13/11/2024
Addressing the elephant in the room: Politics
We received a short, polite private message from someone who apparently did not like our post which mentioned Project 2025. The fact is that politics and the fate of America’s wild horses and burros cannot be separated since our government agencies are in charge of our wild herds. And as we have stated before, neither political party has done our herds any favors.
There are numerous pages that focus on photos and stories about the Heber herd. Those pages are important and necessary because they help to spread awareness of this herd. While we also share photos we are an informational page with a focus on reporting on issues affecting the Heber herd and sometimes other herds as well.
Going forward, President-elect Donald Trump’s administration will hold the reins, pardon the pun, for the next four years. Throughout that time we will continue to report on issues concerning the future of America’s wild horses.
We felt it could be beneficial to share our response to the person who private messaged us since there are probably others who feel the same as that person.
Our response:
If you are referring to what we said about Project 2025, we are sorry if stating the truth upsets you. Our page is about the Heber wild horse herd but we also report from time to time on other wild horse herds or the collective wild horse population. What is stated in Project 2025 will be catastrophic if carried out.
That being said we wish we had good news to talk about but unfortunately at this time we do not. However if that changes and the new administration decides to protect America’s wild horses and burros we will be overjoyed to report that and you can be sure we will! We would love nothing more than to know America’s wild horses and burros were safe from capture and death. In fact if you have some evidence to indicate President-elect Trump is planning on protecting them please share that with us and if we can verify it as fact we will post it even giving you credit for bringing it to our attention if you so wish. But until then we can only report on what is currently in their plan.
William Perry Pendley, the Acting Director of the Bureau of Land Management from 2019 to 2021 (during the Trump administration), wrote the section on Department of the Interior (pages 517-544)
Pendley's section on wild horses & burros (on pages 528-529) ends with this sentence:
"Congress must enact laws permitting the BLM to dispose
humanely of these animals."
