Comments about ‘Bill OK'd to prevent mustangs' slaughter’

Imagine these are the people that have been voted into to solve our problems.

Can you be further from the "real" world than this. That is a scary thought.

THANK goodness! Say hello to your tax dollar's

wow, is all I have to say, i wonder how many of those who voted for this bill acctually know anything about these wild horses. I'll bet the only information they got was from the activist groups pushing for this. And also I wonder the if they understand the impact their decisions have on the local cattle ranchers and their families. Just about everything they are voting into law now somehow is hurting us Utah Cattlemen. Do they have it out for us or what?????

When I was 17 I went to wild horse country in eastern Nevada and tried to catch a wild horse to train it. Our family already had a beautiful black mustang, well trained. They are beautiful animals and have a place in the eco-system but there has to be a limit on numbers and their range. Right now congress should be paying more attention in how to save money and not in spending.

Let's see: let's preserve wild horses that weren't even part of the american landscape in 1492.

I'm a horse lover, but let these suckers fend for themselves, and give the public back not only the $700 million, but whatever else is currently being spent. Herd them all onto the indian reservations. If they want to keep them, kill them or ride them, their choice.

When I was 17 i went to eastern Nevasal to catch a wild horse. Our family had a well trained Mustang. They are beautiful useful animals. However there is a limit to numberes an d Ranbge. Congress should be saving money instead of spending

wow, what a biased story...what happene to blance with some quotes from Reps. that supported the bill...Bishop was quoted directly FIVE TIMES...the headline should be Rob Bishop Complains About Bill.

So people cannot afford to keep their pet horse because of the economy and the fact that their child has no grown up so wjat do they do-- Release them on public lands so Uncle Sam can keep them. Also have you seen the photos of dead horses around dried up water holes on public lands. Well get ready for more of that if this bill becomes law.

When will we start to make a decision on fact and science and not emotion?? $700 mill. is not even close to what the costs are. Then you can factor in the habitat they destroy. Open up the meat prosessing plants let people who know how to manage take care of the problem. It would not cost the americans anything it could actually be a profit. Let the idiots who make all these emotional decisions pay for it themselves!!!

Is it just me or is anybody else tired of these political policies that keep taking money away from where it is actually needed (the taxpayer) and throwing it at a problem in a totally unnecessary way? At what part did common sense leave their minds? Does that happen when they're sworn in? Where in the world is our state and country headed? I worry for us.

The BLM slants the story to make it sound like the "activists" want them to spend millions of dollars to save the wild horses. The truth is, they are wasting much more money rounding them up, holding them in pens, and all the other things they do saying they are trying to make sure they are "managed". If they left them alone and left them on the land that they have always been on, we'd spend less money on them. They take care of themselves and have for hundreds of years. The cattle are what ruins the land, not the horses. I've seen it. It's not like they're living in NY, they're living in the open areas, and can live on next to nothing when it comes to pasture. If the BLM would stop messing with the water and the boundaries, we could just enjoy them. Let the "activists" volunteer to take care of them, many of them already do, much more than the BLM, and much better.

Emotion over reason once again. I don't even recognize this country anymore. Is anyone going to lead us back onto the right path?

If the WELFARE ranchers would get the barbed wire off of OUR public lands and let the 13-16,000 remaining wild horses roam as they were meant to they wouldn't be dying for water. The WELFARE ranchers also get to run 6 million cattle on OUR public lands for only $1.35 per month for a cow and calf yet only supply 3% of the beef. They also get subsidized $500,000,000 -that's a half billion of OUR tax dollars !! This needs to stop to really save money
A 1990 GAO SCIENTIFIC study proved that cattle , NOT WILD HORSES, have over-grazed the public range and destroyed riparian areas. Also the BLM spends MILLIONS on the cruel and unnecessary roundups that are done for special interests. STOP THEM.
The wild horses are a native species as proven by SCIENTIFIC DNA tests and are symbiotic to the ecology. The majority of Americans want them protected and preserved. It's past time that this was done. Give OUR public lands back to OUR native wild horses. They help make this country and even were used in wars for it. Those wanting them gone ought to be ashamed.

How about getting the millions of cattle off the land? There already was a law, with funding, protecting the Mustangs. All this bill does is give the land back to the Mustangs. Don't tell us that 20,000 wild horses is over populated when there are over 7 million privately owned cattle on the land. The land was supposed to be protected for wild horses and wildlife. I don't remember cattle being reclassified as wild life. Fact, not emotions. Your tax dollars are being wasted every time they perform unnecessary round ups. Let's round up some cattle so the horses can reclaim their land.

As Barbwire mentions, we have 6 million cattle on our public lands and that the wealthy ranchers who own them get subsidized $500 million. These guys getting all of this for supplying a small percentage of our food. That is a fact, not emotion.

Rounding up and holding the mustangs is far more costly than managing their population out on the public lands. A plan like this has the potential to save taxpayer money, it also opens up opportunities in Eco-Tourism (which can help our nation's troubled economy.) That is also a fact, not emotion.

Bishop states "We have already dedicated to wild horses and wild burros an amount of land that's owned by the public that is the size of the state of New York." But ignores the fact that the laws protecting the mustangs have been weakened since President Nixon signed the bills into law in 1971. Yet another fact, not emotion.

It is people like Mr. Bishop who are using emotion with their fearmongering. This is the reason people like him are in the political minority. And that is another fact.

Congress is strugling with the Health care reform bill and they are voting on wild horse welfare.

Go figure

If these horses are native to our country, you might as well say elephants and tigers are too.
Elephants, tigers, and horses both died out in the US thousands of years ago. Neither are natural anymore, at least not here. I propose sterilizing all of them (more humane than killing, and it would solve the problem for good). Too many wild horse lovers out there, and it would never happen, but I can always dream.
That being said, ranchers are getting subsidized big money by the federal government. There's a nature reserve down near St. George, owned by BYU. A fence separates the reserve from cattle-grazing land. On one side of the fence is color--lots of different types of wildflowers, nature in all its diversity. On the other side, the wildflowers and the diversity is gone. Cattle-grazing is doing much more harm to our environment than wild horses.

You people who think that these ranchers who are running cattle on public lands are getting rich need to look at reality. You should hope they are getting rich so that they will move into another tax bracket so that they government can take more of their hard earned money to pay for these stupid programs. And, who do you think built the water holes and developed the springs that these horses now drink from? It sure wasn't the BLM.

Just sell permits giving qualified folks the right to round up a predetermined number of them themselves.

The beef industry has VERY powerful lobbyists in Washington. Anything negative against the beef industry has a powerful punch that is biased and misinformed. (look what happened to Oprah!) Leave the mustangs alone! They were here millions of years ago (they migrated to other continents, but its proven they were here) let "nature" take care of them. They don't graze where cattle are grazing, they can survive just fine. They need PROTECTION not managing by the BLM. Leave them alone! Leave the wolf population alone, too. Nature can do a great job of taking care of itself without man's intervention. If you see "a few dead horses around a waterhole" it's because nature did not intend for them to survive. When food is abundant life flourishes. When food & water are scarce, life struggles. It's the "circle of life" - leave the mustangs alone! (and don't believe everything that lobbyists with $$ tell you)