Not only do I not know the answers to all those questions, I don't even know where to start getting them. I do know that the BLM has been sued several times for failing to bother with proper EISs (in 2005 they were attempting to reduce WH&B numbers nationally by 50% without an EIS). The problem though is that though they do environmental assessments (and then use those assessments the justify roundups), the assessments themselves are complete fiction. There was one report where they were planning to zero out a herd management area and were citing population growth numbers that were physically impossible, that the mares would've had to have like a 200% reproductive rate to even make that happen, and the numbers in the report when they wanted to do a roundup completely contradicted the numbers they'd given just a few years prior.
There are a number of well-informed and remarkably savvy people within the WH&B community working on these issues, but I'm not one of them, because I don't even know where to begin to get the real data and where to get involved. I mean, I do all the calls to senators and whatnot, but it seems like information just sort of trickles around and people don't hear about policy decisions until it's too late. I wouldn't say the community is a united front by any means, but there are people drumming up plenty of comments and complaints against BLM policy, it's just that the BLM does what they want regardless. And the BLM has a tendency to try to keep anyone from finding out what their decisions are.
IDK. I'm just flailing. FLAILING. It's a big part of my frustration, I guess... the BLM lies outright, and many of the WH&B people are more interested in saving every horse than they are real science, either, and I feel like there's nowhere to go to get it. Hell, I was working on that wildlife ecology degree just so I could do the studies and finally know what the truth of the situation is.
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Date: 2009-07-09 12:12 am (UTC)There are a number of well-informed and remarkably savvy people within the WH&B community working on these issues, but I'm not one of them, because I don't even know where to begin to get the real data and where to get involved. I mean, I do all the calls to senators and whatnot, but it seems like information just sort of trickles around and people don't hear about policy decisions until it's too late. I wouldn't say the community is a united front by any means, but there are people drumming up plenty of comments and complaints against BLM policy, it's just that the BLM does what they want regardless. And the BLM has a tendency to try to keep anyone from finding out what their decisions are.
IDK. I'm just flailing. FLAILING. It's a big part of my frustration, I guess... the BLM lies outright, and many of the WH&B people are more interested in saving every horse than they are real science, either, and I feel like there's nowhere to go to get it. Hell, I was working on that wildlife ecology degree just so I could do the studies and finally know what the truth of the situation is.