Spring Creek Basin Mustangs

Everyone needs to read this letter: http://wildhorsepreservation.com/pdf/EuthanasiaBLM_letter.pdf

I became aware of it this afternoon when I received an email from the American Wild Horse Preservation Campaign. It is signed by Rep. Nick Rahall of West Virginia, chairman of the Committee on Natural Resources, and Raul Grijalva of Arizona, chairman of the Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests and Public Lands, and it is addressed to Henri Bisson, deputy director of operations for the BLM. He’s the guy who made the announcement at the National Wild Horse & Burro Advisory Board meeting that the BLM just has to start killing horses.

I attended the advisory board meeting in Tucson back in February, and representatives of the GAO were at that meeting. According to the letter, in June 2007, the Committee on Natural Resources requested the GAO “conduct a comprehensive review of the BLM’s management of wild horses and burros on public lands. We did this because of continued concern that this program is being mismanaged, because we felt the BLM did little to address concerns raised by a 1990 GAO report, and because of recent changes to the Act in 2004.”

Please take a few moments and read the letter.