Does anyone know if the mule deer foundation, RMEF or the the sheep foundation is working to solve this issue? Seems like something our membership fees should be going to work on. Wish our tax dollars would actually go to something as important as reducing the population of the horses instead of feeding them.
in the movie’s credits, they list the organizations that played a direct role in funding this movie.
The California chapter of the Wild Sheep Foundation and Society for the Conservation of Bighorn Sheep discuss this issue often. Our Science advisor recently was appointed to the Wild Horse and Burro Advisory Board
https://www.blm.gov/programs/wild-horse-and-burro/get-involved/advisory-board
Regarding Federal Funding, HSUS basically got the *******s to insert language in to the omnibus spending package prohibiting the BLM from using lethal means to control the population.
“The Bureau of Land Management’s wild horse and burro program got a significant funding boost in the
$1.4 trillion budget deal approved Thursday [December 21, 2019] by Congress. But to access the money, the agency first needs to produce an “aggressive, nonlethal” strategy to manage a swelling mustang population roaming public lands in the West.
The spending bill increases the program’s budget by $21 million, or about 25 percent. It would be made available 60 days after the bureau submits a five-year plan that, among other things, includes horse fertility control and the movement of equines to private pastures.
The increase amounts to an endorsement of a controversial proposal on the management of
wild horses published earlier this year by an unusual alliance of animal welfare organizations and ranching advocates. Typically at odds, the groups said they decided to work together in hopes of breaking a stalemate in Washington.
But their plan, which called for rounding up as many as 130,000 wild horses over a decade, was assailed by several horse advocacy groups that portrayed it as a gift to the cattle industry, which grazes livestock on public lands where horses and burros also feed.
Organizations that worked on the management plan now backed by Congress
praised the additional funding this week.
“The Bureau of Land Management’s strategy of rounding up and warehousing wild horses and burros, without addressing the growing number of animals on the range and off the range, must end,” said Kitty Block, president and chief executive of the Humane Society of the United States. “With the funding provided by Congress, the BLM has the opportunity to revamp its program” by focusing on fertility control vaccines and adoptions, she added.
The alliance had put the price tag for its 10-year plan at $50 million annually, more than twice as much as the $21 million budgeted. The Humane Society said it hoped the program would be fully funded next year but called the funds a “great start.” Other supporters echoed that.”
If HSUS likes this bill, you know it is bad for common sense range management.
https://blog.humanesociety.org/2019...esearch-and-more-bills-now-head-to-trump.html