For every horse on public rangelands, there's 4000 cows.

MISCLASSIFIED

"BLM's has misclassified wild horses as a non-native species because of political reasons. This reasoning is not scientifically driven,” said Ginger Kathrens, executive director of The Cloud Foundation. “Wild horses are severely endangered but without recognition of current scientific evidence of their native status, they could become extinct. Ultimately, the spirit, beauty, sense of unbridled freedom, and romance associated with the Wild Horse struck an emotional chord with the American public. Books have been written, movies were made about the Wild Horse. For this reason, the Congress proclaimed “wild free-roaming Horses and Burros” as “living symbols of the historic and pioneer spirit of the West.” Wild Horses and Burros are grazing animals, they will eat native grasses but love twigs and weeds, even alfalfa if wild grass hay is not available.

1971, Congress introduced and passed The Wild Free-Roaming Horses and Burros Act. President Richard Nixon signed the new Act into law (Public Law 92-195) on December 15, 1971. The Wild Free-Roaming Horses and Burros Act required the protection, management and control of wild free-roaming Horses and Burros. Local livestock operators now had to claim and buy permits for their private Horses and Burros grazing on public lands or lose ownership of them and the cattle ranchers have hated the Native born Horses ever since.... (BTW - cattle are not native to the Americas!)

After a specified time period following passage of the Act, any remaining unbranded and unclaimed herds inhabiting BLM or Forest Service lands were declared “wild free-roaming Horses and Burros” and became the property of the federal government. America mistakenly, put their trust into the hands of the BLM. Now the very same people who are suppose to protect America's Wild Horses and Burros are exterminating them.

2017, the BLM, guesstimated the Wild Sulphur Horse population was 957 head on the 265,675-acre HMA. Why aren't the cattle ranchers willing to share the Wild Horse's land. That averages out to be 257 acres per horse! For every horse you see on horse's rangelands, there are four thousand head of cattle on the same lands, pulling up the grass by its roots, pooping in water troughs, making once good fertile lands, hard like cement around the water troughs, creeks and rivers. Approximately 250 million acres – is public land administered by the federal Bureau of Land Management. Ranchers in the west commonly have leasing arrangements with the agency to graze a predetermined number of cattle on thousands of acres of public land. When livestock go unchecked, their cattle grazing can be ecologically damaging. Most ranchers put as many cattle on the range as they can. Not all ranchers are receptive to the Horses or unwilling to change their traditional practices to enter into a grazing agreement. Ranching is typically a family culture. Young ranchers want to do it like dad did and like granddad did. Change can be hard, but necessary to keep healthy Public Lands for all.

Look at where the cattle drink, compare it to what the cattle pond looks like. The side where other animals drink, they have greenery growing and clean water - not so where the cattle drink and eat.

Public land where cattle are allowed to graze and trample riparian areas-habitat on which 75 to 80 percent of all wild animal species in the West depend on waterways. Other native wildlife, such as deer and antelope jump over fenced riparian areas but the BLM blamed the Wild Horses!

"Cows" are polluting waterways with manure and adding excessive sediments to the water as they denude the land. Most Horse people would prefer a place where the the ground wasn't littered with cow pies! Did you know that when cattle are in fields, on the farm, they poop in their water? Have you ever seen what a herd of cows can do to a creek? PBS Nature program, showed how cattle desecrate the surrounding area of Susie Creek, NV. cared for the NV/BLM, The story is told in photos and text. It would be a great teaching tool about how cattle tramp over vegetation and water.

http://news.medill.northwestern.edu/chicago/battle-born-beaver-tale.

Wild Horses and Burros share the landscape with numerous species of wildlife, including mule deer, California bighorn sheep, pronghorn antelope, coyotes, mountain lions, bobcats, sage-grouse, partridge, California quail and various rodents. For every ONE Horse you see, there are 4000 head of cattle, trying to replace him. Cattle outnumber the Wild Horses on these HMA rangeland acres that were made for the native born horses and the deer, etc.. We MUST save Americas Wild Horses, we are their voice and their only chance to live free like their grand-parents did hundreds of years ago. Look at where the horses drink, compare it to what the cattle pond looks like.

Wild Horses will always be Living Symbols of the Historic and Pioneer Spirit of the West, as long as they are living free from the shackles that men put on them. These Wild Horses as a "national heritage species", to live on "public lands" for all to enjoy. "These horses belong to all the people of America and they exist on lands that belong to all the people of America." Velma "Wild Horse Annie" Johnson.

Wild horses reside on just TWO million acres of BLM land in Utah, while livestock graze on TWENTY-TWO (22) MILLION ACRES. Utah's Wild Horses are Heritage and Treasured Herds and it was a self sustainable herd for 500 years. The Horse's ancestors ran with the Cowboys and Indians of the Old West, they fought along side the Spanish Colonists and the Conquistadors. Ron Roubidoux aka breeder and Defender of the Sulphur Horses.

The Cubel Ranch herd were nine Sulphur Horses, they were fenced on 40 acres. They ate in this one field of cut alfalfa & oat hay, every day, they never ate it down, like the cattlemen want you to believe

2014: The horse and burro as positively contributing returned natives in North America.

Article written by Wildlife Ecologist and Author, Craig C. Downer for the American Journal of Life Sciences. Introduction: "All branches of the horse family (Equidae) share an ancient evolutionary origin and long-standing duration in North America, Having evolved here for ca. 60-million years ago. Few other mammalian families can lay as much claim to native status and belonging on this continent. These animals have contributed positively to our planetary communities, and they continue to do so in many ways and on many levels today. The rapid reoccupation of vacant niches in North America by the Horses (Equus caballus) and Burros (Equus asinus) may be viewed as corroborating their return to ancestral grounds. In the words of the Plains Indians: ‘The grass remembers the horses.’ In this article, I present evidence for the origin and longstanding evolution of both Horse and Burro evolutionary branches in North America, and further support the entire Horse family as primarily native here. I go on to show that both horses and burros are returned native species and merit protection. In complementary fashion, I also describe the unique ecological roles filled by Horses and Burros, explaining how they both preserve and restore native ecosystems in the American West. Finally, I propose reserve design as a means by which Wild Horses and Burros can restore themselves as vital components of viable ecosystems and be truly protected as mandated by the Wild Free-Roaming Horses and Burros Act of 1971. I also suggest regions where this could be possible". To read entire article, here is the link:

http://article.sciencepublishinggroup.com/pdf/10.11648.j.ajls.20140201.12.pdf

2017: "Again the Wild Horses and Burros, of Utah are under attack. The BLM and local congressmen are trying to rid Utah and other South Western cities of these beautiful Wild Horses. They are in co-hoots with the Beef Ranchers. Each year the BLM comes up with some kind of a problem of why the our Native Wild Horses have to be rounded up and taken away. There are fewer than 4,000 Wild Horses on BLM land in Utah, compared to hundreds of thousands of cattle and sheep", stated, Ginger Kathrens, (Cloud). According to a recent Idaho Law Review article (Mara C. Hurwitt, Freedom vs. Forage, 2017), "The herd areas defined in 1971 encompassed 53.8 million acres. The BLM has REDUCED the Herd Management Area by over forty percent. Additionally, herds have been completely zeroed out in several areas, further reducing the dedicated acreage on which Horses actually roam. These beautiful Wild Horses that have lived in or near Utah mountains for hundreds of years. Native Horses have been found in the Utah Book Cliff Mountains, Fish Lake Mountains, Price, Castledale and Delta Huntington, Nephi and Milford, Utah, before fences and before the BLM set foot in Utah!"