The death toll from the Calico January roundup is 49 wild horses, 30 aborted foals.

It will rise as soon as they start gelding. Plans are being made for the Twin Peaks roundup in California and Nevada's Virginia Range herd is now in grave danger of being rounded up. The Eagle HMA roundup in Ely, Nevada has only been delayed, not cancelled. The BLM says it must raise user fees at Red Rock Canyon Las Vegas to make ends meet, yet Interior Secretary Ken Salazar is now asking Congress for over $60 million dollars primarily for more roundups and over $40 million to buy farms in the East to warehouse the wild horses the BLM has condemned to captivity. MISMANAGEMENT OF TAX DOLLARS JUST GETS WORSE.

WE NEED MORE VOLUNTEERS TO HOLD BANNERS & say to PRESIDENT OBAMA and the BLM:

• NO MORE TAX DOLLARS for horrific roundups and warehousing OUR Western Heritage in the East!!
• GIVE WILD HORSES AND BURROS THEIR FAIR SHARE OF PUBLIC LANDS.

PLEASE MEET Feb 18, THURSDAY AT 1:30PM at the Lloyd D George Federal Courthouse, 333 S. Las Vegas Building, Las Vegas NV (offices of Senators Ensign & Reid) then take a protest banner to a highly visible city location). If you can’t make the 1:30 PM start, you can hold a banner from 3:30-5:30PM at a location convenient to you. 

PLEASE CONFIRM YOUR ATTENDANCE & GET A BANNER & PARTNER, by phoning ARLENE GAWNE at 702-277-1313 or EMAIL artistfromafrica@hotmail.com

If you cannot make the Feb 18 protest, we need you at:

1. VALENTINE’S DAY SUNDAY FEB 14, 2010 – 11:30AM-2PM (or whenever you can come) – entrance to RED ROCK CANYON PARK, park on the side of the road, off the pavement just past where the cars turn into Red Rock. We will provide the banners & fresh air & stunning views of this beautiful canyon.

2. BLM PUBLIC MEETING, WEDNESDAY FEB 17, 2010 – 11:30AM-2PM (or whenever you can come) – entrance to RED ROCK CANYON PARK, park on the side of the road, off the pavement just past where the cars turn into Red Rock. We will provide the banners to hold. THE BLM is discussing their business plan 12:20-4pm at the Red Rock Visitor Center meeting room and we want them to see that they should spend money on the park, not on wild horse & burro roundups.
 

And now for the ONE-TWO PUNCH!

The 'Alliance of Wild Horse Advocates' Demands the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth!

Northern Nevadans are holding a “TRUTH RALLY" Saturday February 20, 2010 - 12:00-3:00 pm - in front of the Nevada State Legislative Building 202 North Carson Street – U.S. Highway 395 Carson City, NV. They are preparing a list of just a few of BLM's incorrect and/or incomplete statements, along with the absolute facts of BLM's mismanagement of our wild horses and burros. The goal is for change and open communication to set this program on the path that works for the horses and burros. For more information, contact: Carrol Abel, Hidden Valley Wild Horse Protection Fund - Reno, NV 775-624-7897 HiddenValleyHorse@yahoo.com