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What happened to the reward money raised in 2019?

1/10/2022

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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
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Heber Wild Horse Herd Once Again the Target of a Psychopath

1/9/2022

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December 03rd, 2021

12/3/2021

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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


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***The Heber Wild Horses need your voice***

6/29/2021

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***Urgent Request- - - The Heber Wild Horses need your voice***

​Please call or email each of the below listed individuals and ask that they stop the Forest Service’s plan for the capture and removal of wild horses from the Apache-Sitgreaves National Forest near Heber, Arizona, and that they declare the Heber Herd a “study herd” by an independent team of scientists and that the herd be studied for a minimum of 5 to 7 years.

• Secretary of Agriculture, the Honorable Tom Vilsack, Phone 202-720-3631 Email: agsec@usda.gov

• Natural Resources Committee, Phone 202-225-6065 The aide’s name that you will direct your message to is Brandon Bragato. Email: nrdems@mail.​house.gov

• Please call your Senators - https://www.senate.gov/senators/senators-contact.htm

• Please call your Representative - https://www.house.gov/representa.../find-your-representative
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Here’s Why Your Involvement Is Urgently Needed:
The Forest Service released their draft “Plan” that calls for the capture and removal of approximately 400 wild horses from the Apache-Sitgreaves National Forest. The vast majority of these horses would more likely than not languish in long-term holding pens for years, or may go to slaughter. The “Plan” would leave only 50 horses on over 600,000 acres of public lands. Fifty horses is not sufficient to maintain a genetically viable herd, meaning the Forest Service’s “Plan” essentially calls for the total eradication of the Heber herd. Their “Plan” is outrageous!

We Must Act Fast, and here is where you come in. We urgently need your voice on behalf of these magnificent horses! We would like to see the Heber herd preserved as a “study herd”. The Heber Wild Horses are the last remaining herd of wild horses in the United States that has not been “legally” interfered with by humans, making them an ideal “study herd”. This herd has been subjected to “illegal” activity, but there have been no “legal” roundups, and there has been no use of birth control on the herd.

Making the Heber Wild Horses a “study herd” would entail a minimum 5 to 7-year study by an “independent” team of scientists, to include ecologists, behaviorists, and habitat specialists, to understand the horses essentially as a wildlife species. They are currently being managed by the Forest Service and the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) as “livestock”. As “living symbols of the historic and pioneer spirit of the West” (see The Wild Free-Roaming Horses and Burros Act of 1971, Public Law 92-195), our wild horses deserve better!

The 1971 Wild and Free-Roaming Horses and Burros Act (Public Law 92-195) states: “The Secretaries (Interior and Agriculture) 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 provisions of this Act.” As such, our request that the Heber herd be preserved and used as a “study herd” is in keeping with both the letter and the spirit of The Act.

Please, we urgently ask that you make these calls Today! Please share this post widely!
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Heber Wild Horse Territory

5/21/2021

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Make no mistake, the Heber Wild Horse Territory Management Plan Draft was developed to benefit the public lands cattle ranchers.  This Territory map shows two proposed corrals.  Those corrals will be for the capture of wild horses.  No new roads will be built for the capture and removal process.  Those two corrals are right off major existing Forest Service roads making the removal of horses easier and more expedient.  Other corrals already in existence in areas outside the dedicated Territory will also be used for the capture and removal of wild horses.  

This map also shows eight proposed water tanks.  Two of the tanks are shown within the proposed corrals.  The other six are show in two cattle pastures within the Territory that the horses have no access to due to the natural terrain and cattle pasture fences.  There are some gates in the fences that if opened would allow for the horses to move into those pastures.  However, there are Forest Service and Arizona Game and Fish signs on those gates stating that the gates are to remain closed.  

It is obvious that the six proposed water tanks that are not in the corrals are for the use of cattle.  The two tanks within the corrals are there to use for bait trapping wild horses with water and to provide water for the captured horses until they are loaded into trucks and taken away.  
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Keep Them Wild, Free, and Free-Roaming

4/29/2021

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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.  
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The Forest Service Continues With Their Plan to Decimate the Heber Wild Horse Herd

3/31/2021

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​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.
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Dark, Dirty Secrets

2/25/2021

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Somebody knows who killed the Heber wild horses.  Hopefully they will contact law enforcement with the information they have on the killing spree incidents.   
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The Wild Free-Roaming Horses and Burro Act of‭ ‬1971

2/22/2021

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The Wild Free-Roaming Horses and Burro Act of‭ ‬1971,‭ ‬16‭ ‬U.S.C.‭ §§ ‬1331,‭ ‬et seq.‭ (‬the‭ “‬Act‭”) ‬defines‭ “‬wild free-roaming horses and burros‭” ‬as‭ “‬all unbranded and unclaimed horses and burros on public lands in the United States.‭”
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February 20th, 2021

2/20/2021

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