Saturday, May 29, 2010

Americans Call for Urgent Reform in Department of Interior’s Wild Horse and Burro Program « Straight from the Horse's Heart

Americans Call for Urgent Reform in Department of Interior’s Wild Horse and Burro Program « Straight from the Horse's Heart

Washington, D.C. (May 28, 2010)— Currently being questioned by the House Committee on Natural Resources regarding the Deepwater Horizon disaster, Department of the Interior (DOI) Secretary Ken Salazar has come under fire for his lack of oversight on offshore drilling. Wild horse advocates contend that the mismanagement extends not just to an unparalled ecological disaster at sea, but a humane, environmental and fiscal disaster on our public lands. Wild horses and burros are being rounded up off their legally designated homes on Western ranges while extractive industries are allowed to monopolize public lands at enormous expense to the American taxpayer and the environment.

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