Wild Horses & Burros Available for Adoption in Winchester, CA

U.S. Department of the Interior
Bureau of Land Management
News Release


For Immediate Release: Nov. 24, 2009 CA-CDD-10-18
Contact: David Briery, (951) 697-5220 or Steve Razo, (951) 697-5217


Wild Horses and Burros Available for Adoption in Winchester
Strength, endurance, and spirit are qualities embodied in wild horses and burros that roam America’s rangelands. These living legends are available for adoption at Winchester Wild West Arena in Winchester, Calif. on Dec. 5, 2009, through the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Adopt-A-Horse or Burro Program. The mustangs and burros were gathered from public lands in California and Nevada, have been wormed and vaccinated, and are in excellent health. Spectators are welcome.
Animals arrive at noon on Friday December 4, and potential adopters may view the mustangs and burros from 1 to 5 p.m. An excellent media opportunity exists at noon when the animals arrive and unload. Approved adopters will receive a lottery number, which is required to participate in the lottery adoption Saturday morning starting at 9 a.m. The lottery adoption provides all adopters an equal opportunity to adopt the animal of their choice. BLM staff will approve adoption applications from 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. on Saturday.
The adoption fee is $125.00 per animal. Animals not selected during the lottery adoption will be available for adoption on a first come, first served basis for the remainder of Saturday. Adoption fees may be paid by cash, check, or credit card.
Qualified adopters must be 18 years old, have adequate facilities, the financial means to care for the animal(s), and would have some experience training or raising a horse or burro. Adopters also must be a resident of the United States and have no convictions for inhumane treatment of animals. Qualified individuals with the proper facilities may adopt up to four animals.
The process is called an “adoption” because BLM retains title to the animal for one year after the adoption. During the year, a BLM compliance officer or designated representative will visit each adopter to ensure the animal is being cared for and has a good home. During this time adopters cannot sell their adopted animal. Adopters must notify BLM if the animal is moved.
After the first year, adopters may apply for title. BLM will pass title of the animal if all the stipulations of the adoption agreement have been met. The animal becomes the private property of the adopter only after BLM transfers title, which completes the adoption process.
Directions to Winchester Arena: from Interstate 215 exit S.H. 74 East; turn south on S.H. 79 S./ Winchester Road; turn west on 9th Street to 32150 S. Grand Ave. For more information about the Winchester adoption or the Bureau's Adopt-A-Horse or Burro Program, contact BLM toll free at 866-4MUSTANGS or visit www.wildhorseandburro.blm.gov.



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Lawsuit Filed Giving Mustangs 28-day Reprieve

Nevada Mustangs Given 28-Day Reprieve

IDA Lawsuit Postpones Huge Wild Horse Roundup

Washington, DC (November 24, 2009) - The U.S. Department of Justice announced tonight that the massive roundup and removal of thousands of horses from public land in northwestern Nevada will be delayed until December 28 as a direct result of the filing of a lawsuit by In Defense of Animals and renowned ecologist Craig Downer on November 23.

Tomorrow, IDA and Mr. Downer plan to file a motion for a permanent injunction, with supporting affidavits from horse experts and eyewitnesses to Bureau of Land Management (BLM) roundups. The motion will ask Judge Paul L. Friedman of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia to stop the roundup altogether.

The roundup and removal of 80-90 percent of the estimated 3,055 wild horses living in the BLM's Calico Mountain Complex was originally scheduled to begin December 1. The BLM has received over 10,000 public comments in opposition to the roundup.

"We welcome this moratorium on the capture and inhumane treatment of the Calico horses," said William Spriggs, Esq. of Buchanan, Ingersoll and Rooney, pro bono attorney for IDA and Mr. Downer. "The BLM plan for a massive helicopter roundup of these horses is entirely illegal."

"We are confident that the court will agree that America's wild horses are protected by law from BLM’s plan to indiscriminately chase and stampede them into corrals for indeterminate warehousing away from their established habitat," he said. "The magnificent wild horses and burros of the American West are an important part of our national heritage and must be preserved."

The Wild Free Roaming Horse and Burro Act, passed unanimously by Congress in 1971, designated America's wild horses and burros as "living symbols of the historic and pioneer spirit of the West," specifying they "shall be protected from capture, branding, harassment, or death … [and that] to accomplish this they are to be considered in the area where presently found, as an integral part of the natural system of public lands.”

Since 1971, the BLM has removed over 270,000 horses from their Western home ranges and taken away nearly 20 million acres of wild horse habitat. Only 37,000 wild horses and burros remain on public lands in the West. By contrast, millions of cattle graze our public lands. Thirty-two thousand wild horses who have been removed from the range are already held in government holding facilities, and the BLM intends to round up 12,000 more horses in FY 2010.

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In Defense of Animals is an international animal protection organization located in San Rafael, Calif. dedicated to protecting animals’ rights, welfare, and habitat through education, outreach, and our hands-on rescue facilities in Mumbai, India, Cameroon, Africa, and rural Mississippi.

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US Judge OKs Roundup of Wild Horses

This is so sad!! And such a travesty of justice!!! The American people should be outraged by this!!!

U.S. judge OKs roundup of wild horses

A federal judge has cleared the way for a government roundup of about 190 wild horses along the Montana-Wyoming border.

Two Colorado-based advocacy groups went to court to stop the culling of the herd, saying it's one of the most genetically pure herds of Spanish colonial horses in the United States. U.S. District Judge Emmet Sullivan rejected their request for an injunction.

The helicopter roundup, delayed since Monday, begins tomorrow at the 38,000-acre Pryor Mountain Wild Horse Range. Operated by the Bureau of Land Management, it was the first nationally designated home for wild horses.

The entire herd will be captured; 70 adults and their foals will be put up for adoption. The remainder will be freed after mares are given a contraceptive vaccine.
The BLM has more information on the wild herd and efforts to control the population.
Sept. 26 is designated National Wild Horse Adoption Day.
One of the groups that oppose the roundup, The Cloud Foundation, is critical of the contractor hired by the BLM. It writes that contractor Dave Cattoor of Maybell, Colo., "was indicted by a federal grand jury and pled guilty to illegally hunting wild horses, aiding and abetting in 1992. He rounded up protected American mustangs, corralled into pens, loaded them into trucks, and hauled them to a slaughter house in Texas where they lost their lives."
(Can you believe that!!! I'm outraged!!!)

The group states that since 2000, the BLM and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service have paid Cattoor more than $13.4 million to round up wild horses. Read some testimonials about Cattoor and his work.
The Cloud Foundation and its allies argued unsuccessfully in court that such roundups violate the 1971 Wild Free-Roaming Horses and Burros Act.

Exciting Times Everyone! Mustang Adventure Planned for May 2010!

Exciting times everyone!



The 5 acres is open to the mustangs and they are so happy to have some space to run and play. Thank you everyone who donated, worked, encouraged....we couldn't have done it without you... Next step is to have a sanctuary but in the interim, we know the horses can feel a little of their freedom returned.



For any of you who might be interested in a mustang adventure, I'll be working with Rock Creek Pack Station up in Bishop to head up a four day photo/observation of mustangs ride next May 22-25. Your horse, tack, tent, food and instruction are all provided. If you want more information, please contact me as soon as possible. The ride is limited to 20 people and is already starting to fill. Cost is $750 which includes a $200 deposit due by October 1. The balance will be due in February. Your deposit will hold a spot for you. I'll send more information and web links to anyone who contacts me.



Enjoy the photos ... and thank you everyone.



Kay Levie
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How Did Your Congressman Vote on H.R. 1018 - Restore Our American Mustangs!

I'd like to hear Congressman Duncan's response to this!!

re H R 1018 RECORDED VOTE 17-Jul-2009 1:15 PM
QUESTION: On Passage
BILL TITLE: Restore Our American Mustangs Act
Michael,
Is it true that my own Congressman Duncan D. Hunter voted against this bill to restore the intent of the Wild Horse and Burro Act after California Heritage Herds have been made extinct in the wild? .... in light of the Desert Protection Act that has been manipulated for purposes that do not benefit the American public and through use plans by which our heritage herds were removed?
Is Congressman Hunter willing to sit down and talk with his San Diego constituents regarding this matter that is crucial to restoration of the remnants of our only Heritage Herd, the Coyote Canyon Caballos d' Anza??
Sincerely

Kathleen Hayden
POB 236
Santa Ysabel, Ca.
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FINAL VOTE RESULTS FOR ROLL CALL 577

H R 1018 RECORDED VOTE 17-Jul-2009 1:15 PM
QUESTION: On Passage
BILL TITLE: Restore Our American Mustangs Act

Ayes Noes PRES NV
Democratic 206 47 2
Republican 33 138 7
Independent
TOTALS 239 185 9

---- AYES 239 ---

Abercrombie
Adler (NJ)
Altmire
Andrews
Baca
Baird
Baldwin
Bartlett
Bean
Becerra
Berkley
Berman
Berry
Biggert
Bilbray
Bishop (GA)
Bishop (NY)
Blumenauer
Bono Mack
Boucher
Brady (PA)
Braley (IA)
Brown, Corrine
Burton (IN)
Butterfield
Calvert
Campbell
Cao
Capps
Capuano
Carnahan
Carney
Carson (IN)
Castle
Castor (FL)
Chandler
Chu
Clarke
Clay
Cleaver
Clyburn
Cohen
Connolly (VA)
Conyers
Cooper
Costello
Courtney
Crowley
Cummings
Davis (AL)
Davis (CA)
Davis (IL)
DeFazio
DeGette
Delahunt
DeLauro
Dent
Dicks
Dingell
Donnelly (IN)
Doyle
Edwards (MD)
Edwards (TX)
Ellison
Engel
Eshoo
Etheridge
Farr
Fattah
Filner
Frank (MA)
Frelinghuysen
Fudge
Gallegly
Gerlach
Gonzalez
Gordon (TN)
Grayson
Green, Al
Green, Gene
Grijalva
Gutierrez
Hall (NY)
Hall (TX)
Hare
Harman
Hastings (FL)
Heinrich
Higgins
Himes
Hinchey
Hirono
Hodes
Holden
Holt
Honda
Hoyer
Inslee
Israel
Issa
Jackson (IL)
Jackson-Lee (TX)
Johnson (IL)
Johnson, E. B.
Jones
Kagen
Kanjorski
Kaptur
Kennedy
Kildee
Kilpatrick (MI)
Kilroy
King (NY)
Kirk
Kissell
Klein (FL)
Kratovil
Kucinich
Lance
Langevin
Larson (CT)
Lee (CA)
Levin
Lewis (CA)
Lewis (GA)
Lipinski
LoBiondo
Loebsack
Lofgren, Zoe
Lowey
Luján
Lynch
Maffei
Maloney
Markey (MA)
Marshall
Massa
Matsui
McCarthy (NY)
McCollum
McCotter
McDermott
McGovern
McIntyre
McMahon
McNerney
Meek (FL)
Meeks (NY)
Michaud
Miller (MI)
Miller (NC)
Miller, George
Mitchell
Mollohan
Moore (KS)
Moore (WI)
Moran (VA)
Murphy (CT)
Murphy, Patrick
Murtha
Nadler (NY)
Napolitano
Neal (MA)
Nye
Oberstar
Obey
Olver
Ortiz
Pallone
Pascrell
Pastor (AZ)
Payne
Perlmutter
Peters
Pingree (ME)
Platts
Polis (CO)
Price (NC)
Quigley
Rahall
Rangel
Reichert
Reyes
Richardson
Ros-Lehtinen
Rothman (NJ)
Roybal-Allard
Royce
Ruppersberger
Rush
Ryan (OH)
Sánchez, Linda T.
Sarbanes
Schakowsky
Schauer
Schiff
Schrader
Schwartz
Scott (GA)
Scott (VA)
Serrano
Sestak
Shea-Porter
Sherman
Sires
Slaughter
Smith (NJ)
Smith (WA)
Snyder
Speier
Spratt
Stark
Sutton
Thompson (CA)
Thompson (MS)
Tierney
Titus
Tonko
Towns
Tsongas
Turner
Upton
Van Hollen
Velázquez
Visclosky
Wasserman Schultz
Waters
Watson
Watt
Waxman
Weiner
Welch
Wexler
Whitfield
Wilson (OH)
Woolsey
Wu
Yarmuth
Young (

---- NOES 185 ---

Aderholt
Akin
Alexander
Arcuri
Austria
Bachmann
Bachus
Barrow
Barton (TX)
Bilirakis
Bishop (UT)
Blackburn
Blunt
Boccieri
Boehner
Bonner
Boozman
Boren
Boswell
Boustany
Boyd
Brady (TX)
Bright
Broun (GA)
Brown (SC)
Brown-Waite, Ginny
Buchanan
Burgess
Buyer
Camp
Cantor
Capito
Cardoza
Carter
Cassidy
Chaffetz
Childers
Coffman (CO)
Cole
Conaway
Costa
Crenshaw
Cuellar
Culberson
Dahlkemper
Davis (KY)
Davis (TN)
Deal (GA)
Diaz-Balart, L.
Diaz-Balart, M.
Doggett
Dreier
Driehaus
Duncan
Ehlers
Ellsworth
Emerson
Fallin
Flake
Fleming
Forbes
Fortenberry
Foster
Foxx
Franks (AZ)
Garrett (NJ)
Giffords
Gingrey (GA)
Gohmert
Goodlatte
Granger
Griffith
Guthrie
Halvorson
Harper
Hastings (WA)
Heller
Hensarling
Herger
Herseth Sandlin
Hill
Hinojosa
Hoekstra
Hunter
Inglis
Jenkins
Johnson (GA)
Johnson, Sam
Jordan (OH)
Kind
King (IA)
Kingston
Kirkpatrick (AZ)
Kline (MN)
Kosmas
Lamborn
Larsen (WA)
Latham
LaTourette
Latta
Lee (NY)
Linder
Luetkemeyer
Lummis
Lungren, Daniel E.
Mack
Manzullo
Marchant
Markey (CO)
Matheson
McCarthy (CA)
McCaul
McClintock
McHenry
McHugh
McKeon
McMorris Rodgers
Melancon
Mica
Miller (FL)
Minnick
Moran (KS)
Murphy (NY)
Murphy, Tim
Myrick
Neugebauer
Nunes
Olson
Paul
Paulsen
Pence
Perriello
Peterson
Petri
Pitts
Poe (TX)
Pomeroy
Posey
Price (GA)
Putnam
Radanovich
Rehberg
Rodriguez
Roe (TN)
Rogers (AL)
Rogers (KY)
Rogers (MI)
Rohrabacher
Rooney
Roskam
Ross
Ryan (WI)
Salazar
Sanchez, Loretta
Scalise
Schmidt
Sensenbrenner
Sessions
Shadegg
Shimkus
Shuler
Shuster
Simpson
Skelton
Smith (NE)
Smith (TX)
Souder
Space
Stearns
Stupak
Sullivan
Tanner
Teague
Terry
Thompson (PA)
Thornberry
Tiahrt
Tiberi
Walden
Walz
Wamp
Wilson (SC)
Wittman
Wolf
Young (AK)


---- NOT VOTING 9 ---

Ackerman
Barrett (SC)
Coble
Graves
Lucas
Miller, Gary
Schock
Taylor
Westmoreland
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Just Say "No" to Rep. Darrell Issa's Proposal

"Issa proposes 21,000 acres of wilderness" (North County Times, 7/11/09)
"Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Vista, is proposing to build on the foundation of recent wilderness additions in Riverside County and protect more than 21,000 acres of chaparral, canyons and forest next door in northern San Diego County from development and vehicles ... Both areas are directly across the county line from the new Beauty Mountain Wilderness and newly expanded Agua Tibia Wilderness in Riverside County east of Temecula."

RELATED: "Wilderness areas" (BLM-California)
Includes recently-designated Agua Tibia and Beauty Mountain wilderness areas.


Please contact the following Congressmen and let them know that more wilderness means less access for all of us to our pioneering heritage of old ranches, mines, homesteads and historic range of our free roaming Coyote Canyon Heritage Herd.

Despite the news article BLM continues to acquire private property in this area from "not so willing sellers", and certainly not for multiple use either. The last management plan for this area was fatally flawed for failure to protect historic cultural values and activities in addition to removing Congressionally protected free roaming wild horses and burros. The next plan will circumvent even more. Please remind Congressman Issa that the Beauty Mt area, as well as Coyote Canyon, was once the historic range of our free roaming Heritage Herd and should be designated as permanant wild horse habitat.
Since both Riverside and San Diego County Boards of Supervisors adopted RS 2477 resolutions please be reminded that more wilderness conflicts with pre existing historical access including Ca. historic Riding and Hiking Trail ( CRHT) aka Cienaga Truck Trail. Wilderness Designations result in route degradation and would prohit new campgrounds/horsecamps along the trail as provided in the original 1945 Ca. legislations.


Contact Beauty Mountain Mail
and cc Congressman Issa local Chief of Staff Phil Paule
or Congressman Issa directly.

(Address:Washington D.C. Office 211 Cannon House Office Building Washington, DC 20515 phone: 202-225-3906 fax: 202-225-3303)

Also cc Congressman Brian Bilbray staff Mitch Murray
And cc Congressman Duncan D. Hunter staff Michael Harrison

Thanks,
Kathleen Hayden

Five Acre Fencing Completed for Mare & Foals

Help us Promote the Wild Horse Documentary "Mestengo"!

ReinFree Inc. (a 501(3)c dedicated to the preservation of the wild horses of America) is looking for someone (or a group of people) to step up to the plate and donate their time and energy to promote the documentary Mestengo. We need someone willing to contact the public-access TV channels and nation-wide film festivals and submit Mestengo for viewing. We need to get the message out! Time is running out for our wild horses of America! If you can help please email ReinFree. The word must get out, and you can help!

Even if you can help a little bit...every little bit helps!

Wanted: BLM to act Responsibly

In a letter written to the county Supervisors Bill Horn, Dianne Jacob, Greg Cox, Pam Slater and Ron Roberts; Kathleen Hayden of Coyote Canyon Caballos d'Anza writes:

Honorable Supervisors

Excerpt from following article "The BLM is eyeing two types of pasture: one for 200 to 1,000 wild horses and one for 1,000 to 5,000 animals. Gorey said the agency would pay the landowner around $475 per horse per year."

"Wouldn't our county and others benefit from this federal income as well? Certainly there are lots of historic grazing lands in the public domain that are just waiting to burn.
BLM claims overpopulation of wild equids on rangelands without telling the whole story.... that federal herd areas have been diminished and zeroed out through fatally flawed defective land management plans that eliminate wild horses and burros from their native ranges. By operation of law, wild herds are required to have sufficient habitat where they are managed for healthy genetic viability.
To date the resulting situation is criminal. However it can be corrected and effectively managed by public participation at the local level with non profit organization partnerships with land owners. "Land owners" includes most, if not all, public agencies managing historic grazing lands and conservancies.
Restoration of our local Coyote Canyon Heritage herd is a microcosm of the bigger picture. Solutions begin locally and so does setting the example for the rest of the country to see. Please take the lead.
Yours very truly,

Kathleen Hayden





Wanted: Homes for old horses
Wildlife » The BLM is seeking bids because of overpopulation on rangeland.

By Patty Henetz
The Salt Lake Tribune

Updated: 05/13/2009 10:41:48 AM MDT


Older mustangs, being held at the Salt Lake Wild... (Paul Fraughton / The Salt Lake Tribune)

The federal government wants to find a couple of additional retirement homes for old mustangs.
The Bureau of Land Management is seeking bids to house up to 6,000 Western wild horses unlikely to be adopted because they are too old and because the agency needs to decrease the mustang population on rangeland, said spokesman Tom Gorey.
Although the BLM has 11 pasture refuges in Oklahoma, Kansas and South Dakota -- along with numerous short-term holding corrals, including three in Utah -- the agency is "maxed out," he said, with 30,000 mustangs in captivity.
The BLM is eyeing two types of pasture: one for 200 to 1,000 wild horses and one for 1,000 to 5,000 animals. Gorey said the agency would pay the landowner around $475 per horse per year.
The pasture plan has emerged since the BLM last year set aside an unpopular idea to euthanize horses instead of leaving them on the range. But critics have pounced on the latest proposal, too, arguing the high fertility rate in wild herds is a direct result of the BLM's disruption of natural behavior.
"This is a travesty," said Karen Sussman, president of the International Society for the Protection of Mustangs and Burros on the Cheyenne River Sioux Reservation in Lantry, S.D.
Sussman said her group has studied herd behavior and found that, when left to themselves, the horses don't multiply at the rate they do on public lands because the natural mare-to-stud ratio isn't disturbed.
Last year, it looked like the dilemma was solved when Madeleine Pickens, wife of natural-gas magnate T. Boone Pickens, said she would adopt 36,000 wild horses and put them on a million-acre sanctuary. That proposal stalled when she asked the BLM for a stipend that would go for the horse -- not the landowner, who might not use the money to care for the animal.
On Tuesday, Madeleine Pickens told The Salt Lake Tribune she wouldn't offer a bid to the BLM under its new proposal, but would continue to try to establish her own sanctuary.
"They just don't have any business sense," she said of the agency's wild-horse managers. "Any time you take an animal off its range you are responsible for it for the rest of its natural life."
Pickens said her refuge would be controlled by a nonprofit organization, and the land wouldn't pass down to her descendants. "This is a forever deal so those horses are taken care of."
Gorey said wild-horse herds double their population every four years. In 1971, the agency estimated there were 17,000 horses and 8,000 burros on the range. Now, there are more than 32,000 horses and about 3,800 burros. Gorey said the optimum free-roaming population is 26,000, given current range conditions.
Captured wild burros always are taken in by others, Gorey said, but horse adoptions are on the decline, leaving too many in what are supposed to be short-term holding pens. "Our goal, our ideal," he said, "is to put as many horses into private care as we take off the range. But we're not in that position."
Tammy Howell, a BLM wrangler at the Salt Lake Wild Horse & Burro Center in Herriman, said sorting out the pasture bids could take a year, because of environmental studies.
Right now, most of the horses in the Salt Lake Valley corrals are headed to the prison in Gunnison, where inmates gentle mustangs for private adoption.
Once the new pastures are open, Howell said, "we'd probably have some [mustangs] that would go there."
"I know there are people out there who believe we should just leave them out on the range," Howell added. "They would eat themselves out of house and home."
The wild horse and burro management budget is up $26.5 million from last year's $41 million, Gorey said, but it's still not enough.
Janet Tipton of the Intermountain Wild Horse & Burro Advisors Inc., a nonprofit volunteer organization in Tooele County that works with the BLM to gentle the animals, said keeping the wild horses on the range requires active management.
Arid conditions in the West force the horses to travel long distances for food and water. Some don't make it. "Starvation is a terrible way to die," Tipton said. "It takes forever and, to me, it's inhumane."
Moving aged horses to pastures is a good alternative, she said. "Give [them] a place where [they] know exactly where there's food and water all day. They graze in nice grass. They have shelter."

More Support for Mustangs

Hello Kathleen,

THANK YOU for forwarding Craig Downer's letter. His fact-based research on
the WH&B issue and the eloquence with which he writes is highly respected
and should seriously be considered in all BLM actions concerning the
management of the Wild Horse and Burro Program. Reading this letter made
my heart ache even more for our wild ones and further sparked the desire
to do more for their survival.

The following are some of the great WH&B publicity opportunities that
occurred at the Wild Burro Rescue booth at World Fest Events last
Saturday:

The event went extremely well in regards to publicity and education
concerning the plight of wild horses and burros. We were interviewed by
the TV program "Animal Planet" and did we ever get the word out on how the
Wild Horse and Burro Program has been mismanaged! We also plugged the
equine welfare bills before Congress so hopefully our interview will be
televised soon.

Katia Louise, the producer/host of a talk radio program for animal
protection (www.wflendangeredstreamlive.org) interviewed us as well. Then
an independent Los Angeles TV station stopped by for another interview.

I spoke to various filmmakers wanting to document the story of the wild horses, and shared with them some of the background materials on the WH&B issues including info on your
organization, two of Cindy MacDonald's in depth reports ("The Use of
Helicopters to Remove Wild Horses and Burros from Public Lands" and "The
Jackson Mountains Wild Horses: A Case Study in the Mismanagement of the
BLM's Wild Horse and Burro Program"), and author Deanne Stillman's article
"They Also Served -So Long Mojave Burros". I also included the House of
Representatives Committee on Natural Resources' July 9, 2008 letter to the
BLM calling for accountability concerning the agency's years of
mismanagement of the Wild Horse and Burro Program.

An ASPCA Animal Cruelty agent stopped by and expressed interest in getting
the ASPCA involved. What really grabbed his attention was equine
photographer Carol Walker's picture of mustangs panicking in a BLM holding
pen that I had enlarged plus a poster of 12 pages from Cindy MacDonald's
reporting "Using Helicopters to Remove Wild Horses and Burros..."

And finally we got a lot of signatures on the Petition to Congress from
the American Herds website and many visitors participated in the Postcards
to Congress Campaign.

Although World Fest Events was not the best venue for donations, it was
great for getting the word out about our wild ones. Our next events will
be the Hollywood Farmers Market where quite a few celebrities frequent and
in July, a fair in Malibu. Now these two events will be much more high
profile in regards to eduction and publicity opportunities.



Thank you again for all of your support.

Linda

Sulphur Springs Mares and Foals (seven now!)

Went to Warner Springs, Anza Borrego Desert, CA today to shoot more footage of the Sulphur Springs mares and foals. There are now seven foals; a black one was born last night to a grulla mare. You can see lot's of photos of the little guy here, running along with his herd.



All these magnificent mares and foals are in the custody and care of the Coyote Canyon d'Anza, who's stated mission is to return a foundation herd back to free roaming in San Diego County.

Fallbrook Film Factory is sponsoring a documentary currently being produced by Dharlin Entertainment about this mission and the plight of the American Mustang (and the total mismanagement of the BLM!)

We were in the desert today to film more footage (oh, yeah, it was 103 degrees in the shade!)