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Sample Letter to the Editor


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Below is a sample letter to the editor. We encourage you to make changes or write your own.

Good luck!

Dear Editor,

I believe the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) misleads us when it claims the roundups and capture of wild horses and burros on public lands are needed to protect the horses and the environment.

Interior Secretary Ken Salazar proposes to aggressively capture and sterilize wild horses, and move tens of thousands to the Midwest and Eastern United States– at significant cost to taxpayers.

During roundups, wild horses and burros are mercilessly chased down by trucks and helicopters. Some are injured and die in the process.

An estimated 15,000 or fewer wild horses and burros remain free, while more than 34,000 are confined in BLM holding pens. Secretary Salazar’s plan would essentially manage wild horses and burros into extinction.

Were Secretary Salazar sincere about protecting wild horses and their environment, he would stop private ranchers from grazing their animals on these designated lands.

Wild horses and burros must be left alone and allowed to remain free – not captured, not sterilized and not sent to government holding facilities.

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