How You Can Help Wyoming Wild Horses

Submit your comments by May 6th!

Bachelors in the White Mountain HMA. Photo by: Rachel Reeves

Dear Fellow Wild Horse and Burro Supporters;
Wild horses in Wyoming currently need your immediate help! With Congress fully funding the BLM, the summer roundups are slated to take off starting in July. Thousands more horses are slated to lose what they value most… their freedom and their families.

The BLM has issued an Environmental Assessment (EA) that attempts to justify the roundup of two herds in that area: White Mountain and Little Colorado. The area comprises over 1 million acres. With a roundup, these two herds will be decimated to a mere 274 horses!  Meanwhile, nearly 6,000 head of cattle or 30,000 sheep are allowed on these same herd management areas (HMAs).

The EA contains inaccurate data and faulty science. For example, two completely different numbers are given for the acreage of the HMAs within the same document, and the BLM website provides yet another entirely different number.

The EA itself also provides impossible and conflicting rates of reproduction (including 100% reproduction!) and census data which does not match within the EA or with the BLM website.

Please help these wild horse herds by taking easy action and submitting your own comments! You can view The Cloud Foundation’s comments here.
If you’re feeling adventurous, you can read the BLM’s full EA here.
For a sample of what you can write, click here.

Remember: Comments are due by 4:30 PM (Mountain Time) Friday, May 6th. Always be polite in your comments and present the facts.
Comments can be submitted via email to WhiteMountain_LittleColorado_HMA_WY@blm.gov with “White Mountain/Little Colorado EA Comments” in the subject line.

Thanks so much and Happy Trails!
Ginger

The Cloud Foundation
107 South 7th St
Colorado Springs, CO 80905
719-633-3842

Tags: BLM, Bureau of Land Management, Cloud Foundation, Equine Protection, Horse Care, Mustangs, Roundups, wild horses

Protests Nationwide & Two Colorado Events

Ginger Kathrens, Director of the Cloud Foundation and Emmy-award winning filmmaker, will give two presentations in Colorado this November – please spread the word and for those who can come, look forward to seeing you soon.

Colorado State University:
The True Nature of Horses
Wednesday, Nov. 10, 7:30pm – free
(download flier here)

Denver University:
America’s Magnificent Mustangs and the Fight to Preserve Them
Friday, Nov. 19th, 6:30pm – $30 class fee
(more information here)

If you are interested in setting up an event for the Cloud Foundation in your area, please contact makendra@thecloudfoundation.org.

PROTESTS!

The BLM has not listened to the public on the call for a moratorium on roundups and continues on target to remove over 11,000 wild horses and burros this fiscal year. Join or start a protest today – solutions require a ceasefire on our wild herds.

October 23: Los Angeles, CA
October 23: Sacramento, CA
October 23: Del Mar, CA
October 23: Phoenix, AZ
October 29: Annapolis, MD
October 29: Brattleboro, VT
November 13: New York City
November 13: Fort Worth, TX

Details online here for all protests.

More protests announced daily – please check the Cloud Foundation calendar for more information.

The Cloud Foundation

107 South 7th St

Colorado Springs, CO 80905

Tags: BLM, Bureau of Land Management, Cloud Foundation, Equine Protection, Ginger Kathrens, Horse Care, Roundups, wild horses

SAVE THE DATE: March 25th – March for Mustangs Invitation

Please come to Washington DC to attend the “March for Mustangs” on Thurs., March 25th, 2010. We will gather and hold a press conference in Lafayette Park on the north side of the White House where we will be making a stand for the preservation and protection of America’s Wild Horses and Burros. Then we will all march to the Bureau of Land Management Office as we call for the freedom and protection of all that is wild.

Please RSVP to: The Cloud Foundation, info@thecloudfoundation.org, 719-633-3842.

Details

When: Thursday, March 25, 2010, 1:00-3:00pm, Press conference and speakers at 1:30pm (Filmmaker/Advocate Ginger Kathrens, Author RT Fitch and many more – including special guests to be announced)

Where: Lafayette Park (north side of Whitehouse, on H Street between 15th and 17th Streets, NW). At 3:00pm protesters will march with signs to the BLM office at 1849 ‘C’ Street.

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Tags: BLM, Bureau of Land Management, Cloud Foundation, Equine Protection, Ken Salazar, March for Mustangs, Mustangs, Roundups, wild horses