Sheryl Crow, the Grammy Award winning singer asked President Barack Obama and Interior Secretary Ken Salazar to stop the announced roundup of 2,500 mustangs in northern Nevada.
Crow is against Salazar’s plan to move a larger number of mustangs to preserves in the Midwest and East in order to protect herds and the related rangelands.
U.S. Bureau of Land Management plan to move 11,500 mustangs from the range each of the next three years, because, as they said, the high number of animals is in the detriment of the range. They have set a target proper management level of 26,000 animals in the wild, about 10,000 below the present level. Other 32,000 of them are in the care of governmental holding facilities.
In a letter to Obama and Salazar this week, Crow with other actors and mora than 100 other groups are not taking as granted the BML’s horse numbers and claim that there could be only 15,000 wild horses remaining on public lands.
