Comments on: Controversial BLM Roundup of Wild Horses Underway

By: Janisse

Janisse — Sun, 12 Feb 2012 16:15:38 +0000

In my opinion, the BLM just need to leave them alone! I agree that they need to lower the prices when auctioning them. Someone who knows a lot about Mustangs told me that after the auctions, instead of releasing them back into the wild would send them to slaughter! And seriously, why do they need to scare them with helicopters? That is cruel in my opinion, making the horses run over rough terrain for miles in the hot sun. I read that sometimes the foals hooves will split in two because of that. I watched the videos at http://www.thecloudfoundation.org and I was shocked to see the round ups! Let the beautiful, wild Mustangs remain wild!

By: virginia white

virginia white — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 09:15:25 +0000

i think they will have to round them up some of them any way and stop the mares from foaling as much and fix a lot of the studs as well. plus it would help if they did not run them up so high for some people just can’t afford that big of price i know because when we tried to get us a couple they were running more expensive than the registered paints that we went and got.so thats my thought. sincerely virginia

By: Natalie

Natalie — Tue, 08 Feb 2011 15:40:12 +0000

I have a degree in Equine Science & am currently Majoring in Envirmental science & this is what I have been learning tons about with this subject as it all ties into the same subject of global climate change & warming. The area of land in which the animals once were able to roam freely has been greatly reduced by inhabitants of man, civilization has greatly reduced the substainability of the land & it’s ecosystems taking away their ability to support large herds of grazing animals such as equines like horses & burros. No one wants to take the animals away from there native home, but in order to restore & maintain the native ground in which these animals need to survive their numbers really do have to be reduced. As long as this is being done ethically & still left within a substainable balance, it should not harm the natural survival of the animals. They could be gotten rid of in more non humane ways but they are not & it is helping & saving them by finding a new home to relocate them and let them spread out more, so that they’re beauty can flourish and not be deminished by their ability to over populate, inbreed and become more of a hazard like white tailed deer then an enjoyment. I do not support the irratic use of man made vehicles to round these animals up,but I do support it’s every outcoming intentions, which is to not only manage the herds but to substain the beauty of our native lands and their small percentage left.
Equine Major & Enviromental Science Studies

By: Maria

Maria — Thu, 16 Dec 2010 14:35:23 +0000

These horses settled the land before we did, its like the indians except the mustangs dont have a voice!!! We should not take them from their homes! the people in washington or the BLM dont know how the horses survive or how hardy they are!!! Nature has ways of working things out without the interfence of man. Let the horses be!!!!!!!!!!

By: Laurie

Laurie — Sat, 24 Jul 2010 15:18:44 +0000

Why don’t they reduce the number of cows being grazed instead of secretly running these horses to their deaths. But we all know lobbyist rule Washington.

By: Ann

Ann — Sat, 10 Jul 2010 17:41:44 +0000

This article does not tell the truth about the round-ups. The horses are driven miles over hard terrain–by helicopter wranglers. They are penned without shelter–and the “citizen watchers” are not allowed to see them and monitor their condition. Over 100 adult horses have died– and 40 mares aborted due to the stress of the drives. Shame on BLM. Get the cattle off the horse lands. Leave the horses free–1971 Wild Horse and Burro Act. Inhumane treatment of publicly owned horses.

By: Nancy

Nancy — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 08:44:08 +0000

Flora from Sentry, ID has it right! This article does not–wss it written by the BLM’s spin department?

By: Pat

Pat — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 18:10:09 +0000

BLM Bungling Land Management! The cattle overgrazed the land, yet they are still there. I couldn’t agree more with Flora, Sentry ID.

By: Flora

Flora — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 16:14:31 +0000

Beef cattle effectively control 98% of land the wild horses and burros were given by law and still rightfully should control. Grazing leases exist on 75% of all herd areas. The herds are, by law, supposed to be managed as the principal presence in their herd areas. The Bureau of Land Management is mismanaging the wild and horses and burros to extinction.
21 million acres of wild horse range has been zeroed out illegally by the United States Government.
Taxpayers money is being wasted, the wild horses and burros are losing their homes, family groups and their health, and will be sterilized and maintained with no future reproduced by our government.
Congress nor the Bureau of Land Management has the backbone to do anything about it. What needs to happen is the Bureau of Land Management needs to be removed from the wild horse and burro business. Interior Secretary Salazar also needs to be removed from the wild horse and burro business. A heritage species requires more thoughtful protection on its own ranges. The horses on the ranges are not costing the American public any money. It is the horses’ roundups (millions of dollars per roundup) and their mishandling by the United States Government that is costing the $$. It is the 200 to 1 ratio cows to wild horses and burros that is costing the range degradation.

By: kimberly

kimberly — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 14:37:28 +0000

every other animal in that area is manages wether it be tags issued, or natural predators. the wild horses however are not. the calico complex is crawiling with horses. the horses u see in the videos and on the news are the healthiest and best looking of the area. some suffer from genetic conditions from inbreeding such as cleft pallets or deformed spines. theses horses either starve to death or need to be humainly euthinized if found. and of course as they said lack of water and feed. did u know that the ansestors of todays nevada mustangs… like horses 50 yrs ago were all privatly owned by ranches? did u know that half the heard was use for saddle horses the other half for human comsumption? and did u also know that during world war II soldiers survived on horse meat produced in northern nv and ca? as long as the horses arn’t being wasted… really what is wrong with slaughter? thats a whole nother argument though. topic at hand: too many horses.. populations need controlled! ROUND EM’ UP!