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The Role of Livestock in Sage Grouse Decline
By, George Wuerthner Grazing, Livestoc
Cross-posted from: http://bit.ly/2ad8Hni for educational purposes
The Greater Sage Grouse (Centrocercus urophasianus) is the largest grouse in North America. The grouse is found in sagebrush steppe from Alberta to New Mexico and throughout the Great Basin region of Oregon, Idaho, Nevada, Utah, Colorado and Wyoming. The sage grouse is extirpated from much of its former range and is no longer found in British Columbia, Kansas, Nebraska, Oklahoma, Arizona and New Mexico.
Habitat loss, combined with habitat degradation has led to its decline from a previous estimated population of 16 million to the present 250,000-500,000 across its remaining vast geographical range. Because many of the remaining populations are small and fragmented, the bird's population continues to decline due to random stochastic events like local winter storms that might cause an isolated group to wink out and perhaps as a consequence of genetic issues related to inbreeding depression. The bird is currently under petition for listing under the Endangered Species Act.
The decline of the sage grouse is symptomatic of the overall decline of the ecological health of the sage brush steppe with which it is intricately entwined. In parts of the bird's range, much of the sagebrush habitat in eastern Washington, northern Montana, and parts of Northwest Oregon has been converted to wheat and other agricultural croplands.
In parts of Wyoming, Montana, Colorado and Utah oil and gas development has led to significant habitat fragmentation of the sage brush steppe and thus declines in sage grouse.
In small areas, habitat has also been lost to urban and rural development, wind farms, power line corridors, and other factors.
But the common denominator in the bird's decline across its entire geographical range is livestock production.
With the exception of the habitat acreage lost to agricultural production, these other factors have only recently become an issue for sage grouse survival. Sage grouse numbers have been falling for decades, long before some of these other factors like oil and gas development, power lines, wind farms, subdivisions, and so forth were an issue across much of its habitat, however, livestock have been degrading sage grouse habitat for a century or more.
Livestock affect sage grouse at every step of their life history.
Sage grouse lack a muscular gizzard so can't eat seeds. They must consume soft foods. Although sage grouse depend on sage brush, they also do consume forbs (flowers) insects and perhaps even grasses at certain seasons. In summer months forbs can make up to 40% of the adult diet. Since cattle also eat these same plants, in many areas, cattle are consuming the food that might otherwise sustain sage grouse. In drought years (when competition between cattle and grouse is more intense) sometimes grouse will simply forgo breeding in low nutrition years. By contrast, hens in good nutritional shape will produce more eggs, and healthier chicks. So the mere presence of cattle and sheep grazing sage grouse habitat is literally taking food out of the mouth of sage grouse.
Sage grouse require good grass/forb cover under or near sage brush as hiding cover for nesting habitat to avoid predators. Grazing removes a lot of that cover, making hens vulnerable to predation from coyotes, ravens, and even ground squirrels. In Idaho they are poisoning ravens to "boost" sage grouse numbers–instead of leaving more grass behind to give sage grouse sufficient cover. If the grass cover is good, the hens are less vulnerable to predators.
Another impact of grazing on nesting success has to do with micro-climate. Males do not help raise the young or guard the eggs, thus the female must leave periodically to feed. During this time, it's critical for the nest and eggs to have enough cover to moderate the nest environment. Temperatures either too hot or too cold can be disastrous to the eggs. Again livestock grazing often reduces this critical cover component.
Unlike some other "chicken like" birds say pheasant, sage grouse tend to have fewer eggs. They are a long-lived bird, but they can't sustain high nest losses year after year.
After the chicks hatch, they feed mostly on insects and forbs in wet meadows and riparian areas. Forbs constitute up to 50% of their diet for the first 11 weeks. Insects are also important and may be as much as 75% of their diet in the first couple of weeks.
Unfortunately the activity that has destroyed more riparian habitat and wet meadows than any other is livestock grazing. Cattle trample the soils reducing the infiltration of water reducing the physical extent of wet meadows. They break down stream banks creating down cutting of stream channels which then causes the water table to fall, again reducing the extent of wet meadows or riparian vegetation. Livestock trample springs, and/or ranchers often "develop" springs to water stock, in either case limiting their output which is the source for summer flows in many streams, again reducing the riparian influence.
Livestock are naturally attracted to wet meadows and riparian areas and preferentially graze these areas because high soil moisture increases overall plant production and palatablity. Yet the vegetation in these wet meadows and riparian area is critical as hiding cover for chicks so they are not eaten by predators.
This effect of plant cover loss is amplified in drought years to the detriment of grouse. Since lower precipitation means less grass production and cover, chicks are already more vulnerable to predators. But in drought years, wet meadows are especially attractive to cattle which often graze them down to billiard table lawns with no cover for chicks or adult hens.
Yet another way that livestock production has impacted sage grouse is the loss of the best habitat to livestock production. Sage grouse do best on flat to slightly sloping terrain with some streams or wetlands close by. Of course, throughout the West, this is exactly the habitat that has been converted into private ranchlands. Native wet meadows and riparian areas have been destroyed and particularly the low elevation terrain has been converted to alfalfa fields and other exotic grasses. Overall across its vast geographical range this loss of this critical habitat element has reduced sage grouse numbers just as the conversion to wheat fields has negatively impacted the bird.
Sage grouse are vulnerable to habitat disturbance. Sage grouse are weak fliers. They prefer to walk. When there is anything like seeding projects or hay fields, or even a road, it can fragment habitat and make sage grouse either abandon habitat or avoid those areas, even if good habitat may exist beyond the barrier.
One of the linear barriers to sage grouse movement as well as habitat loss throughout sage grouse habit range is fences. A surprising number of sage grouse just fly into fences. A number of studies have documented significant mortality from fences, particularly among young grouse.
Fences also provide perches for avian predators (i.e. golden eagles, hawks, ravens, etc.) that survey the surrounding terrain for sage grouse. Because sage grouse recognize that perches are a predator trap, some studies have shown that grouse avoid fences for up to a half mile on either side of the fence. That means for every mile of fence out there, you are losing a mile wide patch of habitat. Multiply this by all the livestock fences in the West, and you start to understand what a big impact fencing has upon grouse.
Why are there fences all over the open spaces of the West? One reason–livestock.
Of course sage grouse get their name because they eat sage brush most of the year. Without sage brush they starve. Plus sage brush provides cover from predators and thermal cover in winter when there is cold weather. This is particularly important in winter when "wind chill" can greatly increase metabolic demands. Grouse will even burrow into the snow under the branches of sage brush in cold weather. Thus they are sage brush obligates.
One of the biggest negative impacts on sage brush has been livestock management practices on sage brush itself. In many parts of the West federal agencies like the BLM, FS, etc. have and/or are either spraying herbicides and/or burning it to eliminate sage brush to produce more grasses for livestock to eat. Millions of acres have been impacted. This is less common today than in the past because of the potential listing of sage grouse, but one cannot underestimate how much damage has been done to the grouse over the years by sage brush elimination programs. Unfortunately it still occurs. Sage brush burning proposals designed to increase livestock forage in occupied sage grouse habitat are being implemented across western states.
There are also seeding programs that have had the same effect. The notorious Vale Project in eastern Oregon eliminated millions of acres of sage brush to plant crested wheatgrass, an exotic grass from Russia, that has little value for wildlife, but is grazed by cows. Again why was this done? To increase forage for livestock on the public lands.
One of the threats to sage grouse are range fires burning through sage brush. Wildfires are a natural occurrence and natural process in sage brush habitat, however, over the past few decades, the fire frequency has been greatly accelerated due to the widespread establishment of cheatgrass in the sage brush steppe. Cheatgrass is highly flammable.
Cheatgrass doesn't magically appear and it has a difficult time invading healthy sage brush habitat.
However when sage brush steppe is degraded by livestock grazing, it reduces the competitive ability of the native grasses to complete with cheatgrass. Cattle prefer to graze on the native grasses (hence the name cheatgrass because in the old days ranchers felt "cheated" when cheatgrass replaced the natives). So while the native grasses are grazed and must recover from grazing, the cows largely ignore the cheatgrass.
The second factor in the spread of cheatgrass related to cows has to do with biocrusts. Biocrusts grow on the soil surface in-between the native grasses and sage brush. These soil crusts do several things including reduce soil erosion. But they also prevent the seeds of cheatgrass from getting into the soil. Cheatgrass as an annual plant has small seeds, and if the seed doesn't get roots into the soil quickly they die. Native grasses have large seeds, and have enough energy to get roots through the crusts. Also since native grasses are long lived–up to 150 years–they only have to get a few seeds into the soil once a century to replace themselves.
By far the worst thing that cattle do is trample the biocrust. And it's important to note that the entire Great Basin did not have large herds of grazing animals like bison in historic times. The plant communities are therefore not adapted to trampling and heavy hooves tearing up the soil.
Worse for range recovery most native grasses require a decade without any grazing at all to begin to recover from a fire, but due to the pressure from ranchers, most rangelands seldom get more than 1-2 years rest before cattle are moved back on to them. This greatly reduces the recovery and favors cheatgrass again.
Another way that livestock has impacted sage grouse has to do with water troughs. In many of the drier parts of the West, ranchers have put out stock tanks to provide water. Stock tanks are good breeding habitat for mosquitoes. Mosquitoes carry West Nile Virus which kills sage grouse. In some populations, as much as 29% of the birds have died from the infection.
As sage grouse populations decrease, the negative effects of inbreeding regression sets in further eroding the viability of the species. So it may not seem like a big deal if a few breeding leks disappear or there remain some "strongholds" with grouse, keep in mind that grouse are a tournament species, meaning that a relatively few males do the bulk of all breeding. This significantly reduces the genetic diversity in small populations, making them further likely to wink out.
States and Wildlife Agencies are engaged in these so-called "Sage Grouse Working Groups" to avoid listing under the ESA. But, those groups ignore livestock impacts and management that would leave sufficient cover of grasses and forbs in riparian areas and meadows during the summer brood rearing season. Further, these groups are channels for Federal tax dollars to provide more vegetation treatments, more seedings, more range water developments, fences and infrastructure while not addressing the basic problem, overstocking and poor to no direct control over livestock.
Nellie Diamond (#0484) has 3-Strikes and BoLM is offering her for Sale
It's not her fault she wasn't picked! Help Nellie Diamond (#0484) find a safe home.
Nellie Diamond (#0484) is on the Internet Adoption and offered for sale $25. She seems to have been deeply hurt by losing her home and her herd after the Bureau of Land Management (BoLM) roundup 3 years ago. No one is taking the time to see beyond her loneliness. Nellie Diamond might do well with a sister mustang from her herd–the Diamonds out of Nevada. Once she is treated with love, patience and respect Nellie will shine like a Diamond too.
Here is the online application: https://www.blm.gov/adoptahorse/howtoadopt.php
Nellie can be shipped out to any of the locations listed below for free and then you need to transport her home from there.
BoLM says:
Sex: Mare Age: 6 Years Height (in hands): 13.3
Necktag #: 0484 Date Captured: 02/03/13
Freezemark: 10620484 Signalment Key: HF1AAAAAG
Color: Gray Captured: Diamond (NV)
Tag-#0484. 6 year old gray mare rounded up from the Diamond Herd Management Area in Nevada in February of 2013.
This wild horse is currently located in Palomino Valley, NV. For more information, please contact Jeb Beck at (775) 475-2222 or e-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com
This wild horse is available for sale or adoption with bids staring at $25.00. At the conclusion of the bidding, the successful bidder will inform the BoLM if they are purchasing or adopting the animal. If the animal is purchased, not adopted, the successful bidder receives bill of sale to the animal upon completion of payment and final paperwork. If the animal is adopted, the minimum bid must be $125, and the animal is not eligible for title until the one year anniversary.
Pick up options (by appt): Palomino Valley, NV; Delta, UT; Elm Creek, NE; Pauls Valley, OK.
Other pick up options: Ewing, IL (September 3) ; Mequon, WI (September 16); Clemson, SC (September 23); Loxahatchee, FL (September 30); and Murray, KY (October 7).
Adoption confirmation for this wild horse must be finalized, by e-mail to firstname.lastname@example.com, no later than Noon Mountain August 4. After this date, all unclaimed wild horses will be available for in-person walk up adoption/purchase ONLY.
Diamond Complex Herd Management Areas
The Complex involves three HMAs, and areas outside of HMAs: the Diamond HMA is managed by the Battle Mountain District, the Diamond Hills North HMA by the Elko District and the Diamond Hills South (and areas outside of HMA boundaries) by the Ely District. Because the wild horses move around the HMAs across the Diamond Mountain Range, the three Districts work together to manage the Complex, according to BoLM.
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#URGENT: File a complaint against Nazi-like population control experiments on America's wild horses!
The clock is ticking. Oregon State University isn't stopping. They are going ahead with their Nazi-like population control experiments on wild mares and a lot of them are pregnant! The experiments were encouraged by a bunch of sick pro-slaughter, pro-cattle activists that work in darkness to bring the "final solutions" to America's underpopulated wild horses and burros. These people have no soul. They have no empathy for the suffering these horrible experiments will inflict on WILD horses . . . wild animals . . . wildlife . . . that the law was supposed to protect.
Take action right now and fill out this Animal Welfare Complaint: https://www.aphis.usda.gov/aphis/ourfocus/animalwelfare/complaint-form. Mention that the procedures used to sterilize wild horses in the experiments at Oregon State University and elsewhere are cruel. Let them know that wild horses are underpopulated and the basis for these heinous experiments is false. Underpopulated wild horses and burros in America don't need population control or birth control.
America's wild horses and burros need your help to live and survive on public land set aside for them in 1971–the public sanctuary that is open 24/7 at no charge. The wild ones need YOU to go to your elected officials' home offices and push for their protection.
Please also send an email to your congressman/woman and your 2 senators. Their contact information is here: http://www.contactingthecongress.org/ Short handwritten letters have the most impact as elected officials see them representing the opinion of 1000 voters.
Ignore anyone who says birth control is a tool in the stupid toolbox. Who's toolbox are they talking about?
Ignore the spin doctors claiming they are overpopulated. It's a lie.
The Bureau of Land Management's (BoLM) claim there are 67,000 wild horses and burros combined in all western states is based on no more than an inflated guess. The BoLM have no headcount and no evidence according to the National Academy of Sciences. Even if there were 67,000 wild horses and burros left in the wild that would be too few to survive serious changes in climate, disease and environmental disaster. Do you want to see our majestic symbols of freedom and the American spirit become extinct forever? No you don't, so take action. Your voice counts.
Don't get distracted from the facts:
America's wild horses and burros are being wiped off public land because greedy people and corporations with no conscious want to exploit the wild ones' territory for profit–big profit. These people who are out for big money need to find the win-win, respect the environment and learn to work with–not annihilate–the last free roaming wild horses and burros. After all, wild horses prevent wildfires that could hurt their money making projects (oil and gas wells, solar energy zones, mining, etc.) These people should realize cattle will never roam like wild horses do and therefore cannot replace the wild herds for fire prevention.
Tell your friends, family, co-workers and neighbors what's going on and tune into our website daily for updates on the fight to save America's wild horses! www.ProtectMustangs.org There are a lot of ways you can help by using your voice right from your computer. If we all don't do something now then hundreds of wild horses will be cruelly carved up in Nazi-like population control experiments to rid the land of wild horses. Our beloved wild ones have been wrongfully labelled "pests" in the Pesticide PZP EPA application. Also based on the overpopulation lie, thousands of wild horses could end up at slaughter soon if they are not all accounted for and placed in safe homes.
Your elected officials need to be contacted regularly by email, handwritten letters and in meetings to stop the abuse against wild horses and keep them living in real freedom. . . in the wild.
It's time to send an email requesting an appointment to get your elected officials involved in protecting America's iconic wild horses and burros. Yes really protect them–not forcibly drug them with Pesticide PZP or sterilize them.
Do you realize YOUR voices in government have been fed a bunch of lies based on a false premise from other elected officials, lobbyists and traitor "advocates" as well? Follow the money . . . Then move beyond that to real "solutions" to protect real freedom. Make your voice heard.
From the Team at Protect Mustangs
a member for the Alliance for Wild Horses and Burros
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Would the Bureau of Land Management shoot to kill wild horses and burros from Helicopters?
Aerial killing from helicopters
When Rep. Cynthia Lummis (Wyoming), suggested "Lovely Euthanasia" in the House subcommittee on wild horses and burros was she revealing their plans?
As long as helicopters can be used to "manage" wild horses in Nevada they would have the right to attack our beloved wild horses and burros from the air and slaughter them.
Go to the Nevada BLM meeting on motorized vehicles if you can. The hearing will be held on Thursday, July 28, at 6 p.m. at the Bureau of Land Management Battle Mountain Office, 50 Bastian Road, Battle Mountain, NV 89820.
Send in your comments and copy your senators and representative on your email and handwritten letters.
f you cannot attend the hearing, written comments must be mailed to the BLM Battle Mountain District Office, Attention: Shawna Richardson, 50 Bastian Road, Battle Mountain, Nevada 89820 and Email to: email@example.com and be received by August 8, 2016.
Here is where you can get the email addresses of your elected officials: http://www.contactingthecongress.org/ Blind copy (BC) them on your emails and go see your elected officials to request they intervene to stop the BLM from killing wild horses or rounding up underpopulated herds.
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Does the Bureau of Land Management want to shoot wild horses with pesticides or sterilize them from helicopters now?
Speak out against motorized vehicles (helicopters, etc.) to roundup, dart underpopulated wild horses and burros as well as transporting them away from their homes forever!
Who says BLM won't sterilize wild horses from helicopters?
BLM Spin Doctors put this out:
Battle Mountain, NV.—The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) will conduct a public hearing on the use of motorized vehicles including aircraft in the monitoring and management of wild horses and burros on public lands in Nevada. The hearing will be held on Thursday, July 28, at 6 p.m. at the Bureau of Land Management Battle Mountain Office, 50 Bastian Road, Battle Mountain, NV 89820.
An annual public hearing is required to comply with Section 404 of the Federal Land Policy and Management Act. The BLM proposes to use a helicopter, fixed wing aircraft and other motorized vehicles to conduct population surveys on herd management areas (HMAs) and obtain seasonal distribution information for wild horse and burro herds throughout Nevada. Also proposed is using a helicopter to assist in gathering excess wild horses and burros on HMAs and complexes throughout the state during the coming year. The actual number of areas where gathers or population surveys will be conducted will depend on a number of factors including funding. The hearing will also consider the use of motorized vehicles to transport gathered wild horses or burros as well as to conduct field monitoring activities.
We hope some real advocates will show up at the hearing to tell them wild horses are underpopulated and should be left free from harassment, period.
If you cannot attend the hearing, written comments must be mailed to the BLM Battle Mountain District Office, Attention: Shawna Richardson, 50 Bastian Road, Battle Mountain, Nevada 89820 and Email to: firstname.lastname@example.com and be received by August 8, 2016 to be considered. Be sure to copy your senators and representative on your comments.
Keep in mind Shawna Richardson is an active member of the pro-livestock Facebook "Solutions" group pushing sterilization of America's wild horses. Beware: Her buddies in wild horse advocacy will say she's just trying to help the wild horses with the "tools in the toolbox". That's how the traitors hide the "Final Solution" for wild horses and burros.
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Who are the traitors in wild horse advocacy?
Who is exploiting wild horses now?
CLUE: FOIA the contracts, the agreements and their emails with BLM
Do you realize who has betrayed America's wild horses? Do you know who is who? Do you know who are the BLM supporters and partners now? Do you know who is pretending to work for "solutions" but is really working for the livestock industry? Do you know who is making back-room deals pushing pesticides for birth control, experiments and slaughter on underpopulated wild horses and burros?
Do you know who is really for the wild horses and burros now?
Despite underpopulation, does OSU have the right to experiment on federally protected wild horses and burros or are they breaking the law?
Is Oregon State University about to embark it their biggest PR nightmare?
Oregon State University published the Q & A below based on the false premise, when the truth is wild horses are underpopulated in America today:
Frequently asked questions: OSU fertility research involving wild mares and burros
I understand that Oregon State University is involved in research on wild horses and burros. Is this true?
Yes. The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) awarded Oregon State University money to help study fertility-control methods for wild horses and burros.
In 2014, the BLM asked for research proposals from a variety of scientific groups across the nation to help address the high population growth rates of wild horses and burros, including veterinarians, scientists, universities, pharmaceutical companies, and other research entities. Additional details can be found here. Since then, the BLM has provided awards to support over 20 projects.
Five universities with college of veterinary medicine programs received awards. Proposals from OSU were selected based on the quality of science, the expertise of the research investigator and the potential impact of the research. Oregon State University faculty were among those that submitted proposals to the BLM to help slow and stabilize the population growth rate of wild horses and burros. The BLM announced its decision on June 27 to proceed with the research to be conducted by Oregon State faculty. Details of that announcement can be found here.
How is Oregon State University involved?
As a research university, Oregon State conducts studies on important topics, and informs public policy-makers and the general public of those research findings.
This research will evaluate minimally invasive, humane, effective, and permanent procedures that would then be reviewed by the BLM as options to maintain sustainable herd levels.
Our role is in conducting research to inform BLM policy. Oregon State University's role is not to develop policy.
Why did BLM decide that this type of research was necessary?
The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) developed the program after receiving a report with recommendations from a National Academy of Sciences committee, which had been tasked with performing a complete review of the BLM's Wild Horse and Burro Management Program.
The National Academy of Sciences (NAS) published a video summary of that report, "Using Science to Improve the Wild Horse and Burro Program: A Way Forward".
The NAS reports that the population of wild horses and burros is growing beyond the capacity of federal lands to support the health and welfare of these animals. Animals that are not healthy are susceptible to further suffering from disease, malnutrition, dehydration, and death. The BLM is reviewing a range of options to manage the population of these horses and burros at sustainable levels.
What did the National Academy of Sciences committee find?
The NAS committee emphasized that, on average, the population of wild horses and burros across the west is increasing by 15 – 20% per year, despite ongoing fertility control vaccination programs. The NAS urged the BLM to make wider use of fertility control options that are based on rigorous research.
Why would wild horse and burro populations be a concern?
The population of wild horses and burros on federal lands is growing beyond the capacity of local, state, and federal resources to support the health and welfare of these animals, and maintain healthy range ecosystems.
An illustrated summary of BLM concerns and challenges related to our nation's wild horses and burros can be found here.
What does Oregon State University have to offer?
OSU faculty who responded to the BLM's request for additional research felt very strongly that their contributions would benefit and improve the health and welfare of our wild horses and burros.
As a land-grant institution, Oregon State University faculty members often have the expertise needed to address issues that affect Oregon and the nation.
Results from this work will be analyzed and published in peer-reviewed forums, in addition to informing the BLM. In this way, the work performed by OSU faculty will be available to the public.
For more information about how research is conducted at Oregon State University and academic freedom, please click here.
How is animal safety and humane care ensured during research?
University-wide commitment to animal care, safety, and welfare is a top priority. Oregon State University recognizes both the importance of animals in research and teaching, and the scientific and ethical responsibilities inherent in the care of those animals. Research activities undertaken by OSU faculty, staff, and students are reviewed and conducted in accordance with strict ethical principles, federal and state laws and regulations, and in compliance with Oregon State institutional policies.
Oversight of animal activities associated with OSU is provided by the Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee (IACUC). The IACUC's main functions are to review, approve, and monitor research protocols, and ensure that animals are cared for according to all applicable federal and state laws, regulations, and Oregon State institutional policies.
Oregon State University additionally volunteers to have their animal program reviewed every three years by AAALAC, International, an independent accreditation agency for animal research programs. The accreditation process is very stringent and institutions with AAALAC accreditation are known for their commitment to excellence and humane animal care.
What methods are being studied in this research?
One study will evaluate the removal of both ovaries without the need for any external skin incisions (ovariectomy via colpotomy). Ovariectomies are commonly used by veterinarians to stop egg production and related reproductive ("heat") cycles in animals.
Another study will evaluate two surgical methods that will interrupt fertilization. Animals undergoing these procedures will still have heat cycles but they will not conceive. Tubal ligation is one method, and the other is oviduct ablation. The use of these methods also avoids the need for external skin incisions.
I have concerns about the management of our nation's wild horses and burros, and I don't think Oregon State University should be involved.
As a research institution, work at Oregon State sometimes involves controversial issues. In this case, research team members have offered their areas of expertise in designing a study whose results will be used to inform policy decisions by the BLM in the management of wild horse and burro populations.
Research data provided by Oregon State researchers will be part of the larger group of studies that BLM will consider as it reviews policies and procedures to respond to the 2013 NAS report.
More information on BLM management of wild horses and burros can be found here.
Who will perform this research?
The studies will be conducted by teams of licensed, highly qualified and experienced veterinary surgeons.
Are Oregon State students involved in this research?
No. Students are not involved in these projects.
When was this proposal submitted?
Proposals were submitted to the BLM in 2014.
How long will this research take to be completed?
The research will take place over the next two – five years.
How much will be spent on this research? Who will fund this proposed research?
The BLM has approved two grants to OSU totaling $348,000.
Where will this research be conducted?
The research will be conducted at the BLM's wild horse and burro facility in Hines, OR.
How and with whom will these research findings be shared with?
Oregon State researchers will report their results to the BLM; will publish findings in other peer-reviewed forums and share the results with the public.
Who decides to accept or reject these findings? Or implement them as a standard of future practice?
The BLM will make any decisions on future policies and practices. For more information click here.
Cross-posted for discussion from: http://oregonstate.edu/ua/ncs/blm-research-faq
Stay tuned for the backlash
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BREAKING: 79 3-Strike Wild Horses and Burros from PVC and Fallon are Offered FOR SALE on the Internet #Nevada79
Help the 3-Strike wild horses and burros who have lost their protections get to safe homes away from Kill Buyers!
Dear Friends of Wild Horses & Burros,
All of these wild horses and burros known as the #Nevada79 have received 3-Strikes and are now considered Sale Eligible thus losing their protections. 12 are located at the Palomino Valley Center outside Reno, Nevada and 67 are located at the facility in Fallon, Nevada known as Indian Lakes.
Let's make sure none of them go to kill buyers signing on the dotted line and lying to BLM.
Here is the list: PM AWHI PVC Fallon Sale Eligible WOF53WOF56asof0 7 08 16
Most of these wild horses and burros will be put on the Internet Adoption for Sale starting next week here: www.blm.gov/adoptahorse
Let's get them into loving homes in pairs. Let's get all of them to safety!
With devotion,
Anne Novak
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The Fight Isn't Over! Only 500 out of 1,800 wild horses and burros will get shade
THE FIGHT ISN'T OVER! Only 500 out of 1,800 wild horses will receive shade and wind breaks after 3 years of campaigning and public outrage demanding shade and shelter at Palomino Valley Center. Keep the pressure on!
RIP Shadow
Protect Mustangs' investigation found wild horses were dying in the heat wave
Protect Mustangs' campaign continues to stop captive wild horses from dying in the heat wave with no shade
Our Petition for Shade and Shelter continues to grow. As of today there are 42,301 supporters: https://www.change.org/p/bring-emergency-shelter-and-shade-to-captive-wild-horses-and-burros Please continue to share this petition. It is delivered to elected officials and has been used in many important meetings with BLM and elected officials. Until shade and shelter is made available to all the wild horses (1,800) at Palomino Valley we will press forward! Your signatures count and have made this happen. Thank you!
Hi Anne,
PVC is working toward purchasing and constructing windbreaks with roofs in 4 perimeter pens that would serve approx. 500 animals. The specifications for the wind breaks will be similar to the windbreaks found on this page: http://www.plusonemfg.co/products-we-build.html. BLM will modify the windbreaks to include roofs for shade. However, BLM cannot directly purchase from plusone without issuing a solicitation open to the public for a 30 day time period. (plusone will be notified that BLM is soliciting for proposals), so I cannot tell you for certainty that those are the exact panels we would purchase.
After the 30 day open solicitation, the bids are reviewed by BLM procurement officers and an award is made to the vendors that can meet spec's and lowest price. The successful vendor is then given a performance period in order to manufacture and deliver the supplies to BLM (approx. 60-90 days). It is anticipated that by fall PVC would have the materials on site and construction would begin.
The structures will be permanent in the four pens, but BLM will be assessing their effectiveness to determine if more such panels would be purchased for additional pens through an agreement with a partner.
On Tue, Jul 5, 2016 at 1:37 AM, <email@example.com> wrote:
Dear Jason,What sort of shade and/or shelter is BLM providing at Palomino Valley Center? Is this a trial or a permanent structure? What does it look like? How many will be used at PVC? When will it be installed? What about the windbreaks?Best wishes,AnneAnne NovakExecutive DirectorTel./Text: 415.531.8454Read about native wild horses: http://protectmustangs.org/?page_id=562Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheAnneNovakFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/ProtectMustangs
In memory of Shadow, RIP, and all the captive wild horses who have suffered or died with no shade or shelter.
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Chuck Close: There is no better time to make painting than when everybody thinks it's dead. You're free of market concerns; you're free of all that stuff. It's not so hot that everyone is demanding that the work be one kind of thing or another. And you can work away at what you're doing, and work can evolve and you can get somewhere.
When we've had major times of financial distress in this country, like the '30's and the Great Depression, a lot of people argue that some of the best work was made. I actually don't think it was America's greatest hour/art. The best period for me in American art was late '40's, early '50's and '60's. That could be seen as a time when American opened it's arms to largely Jewish, but other immigrants fleeing Hitler, and we became a kind of beacon, and it was a free and open society and we attracted some of the best and brightest from all over the world. That, together with some of our own homegrown artists, who probably felt very buoyed by America's new found role in the world. And Paris and other art centers were now, either in shambles or didn't seem like a great place to be nurtured as an artist. I think that probably has more to do with why it was a particularly great period to make art in America.
Chuck Close: I suppose it could be said that prices is a sieve, it sort of shakes out what is going on and will separate the wheat from the shaft. It will play a deciding role on who keeps working and who falls by the wayside.
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The ever changing food scene is always exciting in our area! Thank you, Carol.
I continue to shake my head at the diners that believe that since they bought dinner they have the table for the night! I suspect they are the same people that expect to be seated at their exact reservation time! Please be considerate of the people that have reservations after you. If you want to sit and talk go someplace else or to your own home!
Carol, outside of being on the payroll of Bartolotta's and SURG, what are your qualifications? Do you have a culinary degree? Did you spend years in a kitchen or work in restaurants as part of a team? I'm just curious, because sometimes your reviews really miss the mark (example: suggesting a place in Oconomowoc for someone looking for a restaurant on the east side of Milwaukee).
I can only assume that the journal sentinel made the same mistake on you that they made with Dennis Getto (a former theatre critic with no culinary experience whatsoever).
It is not necessary to be a chef or a restaurant employee to write about the universal experience of eating. What I want is someone who loves food, who has good taste, and who can write well. I like Carol's reviews.
It isn't necessary but the ability to create an incredible dining experience or understand the day to day complexities of running a restaurant certainly lend credence to a food critic's authority, especially when part of the review is service, ambience and quality of food. If loving food, having good taste (subjective) and writing well (again, subjective) are what it takes to be a well-paid restaurant critic, then sign me up.
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Some things are worth fighting and dying for and freedom and property rights are a couple.
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The hell they will! There is no way they putting me in the city. I will fight for my right to be free and live my own lifestyle. Agenda 21 is real bad news. Land appropriation is my biggest concern here. What a joke..
While I admire your spirit there is no way on Earth that you can do it alone. They will crush you like a bug. You need to 'rally the troops' so-to-speak.
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