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      • OWHO NEWS

        Here you can scroll through the page and find the latest news and articles done by OWHO. 

        We have several contributors to our news articles which provide our members and readers a balanced 

        variety of news on wild horse and sometimes other public lands related news.

      • Theodore Roosevelt "Livestock Plan"

        Slideshow Presentation

        A plan to xero out the wild horse herd in the Park.

        - OWHO - Held a PIM on Zoom to give people some talking points for the scoping public comment period. We will continue to provide updates and will have more public meetings on this situation as it oves forward and as we learn more.

         

        To see the slideshow we presented on the Jan. 27th meeting please click on the link above this message. For a pdf version of this slideshow please email us at oregonwildhorseorganization@gmail.com

         

        Follow us here or on our social media platforms for further updates.


        (Oregon Wild Horse Organization is on Facebook and Twitter, those links are at the bottom of our webpages.) You can also go to our "Contact Us" page to find our email, mailing address and phone number if you have questions or concerns.

         

      • OWHO and Their Coalition Partners Kick-Off Congressional Campaign

        18 August 2022
        by TJ Barbour

         

        We at OWHO are undertaking a major Congressional mailing project. We have a coalition of other wild horse organizations including: Central Oregon Wild Horse Coalition, Citizens Against Equine Slaughter, Wild Horse Observers Association and James Kleinert, among other well known horse advocates, and members of the public who have signed on to send this message to Congress.

         

        We will do a press release with the cover letter that is going, old fashioned snail mail to every member of Congress. The packet contains the 26 page legal opinion that proves that BLM created this overpopulation lie by relabeling land areas and changing the words in the law itself to manage each area differently which was not the intent of the original act. We also prove the BLM is lying to Congress and the American public about the population in 1971, and their claim to need to manage for that population size now.

         

        We are asking Congress to halt all BLM wild horse activities that create any new plans, to stop all gathers, and to look at the changes and regulations BLM has made from the beginning of their managing wild horses to present. We want BLM completely reorganized. We want people in charge who have no conflict of interest. We want lands given back to the wild Horse & Burro program, with horses and burros on them. We want lands sold or transferred, that were lands used by horses/burros in 1971, to be returned to federal management and the wild horse & burro program even if that has to be done through eminent domain. We want BLM to follow the mandate to manage those lands originally mapped out as a result of the 1971 Act to be managed, in their entirety, principally for wild horses/burros as the law says. And where forage or water is scarce we want BLM to be mandated to do permanent water improvements and native plant seeding projects to restore these habitats, after livestock are removed from these areas.

        You can read the legal opinion/research paper that is being submitted by going to the featured story on our homepage at oregon-wildhorse.org or contacting us via social media message on FB or Twitter, or send us an email request to oregonwildhorseorganization@gmail.com

        You are included in this campaign if you are a member of OWHO or any of the organizations that are participating. If you are with another organization and you want them to be named we must have a letter from that organization's executive director, or board president. Mailings will begin this Friday with the first 25 packets being sent out. We will mail as many as we can print and put together in each following week.

        This will not be the only mailing campaign we do. We plan to keep sending information to Congress that lets them know that there are more of us than there are of the commercial interest profit making individuals who lobby against our wild horses to continue raping our lands of all of our natural resources, including our wild equines, to rake in their profits.

        We have to be the noise.

        #ProactiveNotReactive

        *Special technical note* This project will take 14,445 sheets of paper, that’s 29 reams of paper. 6 laser printer drums, 7 laser toner cartridges, and 2 inkjet color cartridges (for pages that need to be printed in color). Some members of the OWHO Board are making private donations to the Arbor Day Foundation to have trees planted in an effort to minimize our climate footprint.
      • THE POPULATION LIE

         

        BLM cannot continue to use the claim that they must manage for approx 27,000 wild horses and burros based on the lie that there were only 25,000 on the land in 1971.

         

        On top of the evidence in the legal paper attached, pg 5-6, and other evidence we found that is in the article "What BLM Doesn't Want You or Congress to Know".

        A federal agency lying to the public and Congress is a Title 18 violation.

        The snippet below is from the current BLM downloadable infographic found at: https://www.blm.gov/sites/default/files/docs/2022-04/BLM_WHB_Infographic_FY22_FINAL.pdf

      • We found another place where BLM is again admitting that there were significantly more horses on the land in 1971 than they claim.

        In the transcript of Senate Hearings, before the committee on appropriations BLM testified "Current estimates of population indicate that approximately 40,000 to 50,000 head of wild horses and burros roam the Natural Resource Lands versus the original estimate of 27,000." 

        The following image is from pages 38-39 of the BLM testimony to Congress. If you click on the photo below it takes you to the page where you can click "pdf" in the left column with the heading that says "Download".
        BLM 1975 testimony to Congress, pg 38-39
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