Legislative

2018 BLM Report to Congress on the Wild Horse and Burro Program

See if you can count the misrepresentations, the intentional omissions, and misdirection.

1. Congress continues to fund failed BLM management practices, operated without respect for taxpayer intent; incentivized by money from corporate agriculture and exploitation of natural resources.

2. Revenue streams from grazing lease and natural resource allocations are misrepresented in the current budget proposal.

3. Both the grazing program and the exploitation of natural resources are destroying the environment. The BLM's own data conclusively proves these assertions.  However, in (2) above the data is misrepresented and manipulated in reporting to Congress.

4. Conflicting statutes allow the BLM to hide behind and interpret the directives to suite their agenda - not the interest of Wild Horses, the environment or preservation of resources.

   1. 1. §  The Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976, “FLPMA” (43 U.S.C. 1701), dictates a somewhat self-contradictory but principally utilitarian model of the public lands.  The utilitarian language of the FLPMA establishes the land as publicly-owned and managed ranchlands. Its yield of cattle and other commercial livestock enters the global commodity market and supplies income to public lands ranchers

      2. §  The Free-Roaming Wild Horse and Burro Act of 1971, which set aside designated federal lands for the protection of free-roaming horses and burros, largely frames free-roaming horses and burros as wild, but subject to management. “The Secretary shall manage wild free-roaming horses and burros in a manner that is designed to achieve and maintain a thriving natural ecological balance on the public lands” (16 U.S.C. 1333(a)).

5. Taxpayers only recourse - Congress must initiate transparent, unbiased review of EVERY annual BLM budget request < 2023 Budget Proposal BLM link >

6. What needs to happen NOW – detailed scrutiny of the budget request for the DOI / BLM and FS contained in the annual 'Farm Bill 2023'.  

Please use the link here to express the above to Congress. 

https://www.agriculture.senate.gov/farm-bill-input

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