BLM Wants Input on Proposed Red Desert Wild Horse Roundup

 

BLM Press Release:

The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Rawlins and Lander field offices announce that a preliminary environmental assessment (EA) analyzing a proposed wild horse gather in the Red Desert Wild Horse Herd Management Area (HMA) Complex is now available for review.
The Red Desert Complex, which includes the Antelope Hills, Crooks Mountain, Green Mountain, Lost Creek and Stewart Creek HMAs, is located in Sweetwater, Carbon, Fremont and Natrona counties west and south of Wyoming Highway 287.

The proposed operation would include gathering wild horses, treating all mares to be released with the PZP-22 (porcine zona pellucida) fertility control vaccine, and removing horses to bring the population of the complex within its appropriate management level. All horses that have moved outside the HMAs would also be removed. The proposed gather may take place late this year or in 2016.
The preliminary EA analyzes three alternatives and is available by visiting the BLM website at: www.blm.gov/wy/st/en/info/NEPA/documents/rfo/red-desert.html.

The 30 day comment period runs from September 8 through October 8, 2015.

Comments may be emailed to: RedDesertComplex_HMA_WY@blm.gov (please include “Red Desert Gather EA Comments” in the subject line). Comments may also be mailed or delivered to either field office:
Benjamin Smith, Wild Horse & Burro Specialist
BLM Rawlins Field Office
1300 N. 3rd Street
Rawlins, WY 82301
Jeremie Artery, Interim Wild Horse & Burro Specialist
BLM Lander Field Office
1335 Main Street
Lander, WY 82520
For more information, visit www.blm.gov/wy/st/en/info/NEPA/documents/rfo/red-desert.html, or contact Benjamin Smith at 307-328-4200 or Jeremie Artery at 307-332-8400.
The BLM manages more than 245 million acres of public land, the most of any Federal agency. This land, known as the National System of Public Lands, is primarily located in 12 western states, including Alaska. The BLM also administers 700 million acres of sub-surface mineral estate throughout the nation. The BLM’s mission is to manage and conserve the public lands for the use and enjoyment of present and future generations under our mandate of multiple-use and sustained yield. In fiscal year 2013, the BLM generated $4.7 billion in receipts from public lands.
–BLM–
Rawlins and Lander Field Offices 1300 N. Third/PO Box 2407 Rawlins, WY 82301 1335 Main Street Lander, WY 82520

25 thoughts on “BLM Wants Input on Proposed Red Desert Wild Horse Roundup

  1. Don’t remove anymore of these horses. This disgust me! Treat them do what you have to do but leave them alone!!!! You have so many locked away now and they are being slipped through to slaughter houses. They have natural predators just like any other wild animal!!!!

  2. Please leave the wild horse in there homes in the Red Desert Area. They need to be running free we don’t need any more horses in holding pens. Thank you!

  3. Enough is enough! Stop the proposed Red Desert Wild Horse Roundup. There are too many of our NativeWild Horse and Burros on holding pens now. They are better off in the wild than in holding pens where many are sent to slaughter. This is not acceptable! You have no right to take these horses and Burros from their land and then lease their land for cattle or drilling. This is cruel and inhumane. I have seen what happens during roundups, the helicopters running the hooves off babies, the hitting of Burros with the choppers, the terrified horses hurling themselves into and over the gates and the cruel treatment of the horses by the people in the pens. There is absolutely no reason to remove these animals from their land.

  4. Ladies and Gentlemens,

    Please leave the wild horse in their homes in the Red Desert Area.
    NO RUNDUPS anymore. Never. There is enough space for all, horses, animals and humans.
    They need to be running free. We don’t need any more horses in holding pens
    Thank you!

  5. You have more than you can handle in holding already. Wildlife is just that. Nature takes care of its own. Leave them alone.

  6. Tax payers pay for the responsible management of our wild horses and public land. Rounding horses up and sending them to slaughter for the purpose of leasing land to ranchers is wrong and I’m tired of hearing about it. Please leave these historic symbols of freedom on their land.

  7. Despicable acts. These horrendous, abusive roundups need to stop. This interference with our wild horses needs to stop. Leave them alone! They belong to our land, they belong to live wild and free. You have disrespected every single report, statistic, etc. that was provided to you. You keep disrespecting the American people that (most of them) want those horses on their land. This needs to STOP NOW.

  8. Please do not remove these horses from Red Desert Wild Horse Herd Management Area (HMA) Complex. Do not bother them by sterilizing them either.

  9. I’m writing to say that the red desert horses should be left alone wild and free ! No round-up of our iconic , MAJESTIC , red desert horses ! No pcp-22 birth control as natural predators will thin the herd like God intended ! There’s too many of our wild horses in over crowded holding facilities already , with many beautiful horses who have done nothing wrong but strive to be with their families and the will to live Free ! Land of the brave and home of the FREE ! The majority of Americans want our wild horses left alone to live as they were intended ! Not on a Japanese or any other table ! Crime against God and Nature to allow them to be sold to slaughter houses !THIS MUST STOP NOW !!!! Caring for them is your responsibility and my tax dollars spent on them , not on terrifying helicopter round-ups and slaughter ! Thank you !!!!!!!!!

  10. The BLM needs to address the concerns of the citizens who think that our Wild Horses (including the Red Desert herd). These wild horses are a legacy to every American and should be treated with care, compassion and understanding.
    Please do not sterilize or remove them. They need to be free.
    thank you

  11. We have to watch very close on the dates because I was told by a BLM wild horse expert that the roundup could happen in November. The weather should be really nasty then so to make it hard to observe the roundup of course early 2016 probably will be just as bad. Since I’m on a roll I want to know how they plan to sustain a herd with all the mares pzp’d before they are turned loose? That makes absolutely no sense to me. How do we keep the blood line flowing if all the mares are sterile? I feel so helpless I have watched these horses since I was a kid and I just know they will wipe out any of Desert Dust’s bloodline and that probably sounds whiny and by damn it is, has a Wyoming native I don’t want those horses to be taken to holding pens. I don’t want them to leave a wisp of the herd I know so well and love and are the reason I started fighting for wild horses everywhere. They are a Wyoming Western Legacy. Please don’t do this let them run free on their land. God save these horses from the Red Desert Complex roundup!!!

  12. PLEASE! The Wild Horses were put on this Earth to remain FREE!!
    How can you possibly think that you are doing the right thing?
    Do NOT understand how you can have NO Heart or soul!!
    Leave them alone!!!

  13. Please stop the inhumane round ups. Don’t split up families, let them run free on their land. Don’t put them in holding pens, just to be shipped to slaughter later.. I am OK with birth control. If you are using birth control…there is no need to round-up the horses and burros, and hold them in small pens and have high costs of feed until you decide to ship them to slaughter. Birth control should keep the population numbers down. They will be able to live in their family herds, the strong will survive and the weak will died. Let nature take control. I can’t believe the thousands that have already been sent to slaughter. Please stop the inhumane treatment that you are doing to these beautiful horses & burros.

  14. Recently sister and I traveled across the country to Burns Oregon.. While traveling we visited HMAS as well as holding facilitys. On our return trip we stopped at Red Desert HMA in hopes of seeing a few last mustangs.. After several hours on the hma and viewing hundreds of cows and no horses we gave up .Where are all these disstructive creatures ? Why when I went to Rock Spring holding facility did Cathy feed me a bunch of excuses as to why we could not do a tour or adopt a horse because someone might want to measure something because they where getting ready for an adoption at the end of the month …when we were there ,there was no one there at all ,but we could view from the kiosk, what joke !why are there 600 horses on 25 acres ,and then wanting to round up more ????(red desert ) How about that fella you all selling 70 % of your horse to and your not bold enough to find out what he does with them but we can’t look at the
    the horses in holding , what the heck is going on out there. Then there’s the little app stud ,why was he not gelded ,,but plans are under way to sterlize entire HMA’S ….help me out cause I am confused !!

  15. Horses are good for the environment because they are migratory. They eat the tops of the plant then defecate the seed & fertilize. Cattle Cause dry arid land as they eat the whole plant. They are sedentary , so the land dries out.
    Horses were our transport, still are some places, they ploughed w/ us, taxi ed us, took us cross country, battled w/ us, mounted police for us, suffered w/ us, they are our entertainment and our companions. Wild horses are our heritage, our posterity. Why not charge $ to see them if it’s just $ you want, but LEAVE THEM ALONE. THEY DESERVE HONOR & RESPECT!

  16. I think you have done enough damage to the wild horses leave them alone and don’t give them drugs if you stop them froming having babies they will all die off there will be none left ,must be that is what you have planned all along leave our horses alone

  17. Where do you plan on putting these horses? Don’t you already have too many in your prison camps? Are the numbers real or another fabrication designed to justify your cruel round ups? Treating the mares with PZP destroys the natural cycle or breeding and birthing and natural mortality rates already control the population, but apparently you don’t count horses that don’t survive because that would skew your already inflated population estimates based on fuzzy logic. Horses wouldn’t be outside the HMA’s if you didn’t keep shrinking the amount of territory they are allowed to occupy. Maybe consider reducing the livestock that already outnumbers the horses. Stop the round ups now, please!!!!!

  18. We the people of America. Wants arewild horses to left alone. They are our history and for are children. So please leave them alone!!

  19. Our Nations National Icons and our Nations National Treasures must be protected and cared for. The American people are waking up the horrific and cruel round-ups, that cause untold suffering and death for many thousands of our precious wild horses that are then taken to cruel lots and and inhumanely treated with improper shelter and food and water. I have seen the damning videos and the the damning photos. I have heard the eye witness testimonies of those on the front lines. I will not and the whole American people will not stand for this any longer. The names of those who were complicit in this wicked plan to decimate our wild horses and take them trough hell to a cruel and inhumane end has been exposed and will NOT BE TOLERATED ANY LONGER…END THIS NOW. WE HAVE THE EVIDENCE AND THE TRUTH. END IT NOW.

  20. Please leave these horses alone. They have been here along time and there is know need to put them in holding pens or slaughtered. Thank you

  21. It appears I’m late with my request to save the horses from slaughter. It is heart breaking to kill such a beautiful animal who give so much and can do so much good. Please find a way not to go ahead with your horrible plans to destroy these gentle horses who are natural to our land. There are solutions we can work on, that can be beneficial to many people and create jobs as well. Don’t punish the innocent horses for its not their fault. I beg you to reconsider. Amy Friedman

  22. Amy Friedman on October 9, 2015 at 4:49 pm said:
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    It appears I’m late with my request to save the horses from slaughter. It is heart breaking to kill such a beautiful animal who give so much and can do so much good. Please find a way not to go ahead with your horrible plans to destroy these gentle horses who are natural to our land. There are solutions we can work on, that can be beneficial to many people and create jobs as well. Don’t punish the innocent horses for its not their fault. I beg you to reconsider. Amy Friedman

  23. Amy Friedman on October 9, 2015 at 4:57 pm said:
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    Amy Friedman on October 9, 2015 at 4:49 pm said:
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    It appears I’m late with my request to save the horses from slaughter. It is heart breaking to kill such a beautiful animal who give so much and can do so much good. Please find a way not to go ahead with your horrible plans to destroy these gentle horses who are natural to our land. There are solutions we can work on, that can be beneficial to many people and create jobs as well. Don’t punish the innocent horses for its not their fault. I beg you to reconsider. Amy Friedman

  24. GOOD QUESTION BLM, WHERE ARE ALL THE WILD HORSES???? ARE YOU SERIOUS ABOUT REMOVING MORE WILD HORSES AS NO ONE CAN EVEN FIND WILD HORSES ON OUR PUBLIC LANDS ANYMORE!!! HAS OUR GOVERNMENT AND THE BLM LOST THEIR MINDS?? THE WILD HORSES & WILD BURROS PREVENT ALL THE OUTBREAKS OF FOREST FIRES, THEY ARE THE TRAIL GRAZERS, THEY RESEED AND FERTILIZE THE PLANT GROWTH..PLEASE AMERICA STOP THE BLM, THEY ARE KILLING OUR WILDLIFE AND FOREST!! THE BLM HAS ALREADY COLLECTED ALMOST ALL OUR WILD MUSTANGS AND WILD BURROS TO JUST LET THEM SUFFER BY THE THOUSANDS IN TINY HOLDING PENS. OUR WILD MUSTANGS ARE BEING SOLD TO KILL BUYERS, THE BLM OPERATES THEIR HITLER STYLE WILD HORSE BLM CONCENTRATION CAMPS!!! MOST OF THE TIME BLM WILL NOT EVEN LET THE PUBLIC SEE THEM, HMMM. BECAUSE YOUR BUSY SLIPPING THEM OUT THE BACK DOOR TO KILL BUYERS!! WE ALL ARE AWARE OF HOW THEY RUINED FOR ADOPTION AS THEY ARE NUMBERED AND MARKED FOR LIFE, BLM HATES WILD HORSES!! YOU CHASE THEM WITH HELICOPTERS IN EXTREME WEATHER CONDITIONS, YOU ALL CHASE THE LITTLE HELPLESS FOALS AND PREGNANT WILD MARES, SHAME ON YOU ALL AT THE BLM, YOU HIRE THE CRAZY CATOOR GANGS OF ANIMAL TERRORISTS TO DO ALL YOUR ROUNDUPS, THEY WERE SEEN BY LAURA LEIGH & TAMMI HOTTES SHOOTING A PREGNANT WILD MARE IN THE HEAD, THEY JUST LEFT HER TO SUFFER AND DIE IN THE FREEZING COLD SNOW!!! WE CANNOT FORGET HER!!! ALSO WHAT ABOUT THAT BABY WILD FOAL THAT YOU CHOPPED ITS TWO FRONT LEGS OFF, THIS WAS REPORTED ON PUBLIC RADIO, WHAT ABOUT THE BABY FOAL YOU FORGOT ABOUT FOR THREE DAYS, YOU ALL LEFT IT TIED TO A TREE, IT SUFFERED AND DIED!!! WHAT THE IN THE WORLD IS WRONG WITH YOU ALL AT THE BLM?? YOUR ALL ACTING LIKE A BUNCH OF RECKLESS ANIMAL TERRORIST!!! ANIMAL CRUELTY AND ANIMAL TERRORISM IS A CRIME!!!!!!!!
    STOP ALL BLM ROUNDUPS NOW, THE BLM NEEDS TO BE FIRED, DEPLORED IMMEDIATELY!!!!!!!!!!!! AMERICA IS WARNING YOU BLM, LEAVE ALL OUR WILD HORSES & EQUINE ALONE!!! WE ARE NOT GOING TO TAKE IT ANYMORE!!!!!!!
    TINA WOOTEN EQUINE RIGHTS

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