Friday, April 23, 2010

Unique Protest Rally in Nevada for Wild Horses

 

WHAT?  DON'T TAKE MY BALLS!
                Las Vegans will rally in sympathy with the young stallions under 4 years of age that were painfully castrated last week by the BLM at the Fallon Nevada holding pens. If the BLM wins the federal lawsuit, they will castrate all the remaining mature stallions from the Calico roundup. The BLM has severely limited public access to the captive Calico horses despite public demands for transparency. 
     
We will hang bloody balls from lariats and circulate petitions asking President Obama to rein in the BLM, an outdated agency and friend of welfare cows.
 
WHERE?
RED ROCK CANYON SCENIC OVERLOOK ON HIGHWAY 159, from Las Vegas Strip, go west on Charleston, past the 215 Beltway and Red Rock Canyon entrance gates

WHEN?   SUNDAY APRIL25, 2010 from NOON to 2pm
 
WHY?   Castration is a way of wiping out the unique gene pool of the mustangs that have unique bloodlines and unique traits adapted to their specific area. Pictures of the castrated horses taken by Craig C. Downer appear below.
 
BACKGROUND?  In January 2010, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) conducted a deadly roundup of 1922 wild horses from the CALICO MOUNTAINS COMPLEX in northwestern Nevada, despite a federal lawsuit underway to stop the roundups and the recommendation of the federal judge that BLM should NOT conduct a roundup in the dead of winter. The Calico horses were not starving and had not damaged the public range, meanwhile the BLM sharply increased the number of private cattle allowed to graze at subsidized cost on the horses' range. Stress and trauma lie behind the majority of the 86 wild horse deaths (to date) and 40 spontaneous abortions, a report issued today by the American Wild Horse Preservation Campaign (AWHPC) concludes. AWHPC notes the expense of the Calico roundup which will cost taxpayers at least $1.3 million through April, and $1 million a year to warehouse the non-adoptable horses over their 20+ year lifespans. This costly policy, which relies on expensive roundups every four years, is pursued while cost-effective, on-the-range management strategies are ignored.
 
CONTACT PERSON?  ARLENE GAWNE (702) 277-1313 artistfromafrica@hotmail.com 

Info on volunteering for the wild horses go to www.grassrootshorse.com

 
FOR MORE INFORMATION, see:

American Wild Horse Preservation Campaign http://www.wildhorsepreservation.com/

The Cloud Foundation press releases: http://www.thecloudfoundation.org/index.php/news-events-a-media/press-releases

News Story on Calico, rising death toll & skewed numbers from George Knapp (KLAS- Las Vegas): http://bit.ly/9f1DYb

BLM Daily Reports from Calico Roundup/Fallon Holding: http://bit.ly/aSaeVc

American Herds - http://americanherds.blogspot.com/

Mestengo. Mustang. Misfit.  America’s Disappearing Wild Horses - A History

http://www.wildhorsepreservation.com/resources/wild.html

Roundup Schedule- updated February 2010  http://bit.ly/bOhwdk


 

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