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Subject: [UOH - Inside Circle Network] Open Letter to Willie Nelson Abou the BLM HORSES
> Date: Wed, 23 Dec 2009 14:13:09 -0500
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: [UOH - Inside Circle Network] Open Letter to Willie Nelson
> From: [email protected]
>
> Rod just wrote the following in response to a Fox News splash on today's
> website. …
>
>
> ..................................................
>
> An Open Letter.
>
> Please foreward to the attention of Mr.Willie Nelson, in response.
>
> Sir, Hello,
>
> I just read your letter about wild horses. We live on the same planet,
> so there must be a part of the wild horse story you haven't heard, or
> don't believe.
>
> First, may I compliment your serious and unselfish efforts to help the
> farmers and ranchers who have so desperately needed your help. My friend
> and author, Teresa Jordan, used figures straight out of the US Vital
> Statistics.... so many ranchers and farmers starved out and moved to
> town between 1977 and 1987, that less than 2% of the American
> population live and work in the country, today. You probably know these
> figures better than I do, except that my wife and I are part of them.
>
> I was dismayed to see on the Fox News website today that you are working
> to "save remaining wild horses." Wild horses in America are far from
> being managed to extinction. Wild horse population (not birth rate,
> population) is increasing by 20% per year, doubling the population every
> four years. The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) cannot possibly manage
> this glut of horses without additional funding, so they are forced to
> the sad situation of fighting one emergency after another.
>
> Trail Springs, Nevada... The conventional wisdom figured there were
> about 370 horses, and after nearly 200 died of thirst, BLM gathered 1000
> more. Calico Spring, Nevada. Estimated 2700 horses need to be removed,
> more than 500% over carrying capacity of the land. I do not fault the
> BLM, they have both hands and one foot tied behind them, by a population
> of wild horse lovers who garner publicity and BIG dollars by casting
> horses as victims, and BLM and the western ranchers I hope you cherish
> as selfish, heartless abusers out to eliminate wild horses completely,
> and rape and pillage the precious mother Earth. Nothing could be farther
> from the truth.
>
> I do not ask you to believe me. Come to our West and see for yourself.
> Let people who live on the land show you reality. If you need names of
> truthful Westerners start with livestock auction owners, tribes, horse
> trainers, rodeo contractors, BLM range specialists, brand inspectors,
> extension agents, county commissioners and regular people. You will hear
> the sad situation of horse values, wild horse overpopulation, rangeland
> degradation, and suffering ag communities.
>
> We all can't be lying.
>
> Respectfully,
>
> Rod McQueary.
>
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Sent: Wednesday, December 23, 2009 2:27 PM
To:
Subject: [UOH - Inside Circle Network] Open Letter to Willie Nelson Abou the BLM HORSES
> Date: Wed, 23 Dec 2009 14:13:09 -0500
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: [UOH - Inside Circle Network] Open Letter to Willie Nelson
> From: [email protected]
>
> Rod just wrote the following in response to a Fox News splash on today's
> website. …
>
>
> ..................................................
>
> An Open Letter.
>
> Please foreward to the attention of Mr.Willie Nelson, in response.
>
> Sir, Hello,
>
> I just read your letter about wild horses. We live on the same planet,
> so there must be a part of the wild horse story you haven't heard, or
> don't believe.
>
> First, may I compliment your serious and unselfish efforts to help the
> farmers and ranchers who have so desperately needed your help. My friend
> and author, Teresa Jordan, used figures straight out of the US Vital
> Statistics.... so many ranchers and farmers starved out and moved to
> town between 1977 and 1987, that less than 2% of the American
> population live and work in the country, today. You probably know these
> figures better than I do, except that my wife and I are part of them.
>
> I was dismayed to see on the Fox News website today that you are working
> to "save remaining wild horses." Wild horses in America are far from
> being managed to extinction. Wild horse population (not birth rate,
> population) is increasing by 20% per year, doubling the population every
> four years. The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) cannot possibly manage
> this glut of horses without additional funding, so they are forced to
> the sad situation of fighting one emergency after another.
>
> Trail Springs, Nevada... The conventional wisdom figured there were
> about 370 horses, and after nearly 200 died of thirst, BLM gathered 1000
> more. Calico Spring, Nevada. Estimated 2700 horses need to be removed,
> more than 500% over carrying capacity of the land. I do not fault the
> BLM, they have both hands and one foot tied behind them, by a population
> of wild horse lovers who garner publicity and BIG dollars by casting
> horses as victims, and BLM and the western ranchers I hope you cherish
> as selfish, heartless abusers out to eliminate wild horses completely,
> and rape and pillage the precious mother Earth. Nothing could be farther
> from the truth.
>
> I do not ask you to believe me. Come to our West and see for yourself.
> Let people who live on the land show you reality. If you need names of
> truthful Westerners start with livestock auction owners, tribes, horse
> trainers, rodeo contractors, BLM range specialists, brand inspectors,
> extension agents, county commissioners and regular people. You will hear
> the sad situation of horse values, wild horse overpopulation, rangeland
> degradation, and suffering ag communities.
>
> We all can't be lying.
>
> Respectfully,
>
> Rod McQueary.
>
> ----------------------------------------
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