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Support the amendment to protect America's wild horses and burros

Dear Representative,
As your constituent and an advocate for our nation's wild horses, I urge you to vote YES on the Titus/King/Polis/Curbelo/Lujan Grisham Amendment to protect our wild horses and burros from killing at the hands of a federal agency. I am deeply disappointed that the House Appropriations Committee voted to use our tax dollars to kill tens of thousands of wild horses and burros. The Department of Interior's Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is charged with protecting and responsibly managing America’s wild horse population. Instead of fulfilling this mandate, the Appropriations Committee bill gives BLM vast new authority to kill healthy wild horses and burros. The agency needs to manage wild horse populations using humane birth control, or place them in sanctuaries or adoptive homes if they come off the range. Last year, the BLM used less than 1% of its budget to employ birth control on the range. We need to shift our focus and manage horses humanely rather than kill them for convenience. Allowing the BLM to gun down thousands of these majestic animals would be a betrayal of the American people and abdication of the BLM's responsibility to protect and manage them. Please protect these icons of the American West from mass killing by voting YES on the Titus/King/Polis/Curbelo/Lujan Grisham Amendment when the House considers the FY18 Appropriations bill on the floor. Let's not let this crisis unfold on our watch--we can use safe, effective and humane management without a mass slaughter of our wild horses.

Do not permit the mass killing of America's wild horses

Dear Senator,
I am deeply saddened that the FY2018 House Interior Appropriations bill strips vital protections for our nation's wild horses and burros. The Department of Interior's Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is charged with protecting and responsibly managing America's wild horse population. The House bill instead calls for the wholesale killing of healthy wild horses and burros. The House Appropriations Committee proposal betrays our wild horses and abdicates the agency’s responsibility to protect them. Please never allow this cruel proposal from the House Appropriations Committee to become a reality. I urge you to oppose any effort that may come before you in the Senate to allow the killing of our wild horses.