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Can BLM build shade structures like this?

July 13, 2013

Debbie Coffey Copyright 2013 All Rights Reserved.
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The Bureau of Land Management adoption site for wild horses at the Sundance Ranch in Redlands, CA, has excellent shade structures that don’t seem to put the horses in any danger, are open to the air on all 4 sides, and also allow sunlight on the ground in the morning and afternoons, to help kill bacteria.

photos by Debbie Coffey

Depending on the position of the sun, the shade covers different areas of the ground. To accommodate snow at other BLM facilities, this type of roof might need to cover more area and be more steeply pitched. But the posts are attached to the fence and don’t seem likely to cause injury.
Then again, the BLM hasn’t worried too much about the danger to the wild horses during roundups and transportation, during the use of a hot-shot, in squeeze chutes, and during the field spaying mares or gelding of cryptorchids (killing many in the process), which don’t happen to wild horses in the wild, so why their big concern about some posts attached to a fence?
While the shade cover at the Sundance Ranch in Redlands might be improved (the roof could be a little higher and an expert should make sure a horse can’t get its head caught between any pipes) this is a huge improvement over most BLM facilities, and accommodates all of the horses in their care.

Why can’t the BLM, the Department of Interior agency that drops millions of taxpayer dollars on the roundups of wild horses every year, fork over some money for shade structures like this? The Secretary of the Interior, Sally Jewell, has a mandate to protect the wild horses.
Send your Congressional representatives these photos, along with the photos taken by many wild horse advocacy groups and individuals at Palomino Valley, and demand some of the “loot” from the Department of Interior’s oil & gas royalties subsidize building these shelters for the wild horses, since the wild horses are being removed from their HMAs for oil and gas development on the same land.







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They should do this instead of killing and maiming our wild horses...or selling them for horse meat, which is against our laws!!!

Is eating horse meat illegal in the US

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Contrary to common belief, it is perfectly legal to consume horse meat in the USA. Check with the USDA to confirm this.

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Jul 1, 2013 - With that approval, the USDA will provide meat inspectors who will visit the plant, which can now process horse meat for human consumption. . .

Originally Posted by kathyet2

Can BLM build shade structures like this?

July 13, 2013

Debbie Coffey Copyright 2013 All Rights Reserved.
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The Bureau of Land Management adoption site for wild horses at the Sundance Ranch in Redlands, CA, has excellent shade structures that don’t seem to put the horses in any danger, are open to the air on all 4 sides, and also allow sunlight on the ground in the morning and afternoons, to help kill bacteria.

photos by Debbie Coffey

Depending on the position of the sun, the shade covers different areas of the ground. To accommodate snow at other BLM facilities, this type of roof might need to cover more area and be more steeply pitched. But the posts are attached to the fence and don’t seem likely to cause injury.
Then again, the BLM hasn’t worried too much about the danger to the wild horses during roundups and transportation, during the use of a hot-shot, in squeeze chutes, and during the field spaying mares or gelding of cryptorchids (killing many in the process), which don’t happen to wild horses in the wild, so why their big concern about some posts attached to a fence?
While the shade cover at the Sundance Ranch in Redlands might be improved (the roof could be a little higher and an expert should make sure a horse can’t get its head caught between any pipes) this is a huge improvement over most BLM facilities, and accommodates all of the horses in their care.

Why can’t the BLM, the Department of Interior agency that drops millions of taxpayer dollars on the roundups of wild horses every year, fork over some money for shade structures like this? The Secretary of the Interior, Sally Jewell, has a mandate to protect the wild horses.
Send your Congressional representatives these photos, along with the photos taken by many wild horse advocacy groups and individuals at Palomino Valley, and demand some of the “loot” from the Department of Interior’s oil & gas royalties subsidize building these shelters for the wild horses, since the wild horses are being removed from their HMAs for oil and gas development on the same land.







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They should do this instead of killing and maiming our wild horses...or selling them for horse meat, which is against our laws!!!

John Doe stop mucking up my post!!!! You can eat all the horse meat you want I could care less just leave my posts along!!!!!

BLM Sells Land to Water Guzzlers During Drought

July 18, 2013



Debbie Coffey ~ Director of Wild Horse Affairs at Wild Horse Freedom Federation Copyright 2013 All Rights Reserved.
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From 2002-2012 (ten years) the BLM Ely District in Nevada leased 3,952,231 acres for oil & gas exploration and development. Think about it. Almost 4 million acres in only one BLM District in Nevada. This isn’t counting the acres leased in other BLM districts in Nevada, or in other states.
Fracking requires enormous quantities of water. Estimates put water usage at between 3 and 5 million gallonsper fracking of a single well, and each well can be fracked several times.
A recent Elko Daily Free Press article titled “Drought causes BLM to reduce grazing, other targeted actions,” stated that “In Nevada, about 60 percent of the state has been in severe or extreme drought since January.”
The article continued with “‘Since last fall and winter, we have been working with grazers across the West in anticipation of tough conditions related to drought,’ said Neil Kornze, BLM principal deputy director…’
‘As drought conditions continue, wild horses, livestock, and wildlife that rely on rangeland forage and water will face extremely challenging conditions that may leave them in very poor condition. We are taking action to address these situations as quickly and as effectively as we can, but our options are increasingly limited by conditions on the land,’ he added.”
Apparently, the BLM’s options don’t include any thought of curtailing the lease/sale of public lands for oil & gas exploration and development or for mining, which use a lot of water.
On June 28, 2013, the BLM Ely District office issued a Preliminary Environmental Assessment for their upcoming December 2013 Oil and Gas Lease Sale, which is offering 399,873 acres of public lands in their district.
Then, only a few days later, around July 1 or 2, the Ely district started hauling water out to the Seaman Herd Area for wild horses there, because the seeps were low and there wasn’t enough water for the horses. Rosemary Thomas, the Ely District Manager, said that although the stallions and dry mares seemed to be doing okay, the wet mares and foals weren’t doing well.
She said Ben Noyes, the Ely District Wild Horse & Burro Specialist, has been putting water in troughs and tubs (but the horses won’t drink out of them) and even rigged a hose and buried it out of sight, to refill the seeps. Ben has been spending days and even nights out there with infrared binoculars to see if the wild horses are drinking. A USDA APHIS veterinarian just went out there to check the body condition of the horses. But the BLM may have to do an emergency helicopter roundup.
Now, knowing this, and knowing that the BLM has been aware of drought conditions since last January, let’s look at a rough map of a small area of the land that was put up for an oil & gas lease/sale on June 28, within and around the Seaman Herd Area:

Now let’s look at a rough map that also includes the 2011 and 2012 oil & gas lease sales around the Seaman Herd Area:

If there is a drought, and there isn’t enough water, why would the BLM sale lease land for a use that could use a lot of water? (If you were down to your last $2, would you run out and buy a yacht?)
Here’s how that 399,873 acres (being sold out from under the public) breaks down:

• Newark Valley – 6,175 acres
• N. Railroad Valley – 710 acres Garden Valley – 158,924 acres
• White River Valley – 107,581 acres Jakes Valley – 12,159 acres Maverick – 21,401 acres
• Butte Valley – 2,184 acres Steptoe Valley – 72,681 acres
• Antelope Valley – 18,058 acres

While Nevada BLM districts have been hauling water to wild horses, it’s important to look at the “multiple uses” that are the real water guzzlers, that are allowed to continue without limitation.
The BLM’s mismanagement of the public lands seems to not only be adding to the drought crisis, but to be causing much of it, which will affect not only wild horses, but wildlife, livestock and irrigation.
Send your comments on the proposed lease sale by July 29, 2013 to the Ely District Office, by email at blm_nv_eydo_dec2013ogsale@blm.gov
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The Environmental Assessment for the upcoming Dec. 2013 oil & gas lease sale:
Other Sources: 2012 oil & gas lease sale:
2011 oil & gas lease sale:
http://elkodaily.com/news/drought-ca...9bb2963f4.html
http://ecowatch.com/2013/record-drou...farmers-water/



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