ROAM Act passes in the House

Here is a short list of government contacts

Please write, e-mail and/or call
on behalf of Cloud and all our wild mustangs.

Contact the following agencies and representatives:

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PRESIDENT:

President Barack Obama
The White House
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW
Washington, DC 20500
Comment line: (202) 456-1111
www.whitehouse.gov/CONTACT/

 

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CONGRESS:

1. Stop the BLM from managing our wild horses to extinction.
2. Halt all round-ups of wild horses until range conditions and herd numbers can be verified.
3. Return wild horses in holding to the 100+ herd areas (19+ million acres) that have been zeroed out.
4. Expand the Pryor Mountain. Wild Horse Range for Cloud’s Herd & protect herd at viable population level of at least 150 adult horses until range is expanded.

House.gov

Congressman Nick Rahall (D-WV)
2307 Rayburn HOB
Washington,DC 20515
ph: (202) 225-3452

Congressman Raul Grijalva (D-AZ)
1440 Longworth HOB
Washington, DC 20515
ph: (202) 225-2435
fax: (202) 225-1541
Email: Laurel.Angell@mail.house.gov

 

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SENATE:

Reinstate wild horse protections removed in 2004 by the Burns Rider and include language in the bill that would prevent BLM from destroying healthy wild horses.

Senate.gov

Montana Senator Max Baucus (D)
—specific to Cloud’s herd
511 Hart Senate Office Building
Washington DC, 20510
ph: (202) 224-2651
e-mail from: http://baucus.senate.gov/contact/index.cfm

Montana Senator Jon Tester (D)
—specific to Cloud’s herd
204 Russell Senate Office Building
Washington DC, 20510
phone: (202) 224-2644
e-mail from: http://tester.senate.gov/Contact/

Senate Energy & Natural Resources Committee:
304 Dirksen Senate Building
Washington, DC 20510
ph: (202) 224-4971
fax: (202) 224-6163
e-mail all 23 members at: http://energy.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=Contact.Home

 

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DEPARTMENT OF INTERIOR - BUREAU OF LAND MANAGEMENT:

1. Work to expand the legal boundaries of the Pryor Mountain Wild Horse Range to include the historic and current use areas in the Custer National Forest. This will allow for a truly viable herd of 200-300 mustangs.
2. Keep the population at a viable number of at least 150 adults until range expansion is achieved. This will allow for the preservation of the rare Spanish genetics of the herd. Bringing in horses from other herds is ill advised, unnecessary and costly.
3. Do not remove older horses
4. Work to protect the mountain lions that have kept the herd at zero population growth in years past. Natural management should be the goal.

Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar \ DOI
1849 C Street NW
Washington DC 20240
ph: (202) 208-7351
exsec@ios.doi.gov

BLM Acting Director Ron Wenker &
Acting Deputy Director Mike Nedd
1849 C Street NW
Washington DC, 20040
ph: (202) 208-3801
Ron_Wenker@blm.gov
Mike_Nedd@blm.gov

Don Glenn
BLM Division Chief of
Wild Horse and Burro Program:
BLM Washington Office
1849 C Street NW
Rm. 5665
Washington DC 20240
ph: (800) 710-7597 or (202) 208-3801
fax: (202) 208-5242
wildhorse@blm.gov

Jim Sparks, Field Manager BLM
- Billings Field Office
5001 Southgate Drive
Billings, MT 59101
ph: (406) 896-5223
fax: (406) 896-5281
Jim_Sparks@blm.gov

 

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UNITED STATE DEPT OF AGRICULTURE:

Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack
U.S. Department of Agriculture
1400 Independence Ave., S.W.
Washington, DC 20250
Email: AgSec@usda.gov

 

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FOREST SERVICE:

Ask the following people to please work with the BLM to expand the Pryor Mountain Wild Horse Range to include the historic and current use areas in the Custer National Forest. This will allow for a truly viable herd of 200-300 mustangs.

• Abigail Kimbell
  Chief USDA Forest Service
  1400 Independence Ave., SW

  Washington, D.C. 
20250-0003


  ph: (202) 205-1661
  e-mail: akimbell@fs.fed.us
  


• Mary Erickson
  Acting Forest Supervisor - Custer National Forest
  PO Box 130
  Bozeman, MT 59771
  ph: (406) 587-6701
  mcerickson@fs.fed.us
  


• Chris Worth
  Acting Deputy Supervisor
  1310 Main Street
  Billings, MT 59105
  ph: (406)657-6200
  cworth@fs.fed.us
  

 

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Please write letters to the editor, ask that your favorite radio and TV hosts cover this story, and last but not least, please tell your friends and family about wild horses and ask them to join the Cloud Foundation in helping to protect and preserve wild horses on our public lands.

 

List compiled by The Cloud Foundation, March, 2009 ~ www.thecloudfoundation.org

Reprinted with permission