Madeleine Pickens Testifies Before the US House Interior Appropriations Committee on April 14

[manoroaks]

I would like to know what the Congress woman from Wyoming found objectable to this plan.

[manoroaks]

Horses don't tamp the ground, they till it.

[LastTree]

Oh by the way, if you really want to get technical, when I camp on BLM lands, I never heard a wild horse neigh, while when I try to sleep at night, all I hear is cattle mooing throughout the night. Talk about noise pollution on public lands and over use of land for cattle!

[LastTree]

I wouldn't mess with those Eagle feathers......and the fellow with the white hair is disrespectful. and the talk about the first three layers of the soil and the horse hoof story(biology) is soooo insulting...and to say Madeleine is pushing..and keep up the voice of the horse on these people who are not willing to change. GIve up the land cattle ranchers, your time is to change!!!!!! You do not own the land, the people do~

[LastTree]

I wouldn't mess with those Eagle feathers......and the fellow with the white hair is disrespectful.

[LastTree]

I wouldn't mess with those Eagle feathers......

[Cracard]

The congresswomen from Wyoming has it all wrong. Madeleine did a great job at refuting here prejudiced remarks. It is a shame how the anti-wild horse people twist the facts and overblow the effects of the wild horses, spinning them in a negatlve way to perpetrate their own ecologically damaging traditions. The greater truth, the greater story about the wild horses and burros will prevail over all these vested interese motivated diatribes, and the wrongdoers will be put to shame.

[conrocapub]

This is a serious problem that is also addressed in David Martin Anderson's just-released novel, 'The Last Good Horse,' and endorsed by Madeleine. I suggest listening to the author's YouTube interview by doing a YouTube search using his full name. The book is excellent (deals with the mass slaughter of our mustang herds in Montana during the 1930s; historical fiction) and should be mandatory reading for anyone over sixteen.

[green18tree]

The ROAM Act should be reinstated. Congress passed it and then for political rescinded it for political reasons. If you remove the wild horses, then remove the cattle. They also eat, trample, and destroy grasses. I believe that all can live side by side on our public lands.

[HoofHugs]

It is hard to believe the Representative Loomis is actually from Wyoming. Most of the inner-continental river basins that have yields the largest fossil yiels including "Clarks Fork, Bighorn, Wind River, and the Unita... Thousands upon thousands of horse remains, particularly jaws, isolated teeth, and bones. Complete skulls and even whole sakeltons were also deposited" (Franzen, 2010).

Somewhere in her educational or cultural education, I would expect this info to have stuck on a dendrite.

[HoofHugs]

Let's amend the Taylor Grazing Act, the Antiquities Act, and repeal the Burns amendment. That should be easy enough.

[HoofHugs]

The conclusion that is most relevant to Representative Loomis's comments is that on a chart detailing when several large mammals including the horse became extinct, in a listing of DNA matching under the genus Equus is listed Equus caballus at a percentage of 96 percentage accuracy based on certain markers found in DNA. So, there you have it. Equus. the ancestor of the modern horse actually branched into the species Equus caballus in North America. Equus caballus is indigenous to N. America.

[HoofHugs]

While Frazen used fossils collected from around the world to draw his conclusions, another study untaken by the University of Copenhagen sponsoring in part by the National Academy of Sciences published in the December 29, 2009 issue of PNAS uses a technique called sedaDNA that is able to identify the composition of different flora and faura that lived in a specific area during a particular time period. This study focused on what caused the extinction of the Mammoth and the Horse in N. America.

[HoofHugs]

According to The Rise of thre Horse, 55 Million Years of Evolution (Franzen, 2010), the first skull of Equus was found in the Anza Borrego Desert in Southern California. Franzen states that the whole question of finding Equus in "the old world" as well as in North America is a difficult one to sort out. These horses survived the last ice age. It was in the post-glacial period that North American horses as well as other large mammals became extinct.

[HoofHugs]

Representative Loomis's point that the wild horses that are living in North America now are feral and previously domesticated horses is true if you want to play fast and loose with the truth. However, it comepletely ignores that North America was the hot bed of horse evolution from the Eocene period through about seven thousand years ago. The answer for Equus caballus, is Equus lived in North America and regularly roamed between Europe and North America across the Thune land bridge.

[TheHooDooQueen]

Touche' Madeleine!!!! I am so glad you 'told' that heartless woman from the BLM. What surprises me still to this day that there are people like that woman who say they are representing me, an American .... Oh No ... I'd like to see her come out west and say that horses are not natives here .... they were here long before she was ... so I'd say lets get rid of her and the BLM, we don't need it that has has been proven! God Bless you girl, you are awesome!!

[TheHooDooQueen]

Good job Madeleine ... I don' t know who the white haired guy is who is being so incredibly rude while you are talknig but I'd like to slap the shit out of him!

[nursediesle]

Ok I hope by looking at the member during this testimony that they don't tune out what she is saying in response to this reign or terror funded with our tax dollars does not go any further. The American people including our veterans that come home from over seas have had enough of the squandering of our tax dollars and the lies that are fostered by this agency and those that support their effort by approving their expenditures to round up and abuse the Mustangs. The buck stop here! Vote No.

[BoxerBlessings1]

This is not about horses versus elk, bison, wild sheep.

This is about lies versus truth.

And the innocent horses and burros are being forced off their native land and into corrals, to bear their young in captivity, all because GREED joins with PRIDE to heap lie upon lie.

Horses exude honesty and integrity. And those are the qualities Madeleine stands for. We can all learn a lot about truth-telling just by watching and mimicking the honest horses! We need them to be our instructors in life!

[BoxerBlessings1]

Bless you, Madeleine and the Native American Nations and US veterans.

I don't know WHY that other woman was allowed to use up Madeleine's time to perpetuate MYTHS/LIES about damage to the land and horses being feral, when it is so OBVIOUS that the real culprit is being ignored: the millions of cattle belonging to PRIVATE ranchers who are allowed to desecrate the valuable land at taxpayer subsidized rates. How any intelligent, honest congressperson can not see these lies is BEYOND comprehension

[EmpressCaliTea]

the damage is not real that she is talking about. and the horses are not feral! they are just as native now as the buffalo...................she is wrong....why in the world would they pull horses off and return double the cattle to the same land? none of what they are doing makes any sense, unless they want to clear the horses for mining, fraking, cattle grazing, and god knows what else. she is missing the point that the horses are dying in captivity and THEY are the protected species!

[california90292]

Dear Madeleine, thank you very much for your incredible support helping the wild horses !!! Ultimately it's not only the Mustangs that must be preserved, but also the environment and it's natural habitat. The lands you bought to prove that all this can co-exist in harmony will be a wonderful gift to the next generation. You're setting a wonderful example in this self destructive world and I sincerely hope that your positive and selfless efforts will win all the necessary hearts!

Thank you !

[DEMERGINGP]

Stones are REAL and Horses are two.

[FreedomRunsFree]

Thank you, Madeleine and dedicated representatives of America's Native American Nations and American service Veterans. You are living monuments as well as the wild horses and burros that we all are trying to protect.Thank you for speaking up for America's horses!!!

If only these committee members will see the light and recognize the myths and lies and help stop the roundups! There is plenty of time to destroy, but little time to preserve.

I hope they will help our country's integrity.

[jmhaze2006]

Studies show that the grasses need grazing, so the undershoots can grow. It is the excess cattle and livestock, that are desecrating the land, not the horses. But BLM hides the fact that the Dept of the Interior favors the agriculture of ranchers over the wild horses. Thereby able to twist the facts for congress. VERY sad. Most congressmen do not do their homework on this issue. THE HORSES MOVE IN THEIR GRAZING which is what the land needs. Cattle stay in one place and damage the grasses.

[jmhaze2006]

Studies show that the grasses need grazing, so the undershoots can grow. It is the excess cattle and livestock, that are desecrating the land, not the horses. But BLM hides the fact that the Dept of the Interior favors the agriculture of ranchers over the wild horses. Thereby able to twist the facts for congress. VERY sad. Most congressmen do not do their homework on this issue. THE HORSES MOVE IN THEIR GRAZING which is what the land needs. Cattle stay in one place and destroy the grazing.

[jmhaze2006]

Also support Western Watershed project; they have gained land for wildlife, including horses, not to be grazed by livestock Check out their website. Water shed projects., or google them. Thank you Madeline and all those that are trying to fight the livestock associations

[jmhaze2006]

Also support Western Watershed project; they have gained land for wildlife, including horses, not to be grazed by livestock Check out their website. Wester nwate rshed projects., or google them. Thank you Madeline and all those that are trying to fight the livestock associations

[fab4me2]

Thank you Madeline we must save our Mustangs!

[mothererthe]

THANK YOU MADELEINE FOR FIGHTING FOR THE MUSTANGS!!!!!

[nina5841]

Go Madeleine. Kick some butt for our horses.Don't let the cattle ranchers get their way.

[spazticfish24]

Thank you Mrs.Pickens, for giving me a voice in that meeting. And I'm sorry your speech fell on deaf ears.

And the lady that speaks needs to be better educating on the way a horse lives, and how horses DON'T ruin their lands, they are less destroying than cows! Listening to her just frustrated me, she is one of those voices that needs to be silenced and put into the background of all the people who have no idea what they're talking about! I want to give her a piece of me mind!

[nursediesle]

@spazticfish24 ignorance is bliss with that women. who is she and who brought her there?

[johnnyrockit100]

It`s all about political money, they dont give a shit about the horse`s or Native Americans, but they do about VOTES & Ranchers big money !!!!!

[JoeyWesthead]

Just wanted to add... A HUGE Thank you for your efforts Madeleine & Co! I'm so proud to be your friend and standing beside you to 'battle' for our Wild Ones.. We have come SO far! With your help and all of us sticking to our 'guns' and together.. I believe a GOOD 'end' to this could be near.. I just hope sooner than later.. God Bless..

[JoeyWesthead]

I have NO idea where this woman from Wyoming got her 'scientific' information from? Horses do NOT damage the soil, they replenish it.. They do not digest whole seeds and plants therefore reseeding the soil is what they do! They do NOT pull grass out from the roots like cattle, they do NOT ruin water sources as cattle, they drink and leave and don't stand in it and defecate. Elk & Deer are so numerous they are probably desecrating the land more than any of the wildlife (less than cattle..)

[Padme729]

Dear Madeleine: thank you for everything - and I mean EVERYTHING you are doing to save the Wild Horses. You've worked with and stood up to the BLM along with others who are putting themselves on the line. All of you are so inspiring.

All Love

Padme A'Tea

[jediknightkass44]

The Land part in BLM doesn't just mean grass and dirt it means everything with in that land. The BLM would not be in charge of animal care if it meant just land... I do not like how the lady talking to Madeleine tried to spin it so BLM just meant Land Management as in dirt and grass management...It is also false that horses are destroying the lands they live on, horses don't pull grass out from the roots, but cows do!

[WILDMUSTANGX]

Way to go, Madeleine. I don't know who that woman was talking towards the end, but she clearly has alot to learn about wild horses and environmental realities. I hope you can educate her and get her to see things differently. Thanks and good luck. We're all supporting you and the wild horses.

[jinglejangle1871]

Thank you so much, Madeleine. This is very much appreciated.

And here is the sentence that touched me the most and - for me - sums it all up pretty good: "A living monument is the missing key ...!"

I' like to emphasize the word 'living' one more time. A monument of stone would be a poor thing to show that they were on earth, roaming free, because they 'had' a right to be. Our next generations will ask "When did they lose their right to be and why?" My heart aches to think about the answer.

[1221solstice2012]

Thank you for this, all of you. Omnivores can thrive being vegan, carnivores cannot. We are not carnivores. It's time for all people to go vegan and stop the cattle ranchers' slaughter of wildlife in "protecting" their "cash crop" of cows. Nature can balance out if left alone and respected by us. All this cruelty has got to end.