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

By unanimous decision, in 1971, Congress made it clear that the wild horse is an American icon and we call it the American mustang. We have with us 72,000 emails and letters from the public stating how horrified they are with what the BLM is doing and asking for a moratorium on the roundups immediately. This volume of letters is exponentially high and needs to be justly delivered to the BLM, by way of your ruling. The American public is counting on this Appropriations Committee to take action today and give our mustangs back their right to live on the range.
Please visit our website, www.SavingAmericasMustangs.org for more information on this issue

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[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.