It has been 11 years since the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) a review of the BLM Wild Horse and Burro Program. That review was tightly controlled by BLM. The data that the NAS could use, and even the subjects they were allowed to analyze, had been determined by BLM. Even with such tight control over the NAS, the review was scathing.
It has been six years since tax-payers began funding another agenda driven by politics. An agenda of record-breaking removals and mass use of multiple forms of fertility control without management planning or sufficient monitoring.
The public and public resources (wild horses and burros) deserve a science-based review to determine the impacts of this agenda. To continue to fund this agenda without any independent review is simply irresponsible and corrupt.
We hope you join us in urging Congress to require BLM to commission a review by the National Academy of Sciences.
It is irresponsible to continue to fund this agenda without an independent review as required: (PL 92-195), section §1333. subpart (a), (b)(3).
Congress must immediately require BLM to commission a study by the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) of the Wild Horse and Burro program.
The agency must be prohibited from restricting the information the NAS can utilize in making determinations.
The NAS must not be restricted from determining what analysis is required for any component, program or sub-program
Wild Horse Education (WHE) drove a winning court case that sent a roundup plan back to BLM to fix flawed analysis and to create a real management plan (HMAP). BLM has proven time and again that they shortchange our wild ones on data, analysis and planning is often void of science.
There are 3 additional federal civil court cases that address the lack of actual management planning, the lack of disclosure of data prior to removals and the lack of an enforceable welfare policy.
We need your support to keep these cases active and moving toward real reform.
Thank you for helping to keep WHE on the frontline leading the way to create long overdue change.