Help us to get 20,000 letters to hand deliver to the White House
all at the same time!
We are joining up with the Save Our Wild Horses DC Conference to deliver 20,000 letters from all around the world to President Biden at the White House on Saturday, April 30th, 2022. With 22,000 wild horses and burros set to lose their freedom this year, it is more important than ever to make your voices heard NOW.
Send a short letter, a photograph of wild horses or burros, have your kids make a drawing. Ask your family, friends, classrooms, groups, clubs and more to send a letter too. As soon as we have 20,000 letters we can hand deliver them to the White House. Write your letters and mail them today - we welcome letters from all around the world!
Send your letters to:
20K Horse & Burro Letters
c/o Dianna Rostad
5959 Barthelemy Ave.
Naples, FL 34113
Dianna will be counting and adding your letters to the boxes. We will update you all every time we reach 1000 letters! Please be civil with your letters; any letters with foul language or threats will be removed from the 20k Horse & Burro Letters campaign. Every letter counts!
Send a short letter, a photograph of wild horses or burros, have your kids make a drawing. Ask your family, friends, classrooms, groups, clubs and more to send a letter too. As soon as we have 20,000 letters we can hand deliver them to the White House. Write your letters and mail them today - we welcome letters from all around the world!
Send your letters to:
20K Horse & Burro Letters
c/o Dianna Rostad
5959 Barthelemy Ave.
Naples, FL 34113
Dianna will be counting and adding your letters to the boxes. We will update you all every time we reach 1000 letters! Please be civil with your letters; any letters with foul language or threats will be removed from the 20k Horse & Burro Letters campaign. Every letter counts!
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Teachers, we could really use your help in getting your classrooms involved! Simple messages such as Save Our Wild Horses on drawings or coloring pages would be fantastic. Wild Horse Annie was able to get the groundwork laid for the Wild and Free-Roaming Horse & Burro Act of 1971 by getting school kids all across the country to mail in letters. We would love to do the same today and really make the White House take notice that we want our wild horses and burros to be free on the range for generations to come!
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Please be civil with your letters; any letters with foul language or threats will be removed from the 20k Horse & Burro Letters campaign. Every letter counts!
Below are some photographs that you can download and print out to send in with your letter if you like. Photographs include mustangs living wild and free, holding pen photos of recently rounded up wild horses, and some photos of the roundup process. These are best printed 8x10 and smaller.
This little band was photographed in the Green Mountain HMA in Wyoming; the last roundup in this was just in 2018.
This is the Little Bookcliffs HMA in Colorado; this is one of only seven HMA's that has a Herd Management Area Plan (HMAP)
These three are part of the McCullough Peaks herd in Wyoming; this herd has a Herd Management Area Plan and have not been rounded up since 2012
This photograph was taken in the Steens HMA in Oregon; this very popular herd is set to lose half of their herd to a roundup this year
Burns, OR holding pens
Rock Springs, WY holding pens
Rock Springs, WY holding pens
Bureau of Land Management holding facility
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These two are from the Muskrat Basin HMA in Wyoming; this herd is on the schedule to be rounded up this year
This photo is from the Conant Creek HMA in Wyoming; this herd is on the schedule to be rounded up this year
This photo is from the Dishpan Butte HMA in Wyoming; this herd is scheduled to be rounded up this year
These three were photographed in the Four Mile HMA in Idaho. The majority of their herd was rounded up in 2021.
These two were photographed in the Salt Wells Creek HMA in Wyoming; this herd was just rounded up a couple months ago
Burns, OR holding pens
Burns, OR holding pens
Bureau of Land Management holding facility
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Possible messages could include:
- Save our Mustangs, beloved icons of the American west
- Our wild horses and burros should remain free on OUR public lands - they need your protection now
- Save our wild horses, stop the roundups now
- Stop allowing the Bureau of Land Management to waste our hard earned tax payer dollars on wild horse and burro roundups; require the BLM to manage our wild horses properly and with care
- Please place an immediate moratorium on all wild horse and burro roundups until the Bureau of Land Management follows the law to create and abide by Herd Management Area Plans - protect our wild horses and burros today
- Stop the abusive wild horse and burro roundups, stop the helicopters from chasing our wild horses to death. The Bureau of Land Management is violating its own Comprehensive Animal Welfare Protection guidelines by forcing horses to run to exhaustion and collapse, leaving foals behind who can't keep up with the helicopter chase, chasing horses into barbwire fencing, knocking down horses with helicopters while chasing them, then once captured, killing wild horses for reasons such age, being underweight, or other treatable issues.
- Protect our wild horses and burros; demand Secretary Haaland reform the Bureau of Land Management with staff who truly care about our wild horses, wildlife, and the health of our public lands
- The Bureau of Land Management is violating the Wild and Free-Roaming Horse and Burro Act of 1971; we demand the BLM be investigated for their actions against our wild horses and burros
- As of May 2021, the Sierra Club has adopted a new Wild Horse and Burro Policy, including a directive that livestock be eliminated in lands designated for wild horses and burros. In April of 2021, WWP was a signatory (along with 70 conservation and wild horse groups) to a letter to Sec. Haaland asking her to remove all livestock from BLM Herd Management Areas. There is a growing consensus that eliminating livestock from wild horse areas is the fastest and most effective way to achieve improvements in ecological health on these lands.
- We ask for an executive order to stop the wild horse and burro roundups immediately until the Bureau of Land Management can be investigated for violating the Wild and Free-Roaming Horse & Burro Act of 1971
- We are losing our wild horses & burros, wildlife, and our public lands because the Bureau of Land Management and the Department of the Interior are catering to large corporate interests - we demand it stops now
- The Bureau of Land Management is catering to livestock ranchers, using our hard earned tax payer dollars to pay ranchers to chase our wild horses & burros with helicopters and to house them in feedlots - we demand it stop now
- The Bureau of Land Management and Secretary Haaland are rounding up our wild horses and burros using cruel and inhumane methods including helicopters; our wild horses are disappearing and we demand it stops now
- The Bureau of Land Management is rounding up our mustangs and not allowing us, the public, to see them in holding pens - we demand transparency and accountability now
- Wild horses and burros are NOT starving on the range, they are NOT degrading the range, they are NOT killing Sage grouse. Livestock are.
- The Bureau of Land Management's 'Adoption Incentive Program' is sending wild horses into the slaughter pipeline; BLM pays 'adopters' $1000 per wild horse and allows 4 horses per adopter. The New York Times article detailed how a family were paid $20,000 of tax payer dollars to adopt wild horses from the BLM, and those horses were sent to an auction pen and at risk of being shipped to slaughter.
- If the Bureau of Land Management achieves it's goals of reducing current wild horse and burro populations down to 27,000, and the excess forage is shifted to public lands ranchers, this would produce a incremental grazing income of only $955,800 per year. The one time cost to remove 59,000 wild horses and burros is $59 million. The cost to stockpile the horses and burros in long term holding would be $43 million a year. Stop wasting our tax dollars on roundups, require the BLM to create and abide by Herd Management Area Plans, and make every effort to keep our wild horses and burros living free on our public lands.
- The White House has the power to stop the horrific roundups of our extraordinary wild mustangs; yet the roundups continue. We demand action now to save our American Mustangs.