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Hello Friends of Wild Horses and Burros,
Several weeks ago we asked you to contact your Representatives in the US House, to urge them to support the Rahall-Whitfield Interior Appropriations Amendment. You spoke out in massive numbers and we won that vote by a landslide!
Unfortunately, the amendment was not introduced in the Senate version of the Interior Appropriations bill.
There is still a chance however to hold onto the victory that we achieved in the House. The House and Senate will be meeting in Conference to hash out the differences between their bills and draft a final, unified version. We need you to contact Members of the Senate that are on the Conference Committee and ask them to "keep the Rahall Whitfield amendment in the final version of the Interior Appropriations bill".
Here is the list of Senators on the Conference Committee.
Senator Conrad Burns (Chairman) (MT) 202 224-2644 (strongly opposed per alert from The AWHPC Team, concentrate on others below)
Senator Ted Stevens (AK) 202 224-3004 (strongly opposed per alert from The AWHPC Team, concentrate on others below)
Senator Thad Cochran (MS) 202 224-5054 (strongly opposed per alert from The AWHPC Team, concentrate on others below)
Senator Harry Reid (NV) 202 224-3542 (strongly opposed per alert from The AWHPC Team, concentrate on others below)
Senator Pete Domenici (NM) 202 224-6621 PLEASE SEE INFO SHEET ON NEW MEXICO/DOMENICI BELOW
Senator Robert Bennett (UT) 202 224-5444
Senator Judd Gregg (NH) 202 224-3324
Senator Larry Craig (ID) 202 224-2752
Senator Wayne Allard (CO) 202 224-5941
Senator Byron Dorgan (Ranking Member) (ND) 202 224-2551
Senator Robert C. Byrd (WV) 202 224-3954
Senator Patrick Leahy (VT) 202 224-4242
Senator Dianne Feinstein (CA) 202 224-3841
Senator Barbara Mikulski (MD) 202 224-4654
Senator Herb Kohl (WI) 202 224-5653
Please call them today and ask others to call. Do not write or email - that takes too long for them to process and there is no time for that.
Ask for a definitive reply quickly. You don't have to live in those states, but people who do have more clout as they are constituents.
On behalf of the horses, thank you!
Jill Anderson
Return to Freedom, American Wild Horse Sanctuary
PO Box 926, Lompoc, CA 93438
Ph 805 737-9246 Fax 805 735-3246
www.returntofreedom.org
Wild Horse Observers Association (WHOA)
PO Box 932
Placitas, NM 87043
(505) 867-5228
whoa@whoanm.org
Patience O'Dowd co-founder
NEW MEXICO's Senator Domenici claimed on KUNM that he would like there to be a feasible alternative to slaughter rather than having our horses on foreign plates. He implied that there is not yet an alternative. He also implied that the horses are over populating and costing the tax payers much money though he gave no specifics and claimed that the current system had not been working to control the horses. Please ask him to try to find a balance on the following.
1. There are less than half the horses in the US wild than there were in 1971 when the Americans spoke loudly that they wanted them protected. There were 64,000 then, and there are less than 30,000 now. The BLM is planning t round up 8000 more, leaving our nation with less than 1/3 of what we asked for and what the law called for.
2. On our nation's BLM lands there are more than 4 Million cattle and less than 30,000 horses. There is obviously room for both cattle and horses.
3. In New Mexico, we have 1.89 Million cattle on BLM lands, 1.6 Million on state lands, 12,000 cattle on Forest service lands and less than 400 horses across all of these. Where is the balance or multiple use standards here?
4. Birth control is requested by the 1971 Free Roaming Wild Horse and Burro Act. Birth control for horses works and has been an option for 20 years, and is cheaper than round-ups and holding for adoption or sale.
5. These horses could be also utilized as an international eco-tourism asset, though New Mexico does not advertise them as a tourist attraction.
6. Though wild horses built our country and are part of ALL our heritage, our Land of Enchantment clings to cock fighting as our heritage and tradition while sending our known Spanish Bloodline horses to sale for slaughter in Mexico and elsewhere. They are going going gone in New Mexico.
7. The BLM has sent 41 wild horses to sale and following slaughter this year. The state of New Mexico also sends horses to slaughter as estrays (free roaming and domestic typically 25/yr) and needs your help to end this unnecessary practice.
Please tell Senator Domenici that you want the Rahall Whitfield amendment in the final version of the Interior Appropriations bill. Please politely request some balance, and some birth control, and no more pretense or scare tactics from him that there is no alternative to slaughter. These public lands are multiple use lands and they belong to all of us. We want the horses there for our children and for our dreams. They are a re-introduced native species, they belong here.
WHOA has educated Domenici's staff in Albuquerque as well as given him two hand delivered letters in order to share factual information with him and ask for his help. WHOA received a one paragraph form letter from him. We need all of you to call him, it will take all of us. For info source on numbers or info. Contact WHOA.
Thanks Much,
Patience O'Dowd co-founder
Wild Horse Observers Assoc (WHOA)
PO Box 932
Placitas NM, 87043
5045-867-5228
Several weeks ago we asked you to contact your Representatives in the US House, to urge them to support the Rahall-Whitfield Interior Appropriations Amendment. You spoke out in massive numbers and we won that vote by a landslide!
Unfortunately, the amendment was not introduced in the Senate version of the Interior Appropriations bill.
There is still a chance however to hold onto the victory that we achieved in the House. The House and Senate will be meeting in Conference to hash out the differences between their bills and draft a final, unified version. We need you to contact Members of the Senate that are on the Conference Committee and ask them to "keep the Rahall Whitfield amendment in the final version of the Interior Appropriations bill".
Here is the list of Senators on the Conference Committee.
Senator Conrad Burns (Chairman) (MT) 202 224-2644 (strongly opposed per alert from The AWHPC Team, concentrate on others below)
Senator Ted Stevens (AK) 202 224-3004 (strongly opposed per alert from The AWHPC Team, concentrate on others below)
Senator Thad Cochran (MS) 202 224-5054 (strongly opposed per alert from The AWHPC Team, concentrate on others below)
Senator Harry Reid (NV) 202 224-3542 (strongly opposed per alert from The AWHPC Team, concentrate on others below)
Senator Pete Domenici (NM) 202 224-6621 PLEASE SEE INFO SHEET ON NEW MEXICO/DOMENICI BELOW
Senator Robert Bennett (UT) 202 224-5444
Senator Judd Gregg (NH) 202 224-3324
Senator Larry Craig (ID) 202 224-2752
Senator Wayne Allard (CO) 202 224-5941
Senator Byron Dorgan (Ranking Member) (ND) 202 224-2551
Senator Robert C. Byrd (WV) 202 224-3954
Senator Patrick Leahy (VT) 202 224-4242
Senator Dianne Feinstein (CA) 202 224-3841
Senator Barbara Mikulski (MD) 202 224-4654
Senator Herb Kohl (WI) 202 224-5653
Please call them today and ask others to call. Do not write or email - that takes too long for them to process and there is no time for that.
Ask for a definitive reply quickly. You don't have to live in those states, but people who do have more clout as they are constituents.
On behalf of the horses, thank you!
Jill Anderson
Return to Freedom, American Wild Horse Sanctuary
PO Box 926, Lompoc, CA 93438
Ph 805 737-9246 Fax 805 735-3246
www.returntofreedom.org
Wild Horse Observers Association (WHOA)
PO Box 932
Placitas, NM 87043
(505) 867-5228
whoa@whoanm.org
Patience O'Dowd co-founder
NEW MEXICO's Senator Domenici claimed on KUNM that he would like there to be a feasible alternative to slaughter rather than having our horses on foreign plates. He implied that there is not yet an alternative. He also implied that the horses are over populating and costing the tax payers much money though he gave no specifics and claimed that the current system had not been working to control the horses. Please ask him to try to find a balance on the following.
1. There are less than half the horses in the US wild than there were in 1971 when the Americans spoke loudly that they wanted them protected. There were 64,000 then, and there are less than 30,000 now. The BLM is planning t round up 8000 more, leaving our nation with less than 1/3 of what we asked for and what the law called for.
2. On our nation's BLM lands there are more than 4 Million cattle and less than 30,000 horses. There is obviously room for both cattle and horses.
3. In New Mexico, we have 1.89 Million cattle on BLM lands, 1.6 Million on state lands, 12,000 cattle on Forest service lands and less than 400 horses across all of these. Where is the balance or multiple use standards here?
4. Birth control is requested by the 1971 Free Roaming Wild Horse and Burro Act. Birth control for horses works and has been an option for 20 years, and is cheaper than round-ups and holding for adoption or sale.
5. These horses could be also utilized as an international eco-tourism asset, though New Mexico does not advertise them as a tourist attraction.
6. Though wild horses built our country and are part of ALL our heritage, our Land of Enchantment clings to cock fighting as our heritage and tradition while sending our known Spanish Bloodline horses to sale for slaughter in Mexico and elsewhere. They are going going gone in New Mexico.
7. The BLM has sent 41 wild horses to sale and following slaughter this year. The state of New Mexico also sends horses to slaughter as estrays (free roaming and domestic typically 25/yr) and needs your help to end this unnecessary practice.
Please tell Senator Domenici that you want the Rahall Whitfield amendment in the final version of the Interior Appropriations bill. Please politely request some balance, and some birth control, and no more pretense or scare tactics from him that there is no alternative to slaughter. These public lands are multiple use lands and they belong to all of us. We want the horses there for our children and for our dreams. They are a re-introduced native species, they belong here.
WHOA has educated Domenici's staff in Albuquerque as well as given him two hand delivered letters in order to share factual information with him and ask for his help. WHOA received a one paragraph form letter from him. We need all of you to call him, it will take all of us. For info source on numbers or info. Contact WHOA.
Thanks Much,
Patience O'Dowd co-founder
Wild Horse Observers Assoc (WHOA)
PO Box 932
Placitas NM, 87043
5045-867-5228