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CLOUD CAPTURED - PLEASE HELP THESE HORSES !!!!!!!!!!!!!
Sep 8, 2009
Focus: Animal Welfare
Action Request: Various
Location: United States

ACTION ALERT: CLOUD CAPTURED - PLEASE HELP THESE HORSES

From: Elizabeth Forel
Sent: Tuesday, September 08, 2009 9:49 AM
 
 
PLEASE FORWARD FAR AND WIDE. 
 

By now you have all heard about the round up of the Pryor Range horses and that Cloud has been captured.  It is heartbreaking but we must take action.  This is new information I have received that is very helpful in what to say when you make the calls.  I am cutting and pasting to make it more concise   I did not write it. 

 

Maybe Cloud will be returned (maybe) but the other horses will be sold and that means slaughter.  We need EVERYONE to pitch in and make the calls.  If the lines are busy - try again later.

 

People to call – read talking points below first:

 - President Obama and VP Biden – 202-456-9000 and 202-456-1111

 - White House switchboard number is 202-456-1414 – call your Senators and Congressmen

 - Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel's number is 202-456-6798.

  -  Michelle Obama's number is 202-456-7064.

 -  BLM Director Abbey - 202-208-3801

 

 

These talking points will help in a couple of ways:  1) they should help you stay on track when you make your calls.   Bold sentences are your main point.  Supporting stuff is underneath each main point.

 

2)  When you make calls, you will have limited time to make your case and this should help...even if you leave it on a voice mail at a TV station.

 

3) We will be a unified voice.  It will be easier for us to be recognized in our message if we are saying the same things....over and over and over again.

 

TALKING POINTS  – choose one or two

  • Pryor Mountain Wild Horse Range Gather, herd of PBS', Cloud, wild stallion of the Rockies - Release Cloud the stallion's herd and all the others back to their home
  • We demand the release of the wild horses that have been illegally torn away from their home in the Pryor Mountain Wild Horse Range, designated as such in 1968 for the purpose of legally declaring this Federal land as wild horse range.
  • Put the wild horses already gathered back where they belong. The BLM has removed them illegally.  They have a home-the 38,000 acres of rangeland in the Pryor Mountain Wild Horse Range. The Cloud Foundation is working on a plan b, but the horses need to go back to their home.
  • The Cloud Foundation is working on keeping the horses and the family bands intact
  • These families are well-known to all and we do not want to see them torn apart. 
  • We will never give up on the wild horses, especially these.  This herd is the last of a line that is the lineage of the horses of the Spanish Conquistadors.  BLM is wiping away their genetic viability.  This herd is too special to lose.  It is our heritage
  • Bureau of Land Management is operating autonomously, against the will of Congress and Americans, ignoring massive public outcry and the law. They do not respond to FOIA requests, phone calls, letters and even a direct letter from the chairman of the Congressional subcommittee on public lands to suspend what they are doing and show their plans.  An audit is needed to reign in this rogue government agency.  Americans are being lied to by BLM; being duped into believing that this gather and others are "necessary," when there is plenty of open range. (BLM has in many cases fenced horses away from essential water and then used the word "necessary" when they died of thirst.) 

 

You can't leave a message at Obama's number but you can email.

E-mail Obama

You can leave a message for the BLM through Salazar's number.

202-208-3100 press 5 and leave a message telling them to stop the roundup of the Pryor Mountain Wild Horses immediately.

You can leave a message for BLM Director Abbey.  They tell you to call another number but leave a message anyway.

202-208-3801 

This is the number Abbey's office tells you to call.  A lady named Debbie answers and will argue with you for 20 minutes if you have the time.

866-468-7826


............................................................................
 
Cloud blog / news / video  http://thecloudfoundation.wordpress.com/
 
After a long day in the Pryor Mountains, Ginger Kathrens, producer of the Cloud PBS Nature series (Director, www.thecloudfoundation.org ) took the time to appear on Blog Talk Radio Monday night. She is inspirational!  
"I think we can do it, we just have to do it together." - Ginger Kathrens.
Ginger said, "They say there are no accidents." Monday on the Pryor Mountains, Ginger tells us, an unusually fierce wind blew down the mountain just when Cloud was being herded towards the chute. As soon as he stepped into the pen, the wind stopped.
 


Photo: Cloud and his black mare - as they were rounded up Sept 7 2009
GOOD NEWS - UPDATE ON CLOUD FROM GINGER:

Cloud will be released – as long as members of his band are healthy he will be released. Maybe not tomorrow but in a couple of days.
 
I know many of us are feeling discouraged, after all the calls - It feels as if what we're doing isn't working.
Here is what Ginger said about getting discouraged. Just hit redial. Get over it and get on the phone. Keep calls, emails coming in, send notices out to everybody.
These things take time. If somebody says they don't want to talk with you - and she has trouble with that too - "don't go hide in a corner, call back again!"
"Don’t feel helpless - it doesn’t do any good. Lift yourself up and say how many people do I know, how many can I call on to make a difference." Radio, local papers, try to get a hold of these people, she suggests. Cloud is a great human interest story!

PBS gives permission - media outlets can use images from the PBS Cloud series if they want beautiful pictures of the herd.
Children are enamored of the Cloud story around the world. They are in the Breyer models that kids play with. Saving Cloud's herd will make a huge difference for other wild horses.
The Cloud Foundation is spending a lot of money on the legal battle. They have a donate page on the website if you want to help. http://www.thecloudfoundation.org/index.php/donate-now
---
Strategy: We are no longer wasting our time calling the BLM wild horse and burro number. We are calling the President, VP, Salazar and Abby, our legislators.
If Ginger can do this, we can too. Cloud does not look defeated in his picture above. He looks like a leader. 

There is very little time left. If each person on the NY team recruited just one more voice, New York would roar all the way to Billings MT! 
Thanks for all you do,
Cheers Susan
OBAMA / BIDEN NUMBERS TO CALL (leave a message for both)
202-456-9000 or 202-456-1111
email the President: http://www.whitehouse.gov/contact/
Secretary of Interior Ken Salazar
Call: 202-208-3100
email: feedback@ios.doi.gov
BLM (Bureau of Land Management) Director Bob Abbey
Call: 202-208-3801 or 866-468-7826
Fax: 202-208-5242
e-mail Robert_Abbey@blm.gov
....................................................................................
 
This is heartbreaking!
Why hasn't the Obama administration listened to us?   We were there for him. 
What can we do now?

From: rjyager <rjyager@yahoo.com>
Date: Mon, Sep 7, 2009 at 8:54 PM

Cloud has been captured.  The rules keep changing. First only the horses within the range area were to be rounded up.  Now others are being sought.  Horses over 10 were to be adopted - now they will be sold after 9/26.
Read the latest news at Cloud Foundation blog
Please call your reps and media contacts and forward to your lists
Robin

BREAKING NEWS! CLOUD AND HERD TARGETED ON MONDAY FOR HELICOPTER
CHASE DOWN DANGEROUS MOUNTAIN TERRAIN Nature News Famous
Mustangs Torn From Their Home
More Legends of the West Being Lost to A Rogue Government Agency
Lovell, Wyoming 9/04/2009 04:57 PM GMT (TransWorldNews)

In the searing 90-plus degree heat the first five mustangs, of
less than 200 remaining in Montana's only wild horse herd, are
driven into corrals by a helicopter, forcibly removed from the
rangeland they have occupied for hundreds of years. The Pryor
wild horses and one palomino stallion in particular, Cloud, have
been made world famous by the PBS Nature documentaries, the third
of which will air this fall.

Despite public outcry over their reasons for this action, and
clear failures in NEPA (National Environmental Policy Act)
compliance, BLM is moving forward with the controversial
helicopter roundup expected to last 4-10 days. "This unique
little herd is being destroyed starting now," says Ginger
Kathrens, Volunteer Executive Director of The Cloud Foundation.
"70 horses and some foals are to be removed from their
spectacular home in the wild and this will leave us with a
non-viable herd."

Dr. Gus Cothran, Ph.D. of Texas A&M University said today that
this roundup "is overkill." Critics of the removal say that it is
clear that the BLM is refusing to listen to science and the
wishes of the American public.

Legal efforts are continuing, but have so far not stopped this
action. A Temporary Restraining Order request by The Cloud
Foundation and Front Range Equine Rescue was denied in Federal
District Court on September 2. BLM has contracted with the
federally indicted Dave Cattoor to round up America's most famous
wild horse herd. A wild horse advocate explains the situation
further in a youtube.com video posted online via
http://www.thecloud foundation.org/
<http://www.thecloud foundation.org/> .

Wild horse advocates and biologists say that by going against
their own environmental assessment for this removal, BLM is
ignoring the unique genetics of this herd. The agency plans to
take off all the wild horses who live permanently in the Custer
National Forest - from the 21-year-old mare known as Grumpy
Grulla, to Conquistador, the 19- year-old band stallion as well
as young foals. According to local residents and historians, the
wild horses are simply living the way they lived before the BLM
or Forest Service were even established. "Removing an entire
subpopulation is not the way to manage a small, precious and
unique population of animals," continues Kathrens. "People enjoy
seeing the horses in the Custer National Forest and extensive
evidence exists that these horses have been in this area for
centuries. It is vitally important that this range be legally
expanded to allow this herd to grow to safe, genetically viable
numbers."

The BLM claims that it is necessary to remove 70 horses in order
to "maintain a thriving natural ecological balance." Don Glenn,
Chief of the Wild Horse and Burro Program has been dispatched to
the Lovell, Wyoming area due to the controversy surrounding this
roundup, unprecedented in size and scope for the Pryor Wild Horse
Mountain Range. Glenn asserts that much of the forage in the
Pryors is either poisonous or non-nutritious.

"If the range was that poor than why do we have fat 20+ year old
horses who look like they are half that age?" asks Golde
Wallingford, owner of a Pryor Mountain Mustang. "The BLM is
feeding the American public lies and it is time for them to
stop," she continues. Wallingford, who traveled to the Pryors to
protest this roundup, noted that the range is still green in late
August after three years of above average precipitation following
a multi-year drought.

"Why are they removing nearly half the horses after the drought
is over?" asks Howard Boggess, Crow Elder and Historian.
"Everything that is against the law for me they are planning to
do to these horses.

The American public is enamored with the mustang, one of the last
symbols of freedom and the disappearing spirit of the American
West. "We are losing our wild horses on our public lands as a
rogue government agency is left unchecked. Our government has
promised it will listen to us. The public is crying out for these
wild horses and their voices are getting louder. We need our new
administration to start listening or our American mustangs will
go the way of the buffalo," Kathrens concludes.

For more information contact:

The Cloud Foundation

Valerie Kennedy, PR Relations Manager

312-371-4933

info@thecloudfoundation.org mailto:info@thecloudfoundation.org

 
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