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    Livestock industry’s campaign to get
    rid of wild horses is a scam to cheat
    the taxpayers


    "...The livestock industry has cooked up a $#@!-and-bull story about how wild horses are the primary threat to land health in the West. The now-disgraced BLM interim director William Perry Pendley made that false assertion...

    Wild horses are found primarily on Herd Management Areas (HMAs) spanning 26.9 million acres (11 percent) of the 245.7 million acres managed by the Bureau of Land Management, but are completely absent from the vast majority of western federal lands. Wild horses are often held at very low populations though aggressive federal roundups. Cattle and sheep, on the other hand, graze on the majority of western public lands, and hugely outnumber wild horses...
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    To sum up, federal agencies spend millions of taxpayer dollars on helicopter roundups to remove wild horses from lands where the grazing is valued at only $1.35 a month per animal, spends millions more on short-term holding and transportation, then houses them on private lands where the taxpayers get to pay an average of $60 a month per horse for the rest of their lives...

    ...It’s the fact that the federal government is removing the horses that are ecologically well-adapted to dry conditions of the arid West and replacing them with cattle that are suited only to moist climates and are far more damaging to arid public lands. And to top it all off, they’re pasturing formerly wild horses on private lands in areas with abundant rainfall, pushing cattle off the very lands to which they’re ecologically suited. So in the end, the public gets more cattle on public lands, more ecological damage to public lands, wild horses shifted to private lands, less-sustainable beef production, and then gets to foot the bill for this whole package of expensive mismanagement to boot.

    We have a land health crisis, and a cheatgrass pandemic, on our western public lands. It’s not because of wild horses, it’s because our federal agencies are enabling ecological degradation by failing to competently manage the livestock grazing on public lands. This problem isn’t getting solved by shuffling large herbivores around the continent. It’s long past time to manage wild horse numbers sustainably on the range instead (restoring natural predators and temporary birth control show promise), and to refocus federal attention and funding on the real problem – excessive domestic livestock and the cheatgrass invasions they cause – so we can restore healthy public lands, abundant wildlife, and clean-flowing streams and rivers throughout the West."


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    Bureau of Land Management abdicates horse obligations

    We Americans are inspired by our wild horses. We marvel at the sight of them living wild and free on our public rangelands, of stallions fighting for their family bands, of newborn foals learning to stand for the first time, of herds on the move to their grazing grounds and water holes. These incredible animals are living symbols of the American West, of our connection to its vast, untamed rangelands and of the role horses played in the building of our great nation. Decades ago, when the public learned that they were being abused, exploited and even killed by private profiteers, we rallied behind Congress to pass the Wild Free-Roaming Wild Horses and Burros Act and cheered as our beloved wild horses moved into a new era, one in which they would be celebrated and protected. [...]

    The BLM has proven it cannot be trusted to do the right thing for the wild horses and burros, nor can it be trusted to tell the truth about the animals or their practices. The agency loves to proclaim in a full-throated way that there are too many horses and burros on our rangelands, without mentioning they occupy just a fraction of the lands that agency manages. The BLM describes a population of fewer than 100,000 wild horses as somehow constituting an “overpopulation” on the millions of square acres it manages, but without mentioning the millions of cattle and sheep that are overgrazing the range and damaging riparian areas. Public observers trying to watch and monitor the roundups and the conditions in the BLM’s barren feedlot holding facilities are thwarted time and again, even though it knows that the public has an established right under the First Amendment to have meaningful opportunity to watch and observe.

    The agency has long sought to engage in the harshest management practices at its disposal, . Its leaders created an “Adoption Incentive Program” that has been abused by unscrupulous kill buyers who are paid $1,000 per horse or burro by the BLM, and who then, after the expiration of the required waiting period, take the horses to slaughter auctions — essentially doubling their money. The BLM knows this is happening but gives those kill buyers a wink and nod because, after all, in the end it means fewer horses for the agency to have to care for.
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    BLM AGAIN Releases Fraudulent Population
    Statistics for Wild Horses and Burros


    “BLM states biologically impossible annual wild horse population rates…”

    The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) recently posted their annual Wild Horse and Burro Herd Statistics. As in previous years, BLM’s report is full of obviously false, biologically impossible population growth data.

    WHY is it important to expose this fraud? Because BLM uses the phony figures to convince everyone (but especially, the Congress) that an overpopulation crisis exists. Given the “crisis,” BLM requests millions of dollars in funding to capture and remove thousands of wild horses and burros from the range or, alternatively, to sterilize them. The fraudulent figures reflect BLM’s corruption. Yet, the Agency is granted deference, as if it were providing true data.

    BLM’s falsified population figures affect not only specific herds (by triggering unwarranted, excessive roundups) but also misrepresent the total wild horse and burro population. The astronomically-high numbers for certain herds significantly inflate the summary data, making it seem as if all herds grow at a high rate.


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    Creation of horses: Zechariah 6:1-8, 14:20. Wild Horses, burros persecuted, parted out in violation of Public Law 92-195:
    https://twitter.com/WildHorseEdu

    Jesus was a Vegetarian: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dx6J6jh1Dzo

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    Genetics of North American wild horses

    The Bering Land Bridge ecosystem provided a biogeographical dispersal route for animals and plants to migrate from Eurasia into North America and vice versa. The land connection acted similarly to wildlife corridors created by conservation scientists today, but on a much larger scale and created by the geological process rather than a conservation effort.

    [...]

    To reconstruct the evolutionary history of present-day and extinct horses, we generated ancient DNA data from a panel of more than 100 ancient horses and analyzed these data using two approaches. First, we reconstructed the evolutionary history of maternally inherited mitochondrial genomes using a data set of 189 horses. The mitochondrial genomes sampled from both Eurasian and North American horse populations allowed us to estimate the number of times that female horses dispersed across the Bering Land Bridge in either direction. Second, we turned to the nuclear genomes, which, unlike mitochondrial DNA, are inherited through both male and female lines. Nuclear DNA molecules are larger and more complex than the mitochondrial ones. Thus, on the one hand, a nuclear genome is much more difficult to sequence and assemble, but on the other hand, it is more evolutionary informative.

    Although our results are still preliminary and analyses are still in progress, our initial findings suggest that horses first dispersed from North America into Eurasia between 1 million and 800,000 years ago. However, the history of the horse is not so simple. After their initial colonization of Eurasia, we estimate that horses continued to disperse between the continents perhaps each time that lower sea levels exposed the Bering Land Bridge! The new immigrants integrated into the populations and shared genes, maintaining evolutionary connectivity between populations on the two continents. We found strong evidence that horses dispersed into North America from Eurasia during the most recent glacial period, not long before the colonization of North America by humans.


    https://pgl.soe.ucsc.edu/horses.html

    Wild horses are a part of the natural order meant to function being taken apart by a corrupt renegade agency,
    That has broken laws, a pathogen that crept into existence, making a bigger crime the takeover of a sanctuary.
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    Creation of horses: Zechariah 6:1-8, 14:20. Wild Horses, burros persecuted, parted out in violation of Public Law 92-195:
    https://twitter.com/WildHorseEdu

    Jesus was a Vegetarian: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dx6J6jh1Dzo

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    A lack of ethical stewardship and transparency is why so much abuse of federally protected wild horses and burros. Horses are in the stars, Pegasus and Equuleus.
    A lack of government accountability joined with a love for money. A sovereign Creator did not make a mistake making wild horses part of His created ecosystems.

    Shame on kill buyers, shame on man's governments:


    "Babies of weaning age -- maybe three months old -- were pulled from their mothers and immediately herded into the auction ring, one by one, crying and looking for their mothers as they were sold to the highest bidder. Then their mothers followed, pushed into the ring in groups of 5-6 horses, huddled together, terrified and auctioned in lots and purchased by a kill buyer. It was brutal."

    2016:


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    Federal Government Admits Killing
    over 1.2 Million Native Animals in 2019

    Thousands of coyotes, black bears, and other carnivores slaughtered for livestock interests


    WASHINGTON D.C. — The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s wildlife killing program has just announced its shocking death toll of wildlife killed last year. In 2019, USDA’s Wildlife Services program spent millions of taxpayer dollars to kill 1,258,738 native species. [...]

    In 2019, Wildlife Services killed: 62,002 coyotes, 24,543 beavers, 800 bobcats, 1,362 gray foxes, 1,280 red foxes, 400 black bears, 302 gray wolves, and 308 cougars. Wildlife Services targets the most vulnerable and defenseless animals by destroying dens with countless young animals inside: 35,226 prairie dog burrows, 251 coyote dens, and 96 fox dens obliterated in 2019...

    https://wildearthguardians.org/press...imals-in-2019/

    Such a pathetic governing structure does this.
    Then who asks why a nation falls at its seams.
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    Creation of horses: Zechariah 6:1-8, 14:20. Wild Horses, burros persecuted, parted out in violation of Public Law 92-195:
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    Jesus was a Vegetarian: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dx6J6jh1Dzo

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    Wild Horses and Bureau of Land Management –
    Organized Crime?


    “It’s pretty much a joke how the entire horse program is handled,” says Dale Tunnell, Special Agent in charge of the BLM’s division of Law Enforcement in Santa Fe. “They’ll run one herd into another management area and say it’s overpopulated. Then they’ll take a certain number of horses off the land. The cattle ranchers have a significant say on how those ranges are managed. The managers will do anything to keep those ranchers off their hind ends. The whole purpose is to remove wild horses from the public lands. If they could decimate the herds to where they could die out and become extinct, it would make the politicians and the bureaucrats extremely happy.” Horses to Slaughter, 1993 Investigation

    ...thereby, BLM employees...their credibility, over decades, simply unavailable and unbelievable – they lie and lie a lot...

    Conclusion

    The growth in the Grazing Permit Budget, at the time escalated 10-fold, where at one time a mere few thousand dollars existed in the Range Land Management Budget and Grazing Permit Program, escalated to $-millions immediately, once ranchers and special interests started to populate the Administrative branches of the BLM and Forestry; whereas, at the beginning, no subsidies — to very little – existed, or went to the Welfare Ranchers holding Grazing Permits; then, escalated to several thousands of dollars, to those who were aware of the government hand-outs, and hardly any per-AUM Unit payment to the BLM or Forestry made at that time – and is still $1.35 per AUM Unit. Although, these payments simply disappear in the accounting system – with no Procurement Process to assimilate or be held accountable for the money taken into this account, or out. . .

    But not only are there many questions here, but the overwhelming bad-attitudes from the government agency employees’ themselves, and toward the taxpayers as well as the wild horses, the growth of the Corruption exponential, dirty-dealings and lies out of proportion and very obvious, and within many other subsidies’, began during this time. [...]

    https://prophoto7journal.wordpress.c...ganized-crime/
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    Creation of horses: Zechariah 6:1-8, 14:20. Wild Horses, burros persecuted, parted out in violation of Public Law 92-195:
    https://twitter.com/WildHorseEdu

    Jesus was a Vegetarian: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dx6J6jh1Dzo

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    Quote Originally Posted by valley ranch View Post
    The Mustang is part of the west ~ made history with us ~ we love them ~ sure the truckers can make great money ~ they, the Mustang is not competing with our grazing rights ~ some who want them gone say they're destroying the land ~ that's crazy Bull shipt ~ they keep grass and other fuel down so that there are less range fires ~ there are not enough of our good friends out there ```

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    Letter to Members of 116th Congress

    RE: Bureau of Land Management Wild Horse and Burro Program – oversight hearing request

    Many of us advocating for wild horses have genuine concerns about how the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is handling the Wild Horse and Burro (WHB) Program. The acknowledgment that wild horses and burros were “fast disappearing,” spurred the enactment of the Wild and Free-Roaming Horses and Burros Act of 1971. The act recognizes WHBs as “living symbols of the historic and pioneering spirit of the west.” It also required studies of habitats of free-ranging horses and burros, setting land aside for their use, and that BLM maintain a natural ecological balance among wild horses, wildlife, livestock, and vegetation. Since 1971, WHBs have lost 41% of their legal land, are greatly outnumbered by livestock, and are headed for extinction. For reasons listed below, we feel BLM has failed to protect them and to follow the intent of the law. We hope you will hear our concerns. They are as follows:

    1. According to Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER), the BLM is operating illegally with a temporary director by violating the Federal Vacancies Reform Act. Under that act, any action taken by a noncompliant official “shall have no force or effect,” nor may it be later “ratified.” It is well known that U.S. Representative Chris Stewart (UT) has led the effort to wipe out wild horses and that he typically supports livestock over wild horses on public lands. His former Chief of Staff, Brian Steed, was initially acting BLM director, and he has been replaced with acting director William Pendley. We feel this results in bias that favors livestock. Page not found - PEER.org

    2. The BLM sets “Appropriate Management Levels” (AMLs) for each Horse Management Area (HMA), which they claim is the maximum number of horses or burros that a given HMA can sustain. When an HMA is “over AML,” they set roundups of wild horses or burros into motion. A decision was made by the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals in October of 2016 that concluded that not only are (a) AMLs not written into the Wild and Free-Roaming Horses and Burros Act, but that (b) the AMLs are arbitrarily established, and excess of AML does not equate with overpopulation. BLM is, therefore, under no obligation to remove horses just because their populations exceed these agency-created AMLs. Return To Freedom – Major Victory for Wild Horses: Federal Appeals Court Tosses State of Wyoming’s Anti-Mustang Lawsuit, Oct. 11, 2016

    3. Furthermore, according to the 2013 taxpayer-funded study by the National Academy of Sciences (NAS), Using Science to Improve BLM Wild Horse and Burro Program: A Way Forward, “how AMLs are established, monitored, and adjusted, is not transparent to stakeholders, supported by scientific information, or amenable to adaptation with new scientific information and environmental and social change.” Also, “data and methods used to inform decisions should be scientifically defensible, and the public should be able to understand the methods used and how they are implemented and to assess the data used to make decisions.” https://www.fs.usda.gov/Internet/FSE...prd3796106.pdf

    4. According to a 2016 General Accounting Office (GAO) report on private livestock trespass grazing on public lands, it was noted that instances of trespass grazing are typically not recorded. Therefore, the number of cattle and sheep on public lands is not known. The report also noted that BLM/USFS staff did not consider monitoring grazing allotments to be a priority, and that allotments were often too remote to monitor. Oftentimes grazing livestock permits are renewed without full environmental review. Since horses share HMAs with cattle and sheep, how can they know for certain that horses are the ones degrading the range shared with livestock? U.S. GAO - Unauthorized Grazing: Actions Needed to Improve Tracking and Deterrence Efforts

    5. Some of BLM’s wild horse population estimates are biologically impossible. They have stated that some herds have increased by as much as 775% in ONE year. False statements are a Federal crime punishable by prison time - BLM RELEASES FALSE POPULATION STATISTICS FOR WILD HORSES AND BURROS - Wild Horse Freedom Federation

    6. BLM has set many HMAs below genetic viability, which will lead to slow extinction of these federally protected herds. According to equine geneticist Gus Cothran, of Texas A & M College of Veterinary Medicine, a herd needs 150-200 wild horses or burros to maintain genetic viability, and yet many AMLs are set to 75 or below. We need a science-based rationale for determining AMLs, especially in light of the NAS findings (#3 above) regarding AMLs, before these herds are driven any further into extinction. Rounding up thousands of wild horses is, simply put, not backed by science. AML & Genetic Viability - Google Docs
    Genetic Diversity and Viability | American Wild Horse Campaign

    7. Wild horses and burros have lost 41% of their legally-designated lands since 1971 and share nearly every HMA with livestock. They are only present on 12% of BLM land. For example, in Nevada, the allowed number of horses on 15.6 million acres is 12,811. Livestock has been given 43 million acres and 2 million AUMs (Animal Unit Month), which equals a cow and calf or five sheep. Other states show similar data. In spite of this, horses are blamed for all range degradation. The excuse is that cattle are “not there year round,” but the damage they do in a few months is immense and should be part of every Environmental Assessment (EA) where land is shared with horses. BLM has failed to assess millions of acres of rangeland (most shared with horses). For example, in Arizona, 68% of grazing permits were renewed without an environmental review. Internal Server Error

    8. Wild horses used to have some semblance of protection once rounded up. Title was not granted for one year after adoption, which prevented a quick turn around to kill buyers. Once a horse is adopted through the main adoption program and titled or sold as “sale authority,” they immediately lose federal protection and are at risk for slaughter. BLM recently attempted to change its policy to allow a person to buy 24 horses every day and they have combined the adoption form and title, which in theory funnels these federally protected wild horses immediately into the slaughter pipeline. Rescues cannot keep up with the steady flow of BLM-branded mustangs coming through the kill pens in our border states each week. THE TRUTH #23 – The BLM to combine sales and adoptions on the same application form, making it easier to hide how many wild horses and burros are actually being sold (into the slaughter pipeline) in their records. - Wild Horse Freedom Federation

    9. According to the NAS 2013 report, current BLM management practices (helicopters and removing horses from the range) are actually facilitating high rates of population growth. Comprehensive Animal Welfare Policy (CAWP) has been violated by paid contractors in some instances and inhumane treatment has continually been observed at roundups, i.e., a mare chased by a helicopter while giving birth, broken necks from crashing into corral panels, foals dying of “capture shock,” euthanasia of multiple horses for supposed blindness, club feet, and other questionable afflictions. Furthermore, holding facilities are oftentimes filthy and without any protection from the harsh elements. Horses standing in pens, with no stimulation for sometimes many years at taxpayers’ expense, is inhumane and unacceptable. Eagle Update; CAWP violations – Wild Horse Education

    10. By using only 1% of their budget on birth control, BLM does virtually nothing to effectively manage what they deem to be overpopulation, an as yet unproven claim. They do nothing until they create a supposed crisis and then a roundup is their only “solution.” Oftentimes they call for an “emergency ‘gather’,” which removes the public from any participation in the process. They claim wild horses have no natural predators, but neglect to mention predators have virtually been wiped out on behalf of public lands ranchers (another cost to taxpayers). As outlined above, BLM is lacking scientific evidence of overpopulation, and their refusal over the years to do an actual census complicates matters further. Unless and until they are able to provide scientific proof, a moratorium on birth control and roundups should be sought.

    11. The BLM WHB Program Advisory Board is stacked with ranchers or people unsympathetic to the plight of the wild horses and burros. It is a conflict of interest, and therefore a breach of the board charter, to have people profiting directly from public lands making decisions about proper management of wild horses. The board has recommended socially unacceptable plans to euthanize tens of thousands of “protected” wild horses in holding, along with inhumane sterilization of wild mares against public outcry—twice. BLM holds summits and round table discussions on wild horses without allowing advocates to attend. https://www.sltrib.com/news/environm...nd-the-public/

    12. By adopting 10-year plans, “BLM has disregarded its statutory and regulatory obligation to undertake roundup-specific analysis of the horses and their habitat. The BLM is also ignoring its responsibility to ensure public participation in such decisions.” https://friendsofanimals.org/news/fo.../#.XGIO0C2ZPLY

    13. A five year FOIA investigation of BLM WHB holding pens, undertaken by the Wild Horse Freedom Federation (WHFF), noted violations including misrepresentations, lack of scientific accounting for wild horses and burros on and off range, multitudes of inconsistencies in documentation presented to both the American public and Congress, and waste of taxpayer funds. The white paper that resulted from this research documented purposeful attempts by the BLM to mislead and confuse the taxpaying public and legislators. Data from this 2017 report shows large numbers of horses having disappeared from the holding pens or during transports, where they never arrived. Other issues documented include lack of humane treatment of wild horses and burros on and off range; herd growth rates based on BLM’s own statistics that are scientifically and biologically impossible—and the main driver of roundups; and the BLM’s justification for roundups as a very serious threat to herd population dynamics and genetic diversity, and therefore long-term herd survival. http://wildhorsefreedomfederation.org/white-paper/

    14. Finally, as the federal government looks to rein in unnecessary spending, we ask that legislators look at the cost to taxpayers of private livestock grazing on our public lands. Direct and indirect subsidies to public lands ranchers are costing the American taxpayers up to $1 billion each year. The wild horse and burro “roundup and warehouse” paradigm alone has now reached over $70 million annually, which clears the land to increase private livestock numbers. With public lands grazing fees far below national rates, BLM is losing over $100 million per year on the program. All of this—for a program that contributes only 1.9% to the nation’s beef supply? https://www.westernwatersheds.org/su...american-west/

    The extreme bias demonstrated against protected wild horses and burros on our public lands, and in favor of the livestock industry, is clear and must be addressed for the largest stakeholder—the taxpaying American public. For instance, BLM has used the Farm Bureau to write EAs (Devil’s Garden, CA) and they do not typically consider livestock in range decisions where horses are, even though they outnumber horses by the millions. According to a complaint filed by PEER, BLM was carrying out a plan to map ecological trends throughout the western United States, but directed scientists to exclude livestock grazing as a possible factor in changing landscapes. The reason given by BLM managers was “anxiety from stakeholders (ranchers), fear of litigation, and lack of data on grazing impacts.” If BLM is tasked with managing both programs, they need to fairly and scientifically manage both. The number of roundups has greatly increased under the current administration and yet we are not aware that they have ever enacted 43 CFR 4710.5, which allows them to close areas to livestock grazing to provide for wild horses and burros. https://www.peer.org/news/press-rele...ck-damage.html

    Given all of the above information, we have many concerns regarding BLM’s management of wild horses and burros. We respectfully call for (a) a moratorium on these scientifically-indefensible roundups until the above issues are addressed, and (b) oversight hearings into the BLM’s Wild Horse and Burro Program. Taxpayers are especially concerned with the inhumane treatment of these federally protected herds, the use of fraudulent data to perpetuate the “roundup and warehouse” paradigm, and the misuse of taxpayer funds. We feel these national icons deserve the protection bestowed upon them in 1971 and are calling on you to keep the promise we made.

    https://twitter.com/Freedom4Horses
    and other contributors to this letter



    THE WILD FREE-ROAMING HORSES AND BURROS ACT OF 1971 (PUBLIC LAW 92-195)

    §1331. Congressional findings and declaration of policy


    Congress finds and declares that wild free-roaming horses and burros are living symbols of the historic and pioneer spirit of the West; that they contribute to the diversity of life forms within the Nation and enrich the lives of the American people; and that these horses and burros are fast disappearing from the American scene. It is the policy of Congress that wild free-roaming horses and burros shall be protected from capture, branding, harassment, or death; and to accomplish this they are to be considered in the area where presently found, as an integral part of the natural system of the public lands.
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    Plant farms and animal sanctuaries with just compensation: Genesis 1:29-30, 2-3, Lev. 24:18-22, Psalm 50, Isaiah 1, 11:6-9, 65, 66, Daniel 1, Hosea 2:18, Revelation 20-22.

    Creation of horses: Zechariah 6:1-8, 14:20. Wild Horses, burros persecuted, parted out in violation of Public Law 92-195:
    https://twitter.com/WildHorseEdu

    Jesus was a Vegetarian: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dx6J6jh1Dzo

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    A researcher in the Arizona desert unearthed secrets of well-digging wild burros.



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    Plant farms and animal sanctuaries with just compensation: Genesis 1:29-30, 2-3, Lev. 24:18-22, Psalm 50, Isaiah 1, 11:6-9, 65, 66, Daniel 1, Hosea 2:18, Revelation 20-22.

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    Ancient horse from Ice Age found in Nevada

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...mpression=true
    Plant farms and animal sanctuaries with just compensation: Genesis 1:29-30, 2-3, Lev. 24:18-22, Psalm 50, Isaiah 1, 11:6-9, 65, 66, Daniel 1, Hosea 2:18, Revelation 20-22.

    Creation of horses: Zechariah 6:1-8, 14:20. Wild Horses, burros persecuted, parted out in violation of Public Law 92-195:
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