The Bureau of Land Management intends to roundup every single wild horse in the Salt Wells Creek and Divide Basin Herd Areas (previously Herd Management Areas) starting July 15 of this year.
While we might not be able to stop it, we can certainly try! For more information on why this roundup is happening and what the Checkerboard is, please visit my sister website at wildhorsesofwyoming.com
There is a pending case in the 10th District Court of Colorado but a decision has not come down yet.
REMEMBER: keep your messages and phone calls mature and professional - no yelling, all CAPS, or threatening messages please. Rude messages will only encourage them NOT to listen to us and to go out and remove all of the wild horses out of spite. Keep your messages clear, factual, and short. What we need is a large quantity of calls and messages, not a small quantity that are rude in nature. If you cannot be polite, then don't participate.
Make calls (this is the best option!), send emails, letters, postcards, and/or have your kids do a drawing with the message 'Please don't remove all of the wild horses of Salt Wells Creek and Divide Basin!'
Who You Can Contact:
Wyoming Office of Tourism
5611 High Plains Road
Cheyenne, WY 82007
email: tourism@wyo.gov
Telephone: 307-777-7777 or 800-225-5996
Messages for the Tourism Board should include:
• Whether you have traveled to Rock Springs and spent money while visiting the nearby wild horses and approximately how much money you spent
• That you know people or photographers who travel to Rock Springs frequently to see the wild horses; AND that if the wild horses are zeroed out that neither you nor the photographers will continue traveling to Rock Springs and spending money while there.
• The wild horses of Salt Wells Creek are beloved around the country and the world with their beautiful and rare curly manes, tails, and coats
• The Bureau of Land Management plans to start zeroing out the Salt Wells Creek wild horses on July 15th - please make sure they know that Rock Springs relies on tourism from wild horse photographers and fans from around the world
Sweetwater County Travel & Tourism
1641 Elk Street
Rock Springs, WY 82901
Email: Jenissa Meredith, CEO: jmeredith@tourwyoming.com
Telephone: 307-382-2538
Contact via website: https://www.explorewy.com/contact-us
Messages for the Tourism Board should include:
• Whether you have traveled to Rock Springs and spent money while visiting the nearby wild horses and approximately how much money you spent
• That you know people or photographers who travel to Rock Springs frequently to see the wild horses; AND that if the wild horses are zeroed out that neither you nor the photographers will continue traveling to Rock Springs and spending money while there.
• The wild horses of Salt Wells Creek are beloved around the country and the world with their beautiful and rare curly manes, tails, and coats
• The Bureau of Land Management plans to start zeroing out the Salt Wells Creek wild horses on July 15th - please make sure they know that Rock Springs relies on tourism from wild horse photographers and fans from around the world
Rock Springs Chamber of Commerce
1897 Dewar Drive, Rock Springs, WY 82901
Telephone: 307-382-2538
Messages for the Chamber should include (BE POLITE!!! This office is fighting to keep the wild horses):
• Whether you have traveled to Rock Springs and spent money while visiting the nearby wild horses and approximately how much money you spent and with which businesses
• That you know people or photographers who travel to Rock Springs frequently to see the wild horses; AND that if the wild horses are zeroed out that neither you nor the photographers will continue traveling to Rock Springs and spending money while there at local businesses
Bureau of Land Management Rock Springs, Wyoming
Wild Horse and Burro Manager: D'Ewart, Jay
280 Highway 191 North, Rock Springs, WY 82901-3447
Email: jdewart@blm.gov and BLM_WY_Rock_Springs_WYmail@blm.gov
Messages for Jay should include (again, be polite and stick to the messaging below, we don't want Jay deleting his email address because of rude messages):
• BLM should not begin to roundup the wild horses of Salt Wells or Adobe Town without a decision from the 10th District Court in Colorado; a case is pending as you know.
• Stop catering to the Rock Springs Grazing Association; 29 local families should not be dictating what happens on our public lands and with our federally protected horses
• Fence the Checkerboard out; there is plenty of acreage for the wild horses in both Salt Wells Creek and Divide Basin without including the Checkerboard
• Do not zero out the Salt Wells Creek and Divide Basin herd areas; revert them back to Herd Management Areas and manage them properly to keep the herds where they are presently meant to be: on our public lands
• Don't forget about § 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.
and § 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.
Contact your US Representative:
You should know who this person is and have his/her/their contact info already, but if you don't go here to get it: https://www.house.gov/representatives/find-your-representative
Contact both of your US Senators:
You should know who these people are and have his/her/their contact info already, but if you don't go here to get it:
https://www.congress.gov/members/find-your-member
Messages for your US Representative and both US Senators should include:
• I am asking for an immediate moratorium on all wild horse and burro roundups until Congress can investigate the Bureau of Land Management's wasteful spending of taxpayer dollars, violations of the Comprehensive Animal Welfare Program (CAWP), systematic destruction of our wild herds and public lands, and their massive mismanagement of the Wild Horse & Burro Program. The Bureau of Land Management Rock Springs Wyoming office is planning to round up and zero out every single horse in the Salt Wells Creek and Divide Basin herd areas starting July 15th - please put a stop to it before it's too late!"
If you live in Wyoming, contact your local State Senators and Representatives with the same message as above about moratoriums but also about how you and/or people you know spend money traveling to Wyoming specifically to see and spend time with wild horses as well as how the wild horses of Salt Wells Creek are beloved around the country and the world with their beautiful and rare curly manes, tails, and coats. You can find their names and contact info here.
While we might not be able to stop it, we can certainly try! For more information on why this roundup is happening and what the Checkerboard is, please visit my sister website at wildhorsesofwyoming.com
There is a pending case in the 10th District Court of Colorado but a decision has not come down yet.
REMEMBER: keep your messages and phone calls mature and professional - no yelling, all CAPS, or threatening messages please. Rude messages will only encourage them NOT to listen to us and to go out and remove all of the wild horses out of spite. Keep your messages clear, factual, and short. What we need is a large quantity of calls and messages, not a small quantity that are rude in nature. If you cannot be polite, then don't participate.
Make calls (this is the best option!), send emails, letters, postcards, and/or have your kids do a drawing with the message 'Please don't remove all of the wild horses of Salt Wells Creek and Divide Basin!'
Who You Can Contact:
Wyoming Office of Tourism
5611 High Plains Road
Cheyenne, WY 82007
email: tourism@wyo.gov
Telephone: 307-777-7777 or 800-225-5996
Messages for the Tourism Board should include:
• Whether you have traveled to Rock Springs and spent money while visiting the nearby wild horses and approximately how much money you spent
• That you know people or photographers who travel to Rock Springs frequently to see the wild horses; AND that if the wild horses are zeroed out that neither you nor the photographers will continue traveling to Rock Springs and spending money while there.
• The wild horses of Salt Wells Creek are beloved around the country and the world with their beautiful and rare curly manes, tails, and coats
• The Bureau of Land Management plans to start zeroing out the Salt Wells Creek wild horses on July 15th - please make sure they know that Rock Springs relies on tourism from wild horse photographers and fans from around the world
Sweetwater County Travel & Tourism
1641 Elk Street
Rock Springs, WY 82901
Email: Jenissa Meredith, CEO: jmeredith@tourwyoming.com
Telephone: 307-382-2538
Contact via website: https://www.explorewy.com/contact-us
Messages for the Tourism Board should include:
• Whether you have traveled to Rock Springs and spent money while visiting the nearby wild horses and approximately how much money you spent
• That you know people or photographers who travel to Rock Springs frequently to see the wild horses; AND that if the wild horses are zeroed out that neither you nor the photographers will continue traveling to Rock Springs and spending money while there.
• The wild horses of Salt Wells Creek are beloved around the country and the world with their beautiful and rare curly manes, tails, and coats
• The Bureau of Land Management plans to start zeroing out the Salt Wells Creek wild horses on July 15th - please make sure they know that Rock Springs relies on tourism from wild horse photographers and fans from around the world
Rock Springs Chamber of Commerce
1897 Dewar Drive, Rock Springs, WY 82901
Telephone: 307-382-2538
Messages for the Chamber should include (BE POLITE!!! This office is fighting to keep the wild horses):
• Whether you have traveled to Rock Springs and spent money while visiting the nearby wild horses and approximately how much money you spent and with which businesses
• That you know people or photographers who travel to Rock Springs frequently to see the wild horses; AND that if the wild horses are zeroed out that neither you nor the photographers will continue traveling to Rock Springs and spending money while there at local businesses
Bureau of Land Management Rock Springs, Wyoming
Wild Horse and Burro Manager: D'Ewart, Jay
280 Highway 191 North, Rock Springs, WY 82901-3447
Email: jdewart@blm.gov and BLM_WY_Rock_Springs_WYmail@blm.gov
Messages for Jay should include (again, be polite and stick to the messaging below, we don't want Jay deleting his email address because of rude messages):
• BLM should not begin to roundup the wild horses of Salt Wells or Adobe Town without a decision from the 10th District Court in Colorado; a case is pending as you know.
• Stop catering to the Rock Springs Grazing Association; 29 local families should not be dictating what happens on our public lands and with our federally protected horses
• Fence the Checkerboard out; there is plenty of acreage for the wild horses in both Salt Wells Creek and Divide Basin without including the Checkerboard
• Do not zero out the Salt Wells Creek and Divide Basin herd areas; revert them back to Herd Management Areas and manage them properly to keep the herds where they are presently meant to be: on our public lands
• Don't forget about § 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.
and § 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.
Contact your US Representative:
You should know who this person is and have his/her/their contact info already, but if you don't go here to get it: https://www.house.gov/representatives/find-your-representative
Contact both of your US Senators:
You should know who these people are and have his/her/their contact info already, but if you don't go here to get it:
https://www.congress.gov/members/find-your-member
Messages for your US Representative and both US Senators should include:
• I am asking for an immediate moratorium on all wild horse and burro roundups until Congress can investigate the Bureau of Land Management's wasteful spending of taxpayer dollars, violations of the Comprehensive Animal Welfare Program (CAWP), systematic destruction of our wild herds and public lands, and their massive mismanagement of the Wild Horse & Burro Program. The Bureau of Land Management Rock Springs Wyoming office is planning to round up and zero out every single horse in the Salt Wells Creek and Divide Basin herd areas starting July 15th - please put a stop to it before it's too late!"
If you live in Wyoming, contact your local State Senators and Representatives with the same message as above about moratoriums but also about how you and/or people you know spend money traveling to Wyoming specifically to see and spend time with wild horses as well as how the wild horses of Salt Wells Creek are beloved around the country and the world with their beautiful and rare curly manes, tails, and coats. You can find their names and contact info here.