Horse auction input urged: Lawmakers ask BLM to make sales more open

[NVMojo]

WASHINGTON -- Some federal lawmakers are urging the Bureau of Land Management to seek more input from the public before selling wild horses that could be led to slaughter.

Sen. Harry Reid, D-Nev., said the BLM should make the sales more open after the agency announced last week it had sold 200 mares captured in Nevada to a Wyoming group for $50 each.

"I think there should be public comment," Reid said.

Three U.S. House members on Wednesday urged the BLM to undertake a public rule-writing process to clarify how sales take place and how it will identify horses to be sold under a new law that Congress passed last fall.

The new law, initiated by Sen. Conrad Burns, R-Mont., directs the BLM to sell wild horses that are more than 10 years old and those that have been put up for adoption three times with no takers.

It also removed restrictions preventing wild horses from being sold for slaughter, a change that has drawn protests from animal rights groups.

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[Az_lefty]

1. I have two Mustangs, their great horses.

I hate the idea of them being led off to slaughter.

[phusion]

2. I don't understand...

Why does the BLM believe they have to round these horses up?

What's wrong with just letting them be?

[MisterP]

3. because that'll go against the great new American motto:

Kill Everything.
The Antichrist was to herald the end of all life.
Bad George!

[underpants]

4. Folks we CAN NOT let this happen

I know it is hoping against hope but this is absolutely ridiculous.

IT IS OUR LAND. Just because the cattle and sheep industries pay a miniscule fee to graze there that does not mean that these wild horses have to die. This is beyond the pale.

YOU MUST ACT. I have e-mailed and called my Congressman and both Senators on this. YOU MUST ACT.