BLM wants you to let them kill more wild horses
You know what problem @BLMNational has with wild horses? It's not that there are too many horses -- there are -- but that too many horses is not the problem but the result of the problem.
The problem is that BLM never has actually managed wild horses on public land, they only cull.Ā They do it even though the public doesn't want BLM dealing with over-population by treating the horses like crops, weeding out and discarding the excess. Ā The public doesn't want BLM to chase wild horses with helicopters and ground vehicles, running foals to exhaustion, panicking horses so they crash into barbed wire fences and cut themselves up, forcing them to run with broken legs, packing bands of horses in corrals with horses from other herds, letting them stand around in their own poop getting no exercise for weeks and months before auctioning them off to low bidders for who knows what kind of a life -- or death.
This is not management. Ā It's abuse. Ā
So I say BLM needs to stop abusing wild horses on public lands, and instead come up with an actual humane and effective management plan. Ā Because, as Albert Einstein famously (never actually) said: "Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results." Ā And that's what BLM has been doing from the start.
PLEASE SEND YOUR COMMENTS ABOUT THE BLM'S PROPOSAL TO USE MOTORIZED VEHICLES, INCLUDING HELICOPTERS, TO "MANAGE" WILD HORSES AND BURROS!!!! Ā Info below.
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BLM schedules public hearing on use of motorized vehicles for wild horse and burro management
WASHINGTON, D.C. ā The Bureau of Land Management will conduct a virtual public hearing regarding the use of motorized vehicles and aircraft in the management of wild horses and burros. The hearing is scheduled for April 26, 2022 from 3 to 5 p.m. MT and will be held using Zoom video conferencing technology and live-streamed at BLM.gov/live.
The Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976 requires BLM conduct an annual hearing to consider the use of motorized vehicles in the management of wild horses and burros. The BLM typically uses motorized vehicles to conduct gather operations, complete population surveys, and transport animals to/from corrals, pastures, and adoption, sale and transfer events.
To provide comment during the virtual public hearing, members of the public may register in advance by April 25. Written comments may also be sent to
[email protected]. Please include āāMotorized Vehicle Commentāā in the subject line of the email. Comments must be submitted by 5 p.m. Mountain Time on April 26.
For additional information regarding the public hearing, please contact the Wild Horse and Burro National Information Center at 866-468-7826 or
[email protected]. Individuals who use a telecommunications device for the deaf (TDD) may call the Telecommunications Relay Service (TRS) at 711 to reach the National Information Center during normal business hours.
The BLM manages and protects wild horses and burros across 26.9 million acres of public lands in 10 Western states. More information on the BLMās Wild Horse and Burro Program can be found at BLM.gov/whb.
WARNING: the linked video contains graphic images of what really happens when BLM "manages" wild horses.
https://equimed.com/news/general/harrowing-new-videos-show-ongoing-abuse-at-blm-wild-horse-roundups
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Indigenous People's Day
Indigenous Peopleās Day
Celebrating the multi-faceted heritage, history, and hope of Indigenous peoples.
Indigenous peoples are not the past.
They are living, powerful, and loving today.
Elders, children, activists, teachers, leaders, community, and so many among the missing.
~ Bernice King, on #IndigenousPeoplesDay
Rick Mora as Eddie Edmunds*
Evolution Deviceās main character is Warm Springs Apache, but he doesnātā¦
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Wills for writers
If youāre a writer and your will doesnāt cover the issue of what happens to your work after you die, then please read Neil Gaimanās blog post on the subject.Ā Itās for artists, photographers,Ā musicians, and all creatives with a few adjustments of language.
Iāve also posted the link on my link page (along with the link for the PDF of the sample will).Ā Scroll down to āLinks to other folksāā¦
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Good Fences
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They say good fences make good neighbors. That might be so, but hereās a fence that stands alone, not between me and anything.Ā
Itās not a particularly āgoodā fence, in that itās not all spiffy, not something that zoning regulations would approve of.
Itās a fence thatās no better than it should be.
This is an ongoing project kind of fence. Some parts of it could be close to a hundred years oldā¦
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Equinox
The last bouquet of summer
Yes, itās that time already. The winding-down time. Equinox, the elusive point on the calendar when we tip over into autumn.Ā When nights grows longer than days. When itās time to harvest what has been so carefully grown, and then to can, freeze, dry, and otherwise store foodstuff and supplies for when itās time to hunker down and wait out the cold.
Nights here in myā¦
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Good neighbors are good to have
Good neighbors are good toĀ have
Remember the last couple posts when I talked about flooding and my subsequent truck adventure?Ā When I was so proud I could handle those problems without having to call a neighbor for help?Ā The truck adventure was Tuesday.Ā On Wednesday morning while I was feeding the horses, the damn dogs went walkabout.Ā
No rest for the weary.
Wednesday morning
Why didnāt I notice the dogs had run off?Ā ā¦
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Truck adventure
I donāt like truck adventures.Ā This is not to say I donāt like adventures that trucks are used in.Ā I just donāt like adventures about trucks.
Last blog post I wrote about floods.Ā Today Iām blogging about what happens after floods.Ā Namely, mud.Ā Um.Ā And complications.
TUESDAY: About mud
Mud is soil with way too much water in it.Ā To be more precise, mud is silt and clay with too much water inā¦
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Rain Song
As Robert Plant sang so poignantly in Led Zeppelinās The Rain Song, āThis is the mystery of the quotient. Ā Upon us all a little rain must fall.ā Ā (album: Houses of the Holy, 1973)
He was full of it, of course. Ā He should have been singing, āWhen it rains, it pours.ā
Iām gonna whine
Yeah, weather is what it is.Ā Yeah, weāve got some crazy stuff going on in the world, weather-wise ā but Iām here inā¦
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Creative Inspiration: from Muse to Youse
Creative Inspiration: from Muse toĀ Youse
Sorry about that title! It just sounded so right and this post is about creative inspiration, soā¦. never mind. Anyway, I bet youāre wondering more about the story of the image than the title, anyway. So Iāll tell you.
I stole it
Well, kinda sorta. Fact is, I was inspired by (appropriated a section of) a photo taken by my sister, Lisa, and I did it without permission. I trust she will forgiveā¦
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Requiem for a Writer
Requiem for aĀ Writer
Some books written or edited by Neil B. Carmony [Dexter K Oliver photo]āIt used to be that a writer was a person of some renown,
but nowadays that position slipped to the lowest one in townā
Ā Ā Ā ~song lyrics by Dexter Oliver
Author and friend Dexter Oliver emailed me this morning and said he happened to come across a notice on the internet about his old friend and writing mentor, Neil Carmony,ā¦
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Live: It's The Beetles
Live: Itās TheĀ Beetles
Iām going to talk about blister beetles, but I want you know know that problems of this kind start well before the first beetle arrives in my yard.Ā Ā It starts in January. You know what I mean. Thatās when the pushers start showing up, the ones who have learned our weaknesses and seek to exploit them in every way possible. The seducers of winter dreams.
Seed catalogs. Oh, donāt pretend you donātā¦
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Five Things I Forgot To Mention
Five Things I Forgot ToĀ Mention
Actually more than five things.Ā I mean OMG ā I forgot to blog. Not only have I not blogged in a couple weeks, but I discovered a blog post I drafted the end of February and never posted. It concerned death in my house, COVID in my county, cows in my horse pens, rejection, and an upcoming interview. At least I posted about the interview a few weeks later, but I donāt think I posted about theā¦
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So much to do, so little time
So much to do, so littleĀ time
Lif riding Cassie in an endurance race, probably in CA, probably in the 1980s
Iām one of those people who always has too much to do. Thatās solid truth. My To Do list goes on and on and on, from big-ticket items to small.
The list starts with finishing my straw bale house (generations of birds have been born in the sections of walls that arenāt plastered yet). It includes gardening, messingā¦
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No-knead bread report
No, that is not a photo of bread made with my wild-captured yeast. I seemed to have committed yeasticideĀ and I donāt know why. Iām also not sure why I was doing it when I have perfectly good dry yeast in the fridge.Ā Soā¦
My brother sent me a recipe for no-knead bread that his son Demitri makes when they go camping. My nephew uses a Dutch oven and cooks over coals of course ā thatās the properā¦
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I wrote a book & now what?
I wrote a book & nowĀ what?
Now what?Ā I get to write it all over again.
In early March I got a great rejection from a literary agent.
Wait ā did I say great rejection? Well yes, I did. The agent had requested the full MS of my mystery/crime novel, and after reading it, told me (after politely rejecting it): āWhile your storyĀ has good charactersĀ and setting, and youāve a good voice, I found the pace to be more meditativeā¦
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Feed Me!
I go through these phases when Iām first intensely into bread baking and then I get lazy and settle for commercially made loaves. If I could produce really great bread I probably wouldnāt ever buy from the grocery store but my bread isā¦ less than stellar.
I keep trying, though.
Recently I got the urge to bake again, and not only that but to make my own starter from scratch. By this I donāt meanā¦
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Lif Strand interview at Whispering Stories book blog
Lif Strand interview at Whispering Stories bookĀ blog
https://www.whisperingstories.com/the-writing-life-of-lif-strand/Iām featured on Whispering Stories book blog todayĀ Ā
This was a fun interview, mostly about who I am and about my writing, including a synopsis of Evolution Device.Ā Hereās one of the questions and a teaser of my answer:
6) Thereās a penguin sitting in your writing chair, what is the first thing he says to you?
āIāve been sent byā¦
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