As we advocate for wild horses and burros we have to take actions toward long term goals as well as short term actions.

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Preface to all actions: Actions that address policy fall into 3 different branches of government. More HERE that can help you understand that a bit about the “who and how” of advocating for change.

Each ACTION will be prefaced in RED text.

Lake Pleasant Burro Management and Gather plan comments are open until January 21, 2026.

You can find info, sample comments and fast click-and-send action item HERE. 

The debate for Appropriations fiscal year 2027 is getting ready to begin.

This session the chatter is intense. We will update you with info and action items as soon as they form.

The 2026 debate is ending with the  the prohibition on funding being used to kill (euthanize) healthy horses and burros and the prohibition on selling them without limits (direct to slaughter) maintained. Thank you to all of that took action.

HOWEVER the bill funds the status quo with a continuation of accelerated removals and the use of fertility control to maintain unjustifiably low numbers of wild horses and burros on the range.

As the 2027 battle begins to take form we will add the action item here.

Save Americas Forgotten Equines (SAFE) to STOP Horse Slaughter.

The SAFE Act reached 2018 cosponsors in the House. That is enough votes to pass the bill out of the House and send to the Senate. Will that happen? We do not know yet.

Safeguard America’s Forgotten Equines (SAFE Act) was reintroduced (and sponsored by) by Sens. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) and Ben Ray Luján (D-N.M.) in the Senate and Reps. Vern Buchanan (R-Fla.) and Jan Schakowsky (D-Ill.) in the House.

The introduced legislation would permanently ban the slaughter of horses for human consumption and would also prohibit the export of live horses to Mexican and Canadian slaughterhouses to be sold overseas. The lawmakers hope to include the SAFE Act as part of the 2025 Farm Bill when it is considered by Congress later this year.

In the House the bill is now referenced as H.R. 1661 and in the Senate as S. 775.

It is really important when you contact lawmakers to use the bill number and not simply say “SAFE.” Give the bill number and full title: Safeguard America’s Forgotten Equines Act. Every year numerous bills will use the acronym “SAFE.”

You can send a letter to your House and Senate Representatives by simply clicking HERE

Fight Abuse

Abuses on an off the range continue.

The simplest (and least expensive) place to begin reform in the archaic BLM program would be to formalize a concise and enforceable welfare policy. Why is it so hard?

After years of litigation BLM (finally) began to implement a draft policy in 2015. The policy was supposed to go through a review and revision phase. Instead, in 2021, BLM just wrote the word “permanent” on the draft and called it “policy.”

Our eye-popping investigation (that required litigation) uncovered how BLM has dropped the ball. We urge you to read it HERE.

Please Call Congress (202) 224-3121.  Tell the operator who your representative is (or where you live if you do not know) and you will be connected to an aide in the office. 

Request an amendment to the funding bill for the Department of Interior to create a line item for funding to formalize an enforceable welfare policy for the BLM Wild Horse and Burro Program (normally the process is called Rulemaking). 

100% of respondents to our survey concerning wild horses and burros want a chance to participate through public comments. (More HERE)

You can help us bring this important work to the next level by adding your name HERE. 

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