Should we be concerned?

[cherylw]

www.8newsnow.com/Global/story.asp?S=12910429

Lawmakers Seek to End Horse Roundups in Nevada
POSTED: AUG 02, 2010 9:26 AM PDT UPDATED: AUG 02, 2010 9:26 AM PDT
WASHINGTON -- A bipartisan group of 54 lawmakers is calling for Interior Secretary Ken Salazar to halt a series of wild horse roundups on the Nevada range.
A letter sent Monday by Rep. Nick Rahall, the Democratic chairman of the Natural Resources Committee, cites wild horse deaths in recent horse and burro roundups to explain the request.
The letter brands the roundups "a deeply flawed policy" and points to reports that 21 of 636 horses died in a herd collection effort near Tuscarora in northeast Nevada.
The letter recommends that the National Academy of Sciences be assigned to review the Bureau of Land Management's plan to cull about 12,000 of 38,000 mustangs and burros from herds roaming 10 Western states.

[DianneC]

Yeah! I'm writing my congressman asking why he didn't sign it too. 54 out of 435 congressmen is a step in the right direction.
I like this Congressman Girjalva! You folks in Arizona vote for him if you can, OK?

"Grijalva has been actively pursuing horse safety oversight for years, especially in his capacity as chairman of the National Parks, Forests, and Public Lands Subcommittee. In July of 2009, the House passed the ROAM Act, a bill to bar BLM from euthanizing tens of thousands of healthy wild horses, step up fertility control measures, encourage more adoptions, and provide up to 19 million additional acres on which more than 60,000 wild horses and burros, under federal control, could roam freely. Grijalva was the only original cosponsor of the bill, which Rep. Rahall introduced in February 2009."