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Mary S. Nash: Advocate fought for neighborhoods, horses
09:51 PM CDT on Saturday, July 9, 2005
By DAVID RENFROW / The Dallas Morning News

Mary S. Nash was a passionate defender of houses and horses.
Her years of neighborhood advocacy helped rewrite Dallas ordinances
governing thoroughfare construction. In Austin, she successfully lobbied to
block legislation legalizing the slaughter of horses.
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If you did not really read this the first time..Please READ this NOW!

Press Release
For Immediate Release:
DATE: June 16, 2005
CONTACT: Billy Stern, Forest Guardians, (505) 988-9126 x155,
John Horning, Forest Guardians, (505) 988-9126 x153,
Greta Anderson, Center For Biological Diversity, (520) 623-5252 x314
PROGRAM AREA: Grazing Reform



BLM’s New Regulations Undercut Public Participation and Threaten
Wildlife and Water with Hand-Outs to Livestock Industry

Santa Fe, NM – Forest Guardians and the Center for Biological
Diversity decried the new Bureau of Land Management (BLM) regulations
released today that shift the emphasis on public land management from
wildlife, water and environmental quality to the new stated aim of
“improving BLM’s working relationships with ranchers.” The regulations
give new rights to the livestock industry on the 160 million acres of
land that it leases from the American people and make it harder for
the average citizen to participate in on-the-ground decision-making.
The rules also make it harder for the agency to respond when they find
reductions in grazing are needed to protect the environment.

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Sunday, July 10, 2005
Copyright © Las Vegas Review-Journal

WILD HORSES: BLM keeps herd in check

NEAR EUREKA

The band of horses came into view around a small hill, followed
closely by a low-flying helicopter that herded the animals toward a
wide funnel of camouflage netting.

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EUREKA
BLM rounds up 360 horses south of Eureka
July 11, 2005, 07:42 AM MST Email to a Friend Printer Friendly Version



About 360 wild horses have been gathered south of Eureka in Nye County.

That's according to the US Bureau of Land Management office.

The BLM began rounding up wild horses in the Fish Creek Complex of herd management areas on July first and hopes to gather 1,250 horses by July 20th.

Of the 360 gathered so far, 250 have been shipped to the Palomino Valley holding facility operated by the BLM.

The BLM wants to keep a total between 307 and 420 wild horses on the Fish Creek Complex, so some of the horses that are gathered may be returned to the range.

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E-Mail Tool of Choice for Constituents

Jul 11, 2:24 PM (ET)
By JIM ABRAMS

WASHINGTON (AP) - You've got mail, members of Congress, about 200
million pieces of it. Nine out of 10 of those missives are e-mail,
according to a report that chronicles the rapid shift from postal
letters to e-mail as the means of communicating with lawmakers.

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I know this is a pretty long article, but I found it interesting to
see how far we've come and how far we still have to go. I also find
it interesting to see how some attitudes have changed while others
have not. At any rate, this article will inspire you to carry on the
fight. It was written in 1998, before the California initiative
passed.
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A horse is a course
by
Thomas Korosac (or Korosec)

On a gentle hillside 30 miles east of Dallas, out in the countryside
near Kaufman, Bailey Kemp pulls his one-ton pickup and 40-foot stock
trailer up to a steel-covered horse barn and begins to unload.

First he shoos from his rig 10 ordinary-looking bays. Then a
palomino. Then he guides a white quarter horse out by a lead rope and
halter. All are healthy-looking animals, although clearly not top
stock. "Some people think I'm the worst fella that ever lived," Kemp
says after he heads inside to settle up with the horses' buyer.

Sure enough, as one gathers from the posters around the buyers'
office, this enterprise is unsettling, to say the least. On one wall
is a colorful chart of horse breeds ó chunky quarter horses, sleek
thoroughbreds, boldly marked paints ó above which is a handmade
wooden plaque. It reads: "The best color for a horse is fat."

On two other walls are outsized pictures of meat dishes ó a roast
plated with vegetables, a kabob on yellow rice, a thick steak, and
something that looks like a chicken-fried cutlet.

What's creepy is the little line drawing on the folded white napkin
next to each plate. It depicts a horse that, if not quite smiling, is
looking as blithe and cheery as Misty of Chincoteauge, the little
pony of children's book fame. Around the meat pictures, in red,
white, and blue print, are the words "U.S. Horse Meat. Eat and Drink
American."

Of course, Americans have no more tradition of eating horses than
they do of turning their dogs and cats into sausage and stew. But
Bailey's dozen horses have come on September 15 to be slaughtered for
meat in the set of industrial-looking buildings behind the corral.
The meat will then be shipped to dinner tables abroad. In a business
that is federally inspected and perfectly legal, the animals will be
knocked on the head, bled, cut up, packaged, loaded into Delta or
American Airlines freight containers, and flown to France and
Belgium, where horse meat is a culinary staple, a low-fat meat often
described as tough, bland, and somewhat sweeter than beef.

The Kaufman plant is a cog in that worldwide industry, an outpost in
the middle of a state that likes to think of itself as the mythic
kingdom of the cowboy and his horse, the noblest, most central
creature of the Old West.

Reality is more depressing.

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