http://www.gop.gov/bill/111/1/hr1018
http://frwebgate.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/getdoc.cgi?dbname=111_cong_bills&docid=f:s1579is.txt.pdf
http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d111:s.01579:
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Tuesday, September 21, 2010
Week 12
This week's blog(s) will be a little different from earlier posts. I have gotten a request to focus on the R.O.A.M (Restore Our American Mustangs) act, to see what the details of it actually says/calls for, what it really means, and pros and cons. To do this, I am going to have to do some research, and I can't do all of the research and the summarizing and posting all in one or two nights, so I'm breaking it up a little bit. Tonight I am doing research, and I'm doing the research at some of the links posted below. But, since tonight is Tuesday night and thus blog night, I feel that I should update the blog with something. And guess what? If you read the last 5 sentences or so, you are officially updated! I will be back soon with more information on R.O.A.M. If you would like to get a head start on the information, go ahead and go to the links below:) [the first is the one that seems to be shorter and more to the point, so a good way to get good & quick facts.]
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I'm glad you are looking in to this topic. So often I get confused by the legislation that gets passed and its intent or hidden agendas. It seems that so many things are written in words that sound good on the surface but they are laid out so they can be twisted into something totally opposite. I hope that there are not clauses in this bill that will be manipulated to harm the wild horses and burros. I think it is great that you are going to dig into it. When I look at the bill I have many unanswered questions and I see several places where the language seems to leave some loopholes.
ReplyDeleteIt says the bill repeals a provision of current law which states that wild horses and burros shall be protected in the areas where they are currently found. They say by removing this provision, the bill would expand the Bureau of Land Management's (BLM) jurisdiction to areas where wild horses and burros are not currently found. I wonder if by removing this does it mean that they would no longer be protected in the current areas? Does it allow the BLM to remove them from the areas they are currently found in and move them to less desirable areas? If they must ensure that acreage available for wild and free-roaming horses and burros is at least equal to the acreage where they were found in 1971, could they move them to equal acreage say in Alaska or the Mojave? If you look at what we did with the Native Americans I think we may have a history of taking the good land relocating them to bad lands.
They must take specified actions to manage such horses and burros and to achieve and maintain a thriving natural ecological balance on lands where such horses and burros are found. How are they going to manage the horses? If it is a natural ecological balance they are looking for, doesn’t their taking action to manage it make it un-natural?
If they must research, develop, and implement enhanced fertility control for mares, stallions, or both; will there be a limit to the number of animals that they use fertility control on? How will they select which animal to use it on? If we decide who breeds and who can’t doesn’t this upset the natural order of selection?
If they exhaust all practicable options of maintaining a thriving natural ecological balance on the range before removing horses and burros and remove horses and burros determined to be a threat to the health and well-being of native plant or wildlife species; are they going to remove cattle or sheep that are there from ranchers who lease grazing rights?
If it prohibits the containing such horses and burros in corrals or short-term holding facilities for more than six months while awaiting disposition; what happens to them at six months?
Does the removal of the limitation on the number of titles to horse and burros that may be transferred to qualified individuals open the door to those who will take them across the boarder for slaughter?
Good luck. You may also want to check out some of the Animal activists sites such as the Animal Welfare Institute or Mother Jones. http://www.awionline.org/ht/d/sp/i/711/pid/711 and
http://motherjones.com/blue-marble/2010/01/mustangs-BLM-deaths-activists
Good Luck
Whoo - Had you read the bill before? You are asking many great questions; do you know who is sponsoring the bill?
ReplyDeleteBill Number: H.R. 1018
ReplyDeleteBill Status: Passed House
HSUS Position: Support
Bill Sponsor(s): Reps. Nick Rahall (D-WV) and Raul Grijalva (D-AZ)
Legislature Status: In Session
Restores the prohibition on the commercial sale and slaughter of wild free-roaming horses and burros. This provision was stripped by an amendment slipped into the 2005 Omnibus Spending Bill.
Just got the above information from http://www.hsus.org/legislation_laws/federal_legislation/wildlife/wild_horses_burros.html
I object strenuoulsy to omnibus bills and riders to bills because of what happened in 2005. As a stand-alone bill, it would have never passsed to remove the prohibition of slaughtering these animals!
Samantha, do you know the status of the bill in the senate?
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