House approves bill to ban slaughter of wild horses

[The Straight Story]

House approves bill to ban slaughter of wild horses


WASHINGTON - Healthy wild horses and burros that live on federal land throughout the West would be saved from slaughter by a mustang protection bill passed Friday by the House.
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Members of Congress took action after Bureau of Land Management officials raised the possibility of killing as many as 30,000 wild mustangs and burros they can no longer afford to house in holding facilities after removing them from land that cannot sustain the growing herds.

Democratic leaders of the House Natural Resources Committee said sterilization of herd members and an expanded adoption program are more humane options.

The Restore Our American Mustangs Act by committee Chairman Nick Rahall, D-W.Va., and Rep. Raul Grijalva, D-Ariz., would step up fertility control measures, encourage more adoptions of the animals and provide the more than 60,000 wild horses and burros under federal control with as much as 19 million additional acres on which to roam freely.

http://www.rgj.com/article/20090717/NEWS/90717021/1321/NEWS

[lindisfarne]

1. Call your Senators. Link in OP says previous attempts have stalled in the senate. senate.gov

OP: could also be put in LBN!

[Bobbieo]

2. Why did Obama choose Ken Salazar over Raul Grijalva to be Sec. of

the Interior when Salazar may be holding hands with ranchers and oil interests?

WhyI am signing petitions against killing wolves in Montana and drilling for oil in Alaska.

[Spider Jerusalem]

3. How is this a good thing, exactly?

"...killing as many as 30,000 wild mustangs and burros they can no longer afford to house in holding facilities after removing them from land that cannot sustain the growing herds."

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

4. with as much as 19 million additional acres on which to roam freely. - from the article.

[timeforpeace]

5. So they can get something done. Cool.