Public meeting regarding use of motorized vehicles to round up Pryor Mountain herd On Thursday, June 29th, the Bureau of Land Management will hold a meeting to hear public comments regarding their plan to use motorized vehicles to round up wild horses from the Pryor Mountain Wild Horse Range in Montana. The meeting will be held from 7:00-8:00pm at the Bighorn Canyon National Recreation Area Visitor’s Center in Lovell, WY. The BLM plans to remove about 24 wild horses from the Pryor herd and make them available for adoption. The use of motorized vehicles causes excessive stress and needless suffering as the animals are chased to exhaustion. Click here to view a round up testimonial. If you can attend this important meeting, please plan to do so and let the BLM know that you do not approve of the use of motorized vehicles in the capture and removal of wild horses. Please also take the opportunity to remind them that you would like to see wild horses remain in their rightful home, on America’s vast public lands and that this continued removal of horses threatens the genetic viability and long-term survival of one of our most treasured natural resources – the American wild horse. Those who are not able to attend can mail their comments to: BLM Field Office, 5001 Southgate Drive, Billings, MT 59101 Wild horses of the Sheldon National Wildlife Refuge threatened with massive round-up and slaughter Without any opportunity for public review or comment, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) has engineered a plan to eradicate wild horses from the Sheldon National Wildlife Refuge in Nevada. The plan calls for the capture of as many as 1,200 animals, starting June 19, at the height of foaling season. Even the BLM does not conduct round-ups during foaling season, because new-born foals risk being separated from their mothers, trampled to death, or run to exhaustion, and pregnant mares may abort their foals. The stated reason for the removal is to enhance the populations of pronghorn antelope and sage grouse, two species that bring in revenue from hunting permits. However, FWS has failed to conduct a legally-required Environmental Assessment in connection with this removal. Their long-term plan is to leave as few as 75 horses on the Refuge's half a million acres, a number too low to ensure genetic viability of the herd. Even more disturbing, the newly-announced plan allows only “mass adoptions” of the captured horses, with FWS paying three “carefully screened” agents $300 per horse (those are our tax-dollars!) to take them by the truckload. An investigation has shown that the address provided by one of the adopting agents is virtually a Grand Central Station of horse slaughter, used by killer buyers for two slaughterhouses located in Texas. In addition to the $300 paid by FWS, each horse may bring in $500 or more at the slaughterhouse. This plan for the Sheldon horses is extremely disturbing at every level and a gross misuse of our tax-dollars. Please contact the Fish and Wildlife Service and ask them to put a halt to the plan until proper environmental studies have been conducted, as required by law, and until the safety of any captured horses can be ensured; denounce the plan to round-up horses at the height of foaling season:
Please also write your Members of Congress to denounce the Fish and Wildlife Service plan for wild horses on the Sheldon National Wildlife Refuge. Visit www.congress.org and enter your zip code to locate your US Representative and two US Senators. The media should also be alerted to this travesty. Visit www.newslink.org for media contact information. Major newspapers and networks should be encouraged to investigate this matter.
Protest BLM’s plan to round up 1,700 horses without public review Last August, BLM removed 795 horses from the Buck and Bald Complex in Nevada. This year, they plan to remove another 1,700 horses, leaving only 500 on this 12 million-acre Complex. For this round-up, BLM has failed to perform an Environmental Assessment (a fact-finding process required by law for each round-up), relying instead on last year’s Environmental Assessment. BLM simply claims last year’s census under-estimated population levels. In addition to the usual pressure from private cattle interests, oil and gas exploration appears to be a factor motivating this sudden ramp-up in population reduction on the Complex. Please mail or fax your comments by June 15th to: BLM Elko Field Office, Attn.: Shane DeForest, AFM Renewable Resources, 3900 East Idaho St., Elko, NV 89801. Input can also be sent by FAX: 775-753-0255. Please include your signature and the following reference: Buck and Bald Complex – Comment to Proposed Wild Horse Gather, Summer 2006. Your comments should include the following points:
Urge Congress to stop the slaughter of wild horses Representative Rahall (WV) has once again stepped forward to give us a real chance to fight for our wild horses, by introducing an amendment to the Interior Appropriations Bill. This new amendment, to be offered for a floor vote by the U.S. House of Representatives this week (most likely this Thursday, May 18), ensures that no tax dollars can be used for any sale of wild horses that could lead to their slaughter. An identical amendment passed overwhelmingly in the House last year, but was blocked at the last minute in the Senate by Senator Conrad Burns (MT). Because this is a floor vote, every Representative’s vote will be recorded - they know we will be watching. Now is our big chance to speak out for our horses. Before Thursday, we must reach every single member of the U.S. House of Representatives and secure their vote for the Rahall Interior Appropriations Amendment. PLEASE TAKE ACTION NOW: 1) Please CALL your U.S. Representative and urge that he or she “Please vote for the Rahall Interior Appropriations Amendment to Protect America’s Wild Horses from Slaughter. Not another wild horse should go to slaughter.” Visit www.congress.org to locate your U.S. Representative. Ask to speak to the Interior Appropriations staffer and if your Representative voted ‘yes’ on last year’s amendment, please mention this when you call. To find out who voted ‘yes’ last year, click here. 2) Please tell everyone you know to contact their U.S. Representative and urge support for the Rahall Interior Appropriations Amendment.
The Pryor Mountain herd needs your voice The Pryor Mountain herd was made famous by Ginger Kathrens’ Emmy Award winning PBS series, “Cloud: Wild Stallion of the Rockies.” Now Cloud’s very herd is threatened by a BLM plan to round up 50% of the coming yearlings, as well as 12 bachelor stallions, in addition to use of fertility control measures. While we support the use of fertility control in certain instances where population control is needed, such measures should be used in lieu of round-ups, not in addition to round-ups. BLM’s plan calls for a removal of horses in 2006, and possibly in 2008 and 2010 to reach a population of 100. Such a population level is scientifically recognized as non-genetically viable, so BLM mentions that they are studying the possibility of importing wild horses from Utah to avoid genetic decline! Such an absurd and intrusive management plan should be vehemently protested as a waste of our tax-dollars. Please mail your comments by May 5th to: Bureau of
Land Management Please include your signature and the reference number:. EA#BLM-MT-010-FY06-19, Pryor Mountain Wild Horse Range Population Control, 2006. Your comments should include the following points:
Please help save California’s Clark Mountain Burros AWHPC’s dedication to preserving the American wild horse extends to America’s burros as well, and today the Clark Mountain burro herd needs our help. This small, unique herd located in California’s Mojave National Preserve is managed by the National Park Service (NPS) and is in serious jeopardy. The NPS is in the process of eradicating burros from the Clark Mountain area. The initial phase of their plan includes helicopter round-ups during which animals are subjected to extremely stressful running conditions under which they can literally be run to death. For a disturbing eye-witness account of such a round-up, please follow this link to our Testimonials page. The last phase of the plan involves elimination by “humane methods,” which include gunning down any remaining animals to achieve zero population. We are told that hunters have been solicited by the Park Service to shoot burros on the range. It is important to note that when an animal is shot, it is not necessarily a "kill." The burro could be injured and left to die a slow, painful death. PLEASE TAKE ACTION NOW to protest such an inhumane plan for the Clark Mountain Burros: voice your concern and outrage to Mojave National Preserve Superintendent Dennis Schramm, 760.252.6103, Dennis_Schramm@nps.gov.
Our California supporters should also contact their federal legislators to protest this eradication plan:
- Representative Jerry Lewis, 2112 RHOB, Washington, D.C. 20515-0541, Phone: (202) 225-5861, Fax: (202) 225-6498, Contact Via 'Web Form.' - Senator
Barbara Boxer, SH-112, Washington, D.C. 20510-0505, Phone:
(202) 224-3553, Fax: (415) 956-6701 - Senator Diane Feinstein, SH-331, Washington, D.C. 20510-0504, Phone: (202) 224-3841, Fax: (202) 228-3954 , Contact via ‘Web Form’
Protest BLM’s latest maneuver to dispose of wild horses In what could be its most absurd and cynical move yet, the Bureau of Land Management is partnering with the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association, the American Sheep Industry and the Association of National Grasslands (represented by the Public Lands Council), in a campaign that promotes the purchase of wild horses and burros by public lands ranchers. The very people who lobby tirelessly to remove wild horses from our public lands at taxpayers’ expense are now urged to purchase these same horses at bargain basement prices. Ranchers did not want to share their public land allotments with these horses in the first place; do we really think they are now going to let them graze these same allotments out of the goodness of their hearts? Who better than the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association to funnel wild horses to slaughter? Without independent oversight and incentives to ensure the ranchers will provide long-term care for these horses, we can’t help but see something sinister at play and need your help to fight another attempt by the BLM to discard our wild horses by any means available. PLEASE TAKE ACTION NOW to protest this latest maneuver by the BLM and the cattle lobby: voice your concern and outrage to Gale Norton, Secretary of the Interior, Department of the Interior,1849 C Street, N.W., Washington DC 20240 - fax: 202.208.5048.
USDA chooses to ignore the horse-slaughter ban enacted by Congress - Protest this subversion of the democratic process In direct contradiction with the clearly expressed will of Congress, the USDA has decided to circumvent the recently enacted one-year horse-slaughter ban by allowing three foreign-owned horse slaughter plants to conduct their own private pre-slaughter inspections. This in effect allows the plants to bypass federal legislation and continue slaughtering American horses for human consumption abroad. Please contact
the USDA and express your outrage at this subversion of the democratic
process: Docket Clerk, Docket Number 05-036IF, U.S. Department of Agriculture,
Food Safety and Inspection Service, 300 12th Street, SW, Room 102 Cotton
Annex, Washington, DC 20250 Please also write your Members of Congress to urge their support of H.R. 503 and S. 1915 (the American Horse Slaughter Prevention Act), which would permanently ban horse slaughter in the United States. Visit www.congress.org to locate your federal legislators.
Protest BLM’s plan to zero out Ely herd BLM is using brush fires as an excuse to remove ALL the wild horses from an area in Lincoln County, NV, including from unburned lands. BLM has no plan to return the horses to their rightful range once the “emergency” has passed. Yet, BLM continues to allow cattle and/or sheep to graze on every acre of unburned lands, including large portions from which horses are being removed. It is clear that an “emergency” does not exist if BLM is going to allow hundreds if not thousands of head of cattle/sheep to graze right next to, and likely stray into, the burned areas. BLM has not explored reasonable alternatives, such as removal of livestock from sensitive unburned habitats so that wildlife displaced by the burn have some areas without extreme competition from domestic livestock. Please send your comments protesting BLM’s herd-removal plan by January 14th (Saturday) to: Caliente
Field Station, BLM Make sure to include your signature and the reference number: EA # BLM -NV-040-06-008 on Ely South Desert Fires Emergency Wild Horse Gather. Your comments should include the following points, in your own words:
Wild Horse PSA: coming to a station near you AWHPC is happy to report that over 30 local and college radio/TV stations nationwide have offered to air our PSA featuring Viggo Mortensen. If you believe your local radio or TV station may be interested in airing the PSA, please send their email contact to info@wildhorsepreservation.org so that we can approach them.
West Douglas, CO: herd threatened with complete eradication In a press release from its Whiter River Field Office, the BLM recently announced its decision to remove ALL wild horses from the historic West Douglas Herd Area by 2007. This would be a violation of the 1971 Wild Free-Roaming Horse and Burro Act, but the livestock permittees want these horses GONE, so that their cows have exclusive use of this pasture. They seem to have a lot of political influence, and even got Senator Wayne Allard's office to write a letter on their behalf to the White River Field Office, encouraging them to get rid of the horses. We urge you to call, fax and write the BLM to tell them you, as an owner of these PUBLIC lands, want a viable herd of wild horses in West Douglas, Colorado. The phone number for the White River Field Office is: 970.878.3822 for the Area Manager, Kent Walter; 970.878.3800 for the main desk. Please also contact BLM’s national office: Kathleen Clarke, Director, Bureau of Land Management, 1849 C Street NW Rm. 406-LS, Washington, D.C. 20240 – ph: 202.208.4896; fax: 202.452.5124. Our Colorado supporters should also contact their U.S. legislators to protest this eradication plan (locate your legislators at www.congress.org).
Last June, your efforts were instrumental in the House of Representatives voting to stop the use of any federal taxpayer funds to slaughter horses. Now Senators John Ensign (R-NV) and Robert C. Byrd (D-WV) are expected to introduce an identical measure in the Senate, in the form of an amendment to the Senate Agriculture Appropriations Bill. If the amendment passes in the Senate, it will in effect stop the brutal slaughter of horses - both wild and domestic - in the United States for human consumption abroad. Please take a moment to contact your two U.S. Senators TODAY, urging their immediate support of the Ensign/Byrd Agriculture Appropriations Amendment. The Senate will consider the amendment during the week of Sept. 12 (most likely on Tuesday, Sept. 13), so your immediate assistance is critical. We must reach every single member of the U.S. Senate and secure their vote. There is no other way to win this battle for America’s horses. TAKE ACTION TODAY! • Call or fax YOUR TWO US SENATORS before Tuesday, September 13th Ask them to support the Ensign/Byrd Agriculture Appropriations Amendment (prohibiting your tax dollars from being spent on horse slaughter) and respectfully request their specific position on the issue. Your phone call or fax could make all the difference. • Pass the message far and wide - it is critical that the phones resonate on Capitol Hill To find your two US Senators, visit www.senate.gov or call the Capitol Hill operator at (202) 224-3121.
Several weeks
ago we asked you to contact your U.S. Representatives Unfortunately, the Amendment was not introduced in the Senate version of the Interior Appropriations bill. However, there is still a chance to hold onto the victory that we achieved in the House: The House and Senate will be meeting in Conference to hash out the differences between their bills and draft a final, unified version. We need you to contact Members of the Senate that are on the Conference Committee and ask them to keep the Rahall Whitfield amendment in the final version of the Interior Appropriations bill. Here is the list of Senators on the Conference Committee:
Please take the time to call them today and ask others to call. Do not write or email - that takes too long to process and there is no time for that. Ask for a definitive reply quickly. You don't haveto live in these Senators' states, but people who do have more clout, as they are constituents.
On the heels of another success in the House, it is critical that we use our momentum to push H.R. 297 through, to ensure a permanent repeal of the Burns Amendment. Please contact your Representative to either thank them for voting “yes” on the Sweeney/Spratt Amendment, or express your disappointment if they voted “no.” Click here to find out how your Representative voted. If they voted “yes” and are not yet a co-sponsor of H.R. 297, please point out that you also expect their support for H.R. 297, which would PERMANENTLY protect wild horses from slaughter.
The Pryor Mountain wild horse herd was made famous by Ginger Kathrens’ Emmy Award winning PBS series, “Cloud: Wild Stallion of the Rockies.” Now Cloud’s very herd is threatened by a BLM plan to suppress herd growth through use of fertility control measures. They need your help. While we support the use of fertility control in certain instances where population control is needed, this is not the case for Cloud’s herd, as the population level is already low due to mountain lion predation.
Please include your signature and the reference number: EA # BLM -MT-010-FY05-16 on Pryor Mountain Wild Horse Range. Your comments should include the following points:
June 5, 2005 While our Campaign’s main focus is on keeping wild horses in the wild, we must also ensure that the thousands of wild horses unnecessarily rounded up each year do not end up at the slaughterhouse. Slaughter is our wild horses’ greatest threat once they have been removed from the range, and nothing the BLM says or does will change that sad reality. This Wednesday, June 8, Representatives John Sweeney (R-NY) and John Spratt (D-SC) will offer an amendment on the agriculture appropriations bill to stop the funding of USDA inspections of horses for slaughter. AWHPC fully supports the Sweeney-Spratt Amendment which would in effect stop the brutal slaughter of horses - both wild and domestic - in the United States for human consumption abroad. It is critical that we reach every single member of the U.S. House of Representatives and secure their vote for the Sweeney-Spratt Agriculture Appropriations Amendment. There is no other way to win this vote for America’s horses!
• Call YOUR US Representative before Wednesday June 8th! Your phone call could make all the difference.
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Pass the message far and wide - it is critical that the phones Use the Congressional Switchboard to find your US Representative: 202-224-3121 or go to http://www.house.gov/.
On the heels of our success in the House, it is critical that we use our momentum to push H.R. 297 through, to ensure a permanent repeal of the Burns Amendment. Please contact your Representative to either thank them for voting “yes” on the Rahall/Whitfield Amendment, or express your disappointment if they voted “no.” Click here to find out how your Representative voted. If they voted “yes” and are not yet a co-sponsor of H.R. 297, please point out that you also expect their support for H.R. 297, which would PERMANENTLY reverse the Burns Amendment. If they voted “no”, please ask for an explanation: many legislators are simply misinformed due to BLM’s aggressive propaganda; we need to help educate them on the issue so that they can make an informed decision on the fate of our wild horses. Do not hesitate to forward negative responses to info@wildhorsepreservation.org so that we can help you formulate an accurate, well-informed response.
By introducing an amendment to the Interior Appropriations Bill, Representatives Rahall (D-WV) and Whitfield (R-KY) have once again stepped forward to give us a real chance to fight for our wild horses. This new amendment, to be offered for a floor vote by the U.S. House of Representatives on Thursday, May 19, ensures that no tax dollars can be used for any sale of wild horses that could lead to their slaughter. Because this is a floor vote, every Representative’s vote will be recorded - they know we will be watching. Now is finally our big chance to speak out for our horses. Before Thursday, we must reach every single member of the U.S. House of Representatives and secure their vote for the Rahall-Whitfield Interior Appropriations Amendment. TAKE ACTION: 1) Please CALL your U.S. Representative and urge that he or she “Please vote for the Rahall-Whitfield Interior Appropriations Amendment to Protect Wild Horses from Slaughter. Not another wild horse should go to slaughter – we already lost 41 to the slaughterhouse in the last few weeks.” Visit www.hsus.org/leglookup to locate your U.S. Representative. Ask to speak to the Interior Appropriations staffer. 2) Please tell everyone you know to contact their U.S. Representative and urge support for the Rahall-Whitfield Interior Appropriations Amendment.
On Monday, April 18th, 6 wild horses were slaughtered at the Cavel International facility in DeKalb, Il. The horses, sold by the Bureau of Land Management pursuant to the Burns Amendment’s sale mandate on Friday, April 15th, had been purchased in Canon City, CO, for $50 each by Dustin Herbert of Meeker, OK. Mr. Herbert, a former rodeo clown, had claimed that the horses would be used for a church youth program, and would not be sold for slaughter. But by Monday, less than 3 days after he purchased the animals, all 6 were slaughtered so that their meat could be shipped overseas to end up on foreign dinner tables. Please contact your local and national media expressing your outrage over this latest development. Please also keep the pressure on Senators Conrad Burns (MT) – fax: 202.224.8594, and Harry Reid (NV) - fax: 202.224.7327. They need to hear from their constituents as well as from concerned citizens from all states protesting this latest development. Please also express your outrage to Gale Norton, Secretary of the Interior, Department of the Interior,1849 C Street, N.W. , Washington DC 20240 - fax: 202.208.5048.
While we ALL keep pushing for and await passage of the House/Senate bills, H.R. 297/S. 576, we need to urge the BLM/Dept. of Interior to implement some formal rules regulating the sale of the horses now subject to the Burns Amendment. We are part of a coalition that filed a formal petition for rulemaking for just this purpose about three weeks ago. We did this because the horses ARE being sold. While we hope to stop this, and pass the bills, we need these rules as part of our practical plan to help the horses being sold now. Regulations would set specific standards on how to accurately determine a horse’s age, what constitutes "offered for adoption three times," how the sales and transportation should take place, and other rules to ensure humane treatment of the Burns horses, all contained in the petition for rulemaking. The agency contacts are below. We need your short letters urging that the regulations be promulgated to go out as soon as possible (with a copy to your U.S. Representative/Senators). Gale
Norton, Secretary of Interior Kathleen
Clarke, Director of the BLM Jeff Rawson, Director of the Wild Horse and Burro Program in D.C.
Dear ___________, I am writing to urge you to draft and implement formal rules regulating the sale of horses pursuant to the recent Burns Amendment to the Wild Free-Roaming Horse and Burro Act. A formal petition for rulemaking was recently filed requesting that regulations set specific standards on how to accurately determine a horse's age, what constitutes "offered for adoption three times," how the sales and transportation should take place, and other rules to ensure humane treatment of the Burns horses. I respectfully request that your agency act swiftly to implement the proposed rules.
cc: (your two U.S. Senators & your U.S. Representative)
A couple of weeks ago, BLM announced the sale of 200 wild mares to a for-profit Wyoming company - the first transaction under the Burns sale mandate. In a new development that confirms our worst fears regarding privatization of wild horses, that company, Wild Horse Wyoming, LLC, just announced its intent to breed the mares – an absurdity in and of itself given the current crisis - and sell their foals to Mexico and third-world countries. Please note that Mexico is the second largest supplier of horse meat worldwide. Click here to read the full article. Please write a letter to Deb Thomson, the Laramie Boomerang editor, expressing your outrage. Please also alert Kathleen Clarke, Director, Bureau of Land Management, 1849 C Street NW Rm. 406-LS, Washington, D.C. 20240 – fax: 202.452.5124.
A companion bill to H.R. 297 has been introduced in the Senate to reverse the Burns Amendment. Please call and write your two U.S. Senators urging them to co-sponsor S. 576, introduced by Senator Robert C. Byrd (D-WV), which would restore the prohibition on the commercial sale and slaughter of wild horses and burros. Visit www.senate.gov to identify your two Senators. Letters should be addressed to: The Honorable [Name Here], U.S. Senate, Washington, DC 20510. Please also call and write Senator Robert C. Byrd– Phone: (202) 224-3954; Fax: (202) 228-0002, to thank him for taking action on our behalf and introducing S. 576.
BLM’s Wild Horse and Burro Advisory Board will be meeting in Boise, Idaho, on March 14. You are encouraged to send comments to the Advisory Board regarding BLM’s wild horse management practices. Specifically, you are encouraged to express your deep concerns over the fact that 9,800 wild horses and burros are slated to be rounded up for fiscal year 2005, yet BLM, by its own admission, only expects to adopt out 7,150 animals during that same period. With adoption pipelines saturated and 8,400 horses already up for sale under the Burns Amendment, these numbers are extremely disturbing. Please speak up to denounce the continued mismanagement of our wild horses on our public lands. Two copies of your comments should be submitted no later than March 9 to: Bureau of
Land Management Those able to attend the meeting in Boise can do so at the Owyhee Plaza Hotel, 1109 Main Street, between 8:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m. on March 14.
The American Horse Defense Fund, an AWHPC Coalition member, is organizing the National Capitol Hill Day for Horses on March 7. The goal of the event is to educate our federal legislators and gain cosponsors for H.R. 297 (the Rahall/Whitfield bill that would reverse the Burns Amendment) and for H.R. 503 (the American Horse Slaughter Prevention Act). We encourage you to schedule meetings in Washington D.C. for that day with your U.S. Representative and two U.S. Senators or their staff. Participants should print and fax the registration form. AHDF has an arrangement for preferred rates at the Best Western (call 202-457-0565). If you have any questions regarding this event, please email ahdf@aol.com. If you are unable to attend in D.C., please schedule appointments for March 7 with your U.S. Representative and Senators’ district offices in your home area (make your appointments early, as schedules fill up quickly). Please find attached talking points for you to use in these meetings, as well as a cover letter and supporting documentation for you to hand out to your legislators or their staff. If you cannot obtain an appointment on March 7, plan on assembling outside the district office a few minutes prior to the office opening; carry AWHPC flyers and alert your local media. We need critical mass for that day, in D.C. and across the country.
To make sure the Rahall-Whitfield bill (H.R. 297) actually comes to a vote, we must turn our attention to the House Committee on Resources, where the bill was introduced. Committee Chairman Richard Pombo (CA) should be urged to promptly bring H.R. 297 to public hearing. Contact him at 1324 Longworth House Office Bldg., Washington, D.C., 20515; ph: 202.225.1947; fax: 202.226.0861. If your U.S. Representative is among the members of the House Committee on Resources, it is also crucial that you contact them. If you have already called or written them about the Burns Amendment, please also write them at the Committee’s address (1324 Longworth House Office Bldg., Washington, D.C., 20515) to request their support for H.R. 297 and urge them to promptly bring the bill to public hearing.
Please call and write Reps. Nick J. Rahall (WV) – ph: 202.225.3452; fax: 202.225.9061, and Ed Whitfield (KY) – ph: 202.225.3115; fax: 202.225.3547, to thank them for taking action on our behalf and introducing H.R. 297.
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