Do you want an enforceable welfare policy for wild horses and burros? Do you want a voice in deciding how many horses and burros can be on the range, the amount of forage they get and things like habitat protection? Do you want to see the Adoption Incentive and Sale programs end to stop the fast turnover to slaughter?
Wild Horse Education (WHE) is litigating these issues, right now.
You can take action, too.
The budget debate for 2025 is just beginning. For far too long the debate has only focused on population growth suppression solidifying a non-science based and inequitable determination of overpopulation.
How can we make an impact that turns the path backwards into actual reform moving forward?
We need to get funding designated to directly address abuse, management and loopholes to slaughter closed. What this means is that Congress needs to fund processes that open doors or defund processes to close them.
Designated funding for formal rulemaking for an enforceable welfare policy. BLMs internal standards are simply not an enforceable policy and are failing to provide mandated protections from abuse.
Designate funding to clear the backlog of Herd Management Area Plans (HMAP) to address site-specific management goals and objectives and define the site-specific actions to meet them.
Defund the Adoption Incentive and Sale Programs. BLM should only be funding the standard adoption program and get rid of gimmicks that have no safeguard to comply with the law to protect horses and burros from slaughter.
Click here to send the above message to your reps in the House and Senate. All members of Congress can provide input to the Appropriations committees right now to influence drafting of the spending bills for 2025.