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Thu, 10 Jul 2008 14:05:01 -0500ACT/ BLM Wants To Kill Wild HorseskinshipcircleTo: kinshipcircle

KINSHIP ANIMAL DISASTER AID NETWORK - PERMISSION TO CROSS-POST ANIMAL PROTECTION CAMPAIGNS7/10/08: BLM Wants To Kill Wild HorsesEMAIL kinshipcircle FOR WORD DOC OF A FORMATTED LETTER.Easily modify letter and copy/paste it into an email or print out to fax or mail. LEFT PHOTO: http://www.thecloudfoundation.org/7.08.htmlRIGHT: Bolder and father, Cloud - http://www.thecloudfoundation.org/6.08.html===========================================================FULL CONTACT INFORMATION. Sample letter follows.===========================================================Director James Caswell, Bureau of Land ManagementU.S. Bureau of Land Management, Office of Public Affairs1849 C St NW, #5655 MIB; Washington, DC 20240ph: 202-208-3801, 202-452-5125; fax: 202-452-5124email: James_Caswell, woinfo To identify your federal legislators and find contact info, try: Congress.org - http://www.Congress.orgUSA Senate - http://www.senate.govUSA House of Representatives - http://www.house.govCongressional Switchboard: 202-224-3121The Honorable Representative _____________________________U.S. House of RepresentativesWashington, D.C. 20510The Honorable Senator _________________________________The U.S. Senate, U.S. Capitol BuildingWashington, D.C. 20510*Kinship Circle cannot guarantee validity of email addresses. During campaigns, recipients may change or disable their email addresses. Emails from government, corporate, or institute websites may be incorrect.===========================================================SAMPLE LETTER -- This letter is prepared to inform you about the issue. Try to shorten and personalize your letter before sending.===========================================================Dear Director Caswell, Senators and Representative:The Bureau of Land Management oversees federal land that belongs to all Americans. The mustangs who roam these plains are our horses. Yet BLM seems exclusively devoted to over three million privately held cattle grazing on the same federal land.BLM presently holds more horses in confinement than are left in the wild. I am shocked the agency intends to kill the captive wild horses it cannot afford to maintain after years of negligent management. I ask BLM, and my elected officials in Congress, to advocate the reinstatement of these magnificent creatures in their natural range.The present system doesn't work. To appease cattle ranchers, BLM captures more wild horses than it can adopt out. A plan announced at a Wild Horse and Burro Advisory Board meeting (6/30/08), calls for the phase out of BLM compounds where some 22,000 horses taken from the range now live.This "solution" is unacceptable to all American citizens except the livestock lobby. By the time BLM completes its round-ups for 2008, as many as 30,000 wild horses may be needlessly slaughtered.I strongly urge BLM to integrate non-violent control methods -- such as range expansion in conjunction with the National Park Service and intensified contraception programs. A cap on permits to hunt mountain lions would also let natural predation curb mustang numbers.BLM typically finds adoptive homes for just 2000 to 3000 horses a year. Yet the agency has removed tens of thousands of wild horses for decades. If BLM cannot devise a better plan than mass slaughter, Congress needs to step in to save America's last wild horses.For over 30 years, the Wild Free-Roaming Horses and Burro Act of 1971 preserved "wild free-roaming horses and burros," as "living symbols of the historic and pioneer spirit of the West." The law mandates horses be "considered...an integral part of the system of public lands." The government needs to adhere to this law by supervising land to protect wild horses -- not kill them.Thank you,===========================================================KINSHIP CIRCLE OFF-LINE FROM JULY 17 - JULY 22===========================================================KINSHIP CIRCLE WILL BE OFF-LINE: JULY 17 to JULY 22, 2008Brenda Shoss and board member Bridget Soeder will present and exhibit at the Taking Action For Animals (TAFA) conference in Washington, DC.Our workshop, "Internet Activism & The Power Of Words" is on Sunday, 7/20/08, from 2:45 to 3:45pmThe TAFA conference is held at the Hyatt Regency Crystal City in Arlington, Virginia. Tickets are still available. Read more about Taking Action For Animals -- from July 19-21: http://www.takingactionforanimals.org===========================================================SOURCE OF INFORMATION / REFERENCE LINKS===========================================================BLM: Don't Kill Our Wild Horses http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/266046279Cloud: Wild Stallion of the Rockies http://www.pbs.org/wnet/nature/episodes/cloud-wild-stallion-of-the-rockies/introduction/29/The Cloud Foundation http://www.thecloudfoundation.org/GET COOL STUFF (and support Kinship Circle): http://www.kinshipcircle.org/store/KINSHIP CIRCLE Action Campaigns I Literature I Animal Disaster Aid Networkinginfo or kinshipcirclehttp://www.KinshipCircle.org * http://www.kinshipcircle.org/disasters/UNSUBSCRIBE: * Select a Kinship Circle ALERT received in your mailbox* Hit "FORWARD"* Enter kinshipcircle * Type UNSUBSCRIBE in your subject line and hit sendSUBSCRIBE: Kinship Circle Primary: Action campaigns on animal cruelty issues worldwideKinship Circle Animal Disaster Aid Network: kinshipcircle Animal rescue coordination/news in disasters + companion animal alerts*