Letters in response to a NY Times article today Another horse advocate’s letter and a vimeo What is happening to BLM and Western Lands. Its all about big energy deals! https://vimeo/107304577 davidnphilipps Sent: Wed, Oct 1, 2014 4:20 am Subject: US Land Gobbling: NY Times Article by Dave Philipps nytimes/2014/10/01/us/as-wild-horses-overrun-the-west-ranchers-fear-land-will-be-gobbled-up.html?smid=fb-share Dear Dave, Since your name has gone national your biased, fork tongue speak stance must be exposed. In reporting on the race of land grabbing maggots you seem to have excluded the real culprits:blm.gov/wo/st/en/prog/energy/renewable_energy.html The U.S. Department of the Interior and the BLM are working with local communities, state regulators, industry, and other federal agencies in building a clean energy future by providing sites for environmentally sound development of renewable energy on public lands. Renewable energy projects on BLM-managed lands include wind, solar, geothermal, and biomass projects and the siting of transmission facilities needed to deliver this power to the consumer. Where is your coverage of the New Energy for America ? Where is your coverage on Solar Solyndra ? Where is your analysis of “all must go” to make room for green/solar/wind ? All means the total monopolizing of our Western lands by $ multi-million government business relations – controlling water, ridding tortoises, wildlife, and of course wild horses and burros, the prime scape goat and black sheep of the renewable energy project head honchos. You are buying into this; yet fail to document the deeper gist ? Where is your report on how hugely outnumbering livestock grazing (the illegitimate political child) has left irreparable damage to our public lands ? How about telling your audience some details on the Dry Lake Valley North SEZ ? The Silver King HMA, where BLM planned to remove 88% of horses to offset the loss of up to 5.4 % of the HMA to solar energy developments within the SEZ ? How about telling the Reid solar thriller?beefycow/senator-reid-helped-kill-wild-horses-for-no-purpose-solar-land-sits-empty-big-companies-profit/ Imposing certain terms to intensify a campaign solely aimed to discredit latest scientific findings or scape goating mustangs has ever been the tool of wild horse enemies. In your writings you fail to mention who really gobbles up the land. It is the multi-million $ corporations who are after the Western states for the “New Energy Frontier” - speak solar, wind, geothermal, transmission lines and stations… did you miss this in your bout on land grabbers? Mustangs are the constant target for blame… by those refuting science and transparency to serve their agendas. Furthermore, to refute the existing evidence of wild horses native status as feral reflects a pitiful status quo of misinformation. Ross MacPhee, Ph.D. from the American Museum of National History has been kind enough to allow this reprint of his response to Ms. Simon of WSJ, and it is one of the best explanations regarding the wild horse’s evolution.wildhoofbeats/news/wild-horses-an-excellent-defense-for-a-returned-native-species Please find the updated version of the Kirkpatrick/Fazio piece at the following link: tinyurl/3kg8p5y The reintroduced, native wild horses of America enhance the eco-system. The public domain was declared as their protected home with the 1971 Act passed by Congress. In the competition of multiple use the wild horse enemies cleverly dismiss scientific evidence, historic facts and disseminate a myth that is false to mustangs authentic status, origin and current census. The good olboys creativity in this quest is testimony to their archaic, self-serving stance. With massive PR gigs the BLM tries to convince of a problem that does not exist (They ought to still justify the loss of over 20 million acres of federally protected habitat for mustangs, since 1971, when WFRHBA was passed). It should be your duty to explore truth and factual evidence. As rational minds rest their case on the latest independent scientific findings to contribute to the education library about the important historic presence of wild horses in Northern America, some paying mouths and all those reflecting otherwise ought to get a clue on the jaundiced views which are a product of pro hunting, special interests/gov’t biz $$$ and greed driven personal agendas. There are no excess horses, only excess lies. Deception and manipulation of the American public. Betrayal and cruelty to the horses. The fact that your shady findings omit the truth to accuracy of census and who really grabs the West… leaves a sour taste. Why dont you suggest counting horses with drones ? It would shock the nation to see how few wild horses and burros are left, despite the inflated sagas by your sources. The BLM even wants to send wild burros to Guatemala now. Who pays this ludicrous idea - sending our wild equines protected by law, yet pushed off the ethically sane radar to unknown foreign shores? May your audience not fall for the propaganda and misinformation you spread. I am looking forward to reading your next article which should focus on the new destructive Energy Frontier of the United States and how it impacts the West, our future - by manifesting the losses besides the gains we have yet to see – as they are carried out secretly and covert. What once sounded so intriguing with hope and promises…renewable energy… has become a national GOBBLE $$$ agenda that runs on shams and greed. Instead of finding a voice in support for our wild horses (such as Reserve Design) to co-exist in this wide huge West… you join the deception train of those wanting them gone. Shame on you. Monika Courtney • AndHere is the letter I sent to public@NYtimes and now that I have Daves address, Dave, too. davephilipps@gmail To whomever receives complaints regarding the lack of ability to comment on this article: I have just read the truly biased article written today by Dave Phillipps on Wild Horses and find that I am not able to comment even though I am registered with the NYT. Why? This article is full of falsehoods. It is scientifically known that the cattle and sheep being allowed via permit (permission) to graze on Public Land that was designated primarily to our Wild Horses and Burros in 1971 by an unanimous vote of Congress and supported by over 90% of the American public, are the animals destroying the rangeland permanently. This legislation took place because it was made known that the lands which once held two million horses were only occupied by as few as 25,000 because of their gruesome slaughter by greedy rangers and dog food companies. Contrary to the one-sided statements in this prejudiced article, horses and burros do not tear up the grasses - rather they mow the grass leaving the roots and enough of the plant that the grasses regrow. Cattle mow the grass off just above the roots and sheep pull the grasses up by the roots and in both cases the grass is permanently destroyed. The grazing of livestock is decimating OUR range land. Additionally, the WH&Bs are nomadic when allowed to occupy “their open range and they spread the grass seeds in the ideal manure consisting of “little green apples” which provide the perfect fertilizer for the seeds to mature and grow, and because the WH&Bs are nomadic, the seeds are spread far and wide. Cattle and sheep hang close to the water holes which they muck up and destroy with their cloven hooves and sloppy manure. Horses and burros have flat hooves and do not destroy the water holes and as nomads move about providing the ranchers have not fenced them off from available water which is frequently and deliberately done in animosity to the public’s horses and in behalf of the private livestock herds from which the ranchers “make private profit off of public lands” at the expense of the Wild Horse and Burros who are designated as the primary occupiers of OUR Public Land. Mr. Phillipps did not mention that cattle outnumber the WH&Bs by as much as 200 to one. That means that one half of one percent of the animals grazing on public lands are the legally designated Wild Horses and Burros. Cattle are only allowed by permit (permission) and the BLM is authorized to care for and oversee the WH&Bs not to over populate the Public Lands with cheap grazing permits for huge numbers of livestock. True estimates for WH&Bs left on Public Lands is about 15,000 which is almost below “viability” breeding stock and resonates of the potential loss of them altogether (Extinction), and those who have survived the vicious helicopter round ups languish in pens uncared for, unwormed, badly mucked, untrimmed, poorly fed and watered, without shade or shelter from inclement weather; medical care exists only as the gelding of stallions who carry the viable genes - penned WH&Bs are maintained with close to hatred by the completely corrupted BLM. Most recently the BLM is not only authorizing dirt cheap grazing permits for hundreds of thousands of livestock, they are also now giving leases cheaply to energy companies who plan to FRACK our lands against the wishes of the public. The BLM and its Advisory board has been carefully infiltrated with pro-rancher and pro-energy advocates who spread terrible lies about OUR American Wild Horses and Burros. They are advocating for the slaughter of our precious American WH&Bs, and they want to send them to Third World countries to become beasts of burden and food or to slaughter them. Slaughter of horses is one of the most terrible cruelties ever imposed on an innocent prey animal who operates from flight to escape predators. The rounding up of these WH&Bs is brutal and cruel. The transport of any horse to slaughter is hugely inhumane and the slaughter process is even worse. One can only wonder how we have come to such a 180 degree turn in 43 years. WH&Bs have lived in North America for 38 to 55 million years. The fossil records and paleontological discoveries have repeatedly verified that the horse is native to North America, crossed the Bering Straits when it was a land bridge, and populated Asia and Europe with equine. Many scientists believe that the horse is the oldest living mammal in North America. We as Americans love them as the epitome of beauty, spirituality, perceptive intelligence, and symbols of FREEDOM with the exception of those greedy entities who believe that the public lands belong to them - the Cliven Bundys who greatly resemble the two cattle advocates photographed for this outlandish, biased, and thoughtless article. I can only hope that the New York Times will have the decency to publish a rebuttal - a second article written with truth - and will allow WH&B advocates who are fighting to keep OUR American Wild Horses and Burros alive and viable to be heard. To continue to destroy such a public treasure as our Wild Horses and Burros in behalf of duplicitous, dissembling, slovenly, and corrupting ranchers and energy executives would be a travesty. Elaine Brown
Posted on: Thu, 02 Oct 2014 04:29:21 +0000
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