Wild Horses and Burros Need Our Voices Now More Than Ever Before
This page will give you the instructions on how to contact your legislators and the letters and information we want to send to them. But we all need help! Get your spouse, partner, kids, family, friends, classrooms, book groups, writing groups, yoga class, and riding clubs involved! Every letter counts and the only way Congress will listen is if they receive thousands of letters and postcards. Can we do it? Velma Johnston, aka Wild Horse Annie, did. So I hope we can too!
Step 1 is listed below - start with that and get prepared.
Step 2 Action Items are listed below. I have also created a 9 page letter about the McCullough Peaks horses and roundup that you should send to your legislators. It is a great way to start a long-term conversation with them about what is happening to our wild horses and burros on our public lands. You can find the letter here.
Wild horses need our voices - let's make it happen!
#wildhorsesneedourvoices
#butimjustonepersonsaid300millionpeople
Step 1 is listed below - start with that and get prepared.
Step 2 Action Items are listed below. I have also created a 9 page letter about the McCullough Peaks horses and roundup that you should send to your legislators. It is a great way to start a long-term conversation with them about what is happening to our wild horses and burros on our public lands. You can find the letter here.
Wild horses need our voices - let's make it happen!
#wildhorsesneedourvoices
#butimjustonepersonsaid300millionpeople
Step 1: Get Prepared
Get the name of your U.S. Representative and both of your U.S. Senators. These are the U.S. Members of Congress. You can do one of two things to get that information. Go here: www.house.gov/representatives/find-your-representative and here: www.senate.gov/senators/senators-contact.htm
or
google a phrase such as who is my US Representative (or Senators) for Phoenix, AZ (or whatever your city and state is)
• Go to their website and write down their DC office mailing address and the office mailing address located in your state (sometimes they might have more than one, choose the one in the largest town), their DC and local state phone numbers and fax numbers if you have access to a fax machine.
• Note where their Contact Me page is on their website
• If you live in a state or area with wild horses and/or burros, then also make note of your local state legislators including your State Senator and Assembly person.
• Then call each office and ask which aide or staffer you can address issues of public lands, wildlife and wild horses & burros with. Ask for their email address. (Remember the aides or staffers are often young people in their 20's and are more than happy to have nice people to talk to!). If there is no staffer for public lands or wildlife, then ask who would be the best to send information about animal issues to.
*If you need help obtaining this information, you are welcome to email me (Heather) at kaya97524@yahoo.com
Get the name of your U.S. Representative and both of your U.S. Senators. These are the U.S. Members of Congress. You can do one of two things to get that information. Go here: www.house.gov/representatives/find-your-representative and here: www.senate.gov/senators/senators-contact.htm
or
google a phrase such as who is my US Representative (or Senators) for Phoenix, AZ (or whatever your city and state is)
• Go to their website and write down their DC office mailing address and the office mailing address located in your state (sometimes they might have more than one, choose the one in the largest town), their DC and local state phone numbers and fax numbers if you have access to a fax machine.
• Note where their Contact Me page is on their website
• If you live in a state or area with wild horses and/or burros, then also make note of your local state legislators including your State Senator and Assembly person.
• Then call each office and ask which aide or staffer you can address issues of public lands, wildlife and wild horses & burros with. Ask for their email address. (Remember the aides or staffers are often young people in their 20's and are more than happy to have nice people to talk to!). If there is no staffer for public lands or wildlife, then ask who would be the best to send information about animal issues to.
*If you need help obtaining this information, you are welcome to email me (Heather) at kaya97524@yahoo.com
We have got to make our voices heard to Congress. They work for us. They unanimously signed the Wild and Free-Roaming Horse & Burro Act of 1971 and now it's time for them to truly protect our wild horses & burros.
Google your US Representative and use their Contact page to send them this script: "Hello Representative _______________, I am writing to you today to ask that Congress investigate the Bureau of Land Management's wasteful spending of taxpayer dollars on wild horse & burro roundups, their mismanagement of the Wild Horse & Burro Program, and lack of transparency with the American public and Congress." Keep your message civil, mature, but strongly worded. No yelling, ALL CAPS, or threats. We want them to work with us, not against us and the horses. And yes, it will help. If we don't make our voices heard, then nothing will happen. If we work together and every single one of us participates, then we will make change. |
2024 First Call to Action:
Call your US Representative and State Representative if you live in an area with wild horses and/or burros and say: "I am calling today to ask for an immediate moratorium on all wild horse & burro roundups until Congress can investigate the Bureau of Land Management's wasteful spending of taxpayer dollars and mismanagement of the Wild Horse & Burro Program." Then go to the Representatives website and use the Contact page to send him/her an email with the same message (changing the word 'calling' to the word 'writing'). |
Action Item #2:
It's 2024 and time to let Congress know (again) that we want our wild horses and burros protected and to remain on the lands that are rightfully theirs. Congress is back in session starting THIS week and we all need to start making calls again. We CAN NOT let them forget about the wild horses and burros, especially since one of the biggest roundups of the year is happening now in the Pershing Complex, NV. Call your US Rep today and say: "I am calling today to request that Representative ________ support and cosponsor bill HR 6314, the Voluntary Grazing Permit Retirement Act. This issue is very important to me. Thank you, (your name)" Then go to their website and use the Contact page to send them the same message (changing the word 'calling' to 'writing'). I will be following this post with additional information to send to your US Rep about the importance of using wild horses and burros for rewilding and range conservation, as well as additional phone calls that need to be made. It is up to each of us to make these calls and make our voices heard, and every call will help! We can't stand by and watch these terrible roundups continue. Don't know who your US Representative is? Go here and put in your zip code to find out: www.house.gov/representatives and go here for more tips |