November 16, 2023

Action Item
for the
McCullough Peaks Wild Horses
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Click​ HERE for more information. 
#savemcculloughpeaks
#butimjustonepersonsaid300millionpeople
​#wildhorsesneedourvoices
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Quote by Patsy Takemoto Mink
The best two things you can do to help America's wild horses and burros stay on OUR public lands? Spread the word about their plight to everyone you know, and contact your US Representative and ask them to Save Our Wild Horses. Your message to Congress?

​"I am writing/calling Representative _________ today to ask him/her for an immediate moratorium on all wild horse and burro roundups until Congress can investigate the Bureau of Land Management's wasteful spending of our taxpayer dollars and failed management of the Wild Horse and Burro Program."
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Don't know who your US Representative is?  Go here and put in your zip code to find out: www.house.gov/representatives
September 28, 2023: the Bureau of Land Management has released the FY24 'Gather' schedule. See the numbers in the graphic. 

• They are going after the incredibly unique Sulpher HMA wild horses again. This herd was just rounded up in 2022 and 382 wild horses were permanently removed.

• They are going after the White Mountain HMA herd again. Hundreds were removed as part of the Wyoming Checkerboard roundup just 2 years ago.

• For the first time in 10 years, the wild horses of McCullough Peaks will be rounded up. Why? Because the BLM DC office wanted a bait & trap roundup in WY and McCullough Peaks is the only herd they do that with. 
Between 40 - 63 McCullough Peaks wild horses will be removed leaving only around 120 - 140 out there, devastating family bands and reducing the herd to a number it might not recover from. A healthy herd needs 150 adults to be genetically viable.
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Wild horses need our voices now more than ever. Click here for things you can do to help the McCullough Peaks wild horses. 
If one woman in the 1950s and 1960s could get thousands of Americans to write letters to save our wild horses, why can't we do it again today?

It's time to get your family, friends, kids, classrooms, and more involved. Let's tell Congress we want real change in the way the BLM manages our wild herds.
Click here for more information. Wild horses need our voices now more than ever before!
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Public comments are due by November 24, 2023. Please click on the graphic above to visit www.chwha.org for more information on how you can submit a relevant comment to help protect this herd and keep them in the park.
For more information on current legislative issues about wild horses & burros, and the SAFE Act for all equines, click here or on the graphic below
Just a handy little reminder for the BLM Wild Horse & Burro Program that this is still the law of the land...
§ 4710.5 Closure to livestock grazing. 
(a) If necessary to provide habitat for wild horses or burros, to implement herd management actions, or to protect wild horses or burros, to implement herd management actions, or to protect wild horses or burros from disease, harassment or injury, the authorized officer may close appropriate areas of the public lands to grazing use by all or a particular kind of livestock.
(b) All public lands inhabited by wild horses or burros shall be closed to grazing under permit or lease by domestic horses and burros.
(c) Closure may be temporary or permanent. After appropriate public consultation, a Notice of Closure shall be issued to affected and interested parties.
§ 4710.6 Removal of unauthorized livestock in or near areas occupied by wild horses or burros.
The authorized officer may establish conditions for the removal of unauthorized livestock from public lands adjacent to or within areas occupied by wild horses or burros to prevent undue harassment of the wild horses or burros. Liability and compensation for damages from unauthorized use shall be determined in accordance with subpart 4150 of this title.
To see the Bureau of Land Management's (BLM) current 2023 Gather Schedule, go here: ​https://www.blm.gov/sites/default/files/docs/2022-12/National%202023%20%20Gather%20Sched.pdf
and the tentative FY2024 schedule has been released and can be found here:
https://www.blm.gov/sites/default/files/docs/2023-09/National%202024%20%20Gather%20Sched.%20Revised%20Sept28.pdf
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Click here to go to our new YouTube channel and see presentations from the 2022 & 2023 DC conferences and wild horse videos
#butimjustonepersonsaid300millionpeople ~ Sandy Sharkey
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Did You Know?
There are just four wild horse herd management areas that do not have grazing allotments for livestock within them.  Here is a interactive map put together by Western Watersheds Project showing all the current and former wild horse areas across the West, where you can zoom in and see the name of the herd area and who the grazing permits belong to: ​​HMA Domestic Grazing

Show your love and support of wild horses with bumper stickers and more!

Check out our new collection of bumper stickers, bumper magnets, and banners - all proceeds are donated to organizations, rescues, and sanctuaries who work hard every day to help save our public lands and wild horses & burros, and to support the cost to run this website ($25/month).  A couple examples below with over 20 different ones to choose from here
The only way to ultimately protect our wild horses (mustangs) and burros is if Congress requires the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) to follow the existing law to protect wild horses & burros, enacts new legislation to further protect herd areas, and either replaces the Bureau of Land Management as the herd caretakers or requires the BLM to use funding for on-range management planning before roundups and PZP use.  Contact your Representative (member of the House) and both Senators today.  Be factual and use the messages below in your letters, emails, faxes, and phone calls:

The Messages:
Protect our wild horses by requiring the Bureau of Land Management to:
  • Create and abide by Herd Management Area Plans (HMAP's) which are required by law
  • To stop the cruel and abusive helicopter roundups by using funding towards on-range management
  • To protect our public lands and wildlife by removing livestock, especially within wild horse and burro herd areas and critical wildlife areas
  • To protect all American equines from being shipped to slaughter in the US or over our borders by sponsoring H.R. 3475 SAFE Act of 2023
  • To support H.R. 3656 - To amend the Act commonly known as the Wild Free-Roaming Horses and Burros Act to prohibit certain uses of aircraft with respect to the management of wild free-roaming horses and burros, and for other purposes​
​Help get more people involved by sharing information on this page
Wild Horses Need Our Voices!
We can make a difference

Is there anything else I can do?

YES!!  Please ask as many people as you can to join Save Our Wild Horses!  The more postcards, letters, emails, faxes and phone calls we can do will always help.  We need to let our congressional members, the people who were voted in to office by us, know that the matter of our wild horses is extremely important to the majority of Americans.  If we can get thousands of letters or postcards mailed in, then we will be taken more seriously.  If we can get newspapers and news channels to write articles and air news segments, then more people will get involved and we can make real change!   Are you a teacher or do you know one?  Get classrooms and students involved here!  And please visit the following websites to learn so much more valuable information regarding our wild horses & burros and public lands:  

Wild Horse Education at wildhorseeducation.org & publichorses.com 
The Cloud Foundation
The Wild Beauty Foundation
Chasing Horses Wild Horse Advocates
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