Monday October 26, 2009, 6:11 pm
'BLM is spending $30 million to round up 12,000 horses all over the west in what seems like a greatly accelerated effort, not to merely to thin the herds, which is what BLM has always done, but to eliminate horses altogether. Already, more than 20 million acres of public land set aside by law in 1971 as range for horses has been made horse free.' That's $2500 a horse! Who is paying these people off? Property developers?

There's a petition to help the horses at:

http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/991573141

Monday October 26, 2009, 6:46 pm
Carole, you are right - population increase means growth and development - less wilderness, more demand for resources such as water and energy.

I have made the commitment to saving the planet. I eat flexitarian, I have no children and plan on one child and adopt, I added insulation to R30, and I added UV reflective/wind protection to my windows.

I attended the 2002 Paralympics, and at the cross-country, there were exhibits, from a tipi to some horses for sale by BLM. BLM stipulated that anyone bidding on the horses must be 16 years old, two acres of land, and no criminal record of animal abuse.

Yes, sign the petitions - save the rain forests, Yellowstone NP, the Redwoods. And as long as population increases, less wilderness, more pollution and demand for resources.

Monday October 26, 2009, 6:58 pm
The BLM and Interior Department have been corrupt and incompetent for years and years and got horrendously worse under Bush. It's time to make a change and turn them around for good right now. It's our government and these are our public lands and our horses. It's time for the freeloading ranchers to use their own private property or admit they are sorry failures and go on welfare. NO MORE PUBLIC LANDS for special interests. Greedy ranchers can stop freeloading at our expense, stop raising beef on our tax money, and stop corrupting our government. We've had it. Leave our public lands alone, for public use only. It's time for strict and permanent bans on all hunting, all trapping, all ranching/grazing, all drilling, all mining, and all timber cutting. We're subsidizing the most corrupt and dangerous and damaging industries and practices and it's all coming at our expense while these criminals use their profits from our tax payer owned land against us to corrupt our government. They are using the profits they steal from us against us. And we keep letting it happen. NO MORE. We're watching this happen real time. No more moving or rounding up horses. Leave the wolves, the horses, the prairie dogs, the wild animals, the mountain tops, the ecosystems and the timber ALONE!

Tuesday October 27, 2009, 3:14 am
All I can say to this is NO NO NO NO!!!!!!!!

This is so wrong!

Tuesday October 27, 2009, 12:39 pm
I hate these idiots!!!!!!! We just can't have any wild horses anymore, and no more history!!!!!!!!!!

Tuesday October 27, 2009, 1:25 pm
let those horses run free.

Tuesday October 27, 2009, 8:48 pm
Aside from the nostalgia and cowboy mystique/fantasy, wild horses are feral alien animals to the North American ecosystems and they with the unnatural help of humans have a detrimantal effect on the grazers natural and native to North America, antelope, deer, elk, bison. Do not get me wrong I do dearly love horses, I had my own through grade and high school growing up in Montana; but only as domesticated animals they should not be allowed to exist as a 'wild' species, they are feral aliens in an environment where they are unnatural and do not belong!If they can not be adopted and contained they should be removed, and yes I do mean killed, to benefit the native animal species that actually belong here.

Wednesday October 28, 2009, 1:00 am
what the hell Lloyd u don't kill them!!!!!!!!!!!!! just because they don't belong doesn't mean they don't have rights they did not ask to be brought there and should not be punished the are beautiful living creatures and they should all stay living.....u might go to a country or state that u don't belong does that mean they should kill u!!!! DOES IT??!!!!!! no!!!! don't touch them...they may not be native to that area but most animals most people arn't......but they should not be harmed let them run freely without any interruption from or for people ever!!!!

Wednesday October 28, 2009, 10:58 am
thatomment above really upset me - i do not accept his words.
i only disagrr\ee with them & blm , & wish the wild horses were never round up etc by these vile depraved so-called humans there in charge.

Wednesday October 28, 2009, 11:08 am
although it ism better to move than cull all , i distrust the decision because they have weak spiritual ethics & are unable themselves to eprceive the horses needs to continue their existence through horse spirit & rebirths - this govt would go so far to not recognise this , unless contiuously reminded & begged etc.