Why the Wild Horses are Vanishing

[maxiemom1]

The BLM has to be stopped. I'm sick of cattle interests controlling western lands- hell, the entire West, when the land out there has actually been set aside for those wild horses, NOT cattle. Calle ruin the land and the range: it's a known tact. Time to do something about it, because the next Republican administration won't.

[1857lee]

LETS GET RIDE OF THE BLM NO GOOD FORE NOTHING BUMS. AND OBAMA WHAT A DUMBE FUCK AND HIS WIFE IS BUT AGLEY, TELL OBA,A LEAVE THEM ALONE YOU STUPID FUCK, GO TO HELL

[brian93ist]

in one video they say horses are pets and in another they dont?

[ancestralblue]

The horse has been bred for THOUSANDS of years to be a servant and a partner/companion. His intelligence and often his loyalty is outstanding,whether to a family/herd group or a caretaker. Pity is that the focus is always on the dollar bill and not much more. And we can easily see that those with a pavlovian response to it have little in the way of ethics, morals or fairness.

[dog10crazy]

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[xoSiNgInGiNtHeRaInox]

this is 2 years old.. has anything changed since then? at all?

[ljbain5]

@xoSiNgInGiNtHeRaInox ....I cant believe you dont know whats going on...it's WORSE!!!

[beefchops2011]

@xoSiNgInGiNtHeRaInox

If anything, I believe it's gotten worse.

[StanHouk]

This has to be stooped !!!!!! Raise your voice... tell your representatives... Please vote for canidates who support the horses and not blindly for the ranchers...

[xx1527]

SELFISH ASSHOLES!!!

[xx1527]

THIS IS TERRORIST!

[Missnoopuka]

Thank you so much for sharing this very useful information .More people should know what is going on with the wild horses and stop abusing them.

[SpringReinsofHope]

BRAVA! our lands, our wild horses, they are using OUR money to stampede the mustangs into extinction!!! SAY NO to the BLM - Say NO! Call the white house, call senators - this is NOT okay. There is not much time left, the roundups have been happening at a brutal and rapid rate - soon there will be no more wild legacies left!!! ACT NOW - save our heritage! This country was built upon their backs...is this how we thank them???

[LeeAnne151]

BLM round ups are going on right now, horses are dying, taxpayer money is being squandered. Contact your Congresspeople and Senators.

The BLM loses hundreds of millions of dollars annually on the grazing program. Huge corporations, foreign corporations and millionaires have most of the leases not family ranchers.

BP wants to put the Ruby Pipeline through four Western States and the BLM is removing horses from it's path.

[lonesomecowboy4]

This video, supports the way, what's the U.S.A stands for, how it it came up and how the country developed, 'till what it is now, Mustangs need to be helped any how, horses have allways been a source of transportation, so keep it that way, instead of killing them, I'am terribly sorry for all the things what'd happend in the past, and i feel for these horses, keep the heritage how it has begon alive, and we all will be better. Take care cowboys, don't let them dying for the govt profits

[ventper]

david hesse u r AWESOME!

[spina12]

speak it baby i agree i say forget cars go back to horses those who dont survive well time to weed out the humans who cant survive let nature take what is weak!!!!! hahahahaha

[diane189444]

Its all about money. Soon there will be no more wild horses. We have the right to want wild horses.  We own this land it is government land we are the government. I will not stop helping them. Thanks for this video.

[diane189444]

We have to stop this NOW people must know what is happening to them.

[MorganLver]

@diane189444 That's the problem - most of the general public don't even know this is happening.

Spread the word!

[badgerbonz1]

I agree the wild horses should be preserved and not just rounded up an eradicated. But ranching has also been a way of life for thousands of years. Millions of people eat beef, how many in the US eat horse meat? Eradicating ranching and cattle is just as absurd as it is with the wild horses. Ranches are not a big business with deep pockets. Most ranchers barely get by even with thousands of cattle. They are very conscious of land management and not environmental terrorists as implied here.

[TheWildhorses10]

1. Who said anything about eradicating cattle ranching? Only a small % of cattle are even on Public Land.

2. Cattle ranching on public land is double dipping our taxes - - ok for small family ranching, but most are now big corporate owned ranches.

3. The real issue is not cattle anyway, it is mining, oil, & natural gas drilling, you will find several YouTubes from ranchers again that. too.

Small ranchers & horse advocates - join together before there are no public lands for either.

[WildhorseAnni]

@badgerbonz1 - THATS A LIE-IF THEY WANT TO RANCH THEN YOU PUT YOUR CATTLE ON YOUR OWN LAND -NOT OURS !!!!!

[WildhorseAnni]

@WildhorseAnni BLM=BRUTAL LYING MURDERES-COWARDLY-CORRUPT KILLING THUGS-NO MORE WILD HORSE ROUND UPS -SEND CORRUPT BLM THIEVES TO PRISON FOR KILLING OUR HORSES AND, BLATANT CORRUPTION, DESTROYING OUR LAND , WILDLIFE, AND WATER, LYING TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE AND CONGRESS.

NO MORE BLM CORRUPT KILLERS-KILLING OUR WILD HORSES- PROTECT THEM NOW AND PROSECUTE BLM.

[SweetJudith12345]

@badgerbonz1 How much did you pay for your lobotomy?!?

[h4cs]

I can't stand how the BLM thiks that they can just round up thousands and thousands of wild horses to sell them for meat! I mean horses are not cows. I have many videos showing what happens to horses when the are killed in my favorites. Anyone can watch them.

[focusfrost]

Thank you so much. Let folks know that former Senator Burns, whose amendment authorizes the BLM to send the wild horses & burros to slaughter, became a paid lobbyist for the cattlemen as soon as the law allowed after leaving office. Concerned Americans can visit the American Wild Horse Preservation Campaign for links to contact their Congressmen to stop this. I wonder what is the connection between BLM staff & the ranchers who are paid millions to warehouse them until slaughter?

[LadyKaliska]

I've also noticed that, going to the BLM's websites, the scheduled adoptions are far less than they used to be. I live in CA and I normally look up to see when they'll be in my state. Normally it's like 5-6x a year, but now it's 1 in 2009 (at this time) Alot of people know something's not right, we just have to fight back. Besides I don't want to eat that "doped" up beef anyways.

[jsb400]

Thank you for this video. Very well put.

[thehappyhoof]

Correction to below, BLM dose not run the PLF, rather the PLF runs BLM. PLF is made up of retired BLM and their family, who MAKE PUBLIC LAND POLICY. It is a non profit organization. There is something REALLY WRONG with retired BLM, in a non profit organization making the POLCY for BLM and "public" lands. But to them they are not really "public" lands, they considder it THEIR land. They use the word "public" just to make the real "public" think they are watching out for the publics interests.

[thehappyhoof]

Research the connection between BLM and the non profit organizations, run by retired BLM that really make "public lands policy". Ranchers po po ed and ignored what the enviornmentalists that were secretly taking over BLM were doing for years, till it was too late. Then to keep their grazing rights, they had to jump in bed with them, and rename the WILD horse as "FERRAL". This is not the ranchers as much as it is Eviormentalists running BLM, and making public lands policy.

[thehappyhoof]

Check out the PLF, Public Lands Foundation run by BLM. This message board will not let me post the web site.

[JerseyRenegade]

Assume that over 1,830,000 died from natural causes and poaching in a 270 year period.That means 150,000 horses were removed,adopted out and slaughtered in a 38 year period by the BLM.

[JerseyRenegade]

The destruction of ranges by wild horses is a fallacy. Cattle outnumber wild horses 300-1. Because biologists have deemed wild horses to be direct descendants of the Spanish Colonial horse of the 1500's has caused Americas wild horses to be labeled as an invasive species.With that being said,the BLM,U.S.Fish Game and Wildlife and Forestry Commission do as they choose when eradicating wild horses from the ranges at their discretion.

[dougsgirl63]

Let the truth rain down from heaven,cattle on public lands and the few horses we have are being blamed.Thank you for this video i will post it every where!

[alexglitter]

Cattle ranching is tremendously destructive in many ways. The mustang is but one of the species that are systematically removed to "assure safety" to cattle. Include pumas, wolves, coyotes, & bison. Also affected are animals whose habitats are damaged due to water reallocation or fencing installation. Add to this mllns of tons of methane, trampling of plant habitats, and wilderness areas strewn with cow flops. Cattle lobbies are powerful, due to the unconditional support of the administration.

[MustangBlueWY]

All horses originated in America, this is their homeland...they need to be reclassified as Native American wildlife, at which time they can fall under the endangered species act since America now has less wild and free roaming horses then when the 1971 Act was passed.

[MustangBlueWY]

there are many breeders that see the wild horse as a threat to their business, and therefor have over the years, spread rumors about wild horses being the scurge of America...this cannot be further from the truth.

[MustangBlueWY]

Excelent video! BLM has a conflict of interest between ranchers and oli and gas development.  BLM should never have been the ones chosen to manage America's wild horses!

Sadly, the very mustangs (Virginia Range horses)that Velma Johnston (WIld Horse Annie)fought so hard to save, are not even included in the 1971 Act.

Furthermore, land is not the only reason we are loosing our wild horses...

[guysonofclark]

Thanks for exposing the truth, Mustang David! The world is a better place because you care about the wild horse! This was an excellent video.

[mestenodave]

Thank you. Please let as many people know to contact their government representatives to hold the BLM accountable for their nefarious actions. If people don't do something soon, all wild animals that do not have commercial value, will become extinct.

[HorseFreak007]

Do you know the info on that song?

I like it! =)

[mestenodave]

I am sorry, but I don't. Contact Robyn Day at Voluntary Intinct listed here and she could tell you.

[HorseFreak007]

Okay!

[21wildhorses]

Why aren't more people concerned about the wild horses vanishing? What's being done to protect them since the Burn's Amendment of 2004 was passed, which removed the wild horse & burrow protection act of 1971.

Only 20,000 left?

[mestenodave]

There is so much misinformation put out by the Bureau of Land Management and special interest groups, that most people are unaware of the effort to wipe out the wild horses from public lands. It just doesn't make sense that 20,000 horses are causing more damage than 8 million head of private livestock. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out that something doesn't smell right.

[MorganLver]

@21wildhorses They don't know this is going on.