• Our nation's wild horses and burros are fast disappearing from OUR public lands. 

• The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) and its 13 signatories have proposed,   The Path Forward (2019), which is an aggressive plan of reducing the wild horse and burro population size down to numbers that haven't been seen since 1971, i.e., when the Wild Free-Roaming Horses and Burros Act was passed.    

• Only 27,000 wild horses and burros existed back then. 

• Over the next 10 years, The Path Forward wants to roundup 130,000 horses and burros. 

• The only problem is, we only have less than 81,000 right now.  

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Join us and others in the fight to protect OUR nation's wild horses and burros.  They do not belong to the BLM or the 13 signatories of The Path Forward. 

They belong to us, the American people. 

Here are 4 ways you can take action TODAY:  

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1.  Digital brigade

Join our 'digital brigade' by contacting your senators to pass the SAFE bill once and for all!  It aims to stop the transport of horses and burros to slaughter in Mexico, Canada, and other foreign countries.  The House of Representatives has already passed it.  Now, it's time for the Senate to put it back on the agenda for a vote! 

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Use this link to contact your Senators.  You can call, write a letter, or email them.  It's important to be polite, state your case by using information from the Saving OUR Nation's Wild Horses and Burros page (under Animal Advocacy tab), and ask for a response.  

https://www.senate.gov/senators/senators-contact.htm

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2.  Write a letter 

Write a letter to the BLM about your support of their Public Lands Rule which establishes frameworks for interested parties to pursue conservation leases for purposes of restoration or mitigation as a stated goal of the land use outcome. 

 

Conservation leases can potentially be purchased by environmental and other activist groups. 

 

Representative John Curtis, Republican of Utah, proposed a bill to the House (HR 3397) which would require the BLM to withdrawal the rule.  BLM has received over 150,000 letters, with 92% in support of the rule, even asking to strengthen its conservation measures.    

 

You can write a letter, along with the Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER) and the Western Watersheds Project, both organizations discussed heavily in the Saving OUR Nation's Wild Horses and Burros page.  

 

BLM is accepting letters until December 2023, so you have time to craft your letter, but don't wait to long.  Get her done! 

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BLM contact information to send letters: 

https://www.blm.gov/office/national-office

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Here is an article with more information about this rule: 

https://www.vaildaily.com/news/overwhelming-response-to-proposed-public-lands-rule-presents-a-difficult-task-for-blm/

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3.  Create a petition 

Create your own petition, using the ActionNetwork.org 

https://actionnetwork.org/

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4.  Sign petitions & donate 

Sign petitions and donate to these amazing leading wild horse/burro advocates:

https://wildhorseeducation.org/

https://home.americanwildhorse.org/

https://www.gofundme.com/f/reserve-design-for-wild-horses

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