Help save Mustangs!!!!!!!!

August 2, 2010

Right now the BLM is herding up lots and lots of mustangs. In the next month there will be more horses in captivity than there are in the wild. what a disgrace. To help stop the BLM from rounding up mustangs you can send a letter to the government either directly or through Madeleine Pickens' website. Madeleine Pickens is trying to establish a sanctuary for mustangs on 1,000,000 acres in Nevada. She's asking people to send letters about this which she will deliver by "Pony Express" to Washington DC this next week. Please help if you can.

Here's where you go to send a letter:

http://capwiz.com/madeleinepickens/utr/2/?a=14619476&i=1234&c=

here's the letter that I sent in:
Dear President Obama, Secretary of the Interior Salazar, Director of the
Interior Abbey, Senator Feinstein, Senator Boxer and Representative
Thompson:

My name is Charlotte Smith. I am a 10 year old girl; I live in northern
California (specifically St. Helena in the Napa Valley) and I have a mustang
named Blossom whom I 'adopted' a couple months ago. Before Blossom I
'adopted' and rode a strawberry roan mustang named Sparky. I take lessons at
Sunrise Horse Rescue (in St. Helena); this will be the second year I'm
competing with a mustang at the Western States Wild Horse & Burro Expo (a
big show in Reno in August). 

I am trying to support mustangs as much as possible so that they can keep
roaming wild.  I have a blog called www.mustangmemoir.vox.com where I'm
writing about how I'm training my 5 year old buckskin, Blossom.

I am a supporter of Madeleine Pickens' proposal to build a wild horse
sanctuary in Nevada and to rethink the gathering of wild mustangs. I do
understand that this is a very complicated issue and I also believe that the
wild mustang symbolizes the American spirit and that we should do everything
possible to keep that spirit alive. My government spends a huge amount of
money on many things---finding the money to make Mrs. Pickens' proposal
happen would seem to me to be money well spent not only for today but for
future generations of Americans as well.

Don't we spend lots of money on national parks and monuments? Isn't this
just as important or even more?