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Journalists who cover environmental issues in the western United States, along with some environmental activists, believe that Trump is considering a Wyoming lawyer named Karen Budd-Falen, who worked on the presidential transition team, as director of the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), a federal agency that controls almost 250 million acres of publicly owned lands.
Budd-Falen’s name is not as famous as that of the Bundy family, which has had two stand-offs with federal authorities in their efforts to deny the rightful existence of publicly-held lands. But she may be more dangerous, and not just because she has represented Cliven Bundy in his anti-conservation efforts in the past.
For what she lacks in intelligence, she definitely makes up for in drive and hatred,” Ratner said, emphasizing that he has tangled with Budd-Falen for 15 years now. “She is relentless and dogged in her pursuit of, essentially, destroying those who want to protect public lands.”
“I think she understands how the levers of power work,” Zimmerman argued, “and has the ability to really undermine the work of the Bureau of Land Management.”
https://americanwildhorsecampaign.o...wyer-may-be-trump’s-pick-manage-federal-lands
July 24, 2017
(Published by Ellie Phipps Price for The New York Times on Jul 24, 2017)
This week the House Appropriations Committee approved an amendment that would eliminate longstanding restrictions on killing wild horses and burros.
And it could get worse: Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke is also pushing to end the ban on selling these animals for slaughter for food in Mexico and Canada; at the same time, Mr. Zinke wants to cut funding for fertility control — the only scientifically recommended, humane tool available to manage wild horse herds.
"...the Interior Department seems adamant, and in response has undertaken a campaign to spread misinformation to confuse the issue. At a recent House hearing, Secretary Zinke conveniently ignored the National Academy of Sciences report, instead telling lawmakers that fertility control efforts were a failure and nearly impossible to carry out."
(The pro horse non-profits have proved the Dept. of Interior wrong. By accomplishing birth control for horses, cheaply, easily, and without harm to the horses.)
https://americanwildhorsecampaign.org/media/they’ll-shoot-horses-won’t-they
"With less than $50,000 and a team of six volunteers, our Virginia Range project is undertaking a birth-control program for a herd of more than 3,000 horses spread across over 300,000 acres in Nevada. Already this year we’ve vaccinated more mares with birth control than the bureau did all of last year."
Given this, lawmakers should question why the bureau is so eager to strip these protections from the wild horses and burros Congress acted unanimously to protect in 1971.
Trump’s budget request where HE VERY CLEARLY REQUESTS WILD HORSES IN HOLDING TO BE KILLED AND TO ALLOW SALES OF WILD HORSES FOR “ALL PURPOSES”, THAT IS, FOR SLAUGHTER.
http://thewildhorseconspiracy.org/current-news/
July 24, 2017
The House Appropriations Committee voted to reverse a ban on destroying healthy wild horses and burros that was contained in a spending bill signed into law by President Trump in early May.
“Let’s be clear: House Appropriations Committee members just signed a death warrant for America’s mustangs and it will lead to the wholesale destruction of these irreplaceable national treasures,” said Suzanne Roy, director of the American Wild Horse Campaign in a news release.
https://durangoherald.com/articles/174686?wallit_nosession=1
Wild horses share only a small amount of their grazing land with cattle, Roy said, but ranchers “want the whole pie.”
http://www.denverpost.com/2017/07/19/wild-horse-destruction-vote-passes/
Budd-Falen’s name is not as famous as that of the Bundy family, which has had two stand-offs with federal authorities in their efforts to deny the rightful existence of publicly-held lands. But she may be more dangerous, and not just because she has represented Cliven Bundy in his anti-conservation efforts in the past.
For what she lacks in intelligence, she definitely makes up for in drive and hatred,” Ratner said, emphasizing that he has tangled with Budd-Falen for 15 years now. “She is relentless and dogged in her pursuit of, essentially, destroying those who want to protect public lands.”
“I think she understands how the levers of power work,” Zimmerman argued, “and has the ability to really undermine the work of the Bureau of Land Management.”
https://americanwildhorsecampaign.o...wyer-may-be-trump’s-pick-manage-federal-lands
July 24, 2017
(Published by Ellie Phipps Price for The New York Times on Jul 24, 2017)
This week the House Appropriations Committee approved an amendment that would eliminate longstanding restrictions on killing wild horses and burros.
And it could get worse: Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke is also pushing to end the ban on selling these animals for slaughter for food in Mexico and Canada; at the same time, Mr. Zinke wants to cut funding for fertility control — the only scientifically recommended, humane tool available to manage wild horse herds.
"...the Interior Department seems adamant, and in response has undertaken a campaign to spread misinformation to confuse the issue. At a recent House hearing, Secretary Zinke conveniently ignored the National Academy of Sciences report, instead telling lawmakers that fertility control efforts were a failure and nearly impossible to carry out."
(The pro horse non-profits have proved the Dept. of Interior wrong. By accomplishing birth control for horses, cheaply, easily, and without harm to the horses.)
https://americanwildhorsecampaign.org/media/they’ll-shoot-horses-won’t-they
"With less than $50,000 and a team of six volunteers, our Virginia Range project is undertaking a birth-control program for a herd of more than 3,000 horses spread across over 300,000 acres in Nevada. Already this year we’ve vaccinated more mares with birth control than the bureau did all of last year."
Given this, lawmakers should question why the bureau is so eager to strip these protections from the wild horses and burros Congress acted unanimously to protect in 1971.
Trump’s budget request where HE VERY CLEARLY REQUESTS WILD HORSES IN HOLDING TO BE KILLED AND TO ALLOW SALES OF WILD HORSES FOR “ALL PURPOSES”, THAT IS, FOR SLAUGHTER.
http://thewildhorseconspiracy.org/current-news/
July 24, 2017
The House Appropriations Committee voted to reverse a ban on destroying healthy wild horses and burros that was contained in a spending bill signed into law by President Trump in early May.
“Let’s be clear: House Appropriations Committee members just signed a death warrant for America’s mustangs and it will lead to the wholesale destruction of these irreplaceable national treasures,” said Suzanne Roy, director of the American Wild Horse Campaign in a news release.
https://durangoherald.com/articles/174686?wallit_nosession=1
Wild horses share only a small amount of their grazing land with cattle, Roy said, but ranchers “want the whole pie.”
http://www.denverpost.com/2017/07/19/wild-horse-destruction-vote-passes/
