The SRWHMG has a new $20,000 reward donation goal for the Heber wild horse shootings that occurred in Dec. 2021.  Will that be added to the previous reward of $10,000 in 2019 which would bring their donation pledge up to a total of $30,000? 

The FS has never publicized any details pertaining to the Dec 2021 shootings.  So where did the SRWHMG get the following information?  

"These killings are not done by a single shot in the head or heart; they are randomly strewn over the bodies and seem purposely in the most torturous spots for slow ways to die."
https://www.facebook.com/saltriverwildhorsemanagementgroup

This stallion is not livestock, yet that is how the Forest Service intends to treat him. If the Forest Service draft management plan is implemented he will be ripped from his forest home. Please sign the petition at the link below to keep him free and to make Arizona's Heber wild horse herd a study herd. Thank you!
Please sign this petition, which will be delivered to Secretary of Agriculture, Tom Vilsack. who has the distinct authority to declare the Heber Wild horse a “Study Herd” according to the Free-Roaming Wild Horses and Burros Act of 1971:
Section 10 of PL 92-95 (1971 Act) “The Secretaries are authorized and directed to undertake those studies of the habits of wild free-roaming horses and burros that they may deem necessary in order to carry out the provision of the Act.”
The scientific study of these horses will show that no disruptions of the highly evolved family band structures within the herd actually allows the members of the herd to limit their own growth.
If managed as wildlife species, very few roundups will be necessary in the future. Tax payers will save millions of dollars paid out to private individuals to hold wild horses off the range. Repurposing that money can be put right back into managing and protecting the habitat by determining and removing those animals actually destroying the land.

www.change.org/p/secretary-of-agriculture-save-the-last-untouched-wild-horse-herd-help-ispmb-transform-the-management-of-wild-horses?recruiter=1229184439&recruited_by_id=cd9fad80-2a10-11ec-a133-b7efe9370c9d&utm_source=share_petition&utm_campaign=share_petition&utm_term=share_email_responsive&utm_medium=facebook&utm_content=fht-30998734-en-us%3A6&fbclid=IwAR2rxjXKSS29m_0khKs0SwNp88Rq3Es_1ES74QRI3KDgLPQDSBSPPZR0zPQ

There are some wild horse groups and individuals who think the answer to the Heber Wild Horse Territory Management Plan is PZP.  Those people have no clue what the issues are.  The Heber herd is NOT overpopulated.  So PZP is NOT the answer.  The PZP pushers should stick to something they know about.  Or perhaps reach out to those who do know the Heber herd and find out what the real issues are.  

First of all the Heber Wild Horse Territory should be expanded to include the entire Sitgreaves National Forest where horses were historically known to roam for well over a hundred years prior to the Wild Free-Roaming Horses and Burros Act of 1971.  In fact, the Heber herd still roams throughout much of the Sitgreaves.  

​This is the public’s last chance to be a voice for the Heber herd in an attempt to keep them from being managed to extinction.
Buried on the Forest Service website is the notice:
“Official Opportunity to Comment on the Heber Wild Horse Territory EA”
“This solicitation serves as the last designated opportunity for public comment on this project.”
Heber Wild Horse Territory Plan
https://www.fs.usda.gov/project/?project=18916
You must go under Project Documents then click on the Analysis tab in order to find the environmental assessment (EA). There are many pdf files at the Analysis tab. The HWHT_DraftEA is what the public comment period is specifically for.
The HeberDraftEACoverLetter is the last pdf on the list. The cover letter gives the rules for writing in a public comment including the following:
Timeframe for submitting comments
Specific written comments (36 CFR §218.2) on the proposed project will be accepted for 30 calendar days following publication of the notice initiating this comment period in the White Mountain Independent, the newspaper of record. We anticipate the legal
notice to be published on March 23, 2021. However, the actual publication date in the newspaper of record is the exclusive means for calculating the comment period. Those wishing to comment should not rely upon dates or timeframe information provided by any other source. It is the responsibility of the sender to ensure timely receipt of any comments submitted. A timely submission will be determined as outlined in 36 CFR 218.25(a)(4). The regulations prohibit extending the length of the comment period (36 CFR 218.6 (d)).
How to submit comments
Comments including attachments may be submitted electronically to:
https://cara.ecosystem-management.org/Public/CommentInput...
The following formats are acceptable: .doc, .rtf., txt., .html or .pdf.