Gene Praag

G L Drummond

Done, and posted a link in my blog, too.

G L Drummond

And on Twitter.

G L Drummond

Gene, you should do a Squidoo page on the wild horses!!

G L Drummond

Here’s an example

I did it for my scifi universe. need to update it, but gives you an idea. =)

Patricia Montg...

I signed the petition. What a terrible BLM plan! Thanks so much for letting us know about this!

Susan Bergstrom

Signed and sent! So Sad…

Nancy Polanski

Thanks for this opportunity, Geno. I signed.

Jess Fleming

Signed it Geno….I want those horses there for me to get some photos of some day.

I also sent the link out to all my contacts on my email list…

Helene Kippert

Done gene

kimbarose

I signed it and passed it onto myspace, facebook and ALL MY HORSEY FRIENDS. Thanks for letting us know about this.

Irene Burdell

I have done it Geno . Lets hope it works .

Nori Bucci

Thanks for sending on this petition Gene…..I signed it (of course), left a comment and am sending the page to everyone on my email list.

FrozenMoments

Signed it, and will pass it on. Thanks for letting me know.

Kelly Bermingham

I have signed Gene,,,, what an atrocity!

Jean Hildebrant

I signed it too, Gene!

Nikki Collier

So sad to see something like this happening.. I signed and pray it works..

Tim Harper

Thanks Gene for sharing this, I too passed it on to some friends, hope they can be saved, my comment to the BLM was kind of harsh, but the horses have the right to run free as much as all our wildlife in the state!!

Globalphotos

Signed, hope it’s successful :)

C Hummel

Signed up!

here in the UK they introduced a similar programme and allowed the wild horses of Wales to be killed off, because they interfered with sheep farming or something banal. Now they regret this deeply, as this blood line of these are now becoming extinct. Now they have introduced a program trying to preserve the last few. AHAHA this is a joke right.

Why is that man likes to play God. Has God not decreed that all living beings have the right to live in b peace beside each other. What gives humans the right to play God.

Most Europeans identify America with prairie and roaming wild horses, you are killing off what is America.

Horses just leave footprints, humans leave destruction.

IF they can find 700 bln to fund banks and the fat cats that have caused the economic holocaust in the world, they should be able to find a few thousand to preserve the horses.

C Hummel

To add to Gayla’s comment – I suggest you make the world aware of this crazy plan on Facebook. I believe nearly everyone, including those that could be influential, all over Europe is on it. Show them also your beautiful pictures.

C Hummel

How much money do they need, to stop the culling?

Can you get in touch with the BLM and find out. Could we start a fund raising Group here on RB, by every member donating a picture, where all the proceeds of the sale go towards a preservation program. Maybe we could extend this outside the RB community, as sales are far and few between, because RB does very little to promote RB outside the photographers arena.

Just an idea

dawndavies

signed and sealed gene, a thought, perhaps you could contact somehow the makers of hildalgo and get its star to help too, i have read somewhere that he is against this culling too, dawnx

ApeArt

Haved signed :)

Henry VanderJagt

my wife and i both signed thanks for the heads up

Deborah H. Ben...

Have signed Geno!

Jing3011

I signed.

Victoria Jostes

signed, sent & passed on. most regrettable decision on the part of the blm…

Jan Cartwright

Done – I’ve also posted a link on Face Book. Thanks for letting us know.

PrairieRose

Thank you Geno….......bloody awful…...........

PrairieRose

Thank you Geno….......bloody awful…...........

Sandy Stewart

I signed it! Hope, hope, hope,.... It’s always sad to hear stories of human politics, consisting of money and greed being used to make such sad decsions! :(

KatsEye

Will do that right now. I want to save them as well. Thanks for the link.

Silvia Ganora

Signed it.

Susan Grissom

signed and sent to everyone i could think of. Hope it works:)

Rosemaree

Thanks Gene,
Been signed and passed on to my whole email list.
Rosemaree

Mirka Rueda Ro...

I signed and put one of their adds on my page here. Hopefully this nonsense will be stopped.

MACLOVER

Signed and Thank You for Posting …..... These horses are one of the most beautiful things on this earth.

inge

just found your site and straight away signed that petition , men I love horses and hate those bastards ,..who would kill a horse!! good on ye and all the best love ur horses shots very much!!!!

Victoria Jostes

Geno – this is from the NY Times:
Public Editor Editorial
Wild Horses
Published: November 19, 2008

Wild horses are a symbol of the American West. And while they are protected by law, the agency charged with protecting them seems to have forgotten that their wildness is what makes them so precious.
There are about 33,000 wild horses on the open range. To control the herds and keep land open for cattle grazing, the federal Bureau of Land Management has rounded up many more horses and tried to put them out for adoption. But adoptions are not keeping up, and some 30,000 horses remain in holding pens. Until the past few days, the bureau had been planning to cull another 6,000 horses from the wild by killing them.

Fortunately, the bureau has halted that rush to euthanasia after Madeleine Pickens — the wife of T. Boone Pickens, the oil tycoon — offered to create a one-million-acre refuge for the wild horses already in captivity. Mrs. Pickens plans to sterilize the horses on her land and says she will take any additional horses the federal government wants to cull from the wild herd.

Sterilization is the best solution for long-term wild horse management. The federal Bureau of Land Management is finally coming to understand that and is now working with the Humane Society on very promising contraception studies in two herds. The bureau also needs to consider buying back some of its range permits from cattle ranchers. We suspect that in this economic climate, some ranchers would be glad to part with them. The bureau then could leave wild horses on the range — instead of capturing them and paying to feed them — until aggressive contraception comes into play.

We wish Mrs. Pickens the best with her plan for a wild-horse refuge and hope it moves forward quickly. It would empty the federal government’s corrals and restore a significant measure of freedom to animals that are an emblem of freedom.

More Articles in Opinion » A version of this article appeared in print on November 20, 2008, on page A42 of the New York edition.

Victoria Jostes

knew U would be excited about this article! bless her heart, mrs. pickens! how can we thank her????????????