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Follow on Google News | Wild Horse Groups Win Another Round and Vow to Preserve Targeted West Douglas HerdGroups Warn that BLM Withdrawal of EA for Roundup Doesn’t Ensure Agency Won’t Try Again
By: Habitat for Horses Advisory Council The battle over the West Douglas herd is nearly two decades old, and only through the efforts of concerned citizens and organizations have the horses been saved from the BLM’s desire to remove them all from their homelands. “The BLM has long known their management practices put them on shaky legal grounds, and they are worried they will be prevented from zeroing out this herd, as they have done to so many others throughout the West,” stated Barbara Flores of the Colorado Wild Horse and Burro Coalition. “It appears they are trying to find legal grounds for eradicating this herd through a temporary retreat and regrouping.” In 2009, the individuals and organizations won the first case in the United States against BLM’s practices of eliminating wild horse herds when Judge Rosemary Collyer set aside BLM’s 2008 roundup plans. When BLM announced in 2010 that it was going to try again, Habitat for Horses Advisory Council, Inc. joined the efforts. R.T. Fitch of HFH Advisory Council explained, “BLM’s path of destroying wild horse herds has got to be stopped. We have supported the recent litigation with extensive resources, and we do not intend to back down.” Another suit was filed in 2010, and a motion to hold BLM in contempt of Judge Collyer’s order was filed. “Experts have predicted that wild horses and burros will go extinct in eleven years if BLM continues with its present course of roundups and removals,” advised Ginger Kathrens, Voluntary Executive Director of The Cloud Foundation. For now, the groups remain vigilant. They have presented suggestions for just how to accomplish this by a range science expert and professor, but BLM has so far refused to implement them. “BLM’ # # # The Goals of HfHAC are to: · Bring together, as a seated council, the collective expertise and experience of the nation’s leading equine welfare advocates and organizations. · Act decisively and swiftly when the welfare of the American equine is threatened through legislation, litigation or commercial misrepresentation. · Actively lobby for the benefit of American equines in Federal, State and local governments. · Proactively pursue legal action against entities that pose either a current or potential threat to the safety and welfare of the American Equine. · Aspire to assume the honorable role as the “Legal Voice of the American Equine” End
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