“Today I tied a tarp to the wheelbarrow so it would drag around and flap in the wind…
People are often surprised that wild horses, such as Tibet and Blondie, can be gentled. There is so much prejudice against mustangs that sometimes would be adopters have a hard time finding a boarding facility that will take “a wild mustang”.
Once when visiting a coastal town I stopped by a horse facility and inquired about boarding for the weekend as it would be fun to take our horse to the beach for the weekend. The manager wasn’t there, so I left my card. Later she sent me an email that was filled with prejudice and fear about mustangs. She said she had a mustang board there once who caused a lot of trouble and said she wouldn’t want another mustang there. The funny thing was I was inquiring about boarding a domestic horse but I guess she jumped to conclusions when she saw my card.
Another example is a would be adopter who deeply wanted a certain wild horse mare. She found a barn to board the wild one for gentling. A “trainer” started pecking away at her plans. It appeared to me this trainer wanted her business. Rather than encourage her, he discouraged her. Silly trainer. This woman spoke to me and it seemed that she knew how to work with a horse using her heart and intuition. Sadly the barn was not supportive enough and the whole adoption fell apart.
The moral of the story is:
1. Follow your heart
2. Listen to your intuition
3. Avoid negativity around adopting & gentling a wild horse
4. Create a positive support network on your journey with your wild horse
5. Ask for help but if it doesn’t feel right, trust your intuition and find help elsewhere.
It you want to adopt a wild horse, know that you can make it happen. Gentling with patience and love works. Be authentic with your wild friend and you will build a deep bond. Wild horses can hear your soul speak. ♥ ♥ ♥”
~ Anne Novak, Executive Director of Protect Mustangs
RENO, NEV. — Wild-horse advocates may be unified in their sharp criticism of Interior Secretary Ken Salazar, but they’re split over President Barack Obama’s choice to replace him.
Horse groups are hoping Recreational Equipment Inc. chief Sally Jewell will represent a shift in direction for the government’s management of wild mustangs. They note nearly 40,000 horses have been removed from the range across the West during Salazar’s four-year tenure, which ends in March.
Suzanne Roy, director of the American Wild Horse Preservation Campaign, said her group “responded optimistically” to Jewell’s nomination and looks forward to opening a dialogue with her about reforming the U.S. Bureau of Land Management’s wild horse program.
“Sally Jewell is a surprising choice, but we’re hopeful that as a conservationist and outdoor enthusiast, she’ll appreciate the important role wild horses play in our national heritage and work with us to find ways to preserve them for future generations,” Roy said. “Jewell will face many challenges as interior secretary, but time is running out for America’s wild horses and burros, so she’ll have to act quickly.”
In announcing the nomination Wednesday, Obama said Jewell has earned national recognition for her environmental stewardship at REI, which sells clothing and gear for outdoor enthusiasts. He also noted her experience as an engineer in oil fields and her fondness for mountain climbing, biking and skiing.
But Anne Novak, executive director of California-based Protect Mustangs, said she has doubts about Jewell because of her earlier background as a commercial banker and Mobil Oil engineer.
“I’m very concerned that an appointment coming from big oil and banking will not protect native wild horses,” Novak said. “They don’t know how to make money out of mustangs but see environmental restrictions slowing down quick profits … Her focus appears to be on making profits off public land.”
Madeleine Pickens, head of Saving America’s Mustangs and wife of Texas billionaire T. Boone Pickens, said it remains to be seen whether Jewell can bring about real change in the BLM’s management of mustangs. Pickens had endorsed Rep. Raul Grijalva-D-Ariz., as interior secretary, saying he would be the best choice to implement bold reforms.
“I don’t know anything about her,” Pickens told The Associated Press on Sunday. “But we’re welcoming the change for sure. And we’re hopeful that she doesn’t start to drink from the same well that everybody has been drinking from in Washington.
“After a while, you realize these people are incapable of change whether Republican or Democrat. The animals get left out at every turn. Politically, the mustang has always been treated as less than a desert cockroach,” she added.
Horse defenders strongly oppose the BLM’s ongoing program to remove mustangs from public lands, saying there are now more of the animals “stockpiled” in government holding facilities than remain free on the range.
About half of the estimated 37,000 horses and burros on federal lands are in Nevada. BLM maintains that the range can sustain only about 26,000 and conducts roundups regularly to try to get closer to that number.
Jewell must undergo hearings and win U.S. Senate confirmation to become interior secretary.
The Yukon horse (Equus lambei) was a relatively small caballoid (closely related to the modern horse Equus caballus) species. It occupied steppe-like grasslands of Eastern Beringia (unglaciated parts of Alaska, Yukon and adjacent Northwest Territories) in great numbers, and was one of the commonest Ice Age (the Quaternary, or last 2 million years) species known from that region, along with steppe bison (Bison priscus), woolly mammoths (Mammuthus primigenius) and caribou/reindeer (Rangifer tarandus). Our knowledge of the appearance (Figures 1, 2) of this species is based on a skeleton reconstructed from many superbly preserved bones from the Dawson City area, Yukon, and on a partial carcass from Last Chance Creek in that vicinity.
02Horse by George.jpg (39433 bytes)The type specimen (“flag-bearer” for the species) was first described by O.P. Hay of the Smithsonian Institution from a well-preserved skull from Gold Run Creek, Yukon. It was named for Geological Survey of Canada paleontologist H.M. Lambe. The Yukon horse was characterized by relatively small size (about 12 hands, or 4 ft tall at the withers) and broad skull, a mandible whose lower profile rises in front of the cheek teeth, and relatively long protocones (peninsular enamel columns on the inside of the grinding surface of the upper cheek teeth). The cheek teeth are typically caballoid with wide U-shaped lingual (on the interior, tongue-side) grooves, rather than V-shaped grooves as in the asses, or V- or U-shaped grooves as in the hemiones – another group of horses (Equidae). Among living horses, perhaps the Yukon horse most closely resembles Przewalskii’s horse (Equus caballus przewalskii) from Mongolia – now probably extinct in the wild. The upper foot bones (metapodials) of Equus lambei are slender compared to Przewalskii’s horse, and are shorter and more massive than those of hemiones.
It is worth noting that equally small, robust horses (Equus caballus lenensis) also occurred in Western Beringia (unglaciated areas of Eastern Siberia) during the Late Pleistocene (about 130,000 to 10,000 years ago). Presumably that species is represented by the Selerikan horse carcass, an adult male from northeastern Siberia discovered in 1968, which was almost identical to Przewalskii’s horse. It was radiocarbon dated between 39,000 and 35,000 BP (before present, i.e., 1950), and apparently died in late autumn after becoming mired in a bog. Stomach contents consisted mainly of grasses. Earlier, in 1878, the carcass of a white horse was thawed from frozen ground on the Yana River from the same part of Russia, but it was not saved for study. Similarly, critical evidence for the appearance of the Yukon horse comes from a partial carcass found in 1993 by placer miners Lee Olynyk and Ron Toewes, as well as Lee’s son Sammy, at Last Chance Creek (15 Pup) near Dawson City. Backhoe work had exposed the foreleg and a large part of the hide of the Last Chance horse in a mining trench (drain). Remnant tail hairs and a small portion of the lower intestine with horse dung remained in the trench wall above the original find and were collected by archaeologists Ruth Gotthardt and Greg Hare. It is likely that the main portion of the carcass had been lost in the backhoe excavation; the hide and lower intestine were preserved, probably because they were still frozen into the wall of the trench.The carcass had been frozen into the base of organic silt (“muck”) overlying the gold-bearing gravel and bedrock, and underlying a layer of Holocene (10,000 years ago to the present) peat that caps the exposure.
02Horse skeleton.jpg (36663 bytes)The right foreleg was that of an adult with dried flesh, skin and dark brown hair on the lower parts. The outer portion (wall) of the hoof is missing, but the V-shaped ridge (frog) on the underside is preserved. The upper part of the foreleg (humerus) was gnawed when the animal died by a medium-sized carnivore, possibly a wolf (Canis lupus). [In this connection, I have identified a left thigh bone (femur, CMN 35509) of Equus lambei from frozen ground on Hunker Creek near Dawson City with puncture marks on its lower end that fit exactly the crowns of the first two premolar teeth of a wolf. So wolves clearly hunted and/or scavenged carcasses of these small horses.]A sample of the leg bone yielded a radiocarbon date of 26,280 ± 210 years BP, so, like the Selerikan horse, it had died before the cold peak of the last (Wisconsinan) glaciation some 20,000 years ago. The hide, extending from an ear to the tail (several tail vertebrae are preserved in sequence), includes long, blondish mane and tail hair, as well as some coarse, whitish body hair – perhaps part of the winter pelt. It was collected with portions of the lower intestine and its contents. The intestinal contents included not only remains of what the horse had been feeding on, but also elements of the surrounding environment: grasses, sedges, poppies, mustards, pink family, buttercups and members of the rose family. They suggest that the horse had lived in a parkland environment with sparse clumps of trees.
Many of the fossil insects recovered with the pelt represent types that would forage among herbaceous plants, such as leafhoppers and ground beetles. So both plant and insect macrofossils (fossils apparent to the unaided eye) suggest that plants, especially grasses, were available as food and that the Last Chance Creek horse did not die of starvation. The absence of remains of carrion beetles, and blow-fly pupae, as well as flesh flies, support other evidence that the animal died in winter and was buried and frozen before the following summer. These findings correspond to those regarding “Blue Babe” the famous steppe bison carcass recovered near Fairbanks, Alaska that died about 31,000 years ago – also in the mid-Wisconsinan interval.
Horses originated in North America, the first Eocene (about 56 to 35 million years ago) horses of the genus Hyracotherium (“Eohippus”) were of terrier size with four toes on the front and three on the hind. They were browsers adapted to forest-floor surroundings. Through time, horses increased in size, reduced lateral toes emphasizing the middle one, grew larger teeth with higher crowns and more complex grinding surfaces, etc. By Miocene time (about 24 to 5 million years ago) horses had branched out, many adapting to life on the spreading grasslands. Modern horses (Equus) arose in North America from a progressive Pliocene (5 to 2 million years ago) horse Pliohippus that occupied the continent during the Pleistocene (2 million to 10,000 years ago) and spread to other continents at the beginning of the Pleistocene. In the Old World Equus is represented by species designated as horses, zebras and asses. After dying out in the New World, modern horses were introduced to North America from Europe by sixteenth century settlers.
Yukon horses probably arose in Beringia 200,000 years ago. Fossils have been found as far north and east as Baillie Islands, Northwest Territories; as far west as Ikpikpuk River; near the northern coast of Alaska, and as far south as Ketza River and Scottie Creek, Yukon. Many excellent specimens derived mainly from placer mining sites, came from the vicinity of Fairbanks, Alaska and the Dawson City area, Yukon. Twelve radiocarbon dates on the species range from about 31,500 to 12,300 BP and indicate that it occupied Eastern Beringia through the cold peak of the last glaciation – sometimes considered a “bottleneck”. There appear to be similarities between Equus lambei of Eastern Beringia and Equus caballus lenensis from Western Siberia, but it is worth considering whether the former species ever spread southward. Comparisons should be carried out with excellent specimens referred to the small Mexican horse (Equus conversidens) from places like the 11,000 BP St. Mary Reservoir site in southern Alberta. Further, Equus conversidens dominates the excavated fauna, and the presence of horse-protein residue on two stone points from the site indicates that horses were killed or scavenged by Clovis people.
Bluefish Caves in the northwestern Yukon have yielded the earliest in situ evidence of human occupation (about 25,000 BP) of Eastern Beringia associated with one of the largest and most diverse Late Wisconsinan faunas in the region. Equus lambei fossils from the caves have been radiocarbon dated between about 17,500 and 13,000 years ago. Research on teeth of the Yukon horses from the caves indicates that predators were mainly responsible for gathering the horse bones in Cave I, whereas Caves II and III bones seem to have accumulated through accidental or natural deaths. This research also suggests that Bluefish Basin was not a polar desert, as some have claimed, during the Late Pleistocene.
Yukon horses seem to have died out about 12,000 years ago in Eastern Beringia likely due to rapid climatic change near the close of the last glaciation, possibly exacerbated by human hunting. But it is difficult to imagine that Paleoindians alone (“human overkill” hypothesis) could have wiped out so many, widespread herds both north and south of the continental ice sheets.
C.R. Harington
August, 2002
Additional Reading
Burke, A. and J. Cinq-Mars. 1996. Dental characteristics of Late Pleistocene Equus lambei from Bluefish Caves, Yukon Territory, and their comparison with Eurasian horses. Géographie physique et Quaternaire 50(1):81-93.
Burke, A. and J. Cinq-Mars. 1998. Paleoethological reconstruction and taphonomy of Equus lambei from the Bluefish Caves, Yukon Territory, Canada. Arctic 51(2):105-115.
Colbert, E.H. and M. Morales. 1991. Evolution of the Vertebrates. A History of the Backboned Animals Through Time. 4th Edition. Wiley-Liss, New York, Toronto. (See pp. 355-364).
Forstén, A. 1986. Equus lambei Hay, the Yukon wild horse, not ass. Journal of Mammalogy 67:422-423.
Guthrie, R.D. 1990. Frozen Fauna of the Mammoth Steppe. The Story of Blue Babe. University of Chicago Press. Chicago.
Harington, C.R. 1989. Pleistocene vertebrate localities in the Yukon. In: L.D. Carter, T. Hamilton and J.P. Galloway, eds. Late Cenozoic History of the Interior Basins of Alaska and the Yukon. U.S. Geological Survey Circular 1026:93-98.
Harington, C.R. and F.V. Clulow. 1973. Pleistocene mammals from Gold Run Creek, Yukon Territory. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 10(5):697-759.
Harington, C.R. and M. Eggleston-Stott. 1996. Partial carcass of a small Pleistocene horse from Last Chance Creek near Dawson City, Yukon. Current Research in the Pleistocene 13:105-107.
Hay, O.P. 1917. Description of a new species of extinct horse, Equus lambei, from the Pleistocene of Yukon Territory. Proceedings of the U.S. National Museum (Smithsonian Institution) 53:435-443.
Hughes, O.L., C.R. Harington, J.A. Janssen, J.V. Matthews, Jr., R.E. Morlan, N.W. Rutter and C.E. Schweger. 1981. Upper Pleistocene stratigraphy, paleoecology, and archaeology of the Northern Yukon Interior, Eastern Beringia, 1. Bonnet Plume Basin. Arctic 34(4):329-365.
Kooyman, B., M.E. Newman, C. Cluney, M. Lobb, S. Tolman, P. McNeil and L.V. Hills. 2001. Identification of horse exploitation by Clovis hunters based on protein analysis. American Antiquity 66(4):686-691.
MacFadden, B.J. 1992. Fossil Horses: Systematics, Paleobiology, and Evolution of the Family Equidae. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
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Growing Concern BLM will wipe out certain Wyoming herds to appease the local grazing association
The public feels their written comments are not taken into consideration by BLM.
Stakeholders want to participate in the Wyoming RAC meeting giving oral comments using technology such as a teleconference or Skype to foster the public process.
The public is up in arms that such an important opportunity for public comment is being held in a remote area without the ability to make oral comment using technology to bridge the distance.
Most people have jobs that prevent them from traveling to Rock Springs, Wyoming to spend the night and speak at 8 a.m. the following morning.
The cost of traveling to your location is also excessive.
The public comment period will be Feb. 8, at 8 a.m. Interested persons may make oral comments or file written statements for the council to consider. Depending on the number of persons wishing to comment and time available, the time for individual oral comments may be limited. If there are no members of the public interested in speaking, the meeting will move on to the next agenda topic. ~ BLM
I’d like to ask you to please find a way to engage all the stakeholders in oral comment and allow enough time for this to occur.
We’d like to go on the record to ask you, as an act of good faith, to facilitate the public’s wish to comment orally by implementing a teleconference during the comment period or allow stakeholders to comment orally via Skype.
We request you LiveStream the 2 days of meetings to show you are engaging in transparency.
Thank you for your kind assistance.
Best wishes,
Anne Novak
Release Date: 01/09/13
Contacts:
Cindy Wertz (307) 775-6014
WYOMING RESOURCE ADVISORY COUNCIL MEETING SET FOR FEBRUARY
The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Wyoming Resource Advisory Council will meet Wednesday, Feb. 6, Thursday, Feb. 7, and Friday, Feb. 8, at BLM’s High Desert District, Rock Springs Field Office, 280 Highway 191 North, Rock Springs, Wyo., in the Pilot Butte Conference Room.
The meeting is open to the public. The meeting will begin on Wednesday at 1:30 p.m. at the Rock Springs Wild Horse Holding Facility on Lionkol Road. The meetings will begin at 8 a.m. on Thursday and Friday at the Rock Springs Field Office. Planned agenda topics include a discussion on checkerboard land ownership, landscape scale partnerships, invasive weeds, trails and follow up from previous meetings.
The public comment period will be Feb. 8, at 8 a.m. Interested persons may make oral comments or file written statements for the council to consider. Depending on the number of persons wishing to comment and time available, the time for individual oral comments may be limited. If there are no members of the public interested in speaking, the meeting will move on to the next agenda topic.
The purpose of the council is to advise the Secretary of the Interior through the BLM on a variety of issues associated with public land management. For more information contact BLM RAC Coordinator Cindy Wertz, (307) 775-6014.
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. In Fiscal Year (FY) 2011, recreational and other activities on BLM-managed land contributed more than $130 billion to the U.S. economy and supported more than 600,000 American jobs. The Bureau is also one of a handful of agencies that collects more revenue than it spends. In FY 2012, nearly $5.7 billion will be generated on lands managed by the BLM, which operates on a $1.1 billion budget. The BLM’s multiple-use mission is to sustain the health and productivity of the public lands for the use and enjoyment of present and future generations. The Bureau accomplishes this by managing such activities as outdoor recreation, livestock grazing, mineral development, and energy production, and by conserving natural, historical, cultural, and other resources on public lands.
–BLM–
Wyoming State Office 5353 Yellowstone Rd. Cheyenne, WY 82009
What happens to wild horses who are snatched off the range and torn from their families in the American West?
Often they are “sold” to kill buying middle men either at auctions or through the federal sale program allowed by The Burns Amendment. Then they are trucked to Canada or Mexico and cruelly slaughtered or flown live to Asia to be butchered there.
Sometimes icons of the West end up on someone’s dinner plate in countries like Japan.
If you don’t like this, then sign up for our email list to Stop the Roundups. Send an email to Contact@ProtectMustangs.org
Join us for a peaceful protest Friday, Jan 4th outside the Rockridge BART Station during the evening rush hour from 5 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. (on College Avenue @ Oakland/Berkeley border) to show we all want the cruelty & slaughter of indigenous wild horses to stop now!
We stand with our fellow advocates in Nevada to demand a STOP to the crimes against America’s iconic wild horses! We stand with the American public who wants ALL wild horses protected (BLM & NDoA). Stop the roundups!
This is a family friendly protest. Bring signs and candles!
Let people know that they can have their peaceful protest wherever they are. One person and one sign is enough, more people and signs are great too! Take a pic and post it to our FB page we will share out! https://www.facebook.com/ProtectMustangs
Issue: The Nevada Board of Agriculture minutes reveal a discussion on how to open up a horse slaughter plant for the Virginia Range horses.Date: January 3,2013For some months horse advocates have predicted two things. That the Nevada Department of Agriculture’s claims that they aren’t trying to sell horses for slaughter is the pure nonsense that it is, and that the end game is to test public opinion to see if the public would stomach having our free-roaming horses go to the slaughterhouses.In reality advocates apparently underestimated theactual situation. After struggling to get documents from the Department of Agriculture, Carrol Abelhas been going through the minutes of meetings of the Board of Agriculture and is discovering that some startling conversations have taken place.The minutes also reveal that the Department of Agriculture is flat lying to the public when they put out statements that horses that they dump off the livestock auction aren’t at risk of going to the slaughter buyers.
The following text is from the December 6th, 2011 meeting of the Nevada Board of Agriculture. A complete copy of the minutes can be downloaded here.
We chose to print the entire discussion about the Virginia Range horses in order to provide more complete context. The slaughterhouse issue, and references to discussions with Governor Sandoval, start in the 5th paragraph.
(Typos that appear below are the same as they appear in the minutes.)
Name of Organization: Nevada Board of Agriculture
Date and Time of Meeting: December 6, 2011
Place of Meeting: Nevada Department of Agriculture
405 S. 21st Street
Sparks, Nevada 89431
775-353-3601
Minutes December 6, 2011
Board Members Present: Board Members Absent:
Alan Perazzo, Chairman Ramona Morrison
Paul Anderson
Dean Baker
Charlie Frey
Grady Jones
Paul Noe
Jim Snyder
Boyd Spratling
Dave Stix, Jr.
Hank Vogler
Staff Members Present: Guests:
Jim Barbee Don Alt,NLSA
Bryan Stockton Jerry Lentz
Mark Jensen John M. Wildlife
Jay Ludlow Trish Swain, Trail Safe
Joann Mothershead, Elko Joey Hastings, Governor's Office
Jodi Protopappas Audry Spratling
Doug Busselman, NV Farm Bureau
Don Molde
Billy Howard, Trail Safe
(Jump to item in Director's Report, bottom of Page 3.)
October 4, 2011- conference call meeting with Board to go to
workshop. Met with Dept. of corrections and worked thru Gov
office dealing with VR Horse issues. Horses up for sale at the
Stewart Correctional facility we are giving the horse advocacy
groups an opportunity at the horse we have collected first come
first serve, identified cost to Agriculture to collect horses in
traps take horses to prison, feed, processing, branding on left
hip if they do not buy horses today then horses will be
transported to fallon on Wednesday can't afford to hold and feed
horses with the budget restraints we are in. We will continue
to keep horses off the roadway for public safety. We continue
to have horses hit on the highway. Don Alt shared that along 95
route looking at completing fence line by dept. of
transporation. Word from DOT putting in a horse underpass past
moundhouse around stagecoach area that will hopefully help with
the horses coming across the roadway.
October 13,2011- met with Amy Lueder, USDA re: V. Range issues
felt there is a connection between the pinenut herd and the
Lahontan herd areas. They are adamate there is no genetic
connection between those horses and Carson river keeps horses
from moving back and forth. I have walked across the Carson
river when things are pretty dry, Director questions that stand.
They are willing to support us with equipment, traps but they
believe they have no responsibility or liablility with the horses
that are on the Virginia Range.
Dave Sticks Jr. comment: -for the record can you tell everyone
where the funding is coming for for state personnel to do this?
Barbee answers: Animal identification which is fee based thru
Brands, and registrations, certificates, trip permits is the fee
source. Advertised price for this mornings sale is 90.00 per
head.
Charlie Frey comment, question: for the record: - Have you had
meetings with Governor re: the slaughter of horses, how is public
conception being changed?
Jim Barbee: Briefly talked about it. Have not seen it as huge
impact relative to VR horses immediately.
Charlie Frey: Thought if we could create demand it would take
some of the responsibility off this dept. and open up a market
place. I think it is something for the general public to
consider in view that overseas some of that meat is real good
delicacy.
Jim Barbee: response: We are continuing based on motion you
guys passed 2 meetings ago to look at other opportunities to the
dept of Ag managing the VR horses, working with AG's office
regarding statutes and what option we have there and continuing
to work with Gov office on ideas and ways we could more
appropriately transfer that authority to a better place.
Dean Baker for the record: Put on agenda to say ability to
slaughter horses because we are agriculture and it is an
important thing to do. It would cause up controversy and
problems there are many putting that out. I am not pushing this
just putting idea out.
Jim Barbee: As I understand it with the uplifting of the band it
is anywhere that you have a slaughter house it is legal now.
Dean Baker: But if we supported it, legislators couldn't do
anything in legislation about wild horses like the water thing,
they got hammered in the ground. We would not get hammered the
same way it would be a subject we could put out.
Boyd Spratling: Financial strategy on getting slaughter house
going because that is when the river is going to meet the road
is when they slaughter the first horse. Think looking at
putting facilities on Indian reservations which takes
legislature and everybody out of the equation.
Dean Baker: I would hope it might some help to some of the
legislators if the Board of Agriculture would take a clear
position. Just throwing it out.
Dave Styx Jr: I think we should trust that the private sector
will handle this eventually if slaughters increase, need to talk
with Gov office have to be careful where this Board goes with
that because it may take care of itself, however brings up issue
you need to be prepared as well as the Governor that prior to
today there has only been 1 buyer at the sale yards purchasing
horses and that is why market is so bad. This could increase
more buyers at the sale like 10 years ago. If we take VR horses
to the sale we need to be prepared for that. Right now with 1
buyer everyone knows where those horses are going.
Jim Barbee: I think you are right about how it will play out in
private industry but one would assume that it would affect that
issue and we have to make justifications one way or another.
Paragraph Eleven in This discussion serves as a good exampleas to why members serving on any policy making bodies need to be elected and be directly accountable to the voters! Those whoare appointed to secure positionsappear to get the sense that they can do anything they want.Carrol will likely file a more complete report once she goes throughadditional documents.
Persons trapping horses for the Nevada Department of Agriculture
demonstrate how to bring in an approx. 3 week old foal. (NOT!)
Get twine aruond its neck.
Choke it and drag it.
Then shove it when it resists.
Where they go…
If you have an opinion on this issue, you can express it to the following officials:
Secretary of Interior, Sally Jewell (runs the BLM)
Update December 20, 2012: Yesterday, December 19, 2012, the Snohomish County, Washington Council held a public hearing on the bill, 12-106, to ban slaughter of horses and other equines for human consumption. Violators would be fined up to $1,000 and sentenced to 90 days in jail per horse slaughtered. The ordinance now goes to Executive Aaron Reardon for his approval.Snohomish County has the most horses per capita in the country. Horse owners turned out en masse in support of the proposed ordinance. Council member Dave Somers, who keeps horses himself, made clear horse slaughter is not something that has a place in Snohomish County or anywhere else.
The Farm Bureau representatives who appeared at the hearing in the end did not oppose the ordinance but instead offered minor amendments.
The ordinance puts an end to any plans by Bouvry Exports, a Canadian company, to open a horse slaughter facility near Stanwood. For more on this and the ordinance, read Animal Law Coalition’s report below.
Original report: A proposed ordinance, 12-106 has been introduced in Snohomish County, Washington, to ban the slaughter of horses and other equines for human consumption. The proposed ordinance, introduced by County Council member Dave Somers, would stop plans by Bouvry Exports, a Canadian company, to slaughter horses for human consumption at a facility outside the city of Stanwood.
The U.S. Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) has indicated it is gearing up to begin issuing permits for horse slaughter. Bouvry Exports has requested an application for such a permit.
A hearing for the public will be held on the proposed ordinance on Wednesday, December 19, 2012 at 10:30 a.m. in the County Council Chambers located in the Henry M. Jackson Board Room, 8th Fl., 3000 Rockefeller, Everett. Plan to attend!
Horse slaughter is a fraud on the public. If you cannot attend the hearing in support of this ban, contact the Snohomish County Council members and let them know that you do not want a horse slaughter facility in the county, that you support the ban introduced by Council member Dave Somers.
1. A recent nationwide poll conducted by Lake Research Partners confirms that 80% of Americans, regardless of their gender, political affiliation, whether they live in an urban or rural area, or their geographic location, oppose the slaughter of horses for human consumption. The poll confirms that a vast majority of horse owners are also against the slaughtering of our nation’s equines. This 2012 poll is consistent with polls taken since 2006.
2. Horses purchased for slaughter are not old, disabled or “unwanted”. The US Dept. of Agriculture has confirmed with a study performed by Dr. Temple Grandin that 92.3% of the horses sent to slaughter are healthy. They could continue to be productive. Slaughter proponents have widely claimed that slaughter is somehow an alternative for “unwanted” horses. Nothing could be further from the truth. Slaughter actually creates a salvage or secondary market that enables overbreeding and poor breeding practices. Slaughter and a poor economy have resulted in horses in need. Slaughter is driven by a demand for horsemeat in some foreign countries; it is not a “service” for unwanted horses and that is why most horses are healthy when they are sent to slaughter. Kill buyers are interested in buying the healthiest horses for horsemeat that is sold as a delicacy in some foreign countries.
The rise in numbers of horses in need and drop in horse prices is a result of the worst recession in memory. In fact, if slaughter controlled numbers of horses in need, there would be none as slaughter is still available and horses are sent to slaughter in the same numbers as before the 2007 closings of the slaughterhouses that were located in the U.S. It is the availability of slaughter that actually increases the numbers of excess horses and other equines on the market. Banning slaughter would reduce the number of excess horses and other equines.
Also, slaughter accounts for only about 3 cents for every $100 of the equine industry. It makes no sense for anyone to suggest a limited salvage market could influence prices in the entire horse industry. According to former U.S. Sen. Trent Lott (R-MS), the live horse industry is valued at $112.1 billion of gross domestic product, meaning the reabsorption of “surplus” horses not sent to slaughter would actually boost the economy.
Most horses end up at slaughter because they are purchased by kill buyers. Many horses could have easily been purchased by someone else other options include adoption programs, placing them as pasture mates/babysitters to a younger horse, donating them for use in horse therapy, or placing them in a retirement home. Also, about 900,000 horses are humanely euthanized in the U.S. The infrastructure could easily absorb those sent to slaughter. The average cost in Washington of humane euthanasia including the farm call and either burial, rendering or placement in a landfill can be as little as $50 depending on the method used, and at most $400.
3. Equine slaughter is not humane euthanasia. The slaughter of horses and other equines simply cannot be made humane: Dr. Lester Friedlander, DVM & former Chief USDA Inspector, told Congress in 2008 that the captive bolt used to slaughter horses is simply not effective. Horses and other equines, in particular, are very sensitive about anything coming towards their heads and cannot be restrained as required for effective stunning. Dr. Friedlander stated, “These animals regain consciousness 30 seconds after being struck, they are fully aware they are being vivisected.” The Government Accountability Office and dozens of veterinarians and other witnesses have confirmed that ineffective stunning is common and animals are conscious during slaughter. It is simply not possible for USDA/APHIS to make equine slaughter humane and it is a myth to pretend otherwise.
4. Approximately $5,000,000 of American taxpayer funds, in the form of USDA meat inspectors, was spent annually to subsidize the three foreign-owned (Belgian and French) horse slaughterhouses that operated in the U.S. until 2007. Because there is no market for horsemeat in the U.S., after slaughter, the meat was shipped overseas, and there was no benefit at all to the U.S. economy. Only the foreign owners and distributors profited. If these foreign-owned horse slaughterhouses are allowed to re-open, they would again be subsidized by American taxpayer money. Estimates are that the U.S. government would spend at least $3,000,000-5,000,000 to subsidize private horse slaughter facilities.
On top of that, the USDA could give foreign owners of U.S. horse slaughter facilities, such as Bouvry, the Canadian company that has explored the possibility of opening a horse slaughter house near Stanwood, Washington, or the Belgian company, Chevideco, which is planning to build a horse slaughter house in Oregon or Missouri, a subsidized loan of $750,000 through the RUS World Utilities Services. It is outrageous that the American taxpayer should support wealthy foreign investors in a business that profits from animal cruelty, benefits only foreign interests and wrecks the U.S. communities where the facilities are located. This money would surely be much better spent on American interests.
Chevidico which owned Dallas Crown, which operated in Kaufman, Texas until 2007 paid each year only 1/3 of 1% of revenues in taxes; on year, for example, the horse slaughter house paid a total of $5.00 in federal taxes on $12,000,000 in annual sales.
5. Equine slaughter has been devastating to the communities where slaughtering facilities have been located, with significant negative impacts including nuisance odors that permeated the surrounding towns to chronic sewer and environmental violations. Blood literally ran in the streets and waste from the facilities clogged sewers and piled up everywhere. This predatory practice produced few very low wage jobs, meaning workers and their families overran local resources like the hospitals and government services. Horse slaughter brought in virtually no tax revenues and local governments incurred substantial enforcement costs in trying to regulate these facilities. The standard of living in these communities dropped during the time horse slaughter facilities operated. Good businesses refused to relocate there. As Paula Bacon, mayor of Kaufman, Texas during the time a horse facility operated there until 2007 said, “My community did not benefit. We paid.”
Recently, when officials in Hardin, Montana learned of a plan to build horse facilities in that state, the town council immediately unanimously passed Ordinance No. 2010-01 that prohibits the slaughter of more than 25 animals in a seven day period. Just last month Mountain Grove, Missouri residents voted overwhelmingly against a horse slaughter plant in their community. The message is clear: Americans don’t want equine slaughter.
6. Although animal blood is often used for dry blood mill, the antibiotics given to American horses prevent blood from breaking down; therefore, horse blood cannot be used for this purpose and blood and other organs cannot be used for any purpose. Communities will be required to find a way to dispose of horse blood, internal organs and waste. Horses have 1.74 times as much blood per pound of body weight as cows and with the drugs, it is harder to treat because the antibiotics in the blood kill bacteria used in the treatment process. This does not include the 15 million gallons of fecal material per year that must be handled. Note the Canadian horse slaughterhouse at Natural Valley Farms in Saskatchewan that was shut down in 2009 for dumping blood and tons of other waste into a local river or onto the ground.
7. The argument that significant jobs would be created is specious. Horse slaughter plants operating until 2007 never created more than 178 low wage jobs -and many of these were held by illegal aliens.
8.Another cost to communities is horse theft. Slaughterhouses know horses are stolen and brought to slaughter. Because horse slaughter is driven by a demand for horse meat in some foreign countries where it is a delicacy, horse slaughterers look for the healthiest horses, not abandoned, abused or neglected horses. When California banned horse slaughter in 1998, horse theft fell by 39.5% and in the years that followed, the state noted a nearly 88% decrease in horse theft. What does that tell you about this sleazy, brutal practice?
9. It is no surprise that following the closing of the horse slaughter plant, Kaufman residents enjoyed a significant decrease in virtually every type of crime. This despite one of the worst economic recessions in memory. A recent study by a University of Windsor criminologist, Amy Fitzgerald, shows a link between slaughterhouses and violent crime. Last year the Canadian government ordered its inspectors to stay off the floor during slaughter for fear of injury from workers who were manhandling and slaughtering horses. Those who slaughter horses are so desensitized and lacking in empathy in the way they handle the animals that they actually frighten government officials.
10. The FDA does not regulate equines as food animals. Americans don’t eat horses and other equines. American horses are not raised, fed and medicated within the FDA guidelines established for food animals, making them unfit and unsafe for human consumption. Equines are given all manner of drugs, steroids, de-wormers and ointments throughout their lives. Equines are not tracked and typically may have several owners. A kill buyer has no idea of the veterinary or drug history of a horse or other equine taken to slaughter, and many of the most dangerous drugs have no or a very long withdrawal period. A typical drug given routinely to equines like aspirin, phenylbutazone or Bute, is a carcinogen and can also cause aplastic anemia in humans. It has no withdrawal period. The FDA bans bute in all food producing animals because of this serious danger to human health. The FDA and USDA would prohibit Americans from consuming horses because of this danger. Yet, neither the FDA nor the USDA prohibits the export of American horses for slaughter for human consumption. It is a grave risk to public health to continue to allow the export of American horses for slaughter for human consumption in other countries.
The European Union has recognized this and has initiated steps to try to stop the import into the EU of meat from American horses that may be contaminated. Kill buyers have been found to falsify veterinary and drug reports to avoid the restrictions. There is no enforcement at the borders, meaning the US continues to dump contaminated and deadly horsemeat on Europe and other countries. A petition has been filed with the USDA to stop the slaughter of many U.S. horses for this reason.
11. The 2011 GAO report confirmed that USDA/APHIS has not – and cannot – enforce humane transport regulations for equines sent to slaughter. Changing a few words here and there in the regulations will not change this. USDA/APHIS allows the kill buyers and haulers to fill out and provide the documentation – which is routinely missing, incomplete or inaccurate – relied on for enforcement. It is impossible to enforce regulations when the information to determine violations is supplied by those USDA/APHIS is supposed to be regulating.
12. Equines are in danger and equine welfare is threatened as long as slaughter remains available.
SAN FRANCISCO (December 13, 2012)–In honor of the National Day of the Horse today, Protect Mustangs calls for an end to cruel roundups of native wild horses. The California based conservation group is circulating a Change.org petition to Congress to De-fund and Stop the Roundups. The roundups are deadly and the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is skewing the death count.The BLM emphasizes preexisting conditions so Congress won’t realize how many federally protected wild horses are being killed as a result of the roundups.
“Enough is enough!” states Anne Novak, executive director for Protect Mustangs. “If they weren’t rounded up at the hands of the BLM then those wild horses at Owyhee and other ranges surely would not be dead now. We want the roundups to stop, the warehousing to stop, the fiscal irresponsibility to stop, the bad science to stop and we are asking for an accurate independent census of how many wild horses are left on the range.”
Today close to 50,000 wild horses are warehoused in government short or long term holding facilities yet only an estimated 20,000 remain in the wild. In the 1900s two million wild horses roamed in America. Afterwards the wild horse population dropped mostly due to hunting for their meat.
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“America’s wild horses should be returned to the range,” states Inez Fort, vice president of Protect Mustangs’ board of directors. “In 1971 there were almost twice as many herd management areas for wild horses. Today it’s hard to find free roaming mustangs on the range. They’ve been stampeded by helicopters and have become victims of roundups.”
“Today, with the public land grab for water rights, energy development and mining projects, the wild horse is facing a huge monster called greed,” explains Novak. “It’s not sustainable to wipe them out. Native wild horses can reverse desertification, offset carbon emissions and heal the land. We need our wild horses to help stop global warming.”
The horse originated in North America. Many breeds of horse exist today–including the American wild horse aka mustang. The Spanish Conquistadors reintroduced the horses to their native homeland where they benefit the ecosystem, reduce global warming and inspire people across the globe.
Ph.D.s J.F. Kirkpatrick, and P.M. Fazio cite in Wild Horses as Native North American Wildlife that:
The key element in describing an animal as a native species is (1) where it originated; and (2) whether or not it co‐evolved with its habitat. Clearly, E. 6 caballus did both, here in North American. There might be arguments about “breeds,” but there are no scientific grounds for arguments about “species.”
The non‐native, feral, and exotic designations given by agencies are not merely reflections of their failure to understand modern science but also a reflection of their desire to preserve old ways of thinking to keep alive the conflict between a species (wild horses), with no economic value anymore (by law), and the economic value of commercial livestock.
Native status for wild horses would place these animals, under law, within a new category for management considerations. As a form of wildlife, embedded with wildness, ancient behavioral patterns, and the morphology and biology of a sensitive prey species, they may finally be released from the “livestock‐gone‐loose” appellation.
In 2004, Congress recognized the first official National Day of the Horse. The text of the resolution states:
Encouraging citizens to be mindful of the contribution of horses to the economy, history, and character of the United States and expressing the sense of Congress that a National Day of the Horse should be established.
Whereas the horse is a living link to the history of the United States;
Whereas, without horses, the economy, history, and character of the United States would be profoundly different;
Whereas horses continue to permeate the society of the United States, as witnessed on movie screens, on open land, and in our own backyards;
Whereas horses are a vital part of the collective experience of the United States and deserve protection and compassion;
Whereas, because of increasing pressure from modern society, wild and domestic horses rely on humans for adequate food, water, and shelter; and
Whereas the Congressional Horse Caucus estimates that the horse industry contributes well over $100,000,000,000 each year to the economy of the United States: Now, therefore, be it Resolved by the House of Representatives (the Senate concurring), That Congress–
(1) encourages all citizens to be mindful of the contribution of horses to the economy, history, and character of the United States;
(2) expresses its sense that a National Day of the Horse should be established in recognition of the importance of horses to the Nation’s security, economy, recreation, and heritage; and
(3) urges the President to issue a proclamation calling on the people of the United States and interested organizations to observe National Day of the Horse with appropriate programs and activities.
On the eighth anniversary of the first official National Day of the Horse, horse enthusiasts are encouraged to celebrate the horse’s contribution to the United States.
Protect Mustangs is a California-based preservation group whose mission is to educate the public about the American wild horse, protect and research wild horses on the range and help those who have lost their freedom.
Is Cleo (mare #04616386) still alive at the BLM’s long-term holding or was she sold to a pro-slaughter buyer?
When I helped an adopter track down the Litchfield 11 filly known as “Lily” I requested more information about Cleo who was shipped to long-term holding last spring.
We have an adopter interested in saving Cleo and her foal if they are still alive.
I have been worried about the Calico mare seen in the video below. Is she still alive? Was she sold into the slaughter pipeline? What happened to her foal? What happens to all the foals born in long-term holding?
I will keep you posted as the information comes in. Right now I’d like to shine the light on this issue and share my emails with you.
But first if you haven’t met her yet, meet Cleo:
Best wishes,
Anne
——– Original Message ——–
Subject: RE: filly #3361and #6386 From:
Date: Fri, November 30, 2012 3:16 pm
To: “Collins, Deborah A” <dacollin@blm.gov>
Dear Ms. Collins,
U.S. Sen. Tom Coburn, R-Muskogee, is bucking the program he calls “mismanaged.” He wants easier adoptions and better, longer-lasting infertility drugs.
“I think you ought to allow those that can’t survive, can’t be adopted, to be sold for slaughter,” he said.
How can you guarantee these horses will be safe? How many are ‘sold’ from Oklahoma facilities?
Anne Novak
Executive Director
Protect Mustangs
P.O. Box 5661
Berkeley, California 94705
Tel./Text: 415.531.8454
Twitter @ProtectMustangs
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Donate to help Protect Mustangs
www.ProtectMustangs.org
Protect Mustangs is a Bay Area-based preservation group whose mission is to educate the public about the American wild horse, protect and research wild horses on the range and help those who have lost their freedom.
——– Original Message ——–
Subject: RE: filly #3361and #6386
From: “Collins, Deborah A” <dacollin@blm.gov>
Date: Fri, November 30, 2012 2:14 pm
To: Anne protectmustangs <anne@protectmustangs.org>
Dear Ms. Novak,
I just spoke to one of our long-term pasture specialists and we have already weaned 130 foals off of the Nowata, OK, long-term pasture. The foals were given their first shots today and the mares have already returned to the pastures. The foals will stay there for approximately another 3 weeks before shipping to a short-term adoption center. The Nowata contract is new; therefore, it has four years before it is up for renewal.
The BLM has no control over what Congress decides to do with funding for the program; therefore, we will continue to feed and care for the horses in holding. Thank you.
Debbie Collins
Bureau of Land Management
National Wild Horse & Burro Marketing and
Information Center Coordinator
(405)790-1056 = Desk
(918)625-5292 = Cell dacollin@blm.gov
Regarding request to retrieve Calico mare #04616386 and her foal
Dear Ms Collins,
We understood that the long-term pasture contractors roundup the horses at least once a year to wean the foals and count. Is that is October?
Please provide us with a list of all the weanlings coming from the long term pasture where mare #04616386 is. Let us know where the weanlings are now. Have any of these weanlings been adopted? Do any of them have strikes against them?
In what pasture exactly is mare #04616386 located? When is their contract up for renewal? If Congress reduces funding for long-term holding what will happen to mare #04616386?
We would like to request she be pulled out for adoption the next time they do an inventory or has she already been sold to a pro-slaughter buyer like Tom Davis?
Thank you very much for your assistance.
Sincerely,
Anne Novak
Anne Novak
Executive Director
Protect Mustangs
P.O. Box 5661
Berkeley, California 94705
Tel./Text: 415.531.8454
Twitter @ProtectMustangs
Protect Mustangs on YouTube
Protect Mustangs in the News
Donate to help Protect Mustangs
Protect Mustangs is a Bay Area-based preservation group whose mission is to educate the public about the American wild horse, protect and research wild horses on the range and help those who have lost their freedom.
——– Original Message ——–
Subject: RE: filly #3361and #6386
From: “Collins, Deborah A” <dacollin@blm.gov>
Date: Thu, November 29, 2012 11:40 am
To: Anne protectmustangs <anne@protectmustangs.org>
Hi Ms. Novak,
At this time, it is not economically feasible to remove a single horse from our long-term pastures. They are expansive pastures and the horses are free-roaming. I explained this in the questions you submitted earlier, so I’m sorry we can’t accommodate the request.
We don’t send mares, with foals, to long-term pastures and our database does not track which mare goes with which foal. Therefore, if the mare was pregnant when she shipped to OK, she will foal there. But, we will not be able to guarantee which foal came from which mare. I hope this answers your question. Thank you.
Debbie Collins
Bureau of Land Management
National Wild Horse & Burro Marketing and
Information Center Coordinator
(405)790-1056 = Desk
(918)625-5292 = Cell dacollin@blm.gov
Yes I heard the good news about Lily and it’s my pleasure to help these magnificent wild horses find homes even though I would rather they were not removed from their homes and families in the first place.
Please help me find the foal belonging to mare #04616386 at the BLM facility. How do you identify them?
How can the adopter adopt mare #04616386? They have wanted her since they saw her at Palomino Valley but they were told she had shipped out to long term holding.
Thank you for your assistance.
Sincerely,
Anne Novak
Anne Novak
Executive Director
Protect Mustangs
P.O. Box 5661
Berkeley, California 94705
Tel./Text: 415.531.8454
Twitter @ProtectMustangs
Protect Mustangs on YouTube
Protect Mustangs in the News
Donate to help Protect Mustangs
Protect Mustangs is a Bay Area-based preservation group whose mission is to educate the public about the American wild horse, protect and research wild horses on the range and help those who have lost their freedom.
——– Original Message ——–
Subject: RE: filly #3361and #6386
From: “Collins, Deborah A” <dacollin@blm.gov>
Date: Wed, November 28, 2012 2:16 pm
To: Anne protectmustangs <anne@protectmustangs.org>
Dear Ms. Novak.
In case you haven’t heard, the little filly is in the process of being adopted by Dr. Wines. Thank you for part in helping Lily have a new home.
In reference to the mare, BLM does not use mares on long-term pastures for medical/fertility research. All of our long-term pastures are privately-owned. The BLM simply leases the space and pays them to provide feed and care to the horses. If a mare is pregnant, when entering a long-term pasture, it will foal there. Once the foal is old enough to be weaned, it will be sorted off and usually shipped to our Pauls Valley, OK, facility, or Hutchinson, KS, facility for adoption.
Thank you.
Debbie Collins
Bureau of Land Management
National Wild Horse & Burro Marketing and
Information Center Coordinator
(405)790-1056 = Desk
(918)625-5292 = Cell dacollin@blm.gov
My understanding is that filly #11223361 has 2-Strikes. Is that correct?
Regarding mare #04616386, is she currently at the long-term pasture in Nowata, OK, is that a BLM contracted facility or owned by BLM? Is the facility open to the public?
Is the mare #04616386 being used for medical and/or fertility control research? She was in foal when she was rounded up. Where is her foal and what is her foal’s number?
How does an adopter adopt mare #04616386?
Thank you for your assistance.
Sincerely,
Anne Novak
Anne Novak
Executive Director
Protect Mustangs
P.O. Box 5661
Berkeley, California 94705
Tel./Text: 415.531.8454
Twitter @ProtectMustangs
Protect Mustangs on YouTube
Protect Mustangs in the News
Donate to help Protect Mustangs
Protect Mustangs is a Bay Area-based preservation group whose mission is to educate the public about the American wild horse, protect and research wild horses on the range and help those who have lost their freedom.
——– Original Message ——–
Subject: RE: filly #3361and #6386
From: “Collins, Deborah A” <dacollin@blm.gov>
Date: Tue, November 27, 2012 10:50 am
To: Anne protectmustangs <anne@protectmustangs.org>
Cc: Dr Carolyn Wines <drcate4@hotmail.com>
Dear Ms. Novak. Hope you enjoyed your holidays.
As listed on the information I forwarded to you on November 15, #11223361 is available for adoption at our BLM facility in Elm Creek, Nebraska. Anyone that is interested in adopting this horse will need to go to the Elm Creek facility. If the interested party lives very far away, I would suggest the person call them at 308-856-4498 to ensure it is still there. This facility is open to the public on a daily basis, excluding holidays and weekends, so it can be adopted at any time or shipped to a future adoption. Thank you for sharing this information with them.
Based on the info you provided for #6386, we narrowed it down to #04616386. This horse was gathered from the Calico HMA on December 6, 2011 and was shipped to our long-term pasture in Nowata, OK, on March 20, 2012. Please note it does not have any strikes.
Thank you.
Debbie Collins
Bureau of Land Management
National Wild Horse & Burro Marketing and
Information Center Coordinator
(405)790-1056 = Desk
(918)625-5292 = Cell dacollin@blm.gov
An adopter is interested in the California yearling filly #3361. She was sent to Nebraska and then to the Indiana adoption event. Where is #3361 now? How can the adopter get her?
Thank you for your kind assistance.
Sincerely,
Anne Novak
Anne Novak
Executive Director
Protect Mustangs
P.O. Box 5661
Berkeley, California 94705
Tel./Text: 415.531.8454
Twitter @ProtectMustangs
Protect Mustangs on YouTube
Protect Mustangs in the News
Donate to help Protect Mustangs
Protect Mustangs is a Bay Area-based preservation group whose mission is to educate the public about the American wild horse, protect and research wild horses on the range and help those who have lost their freedom.
Similarly, critical evidence for the appearance of the Yukon horse comes from a partial carcass found in 1993 by placer miners Lee Olynyk and Ron Toewes, as well as Lee’s son Sammy, at Last Chance Creek (15 Pup) near Dawson City. Backhoe work had exposed the foreleg and a large part of the hide of the Last Chance horse in a mining trench (drain). Remnant tail hairs and a small portion of the lower intestine with horse dung remained in the trench wall above the original find and were collected by archaeologists Ruth Gotthardt and Greg Hare. It is likely that the main portion of the carcass had been lost in the backhoe excavation; the hide and lower intestine were preserved, probably because they were still frozen into the wall of the trench.The carcass had been frozen into the base of organic silt (“muck”) overlying the gold-bearing gravel and bedrock, and underlying a layer of Holocene (10,000 years ago to the present) peat that caps the exposure.
Update December 20, 2012: Yesterday, December 19, 2012, the Snohomish County, Washington Council held a public hearing on the bill, 12-106, to ban slaughter of horses and other equines for human consumption. Violators would be fined up to $1,000 and sentenced to 90 days in jail per horse slaughtered. The ordinance now goes to Executive Aaron Reardon for his approval.Snohomish County has the most horses per capita in the country. Horse owners turned out en masse in support of the proposed ordinance. Council member Dave Somers, who keeps horses himself, made clear horse slaughter is not something that has a place in Snohomish County or anywhere else.
