Sheryl Crow takes up cause of wild horses in West

[bigtree]

RENO, Nev. — Sheryl Crow is joining the call for a halt to U.S. government roundups of wild horses in the West, branding them as inhumane and unnecessary.

The Grammy Award-winning singer is asking President Barack Obama and Interior Secretary Ken Salazar to scrap a proposed roundup of 2,500 mustangs in northern Nevada.

Crow, who campaigned for Obama last year and performed at his inauguration, opposes Salazar's plan to move thousands of wild horses to preserves in the Midwest and East to protect horse herds and the rangelands that support them.

U.S. Bureau of Land Management officials say they plan to remove 11,500 wild horses and burros from the range over each of the next three years because booming numbers of the animals are damaging the range.

article: http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20091122/crow_horses_091122/20091122?hub=EntertainmentV2


related:

Wild Horse and Burro Advisory Board will take comments Dec.7

. . . those who would like to comment but are unable to attend may submit a written statement no later than close of business December 2, 2009, to: Bureau of Land Management, National Wild Horse and Burro Program, WO-260, Attention: Ramona DeLorme, 1340 Financial Boulevard, Reno, Nevada, 89502-7147. Comments may also be e-mailed to: [e-mail]. Those submitting comments electronically should include the identifier "WH&B" in the subject of their message and their name and address in the body of the message.

For additional information regarding the meeting, please contact Ramona DeLorme, Wild Horse and Burro Administrative Assistant, at 775-861-6583. Individuals who use a telecommunications device for the deaf (TDD) may reach Ms. DeLorme at any time by calling the Federal Information Relay Service at 1-800-877-8339.
http://thisisreno.com/2009/11/blm-sets-meeting-of-national-wild-horse-and-burro-advisory-board-for-dec-7/


Activists Ask President Obama & Secretary Salazar to Stop the Assault on America’s Wild Horses and Burros
Musician Sheryl Crow, Actors Ed Harris, Wendie Malick, and Over 100 Organizations Demand Roundup Moratorium, Protesting Nevada’s Calico Complex Roundup to begin December 1
http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2009/11/20-2


Groups lay out arguments for wild horse moratorium
http://www.horsetalk.co.nz/news/2009/11/131.shtml

Wild horse plans "bloodless genocide"
http://www.horsetalk.co.nz/news/2009/11/114.shtml

[lonestarnot]

1. Good! Think anyone will listen to her?

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[ensho]

3. good - horses should not be used for food

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[Autumn]

5. No they shouldn't be used for food,

my mustang that I adopted from the BLM is just the smartest, most loving horse I have ever seen. Of course I do have him rather spoiled. He came from a herd in Wyoming.

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[taterguy]

6. Nevermind

[Taverner]

7. Well ya know - Wild horses couldn't drag me away...

[laughingliberal]

8. I love our wild Mustangs in Nevada and have friends who have adopted several

We were really hoping this wholesale roundup policy when end when * left office