Amend the WFH&B Act to Protect ALL WFH&B's on ALL Public Lands

Back in 1971 when the 92nd Congress passed the Wild Free-Roaming Horses and Burros Act, it declared that our Nations wild horses and burros were to be protected on their historic rangelands. Pursuant to the Act, the Secretary of the Department of the Interior is responsible for administration of Act, "through lands managed by the Department through the BLM, the USDA and the Forest Service." Little did the Congress realize that there were Wild Horses and Burros roaming on their historic rangelands managed by the National Parks Service as well as the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. The result of the omission to include these lands in the Act is that the wild horses and burros roaming on these lands DO NOT enjoy the protection afforded the rest of our Nations wild and free-roaming equines. Our Nations wild horses and burros in our National Parks and on U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service lands are sold without limitation to the highest bidder at livestock auctions - where most of them are purchased by "kill-buyers" who bring them to slaughter where they will be butchered for human consumption abroad.

Surely it was the intent of the Act to protect ALL of our Nations wild free-roaming horses and burros - not just some. Isn't it time to correct the inadvertent omission of the 92nd Congress in failing to include ALL of the lands under the jurisdiction of the Department of the Interior where wild free-roaming horses and burros live? Don't our Nations wild free-roaming horses and burros in our National Parks and U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service lands deserve protection too? Of course they do!

Support an Amendment to the Wild Free-roaming Horses and Burros Act that would protect them too. It is a simple fix!

*PLEASE ALSO SEE our petition to the National Congress of American Indians who support horse slaughter and are asking our Government for permission to build horse slaughter plants on Indian Lands and also ask for a contract with the BLm to kill off "excess" wild horses (and burros);

http://www.rallycongress.com/saveourwildhorses/2519/national-congress-american-indians-pray-us-congress-permission-to/

Thank you signers for caring!