Please share and make a tax-deductible donation today! Protect Mustangs needs to act quickly and independently to FIGHT for America’s wild horses in court.
During the Pine Nut roundup case we brought the PZP/pesticide issue into the court room and ultimately stopped the roundup. Our Fort McDermitt case (READ Michael Blake’s declaration below) stopped sending more than a thousand wild horses to slaughter in 2013 and 2014. There are many important cases to win!
We donate our time but still need to pay the lawyer a reduced fee. Using lawyers on staff with other groups was a blessing at the time but doesn’t work anymore because there is so much to do QUICKLY! Please HELP America’s wild horses with a tax-deductible donation here: http://www.gofundme.com/qarve8 to fight for them in court today!
Did you know that Michael Blake (Dances with Wolves), RIP, joined our Fort McDermitt lawsuit in 2013 when we stopped 2 years of horrible roundups that were sending wild horses to slaughter?
This is what he wrote on August 21, 2013:
I, Michael Lennox Blake, declare and state as follows:
1. I am an author as well as a screenwriter. I have written several books and screenplays including Dances with Wolves, which was released to international acclaim in 1990. In 1991, I won every major award for my screenplay for Dances with Wolves, including an Academy Award, Golden Globe, Writer’s Guild Award, and the Silver Spur. I have also received public service awards including the Eleanor Roosevelt Award and the Americanism Award, in addition to many other awards during my life.
2. I reside in Sonoita, Arizona. I am a member of Protect Mustangs, and also am on the Advisory Board for Protect Mustangs. In a professional capacity I am an author and screenwriter. I support the work that Protect Mustangs does to protect wild horses and advocate for effective wild horse conservation on public lands.
3. I have visited Nevada for decades to see the wild horses, study them, and be inspired by them for my work. I have explored the lands of Nevada where the wild horses roam in freedom for inspiration and research for my work. I intend to return to these areas so I may continue to be inspired and do research for my work.
4. In 1992, I helped commission the first comprehensive aerial census of wild horses in Nevada. In almost every herd area, the horses were far less numerous than the BLM estimated. The final count in our survey was 8,324.
5. Protect Mustangs’ members are interested in wild horses, and I support their work to protect wild horses’ freedom and safety from cruel and harmful practices including but not limited to illegal roundups. Their mission is to educate the public about indigenous wild horses, protect and research American wild horses on the range, and help those who have lost their freedom. Protect Mustangs works to educate the public about the decisions and activities of the government that impact wild horses, and find solutions for wild horse conservation that does not include roundups and auctioning off wild horses for slaughter. Members of the public and horse advocates across the United States are interested in and support Protect Mustangs’ work to protect wild horses due to their recreational, scientific, spiritual, ecological, cultural, artistic, historical, iconic, and aesthetic values.
6. I wrote in my book Twelve the King:
But he and hundreds of thousand like him are gone now from this beautiful land, and for that reason alone I could not stop as I traveled over four hundred miles of Nevada roads. Something evil is still afoot in this land, and it has left its imprint everywhere. In all those miles of open, free country, the mark of evil is present in what is absent. The wild horses are missing from the land.
7. I have written extensively about the American West and find inspiration seeing and studying wild horses. If these unbranded, wild horses are rounded up and removed by the USDA Forest Service and/or the BLM on tribal land, or elsewhere by the Forest Service and/or the BLM, I will be harmed because I will no longer have the ability to study them or be inspired for my books, stories and other works.
8. Wild horses and their connection with the land in the American West inspire me to write. I have plans to spend time in the future using and enjoying these lands and studying free-roaming wild horses on public lands in the Owyhee HMAs and where the wild horses roam in the Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest, as well as on tribal lands. The proposed gather on USDA Forest Service and tribal lands will forever remove wild and free-roaming horses that I rely upon in my professional and personal capabilities.
9. I derive significant satisfaction and happiness from the existence of native wild, free- roaming horses. Ensuring the continued existence and distribution of wildlife including wild horses in the West is of the utmost importance to me and has directly influenced my life a great deal. The West is far different than the East because the West still has wildlife—including wild horses that inspire me to write fiction and non-fiction.
10. If the Fort McDermitt Horse Gather proceeds as planned, it will prevent me and other members of Protect Mustangs from recreating, enjoying, studying, being inspired from, and writing about the wild horses in the area in the future. I am very unlikely to continue deriving benefit and inspiration concerning the wild horses in an area where they have been removed and herd numbers drastically reduced as is proposed by the Fort McDermitt Horse Gather and the 2013 Agreement between the Forest Service and Fort McDermitt Tribal Council. Our members share these views as well.
11. I have been studying and gaining inspiration from seeing wild horses in Nevada throughout my life. I have certain plans to continue visiting these wild areas of Nevada authorized for roundup, including the Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest, throughout my lifetime. For the aforementioned reasons I would be directly harmed should the unbranded, wild horses at issue in the Fort McDermitt Horse Gather be removed and the horses rounded up and be allowed to go to holding, auction, sale, or slaughter.
[End of Michael Lennox Blake’s declaration]
HELP build the legal fund today so Protect Mustangs can fight for wild horses in court. We are a unique group dedicated purely to the preservation of America’s wild horses. We need to act QUICKLY and independently to HELP SAVE wild horses with legal action. Please make a tax-deductible donation today and share this fundraiser: http://www.gofundme.com/qarve8
Thank you for taking action today to help save the wild horses!
Many blessings,
Anne
Anne Novak
Volunteer Executive Director
www.ProtectMustangs.org
Telephone: 415-531-8454
Pine Nut Wild Horses ©Anne Novak for Protect Mustangs
I wish the actors would step up to help keep his promise to the wildhorses ….It would show just how much they thought of him as a writer and director ….what a blessing that would be not to mention a great way to honor him as well …
Great tribute to a great wild horse advocate, Michael Blake. Let’s follow through with courage and intelligence as he would wish, for the horses and their rightful land and freedom. I was out with some of the few that remain yesterday but we must rally if they are to continue.
It is time that the people that we put into office. Start to listen to the people that put them there. Stop the BLM from killing off the wild horses herds. The round ups and the use of PZP and the spaying and gelding of the wild horses.. Is killing off some of the oldest bloodlines in the world. It is all being done in the name of greed. They are doing it because of walfare ranchers, and big oil and other big companies. That are killing off the range and all the wild life that belongs there.. All in the name of big money.
Protect Mustangs is a unique group that fights independently for wild horses and is deserving of support. They stopped the roundup and sterilization of the Pine Nut wild horses.
Thanks Connie but the money isn’t for us. It’s tax-deductible and breaks down like this: $7,500 to the lawyer plus 10% to GoFundMe/First Giving fees ($750) plus 5% admin fee to the fiscal sponsor for tax-deductible status ($375) = $8,625. right now to get started and make a big difference!
We need to support Michael Blake and his wishes. PROTECT Mustangs is an honest and decent group. We realize the value of our wild horses. They are the true icons of freedom and our west. I am proud to be a member. Pleae join and share. We must support them in his fight to save our wild horses and in so doing honoring Michael Blake and his writings of the true West. “Dances WithWolves” probably his best known. If we lose our wild horses we lose the old west.
Thanks for the clarification PM 🙂
It is a great honor to be among the “knowns” as well as.the “unknowns” in our great humanitarian effort to save and.protect our,yours and mine, mustangs. It.happens to be the American Citizens heritage and legacy that we protect and defend these icons.of America! Thank ypu!
We must keep on and never stray from our mission! We have to carry on with Michael Blake’s dreams for our wild ones. We will win this fight through truth. I am proud to be a part of the Protect Mustangs team.
We need more wild horse advocates from the acting crowd they could really help get the word out to people we aren’t reaching! Thank you Michael Blake for all you did for our horses. You will be remembered by all of us who fight everyday every way we can.
Do not need convincing – just looking for the DONATE link
What a great perspective Protect Mustangs has on doing what needs to be done — protecting our wild free-roaming horses and burros.
Thank you for the many things you are doing.
Showing my support for Protect Mustangs organization and also honoring Michael Blake’s love of the American West! As citizens of the United States of America, we should do all we can to ensure wild mustangs remain wild, free and protected against harm on land set aside for them by Congress.
Michael Blake made a difference. The rest of us can too. Protect Mustangs is the right avenue.
There is definitely an urgent need for contributions to stop the BLM from doing any more harm than they have already. The consistent disregard for the survival of America’s Wild Horse Herds ….they are destroying some of the oldest mustang blood lines in the Western United States. The bottom line is that only properly funded lawsuits can delay and stop the BLM from carrying out the extermination of our proud and noble Wild Horses. Protect Mustangs can do this with the proper funding and support from everyone that would like to protect and save the Wild Herds. Thank-you for all you do!
ARE WE GOING TO BE KNOWN AS THE GENERATION THAT WIPED OUT THE LAST OF THE WILD MUSTANGS AND BURROS??
IS THAT WHAT WE WANT OUR LEGACY TO BE ?
EVEN THOUGH THE WILD MUSTANGS ARENT THE ONLY ONE’S BEING SLAUGHTERED, OTHER SPECIE’S ARE BEING WIPED OUT AS WELL.
BUT ONE THING FOR CERTAIN, THESE ARE THE VERY ANIMALS THAT BUILT AMERICA, THEY PLOWED OUR FIELD’S, LED US INTO BATTLE, AND BROUGHT US WEST, AND THIS IS THE THANKS WE SHOW THEM , BY ROUNDING THEM ONLY TO SEND THEM OFF TO SLAUGHTER AND ALL AT THE TAX PAYERS EXPENSE.
THE ENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRY SHOULD FOLLOW THE LEAD SET BY “MICHAEL BLAKE”, WE NEED MORE HOLLYWOOD CELEBRITIES TO STEP UP TO THE PLATE.
WHERE ARE THEY NOW ???
True That Anna Garner! In addition, with Protect Mustangs working to create change, this may be the best place to put are hard earned bucks today, to protect Wild Horses and Burros! Do we have a better idea at this juncture, after working hard for their Freedom day and night and still witnessing 50,000 Wild Horses imprisoned in Government Holding Corrals?
We must save the wild mustangs. They are our American Heritage. They are to be protected. Treating them with PZP only delays the extinction. Let us honor wild horse advocate, Michael Blake and continue his dream and fight for our wild horses
A lot more people need to step up be they famous or just every day people like ourselves and do what they can be it donations or being out there in person to likes, shares and signing petitions. every little counts and as a team we can do so much so keep up the good work keep passing on the information and keep fighting. We MUST protect wild horses and keep them out the hands of greedy cruel evil people. Keep up the good work. Peace & Respect –
J.Howie.
Thank you Anne Novak, Craig Downer and the late Michael Blake for standing up for wild horses. Let others in positions of influence and power in Hollywood and business, step up and stand in Michael’s place to support Protect Mustangs and the legal defense of keeping wild horses wild and on their home range. There is every reason to believe that this is achievable with the amount of resources in your hands.