contact directory

Contact Directory for Action on Behalf of Cloud’s Herd & All Wild Horses

Montana Senator Max Baucus (D)
511 Hart Senate Office Building, Washington DC, 20510, phone: 1-800-332-6106 and 404-657-6790
e-mail from: (http://baucus.senate.gov/contact/index.cfm)
• Expand the Pryor Mtn. Wild Horse Range for Cloud’s Herd & protect herd at viable population level of at least 150 adult horses until range is expanded.
• Support the Senate version of HR 249 when it comes to the Senate floor.

Montana Senator Jon Tester (D)
204 Russell Senate Office Building, Washington DC, 20510
phone for DC office: 202-224-2644, phone (MT office): 406-728-3003
e-mail from: (http://tester.senate.gov/Contact/)
• Expand the Pryor Mtn. Wild Horse Range for Cloud’s Herd & protect herd at viable population level of at least 150 adult horses until range is expanded.
• As member of the Senate Energy and Resource Committee please pass HR 249 to reinstate wild horse protections removed in 2004 by Senator Burns & don’t allow BLM to kill our wild horses.

BLM National Office- Wild Horse & Burro Program:
1-800-710-7597
e-mail: wildhorse@blm.gov
• Do not euthanize our wild horses to make up for budget shortfalls!
• Stop all round-ups of wild horses until range conditions and herd numbers can be verified.
• Return wild horses in holding to the over 100 herd areas which have been zeroed out.
• Expand the Pryor Mtn. Wild Horse Range for Cloud’s Herd & protect herd at viable population level of at least 150 adult horses until range is expanded.

BLM Director Jim Caswell
1849 C Street NW, Washington DC, 20040, phone: 202-208-3801 Jim_Caswell@blm.gov
• Do not euthanize our wild horses to make up for budget shortfalls!
• Stop all round-ups of wild horses until range conditions and herd numbers can be verified.
• Return wild horses in holding to the over 100 herd areas which have been zeroed out.
• Expand the Pryor Mtn. Wild Horse Range for Cloud’s Herd & protect herd at viable population level of at least 150 adult horses until range is expanded.

Secretary of the Interior Dirk Kempthorne
Executive Secretariat, MS 7229, 1849 C Street NW, Washington DC 20240
Phone: 202-208-3100, webteam@ios.doi.gov
• Do not euthanize our wild horses to make up for budget shortfalls!
• Stop all round-ups of wild horses until range conditions and herd numbers can be verified.
• Return wild horses in holding to the over 100 herd areas which have been zeroed out.
• Expand the Pryor Mtn. Wild Horse Range for Cloud’s Herd & protect herd at viable population level of at least 150 adult horses until range is expanded.

Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee
Energy and Natural Resources Committee Office
304 Dirksen Senate Building
Washington, DC 20510
Phone 202 224-4971
Fax 202 224-6163

Write all 23 members at: http://energy.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=Contact.Home

Chariman Senator Bingaman can be contacted at :
202 224-5521 or email at senator_bingaman@bingaman.senate.gov

Pass HR 249 to reinstate wild horse protections removed in 2004 by the Burns Rider.
Include language in the Bill that would prevent BLM from destroying healthy wild horses.

Stop Drastic Reduction of Cloud’s Herd by BLM- COMMENTS DUE by JULY 11th!
Jared Bybee, State Wild Horse and Burro Specialist
BLM -Billings Field Office
5001 Southgate Drive, Billings, MT 59101
phone (406) 896-5223, fax (406) 896-5281.

WildHorse@blm.gov (The subject line must contain "Pryor Mountain Wild Horse
Range/Territory Preliminary Environmental Assessment and Draft HMAP")

Work to expand the legal wild horse range boundaries to include the historic use areas in the Custer National Forest. This will allow for a truly viable herd of 200-300 mustangs.
Keep the population at a viable number of at least 150 adults until range expansion is achieved. This will allow for the preservation of the rare Spanish genetics of the herd. Bringing in horses from other herds is ill advised, unnecessary and costly.
Work to protect the mountain lions that have kept the herd at zero population growth in years past. This is natural management which should be the goal.
Avoid manipulating the population to favor males 60-40% over females. This ratio would increase stallion competition for mares, putting more stress on all the horses.
Stop field darting mares with infertility drugs that have resulted in abscesses and out-of-season births on the Pryors.

Abigail Kimbell- Chief USDA Forest Service 
1400 Independence Ave., SW Washington, D.C. 20250-0003  
Phone: 202-205-8333, akimbell@fs.fed.us
• Work with the BLM to expand the legal wild horse range boundaries to include the historic use areas in the Custer National Forest. This will allow for a truly viable herd of 200-300 mustangs.

Steve E. Williams, Forest Supervisor Custer National Forest
1310 Main Street, Billings, MT 59105, phone: 406-657-6200
SWilliams@fs.fed.us
• Work with the BLM to expand the legal wild horse range boundaries to include the historic use areas in the Custer National Forest. This will allow for a truly viable herd of 200-300 mustangs.

BLM Management of Wild Horses and Burros Feedback Form
http://www.blm.gov/wo/st/en/prog/wild_horse_and_burro/feedback.html
Your thoughts on what BLM should be doing to ensure a future for wild horses on our public lands. Some suggestions:

Free the captive horses. Let them run free on wild horse ranges zeroed out.
Millions of acres where over 100 wild horse herds were legally designated to roam have been eliminated.
Let the 33,000 go free back into the millions of acres stolen from them.
Manage herds as self sustaining per the Act with the small herds managed at a minimum of 200 animals.
Improve water sources where needed.
Take down fencing that limits the free-roaming ability of the mustangs.
Remove cattle if competition from livestock prevents self sustaining wild horse herds.
Return the wild horse back to its home on these vast rangelands.

List compiled by The Cloud Foundation, August 8, 2008. ~ www.thecloudfoundation.org