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Could you please list the ways that organizations can apply for stimulus money somewhere? Access is a whole other show.  How to get the funds?  I believe you have touched on these things but I was unable to listen to the entire show today and there are hundreds if not thousands of people and organizations that don't know the steps necessary to getting to the money.

There are a lot of grant websites popping up on the internet that claim to be government related. How do we distinguish what ones are real? Where's the real website?

Thanks Emily you're great!!!

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I'm there pippenstein, I've got some very fashionable GREEN clothes to wear for the event/eventsssss. Let's do it!!! I'd sincerely be interested in joining, or starting such a movement. How do we get together, since this is obviously an anonymous forum?

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Thanks Emily

I invite people to become more educated on the topic of the wild mustangs being hunted by the BLM and The Forest Service and invite them to review the facts. Please visit www.wildhorsepreservation.com

To make statements like "manage the wildlife" and use other euphenisms to describe something can lead to the creation  of a mythology. This can be danagerous when the lives of  innocent animals or a group are at stake.  The steelhead, the elk and the horses are at stake here in this debate. (not to mention the microbriols) There are plenty of alternative places to raise cattle whereas the wild animals only have what we humans deem to preserve for them.

Please get educated everyone. This debate has been illuminating. I'm greatful to all of you who have participated on both sides of this discussion.

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The Bureau of Land Management and the Forestry Service have scheduled a "round up" at Murderers Creek for 125 wild mustangs between 08/1/09 and 08/20/09. The BLM and the Forest Service will use the usual techniques of chasing the mustangs with a helicopter and people on horseback with guns. The horse has a very good memory and the trauma that they experience from such events is often permanent. The horses are often injured in this process. Fouls are often trampled and left to die before reaching the compounds. Is this what the public wants to spend their tax dollars on in order to save a few cattle and the livelihood of a few cattleranchers?

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left to run wild or chased into holding pens by helicopters, then left to die from lack of water or salmonella poisoning, are we destroying them or are they destroying our streams? I hope you all get your facts straight for the sake of these innocent animals.

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Here are some more facts about the BLM Mustang management program...

BLM’s wild horse and burro budget was increased by 50% in 2001, then by another third in 2005, to fund a massive removal campaign. It costs as much as 3,000 of our tax-dollars to remove and process a single wild horse for adoption.

 

More than 200,000 wild horses and burros have been removed from public lands since 1971. The BLM plans to remove another 4,000 by fall 2008.

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Here are some facts about the BLM Mustang management program...

On August 12, 2007, hikers came upon hundreds of thin, dead and dying horses in the Jackson Mountain Herd Management Area (HMA):The basin was full of horses hundreds of them the trough was empty and there were horses standing in it! And all around it. (source: Quarter Horse News, Jan. 08, 185 Dead Wild Horses" by L. Hussa). A local BLM Manager admits to driving out to the HMA twice that June to monitor the water and seeing horses standing in the troughs on both occasions. Yet, a BLM report dated August 8 stated that the situation in the HMA was not an emergency.

While BLM stated that there was no emergency and no need to consider water trapping, 185 wild horses eventually died at BLM s Palomino Valley holding facility. An outbreak of salmonella was the result of the extreme stress placed on the horses systems by months of drought conditions and being chased by helicopters in their already weakened condition. Eyewitnesses stated that wild horses were already dying or dead out on the range on August 12. Yet removals didn t begin until August 28, over two weeks later.

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