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Best
Barbara Ellen
 
 
 

"The life I value is one that is connected to all things."  Willie Nelson
 
Hello Barbara,
Do you have the links that are in this release? They didn't come through on your comment. We will publish this tomorrow am.
Thanks much.

Aloha,
Liz

On Wed, September 2, 2009 7:18 pm, Barbara Ellen Ries wrote:
> New comment on your post #"Urgent Wild Horse Help Needed Today"
> Author : Barbara Ellen Ries
 

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http://www.thecloudfoundation.org/

compatriots!
Status Update Wednesday, 02 September 2009 16:48

The DC District Court Judge denied our request for a Temporary Restraining Order. We are not giving up on these horses though– KEEP CALLING YOUR SENATORS and CONGRESS PEOPLE, All MEDIA OUTLETS and tell your friends– this is another treasure being destroyed if we can’t stop this unneccessary, callous and massive roundup.

We will do our best to keep you updated- the round up is scheduled to begin tomorrow, Thursday Sept. 3 and over the next few days or week the BLM plans to remove over 70 horses– from older mares and stallions to young foals. Don’t give up.

Who Has Been Hired to Round Up Cloud’s Herd?
Wednesday, 02 September 2009 14:28

Dave Cattoor is a contractor hired by the BLM to perform wild horse round-ups. He and his wife and son run a business largely funded by the American taxpayer to harass and remove wild horses and burros. He was indicted by a federal grand jury and pled guilty to illegally hunting wild horses, aiding and abetting in 1992. He rounded up protected American mustangs, corralled into pens, loaded them into trucks, and hauled them to a slaughter house in Texas where they lost their lives. It was government theft and animal abuse. Among wild horse and burro advocates, he has a reputation of being cruel and inhumane. Photographs of newborn foals run to exhaustion, found hog tied on the range, horses and burros bleeding from their nostrils, broken legs and injured during exhausting gallops to captured pens are displayed on many wild horse and burro web sites.

He is currently being investigated by the Department of Interior Inspector General for procurement fraud. It is known from federal contracting web sites that he has earned 13 million dollars since 2000 for which records are available. It is believed he has earned more than 21 million dollars since his conviction. Both he and his wife spoke separately before the Wild Horse and Advisory Board in 2009 and advocated for the continued use of helicopter round ups in an attempt to influence the boards recommendation to continue their lucrative contracting business. Federal law prohibits the use of contractors that have been convicted of a crime. Generally, a indictment would eliminate a contractor from consideration. However, Mr. Cattoor has been rewarded and made a millionaire many times over by the BLM despite the public outrage.

Fully knowing the public’s concern about Mr. Dave Cattoor ‘s inhumane practices, the BLM Billings, Montana office have denied humane groups request to placed humane observers on the ground with full access during the Pryor round to ensure animals are treated humanely. Wild horses advocates have advised the BLM Billlings office as well as BLM officials in Washington DC that foals only day old and heavily pregnant mares are among those the contractor plans to run long distances for captured.

American Indian Leaders and others concerned about BLM’s wild horse management gather for Ceremony to honor the land and pray for the safety of the horses

Congressman Raul Grijalva calls for BLM to stop Roundup not only of Cloud’s Herd but of all Wild Horses and Burros

Howard Boggess, Member of the Crow Tribe of Indians, Elder and Historian talks about the Pryor Wild Horses he’s known all his life. Mr. Boggess discusses what could happen if the roundup of Cloud’s herd goes forward on Sept. 4th. Everything that is against the law for me they are planning to do to these horses. This is a very sad thing as far as I’m concerned. The horses have lived here for over 200 years. Even under the harassment of the BLM they’ve survived since 1971.

Keep calling Secretary of Interior Salazar, BLM Director Bob Abbey, the Billings BLM Office and President Obama.

http://www.thecloudfoundation.org/index.php/donate-now

BLM Secret Plan To Destroy Wild Horses

Save the Wild Mustang

PRESS RELEASE


June 11, 2009- for immediate release

Documents Reveal BLM Secret Plan to Destroy Wild Horses

Documents obtained from the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) via the Freedom of Information Act by a Phoenix-based non-profit, The Conquistador Program, reveal shocking and detailed plans to destroy healthy wild horses in government holding facilities as well as those still remaining in the wild on public lands.

BLM employees as well as a USDA veterinarian held weekly “Implementation Team” meetings beginning in July of 2008 in which they discussed and developed strategies aimed at ridding BLM of thousands of mustangs. In October they completed a 68 page document entitled “Alternative Management Options”.

Tactics included in this document are reminiscent of those used to wipe out Native American tribes in the 1800s.

The BLM team created scenarios for killing mustangs using barbiturates, gun shots, or captive bolts. Bodies would be disposed of through rendering, burial or incineration. They discussed killing 1200-2000 wild horses per year.

The document states that “the general public would be prohibited from viewing euthanasia.”

Additionally, the Team felt that “increased support from public
relations and management staff would also be needed to insulate those doing the actual work from the public, media and Congressional scrutiny/criticism.”

“Minutes from these meetings as well as the Draft Plan reveal what amounts to ‘the final solution’ for the American mustang,” states Ginger Kathrens, filmmaker and Volunteer Executive Director of The Cloud Foundation.

Despite a huge outcry from the American public last year regarding BLM plans to kill wild horses in holding, the agency is still pressing forward with a plan to destroy our American mustangs both on and off the range.”

Division Chief of the Wild Horse and Burro Program Don Glenn told The Cloud
Foundation that “no decision has been made to move forward on a large scale with this plan, yet.”

BLM meeting minutes speak for themselves. “Security at facilities and at gathers would need to be increased to combat eco-terrorism. Having the people that are willing to put down healthy horses at gather sites could be a problem.

Having vets putting down healthy horses at preparation facility[ies] could also be a problem. Meeting minutes reveal the psychological toll that employees would pay—“have counseling for employees and contractors that have to euthanize the healthy horses because it is very stressful.”

The report created an option in which wild horses of all ages could be sold
“without limitation”. In other words, horses could be sold directly to killer buyers in unchecked numbers. The Team admitted that “some wild horses will go to slaughter”.

“Once they are gone, they’re gone” says Karen Sussman, President of the International Society for the Protection of Mustangs and Burros.

“To lose this incomparable species would be a travesty.”

Team Members formulated ways in which they could circumvent the National Environmental Policy Act, asking “How many (wild horses) could be euthanized during a gather (roundup) without having NEPA?” BLM discussed ways to circumvent the federal carcass disposal law (43 CFR 4730.2).

Conversations included how many wild horses could be rendered at the Reno Rendering plant or “disposed of in pits”. The Team concluded that “there will not be large numbers of horses euthanized during gathers or in the field. This is due to state environmental laws.”

Recommendations include the creation of gelding herds, and sterilization of mares to create non-reproductive herds in the wild in place of natural herds.

The team recommended changing the sex ratio from the normal 50% males and 50% females to 70% males and 30% females. Then the experimental two-year infertility drug, PZP-22, would be given to all mares that are returned to the wild. Plans call for rounding up the wild horses every two years to re-administer the drug.

“Mares on the drug will cycle monthly and, with the altered sex ratio, the social chaos will be dangerous and on-going,” Kathrens explains. “Any semblance of normal wild horse society will be completely destroyed.”

Kathrens has spent 15 years in the wild documenting mustang behavior for her PBS television documentaries which chronicle the life story of Cloud, the now famous pale palomino stallion she has filmed since birth. “Even Cloud and his little herd in Montana are in serious danger if BLM implements these options,” she continues. “The BLM plans a massive round up in Cloud’s herd beginning August 30, 2009.”

The BLM will not guarantee that Cloud and his family will remain free.

The BLM documents referred to above and photos of wild horses are available from The Cloud Foundation.

The Cloud Foundation, Inc.
107 South 7th St.
Colorado Springs, CO 80905
719-633-3842
719-633-3896 (fax)
info@thecloudfoundation.org
www.thecloudfoundation.org

This post is from Willie Nelson web site ~

http://willienelsonpri.com/peace/3465/blm-secret-plan-to-destroy-wild-horses.html

Willie Nelson Nominated for

The Sweet Adelines Hero Award

works to Help the Wild Horses......

Thank you Willie Nelson!!


Barbara,
Thanks for sending this. We will feature your press release this coming week.

Peace,
Liz
On Fri, June 12, 2009 3:34 pm, Barbara Ellen Ries wrote:
> Dear Willie Nelson,
>
> I have just recieved an email from Karen Sussman and Ginger Kathrens about
> this press release and its content.
>
> You can confirm phone or e-mail to Ginger Kathrens.  This is seriously
> true and August is not far away.
>
> Please help post and spread the words publishing  this press release.   We
> are about our symbol of courage and freedom the "Wild Mustage."
>
> I hope we can change minds before it happens. The only one who is allowed
> to look down on Wild Horses is God not humans.
>
> It would be bleak world if were without the wild mustangs.  I'd like to
> see an effort towards wild horses museum and national park for mustages
> for the Pryor Horses.(or) back to reservations in which cultures include
> the fourleggeds having spiritual
>
> purpose.  A friend in need, is a friend in deed.
>
> Sincerely
>
> Any consideartion is appreciated.
>
> Sincerely Barbara Ellen Ries
spirithorsebr@aol.com
http://spirithorsebr.tripod.com

-----Original Message-----
From: The Cloud Foundation <
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To: Barbara Ellen <
spirithorsebr@aol.com>
Sent: Fri, 12 Jun 2009 11:05 am
Subject: Wild Horses Press Release- Please Distribute

November 23rd, 2008 Liz

 

It is hard to believe but it is true the wild horses are near extinction.
Go To
http://willienelsonpri.com/animal-rights/1722/33500-wild-horses-and-burros-to-die.html
 
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Sweet Adeline in Spirit would like to save the wild horses her heritage!!
 

Will 33, 500 Wild Horses and Burros in Holding Pens

Barbara,


We published your press release:
http://willienelsonpri.com/animal-rights/1722/33500-wild-horses-and-burros-to-die.html
Thank you for keeping us in the loop.
Aloha,
Liz

On Sat, November 1, 2008 8:56 pm,
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> Messgae from the wild horse summit and press release
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> This the press release ,Barbara Ries Please thanks Willie for all your help!
> Barbara Ellen Ries

"The life I value is one that is connected to all things."  Willie Nelson