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Below, is just one more objectionable item tossed into the Lame Duck Congress's Lame package.
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Urgent: Last Chance to Stop Government from Funding Wild Horse Roundups in 2011


Federal Budget/2011 Funding of Wild Horse Removals
Action Needed: Email your U.S. senators immediately and urge them to vote NO on any bill that allows continued spending on the removal of wild horses from public lands in the West in fiscal year 2011.

In Fiscal Year 2010, the BLM rounded up and removed more than 10,000 wild horses and burros from public lands. Those who survived the cruel ordeal of these "gathers" will be maintained for life in government holding facilities at taxpayer expense. Meanwhile, enormous herds of privately owned livestock are allowed to graze on these same lands.

Congress is currently trying to pass a federal spending bill for fiscal year 2011.

Unfortunately, the House of Representatives has already approved increased funding for the U.S. Bureau of Land Management's (BLM) broken, mismanaged Wild Horse and Burro Program. The BLM plans to use this funding to remove another 10,000 wild horses from public lands. If this happens, the population of mustangs warehoused in holding facilities would swell to 45,000, leaving fewer than 30,000 horses free in the wild. The removal and warehousing of America's wild horses is projected to cost taxpayers over $50 million in fiscal year 2011.

We do have a chance to stop this: the Senate is still debating the 2011 federal spending bill, but the deadline to make changes and pass it is midnight on Saturday, December 18.

Now is the time for the Senate to hear, loudly and clearly, that Americans are tired of wasteful spending on broken, inhumane government programs such as this one.

What You Can Do
Please act fast—send the email here to your two U.S. senators, urging them to vote NO on any version of a fiscal year 2011 spending bill that allots money for the removal of wild horses from our public lands.