Here is Craig's heartfelt & knowledgeable tribute to the two wild horses whom he rescued from an uncertain fate after their being brutally helicopter-driven & removed from their legal vast public land habitats in northwestern Nevada where they were in no way "overpopulated". Here you will find a wonderful verbal & photographic description of their amazing lives, how they lived & contributed positively, & why they were among the fortunate few who ended up at a caring sanctuary after being unjustly removed from their rightful natural homes. If you like my article, please consider making a tax-deductible, charitable contribution to the Wild Horse and Burro Fund to help with our team's dedicated & professional, steadfast & effective work to restore the wild horse & burro herds where they belong -- in the Wild & at viable population levels in complete, holistically viable habitats that are not monopolized by livestock, OHVs, enormous mining & energy projects, etc. We can do this! Be of good faith & keep the vision of what is going to happen ever present in mind and heart. With God's help we can realize this. In the Light of a Better Tomorrow!

CLICK HERE TO READ CRAIG'S ELOQUENT ARTICLE WITH STUNNING PHOTOS. THIS GIVES VALUABLE & REWARDING INSIGHTS INTO THESE UNIQUE WILD HORSES & THEIR LIVES & INDISPENSABLE VALUE IN NEVADA, CALIFORNIA, THE WEST, & ON PLANET EARTH!

CLICK HERE TO CONTRIBUTE TO NON-PROFIT ANDEAN TAPIR FUND / WILD HORSE AND BURRO FUND 501 C 3 -- THIS IS TAX-DEDUCTIBLE & CONTRIBUTIONS WILL BE MATCHED UP TO $10,000! USE THE "MAKE A DONATION" BUTTON ON THE RIGHT.

FOR YOUR INFORMATION, BELOW PLEASE FIND CONTENT FROM MY EARLIER ALERT CONCERNING THE WORK OF THE WILD HORSE AND BURRO FUND / ANDEAN TAPIR FUND:

WILDLIFE ECOLOGIST CRAIG C. DOWNER HAS BEEN DOING A LOT TO HELP SAVE THE ENDANGERED ANDEAN/ MOUNTAIN TAPIR & TO SET UP A NEW NATURE RESERVE FOR THIS & MANY OTHER RARE/ ENDEMIC/ENDANGERED SPECIES IN PERU'S NORTHERN ANDES. ALSO, CRAIG HAS DONE AN IMMENSE AMOUNT OF FIELD INVESTIGATION & REPORTING, INPUT TO GOVERNMENT AGENCIES, & LEGAL DECLARATIONS CONTRIBUTING TO ONGOING SUITS TO STOP THE ATROCIOUS WIPEOUT PLAN THAT IS GOING FORTH AGAINST AMERICA'S LAST RELATIVELY FEW REMAINING WILD HORSES & BURROS. RIGHT NOW OUR NONPROFIT, WHICH HAS A SILVER STAR RATING, IS TAKING PART IN VITAL FILM PRODUCTIONS, LEGAL SUITS, FIELD STUDIES, ROUNDUP APPEALS, & GENERAL PUBLIC EDUCATION EFFORTS, WHICH INCLUDE WEEKLY RALLIES, PUBLIC SPEECHES & POWER POINT PRESENTATIONS, NEWSPAPER, JOURNAL, AND PROFESSIONAL ARTICLES & INPUTS, BOTH FOR THE ENDANGERED ANDEAN TAPIRS & THE ILLEGALLY PERSECUTED WILD HORSES & BURROS TOGETHER WITH THEIR APPROPRIATE & LEGAL HABITATS. ALSO, CRAIG STANDS UP & GIVES INPUT FOR ALL OF THE PERISSODACTYLA ORDER INCLUDING ALL MEMBERS OF THE HORSE, TAPIR, & RHINOCEROS FAMILIES. BASICALLY, THIS IS AN ENDANGERED ORDER MOST OF WHOSE SPECIES ARE ON THE RED LIST OF THREATENED & ENDANGERED SPECIES PUT OUT BY THE WORLD CONSERVATION UNION (IUCN) SPECIES SURVIVAL COMMISSION (SSC) TO WHICH CRAIG BELONGS & GIVES MAJOR & FREQUENT INPUT ON A VARIETY OF SPECIES & NATURE RESERVES, BOTH ESTABLISHED & POTENTIAL -- "SHOULD BE" RESERVES.

PLEASE FIND BELOW A RECENT PUBLICATION CRAIG HAS DONE TO INCREASE KNOWLEDGE & CONCERN FOR THESE ANIMALS & THEIR HABITAT. HIS APPROACH IS TO PRESERVE & DEFEND AS WELL AS RESTORE THEM IN THE WILD, I.E. IN THE WORLD OF NATURE AS FREE & NATURALLY LIVING PRESENCES, UNALTERED & AT SUBSTANTIAL, GENETICALLY VIABLE POPULATION SIZES. THESE WONDERFUL ANIMALS SHOULD BE ALLOWED TO FILL THEIR HARMONIOUS ANCESTRAL ROLES/NICHES. BEING GREAT NATURAL GARDENERS WHO BUILD HEALTHY SOILS & DISPERSE INTACT SEEDS OF A GREAT VARIETY INCLUDING ESPECIALLY NATIVES, THESE ARE KEYSTONE SPECIES AS WELL AS SUPERIOR CARBON SEQUESTERS & CATASTROPHIC WILDFIRE MITIGATORS & EVEN PREVENTERS.

PLEASE FIND BELOW CRAIG'S ORIGINAL ARTICLE IN ITS ENTIRETY THAT EXPOSES THE SHAMELESS DISINFORMATION CAMPAIGN THAT MANY OF THOSE IN POWER ARE PERPETRATING TO WHITEWASH THEIR PLANS TO BASICALLY WIPE OUT AMERICA'S PRECIOUS AND ECOLOGICALLY BENEFICIAL, "KEYSTONE" RETURNED NATIVE WILD HORSES AND BURROS.

CLICK HER TO READ CRAIG'S LATEST BRILLIANT EXPOSE OF THE ESTABLISHMENT'S SHAMEFULL DISINFORMATION CAMPAIGN AIMED AT AMERICA'S LAST REMAINING WILD HORSES & BURROS. THIS IS THE ORIGINAL, UNABRIDGED EDITION W/ FULL SOURCES & TEXT!

GIVING TUESDAY MATCHING CONTRIBUTIONS SUMMING TO $10,000 CAN ALSO BE MADE TO CRAIG'S RESERVE DESIGN PROJECT FOR AMERICA'S WILD HORSES & BURROS BY CLICKING HERE.

FOR YOUR CONVENIENCE & ADDITIONAL IMPORTANT POINTS, BELOW PLEASE FIND CRAIG'S RECENT STATEMENT TO THE NATIONAL WILD HORSE AND BURRO ADVISORY BOARD THAT MET IN RENO ON JUNE 28-30, 2023.

CLICK HERE TO READ THIS ADDITIONAL POWERFUL AND MORE CONCISE SPEECH FOR THE BOARD & FOR EVERYONE CONCERNED W/ THIS CRUCIAL ISSUE!

FOR YOUR CONVENIENCE, BELOW PLEASE FIND MY RECENT ALERT THAT GIVES MY COMPLETE 6-PAGE INPUT TO THE NATIONAL WHB ADVISORY BOARD FOR THEIR RENO MEETING 6-28-30, 2023.

America's wild horses and burros are in desperate need of help!

They are being targeted by unscrupulous people who want to

totally monopolize our public lands and resources!

They refuse to share the land and freedom with

genetically viable population levels and they are

constantly pressuring the Bureau of Land Management

and the US Forest Service to do a squeeze play on

the relatively small populations of mustangs and burros

that remain to grace the West.  

Livestock outnumber and out-consume these wild equids

by a ratio of at least 50-to-one on Western public lands.

The so-called "path forward" our government agencies

have adopted is a cave-in to public lands exploiters, especially ranchers, and is deceptively designed to take away their basic survival necessities: forage, water, shelter, and sufficient space to be truly thriving and to live naturally

and in their gracious, free-living lifestyle which actually

restores balance, integrity, biodiversity and resilience

upon our public lands. Additionally, they greatly help

combat Global Warming and prevent catastrophic

wildfires! We must insist that our public servants truly 

enforce the Wild Free-Roaming Horses and Burros Act 

(WFHBA). Now is the time to voice your intelligent and

vociferous protest concerning what is happening! Do this

to the National Wild Horse and Burro Advisory Board 

whose 9 professional members should be fending for the 

rights of these wonderful deeply rooted native

wild horses and burros, not going along with a disgraceful

undermining and subversion of the WFHBA and several

other laws including the Multiple Use Act, that should be

guaranteeing not eliminating and domesticating -- even

killing these beautiful and life-restoring presences!

They possess legal rights upon our public lands and 

the General Public favors their fair and just treatment!

The National Wild Horse and Burro Advisory Board Meeting

will take place June 28 to 30, 2023, at the Whitney Peak Hotel, 255 North Virginia Street, Reno, Nevada. This meeting is open to the public from 8 A.M. to 5 P.M. each of these three days. And the public can make a verbal statement to the Advisory Board in person or virtually via Zoom on Wednesday, June 28, from 3:25 PM to

4:15 PM, Pacific Daylight Time and again on Thursday, June 29th from 1:30 PM to 2:30 PM, PDT and finally on Friday, June 30, from 9:30 AM to 10:30 AM.

You can choose to comment either in person or virtually by signing up through the BLM website.

Written comments to the Advisory Board can be sent via email to BLM_WO_Advisory_Board_Comments@blm.gov. 

Wild horse and burro supporters can also register through this link:

CLICK HERE NOW TO REGISTER TO TESTIFY FOR AMERICA'S AMAZING WILD HORSES & BURROS IN THE WILD!

The written comments should arrive three days prior to the meeting, or better yet, by Friday, June 23rd, so that all the board members can read and consider them during the meeting. 

Those wishing to attend the field trip to the Blue Wing Complex must register by email at dboothe@blm.gov no later than June 21st at5 PM Pacific Daylight Time.

By acting in unison and with clear vision and perseverance, we can win for the wild horses and burros In the Wild!

CLICK HERE FOR CRAIG'S INPUT TO THE NATIONAL WILD HORSE & BURRO ADVISORY BOARD, JUNE 28-30, 2023

Here's my earlier notices, just if you want to delve into past communiques:

Dear friends and acquaintances :

Trust this finds you well and in good spirits.

Above please find the link to my recent presentation defending the wild horses and burros of the West. I would greatly appreciate it if you could give it a careful view and let me know what you think. 

America's wild horses and burros today are really under vicious attack. They have been betrayed be the very agencies who are mandated to protect and defend them as well as their legal habitats as well as their natural and free lifestyles as well as their genetic viability and ability to harmoniously and naturally adapt and fill their life-restoring and enhancing niches and roles in the wonderful world of Nature we all should learn to share as home!

Anyway, enough of the promo. Hope you will watch this carefully. It gives some photos and factual details concerning actual herds and their habitats and the disturbing issues of injustice that surround how they have been treated and plans for them.

Happy Spring -- season of Life's Renewal and Progress!

Craig

P.S. You can click on the links on the first slide to learn more about this very critical expose and call for reform and restoration of the herds and their habitats. 

AND IF YOU HAVEN'T ALREADY, PLEASE READ THE BELOW LETTER TO THE 118TH CONGRESS CAREFULLY & BE SUPPORTIVE. IT'S THE RIGHT WAY OUT OF THE CURRENT SURVIVAL CRISIS FOR AMERICA'S PRECIOUS & LIFE- RESTORING WILD

HORSES & BURROS & THEIR RIGHTFUL LAND & FREEDOM (IF YOU AGREE PLEASE WROTE YOUR CONGRESSMAN & SENATOR IN SUPPORT OF THIS STRONG BUT MUCH NEEDED MEDICINE):

LETTER TO 118^TH CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

May 18, 2023

Honorable Elected Congressmen/women and Senators:

Congratulations on making it to the Washington Congress representing your state and hope you are enjoying the Spring season.

Recently I met with your aides covering Public Lands issues to give information concerning our country’s beautiful and valuable wild horses and burros and why I am very concerned about what is happening to them and how they are being denied their legal rights to live at truly healthy population levels in corresponding viable, year-round habitats.

As a wildlife ecologist during my career, I have made the wild horses and burros, along with others of their Order, a chief focus. What has stood out particularly is that these horses and burros are ancient and long-standing, as well as beneficial, members of the North American life community. Being different from the cloven-hoofed, ruminant herbivores, which they balance out, they are real gardeners of the natural world who more greatly build healthy soils, seed a diversity of plants, including many natives, and, due to their blunter, more rounded hooves as well as upper and lower incisors, do not impact the soils and vegetation as severely. In fact, objective scientific studies have shown that they actually restore and enhance many ecosystems as keystone species, including, of course, right here in North America, their evolutionary cradle.

These very beneficial animals, who are “national heritage species” as well as “returned North American natives”, are, unfortunately being treated abominably and very much contrary to the true spirit and intent of the unanimously passed Wild Free-Roaming Horses and Burros Act (Public Law 92-195, 16 U.S.C. 1331-1340, abbrev. WFHBA), as well as a number of other Acts when appreciated for their true intents and purposes.

One of the most disturbing aspects of current BLM-USDI and USFS-USDA policies (the two agencies charged with wild equid protection and conservation) concerns the enormous amount of filtered and skewed information that is put out by public lands resource exploiters who deviously distort the truth and narrow the perspective, or overview, in order to cast blame upon, or “scapegoat” the wild, naturally living horses and burros. These are people who realize enormous, overly subsidized profits on our – the peoples’ – public lands, yet who, instead of being grateful for this and showing respect for the wild horses and burros in their relatively minor legal habitats on BLM and USFS lands, rather have become insufferably selfish in refusing to share the land and freedom with these wonderful and inspiring animals! These people really need to be checked in the name of the public good as well as in the name of defending the precious life community on Earth.

I am including some fair and objective assessments of the current wild horse and burro survival crisis in America. Though legally protected, these innocent animals are being viciously attacked, not only by their traditional enemies against whom the WFHBA was meant to defend them, but by the very agencies that were and remain presently mandated to defend them in their legal habitats, meaning to defend their free and natural lifestyle and the realization of their truer nature, as opposed to the derogatory “feral” domestic escapee label their detractors like to put on them.

While analyzing the accompanying information, I urge you to carefully consider the Relative Proportions between the grazing pressure of livestock and that of the wild equids. Also, consider the relative proportions of the impacts of public lands mining and energy development as well as vehicles and other factors in relation to the wild equids and their effects. This more all-inclusive view of what is happening upon our public lands truly unmasks the prejudiced claims against the wild horses and burros for what they actually are: a form of egotistic put-down and negativity aimed at the horses and burros and their true place in nature. This perversity mustn’t carry the day, but needs to be dispelled by greater truth and justice.

What can be done to correct this terribly unjust situation? How can we restore the wild horses and burros, along with, as well as in, their rightful legal habitats throughout the West and at truly long-term- viable, thriving, un-biologically altered and harmoniously adapted populations.

As a professional wildlife ecologist and conservationist who takes his duty to the whole of Nature seriously, I propose the Restore Our American Mustangs and Burros Reserve Design and Rewilding Act, or ROAM-RD for short. This approach derives from Conservation Biology and would adhere and be consistent with the true spirit and intent of the WFHBA. It would achieve the following urgent reforms:

(1) Restore the wild horses and wild burros to their rightful legal Herd Areas on BLM and Territories on US Forest Service lands wherever possible.

(2) Establish complete, year-round and long-term-viable habitats for each particular mustang and burro herd with all the various requirements for truly viable population sizes, adequate forage, water, shelter, minerals, seasonal habitats, etc.

(3) Reform the Appropriate Management Level (AML) population designations for all the original wild equid herds and along with this the Animal Unit Months (AUM) forage allocations in order to provide adequate sustenance during all seasons of the year that would insure the crucially resilient survival of each herd.

(4) Cut back on livestock grazing permits and other public lands exploiting permits such as mining and energy development within the legal habitats of the wild horses and burros as the WFHBA mandates as well as 43 C.F.R. 4710.5 & .6 and other related laws authorize. This would restore the true and core intent of the WFHBA that mandates these legal equid habitats be “principally devoted to the welfare and benefit” of the wild horses and burros themselves, not public lands ranchers and every other public land exploiting interest before them – as is currently the case! This is right in Section 2 c of the WFHBA, just as “minimum feasible level” management is in Section 3 a. (See Introduction section of my book The Wild Horse Conspiracy for points of law.)

(5) Instead of disrespectful, invasive alterations of the wild horses and burros biological constitutions, such as certain part-time or permanent sterilizing drugs such as Gona Con and PZP, and instead of the cruel and even sadistic surgical sterilizations, such as ovariectomies and castrations, allow the wild horse and burro populations to self-stabilize their numbers once having filled their respective ecological niches within their variously bounded natural habitats. Although this equid capacity is often overlooked, these horses and burros are long-standing and harmonious members of Earth’s life community that are capable of self-limitation once they have filled their respective ecological niches. Additionally, the restoration of natural predators can and does play an important role in achieving this self-stabilization, but it is by no means the only means or even necessarily the primary means thereof. It is very important for people to allow the benign establishment of mature social units, often called bands among the horses, and harems among the more territorial burros. These can and do limit reproduction by sub-mature horses and burros. This occurs because the older males and females repress reproduction by the younger males and females, both behaviorally and in other ways. This natural population stabilization has been going on for ages, yet it is precisely what the thoughtless and draconian helicopter roundups destroy, as do other herd reduction methods. This is counter-productive to achieving harmony and balance within wild-horse/burro-containing ecosystems.

(6) Set up Cooperative Agreements by using authorities under Section 4 and 6 of the WFHBA in order to achieve the true and noble purposes of the WFHBA. This will undo so much of the mischievous subterfuge that has taken away the wild horses’ and burros’ legal habitats – often totally! These are on lands that should have been occupied by the wild horses and burros today, and beneficially so! Section 4 and 6 would allow our public servants to solidify positive contracts that support rather than take away the wild equid’s rightful land and freedom. This can work greatly to combat Global Warming and mitigate against or even prevent catastrophic wildfires.

(7) Reserve Design and Rewilding also involve the establishment of reserve habitat boundaries and the identification of those natural barriers that exist in any given area. These would greatly facilitate any necessary containment of any given herd, preventing the horse and burro from coming into harm’s way in agricultural, industrial and urban areas. Where necessary, artificial, semi-permeable barriers, such as the very effective long-&-pole buck-rail type fences could be employed. These would be particularly doable around forested areas that could provide the appropriate logs and poles. Also, the establishment of buffer zones is very important to achieve an attenuation of equid presence around the margins of the reserve (see my Reserve Design proposal https://www.gofundme.com/mstngreservedesign )

(8) Positive educational programs would undo the negatively-premised years of disinformation and sinister plotting that have been trying to destroy the wild horses and burros, take over their habitats completely and totally subvert the true and noble spirit of the WFHBA. For many years this has been going on! Particularly important is the positive involvement of human communities that surround the wild horse and wild burro herds. These communities can be “brought on board” with a positive approach to learning to live in harmony with the wild, naturally living horses and burros and the fascinating and enhanced wild-equid-containing ecosystems. The horses and burros contribute very positively to these as deeply rooted North American Natives. Believe me! If our public officials had taken this approach from the beginning of the WFHBA, we would now see a much more pleasant, healthy world than today!

Conclusion:

Given the dire situation of America’s wild horses and burros, bold and caring action is required now to avert a total tragedy. First, we must not be intimidated by what appear insurmountable obstacles. Let us affirm: these can be overcome. Where there is a will born of a higher vision and belief for a better tomorrow … this inevitable sense of what is right for ALL of us, including the horses and burros, there shall open up a way forth. We mustn’t lose our faith, mustn’t lose sight of the vision of this superior way of life “when man and horse in Freedom live / once again with mutual Respect”. (From my “Poem to Wild Horses” in my book Wonder Streams of the Soul, p. 20, and delivered during my presentation on 4-25-2023 at the Save Our Wild Horses conference in Washington, DC.)

To conclude, I present to Americans the Restore Our Wild Horses and Burros through Reserve Design and Rewilding Act, ROAM-RD for short. This proposed plan is described in detail in accompanying documents. I would greatly appreciate your careful consideration of my professional proposal and, if you agree, I would likewise appreciate your help in formalizing this urgently needed reform as an introduced bill. If we promote it with true heart, clear vision and resolute persistence, we can make this urgent change in our society happen. The world needs this today! Rather than the present misnamed “path forward” subscribed by BLM, this will be the true road into a much more enlightened and balanced future for America’s magnificent wild and free-living horses and burros, for us humans, and for all the Great Rest of Life!

In keen expectation of your response, I am

Sincerely and Respectfully,

Craig C. Downer, Wildlife Ecologist

Wild Horse and Burro Fund / Andean Tapir Fund (501 c 3)

P.O. Box 456

Minden, NV 89423

Cell: (775) 901-2094

Email: ccdowner@aol.com

Enclosures: https://www.horsetalk.co.nz/2021/08/22/outrageous-treatment-americas-wild-horses-habitat/

https://www.horsetalk.co.nz/2021/11/15/close-personal-reaching-out-wild-horses/

https://thewildhorseconspiracy.org/heber-asnf-mustang-report-11-2022/

https://renonr.com/2021/12/20/wild-horse-act-subverted-over-50-years/

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/274006946_The_Horse_and_Burro_as_Positively_Contributing_Returned_Natives_in_North_America

https://thewildhorseconspiracy.org/urgent-need-for-reserve-design-rewilding-to-restore-americas-wild-horses-burros/

REMEMBER YOU CAN CALL THE CONGRESSIONAL SWITCHBOARD NUMBER TO GET THROUGH TO YOUR CONGRESSMAN/WOMAN AND SENATORS AT 1-202-224-3121. ALSO YOU CAN CONTACT THESE BY GOING ONTO HTTPS://WWW.USA.GOV/

ALSO THE HOUSE APPROPRIATIONS COMMITTEE MUST NOT CONTINUE TO GIVE CARTE BLANCHE TO THE WILD HORSE & BURRO ENEMIES FOR THE OUTRAGEOUS ROUNDUPS, SO CALL THEM AT 1-202-225-2771. CONTACT THE MEDIA, YOUR LOCAL, COUNTY & STATE ELECTED & APPOINTED OFFICIALS INCLUDING YOUR GOVERNOR. ALL THIS CAN MAKE A BIG POSITIVE DIFFERENCE FOR AMERICA'S VALUABLE & ECOSYSTEM-RESTORING NATURALLY LIVING HORSES & BURROS, WHO ALSO GREATLY HELP COMBAT GLOBAL WARMING & PREVENT CATASTROPHIC WILDFIRES AS THE NATURAL GARDENERS THEY ARE!

IF YOU HAVEN'T ALREADY YOU CAN ALSO VIEW THE ACTION HOUR VIDEO INTERVIEW FROM MAY 13TH, 2023, RETAINED BELOW FOR YOUR CONVENIENCE ALONG WITH A FEW STILL VALUABLE EARLIER ALERTS.

BE SURE TO CLICK HERE TO WATCH THIS TRUTH-REVEALING VIDEO IN WHICH CRAIG EXPLAINS WHAT HAS GONE WRONG WITH AMERICA'S WILD HORSE & BURRO JUSTICE & WHAT MUST BE DONE TO RESTORE INTEGRITY & THE LEGAL HERDS & THEIR HABITATS AT TRULY LONG-TERM-VIABLE LEVELS & CONDITIONS.

UPDATE ON ACTIVITIES FOR WILD HORSE AND BURRO FUND SUPPORTERS & INTERESTED PARTIES, MAY 4TH, 2023:

I was recently in Washington DC for a week and a half where I participated in the Save Our Wild Horses rally (see https://saveourwildhorses.net) on Earth Day, then the great 3-day conference, delivering a talk and PowerPoint that highlighted my observations & activist activities on behalf of the considerable wild horse & burro herds & habitats I have visited over the years & about which I have made in-depth studies (e.g. my peer-reviewed, photo illustrated report at https://thewildhorseconspiracy.org/heber-asnf-mustang-report-11-2022).

I was privileged to attend a variety of excellent presentations from fellow dedicated wild horse & burro scientists & advocates that covered many aspects of their conservation, from proofs they are deeply rooted natives & restorers of ecosystems in North America to political hurdles that we must all unite together to overcome & various strategies to do so. --We can do this, but it will take persistence, learning past lessons, dedication, & keeping the true vision alive & well for these noble animals & their rightful land & freedom that we people will learn to share.

After the conference, I lobbied for 3 days, both Congressmen/women & Senators & their aides to correct the negative wild horse & burro policies that are presently being carried out contrary to the true spirit & intent of the Wild Free-Roaming Horses & Burros Act as well as several other Acts, including the Endangered Species Act, National Historical Heritage Act as well as NEPA.

I have made some great contacts, including Congressmen & their aides, & will be following through with them to effect the urgently needed reforms. As per the subject of my earlier alerts, I continue to promote the holistic, horse- and nature- respecting Reserve Design & Rewilding approach that will restore & abide by the WFHBA's true intent.

The bill that will be introduced is called ROAM-RD for short. This stands for RESTORE OUR AMERICAN MUSTANGS AND BURROS THROUGH RESERVE DESIGN. In my many meetings, I encountered much interest in restoring integrity to the program both in the Department of Interior's Bureau of Land Management (BLM) & in the Department of Agriculture's U.S. Forest Service.

In this challenging but supremely important endeavor, my team & I would appreciate your continued support for this by calling your Senators and Congressmen/women & by contacting the President & the BLM & USFS officers themselves. The Congressional Switchboard for both the House of Representatives & the Senate is (202) 224-3121. Also of key importance: the House Appropriations Committee is now considering BLM's outrageous budget to continue to eliminate most of the already extremely reduced herds. This powerful committee must hear from those of us who truly appreciate, value & care for these wonderful, life-restoring "national heritage species". Their number to call is (202)225-2771.

You can reach BLM and USFS national directors, the Secretary of Interior over BLM & the Secretary of Agriculture over US Forest Service -- as well as President Biden & your Senators & Representatives at https://govtrack.us.

To help me & my dedicated team meet our necessary expenses, please consider contributing tax-deductible donations to our 501 c 3, the Wild Horse and Burro Fund. You can do so via PayPal via our website: https://thewildhorseconspiracy.org or just

CLICK HERE TO HELP SUPPORT WILD HORSE AND BURRO FUND'S WORK TO BRING THE MUCH-NEEDED REFORMS & HERD & HABITAT RESTORATIONS FOR AMERICA'S CHERISHED & LIFE-RESTORING WILD HORSES & BURROS & THEIR RIGHTFUL LAND AND FREEDOM!

You may also send a check, money order or cash to: Wild Horse and Burro Fund, P.O. Box 456, Minden, NV 89423.

Atop this alert, check out the beautiful silken horse figures that I photographed during the exciting Save Our Wild Horses rally at our beloved U.S. Capitol: Washington, D.C. I had worked here before, first time for Friends of Animals & more recently for the Global Tomorrow Coalition as the Managing Editor of their InterAction publication.

It is a privilege and an honor to be able to exercise our democratic rights to stand up for what we believe & even know is right & good & for a more perfect future that we will share with truly long-term viable, naturally living horses & burros in their just & complete, long-term viable life communities, or habitats, which they greatly restore, embellish & enhance!



Note: A portion of my submitted speech to the conference was published along with photos in the Equine Collaborative International, Inc. publication "GROUNDWORK, Spring, 2023". I am planning on doing additional herd & habitat field studies, professional assessments & reports as well as to continue litigation to stop the misnamed "Path Forward" that is causing so much harm to America's precious & very beneficial wild horses and burros IN THE WILD!

Note: The second smaller photo is of wild horse band in the Onaqui Herd Management Area in western Utah (June 2021). Both this & the top photo are Copyright by myself: Craig C. Downer. If you haven't already, please check out my field study report from June, 2020, & which includes the wonderful Spanish-mustang-containing Sulphur Wild Horse HMA, also in western Utah. Here's the link: https://thewildhorseconspiracy.org/2021/04/17/report-on-wild-horse-herds-and-habitat-in-western-Utah-and-eastern-and-central-Nevada

Below please find important earlier alert information sources for your convenience.

CLICK HERE TO VIEW THIS VERY TIMELY PRESENTATION PROVIDING NECESSARY SCIENTIFIC & LEGAL FACTS CONCERNING WHAT IS NECESSARY TO RESTORE TRULY THRIVING WILD HORSE/BURRO HERDS & HABITATS IN AMERICA! THE PASSCODE FOR VIEWING IS 9wRVmw.U

PLEASE TRY TO ATTEND THE SAVE OUR WILD HORSES EVENT IN WASHINGTON, DC, STARTING WITH RALLY ON EARTH DAY, SATURDAY APRIL 22, 2023, FOLLOWED BY 3 DAYS OF CONFERENCE, INCLUDING ONE BY CRAIG WITH POWERPOINT & ENDING W/ LOBBYING DAY ON APRIL 26--THOUGH ONE CAN CONTINUE TO LOBBY LONGER. Go to saveourwildhorses.net for further information.

CLICK HERE TO LEARN ABOUT & REGISTER FOR THE SAVE OUR WILD HORSES 5-DAY EVENT IN WASHINGTON, DC, BETWEEN EARTH DAY, APRIL 22 & APRIL 26, 2023

CLICK HERE FOR AN EXPOSE ON THE DISASTROUS POLICIES BEING CARRIED OUT TO DESTROY AMERICA'S LAST VIABLE WILD HORSE & BURRO HERDS & OVERTAKE THEIR HABITATS INCLUDING A DESCRIPTION OF WHAT MUST HAPPEN TO RESCUE THESE VERY BENEFICIAL RETURNED NATIVES INVOLVING RESERVE DESIGN & REWILDING

CLICK HERE FOR THE SCIENTIFIC PROOFS THAT WILD HORSES BENEFIT NATURAL ECOSYSTEMS & COMBAT GLOBAL WARMING.

CLICK HERE FOR A BRILLIANT EXPOSE, DEFENSE OF & STRATEGY TO RESTORE AMERICA'S WILD HORSES/BURROS/HABITATS IN TRUE CONFORMANCE W/ THE UNANIMOUSLY PASSED WILD FREE-ROAMING HORSES & BURROS ACT!!

PLEASE CLICK HERE TO READ CRAIG'S 5-PAGE STATEMENT URGING IMMEDIATE PASSAGE OF THE SAFE BILL & CONTACT YOUR CONGRESSMEN & THE COMMITTEE TO SUPPORT IMMEDIATE PASSAGE OF THE SAFE ACT BILL TO STOP TRANSPORTATION OF HORSES TO SLAUGHTER

CRAIG IS LEGALLY APPEALING TO SAVE A MAJOR WILD BURRO POPULATION AT THE MARIETTA WILD BURRO RANGE IN SOUTHERN NEVADA. HE IS ALSO GIVING TALKS & POWERPOINTS AND GUIDING TOURS TO SEE THE REMAINING WILD HORSES AND BURROS AND EDUCATE THE PUBLIC ON THIS CRITICAL "QUALITY OF LIFE" ISSUE. HE IS ALSO TESTIFYING TO PASS THE SAFE ACT BILL TO STOP CRUEL & DEADLY TRANSPORT OF EQUIDS, BOTH WILD & DOMESTIC TO SLAUGHTER, CHIEFLY IN MEXICO, CANADA & ASIA. 

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PLEASE CONSIDER HELPING THE WILD HORSE AND BURRO FUND TO GET RESERVE DESIGN INTO PRACTICE ALONG W/ STOPPING THE ROUNDUPS & REDUCING THE LIVESTOCK, ETC. IN THE HERD AREAS. WE MUST STOP THE OUTRAGEOUS ROUNDUPS & GET RESERVE DESIGN INTO LAW & PRACTICE RIGHT AWAY, AS THE HERDS ARE RAPIDLY BEING ELMINATED! PLEASE SUPPORT BY CONTRIBUTING VIA thewildhorseconspiracy dot org WEBSITE OR BY CONTRIBUTING DIRECTLY THROUGH THE WILD HORSE AND BURROS FUND'S GO FUND ME:

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