Beforehand we’ve requested you to submit feedback to save lots of wild horses within the Teddy Roosevelt Nationwide Park (TRNP). We’re sorry to say, we’ve to ask you to talk up as soon as extra. Regardless of North Dakota Governor Doug Burgum and the state’s Senator John Hoeven pushing to maintain the wild horses, the Park Service remains to be pushing to take away the overwhelming majority of horses or all of them.
TRNP, positioned in North Dakota, is devoted in honor of President Theodore “Teddy” Roosevelt and his management in conservation coverage. Whereas these horses usually are not protected underneath Federal legislation and are known as “livestock,” they’ve been cherished cultural icons for many years. When Teddy Roosevelt was younger, he visited the world and skilled the magnificence and great thing about the pure panorama which included wild bison and wild horses exhibiting pure wild behaviors — residing in household bands, with stallions defending their households.
The Park Service continues to suggest to both eliminate all the horses or permit solely 35-60 — of the almost 200 horses residing within the space — to stay. The Park Service manages the Park for cultural and pure sources and claims to depend on public enter for Park administration. PLEASE SPEAK UP for these magnificent horses NOW — they really are CULTURAL ICONS!
Please inform the Park Service the next (in your individual phrases):
- Preserving the Teddy Roosevelt horses MUST be a cornerstone of the Park’s livestock administration plan, since they contributed to President Teddy Roosevelt’s marvel on the pure world, resulting in his CREATION of the NATIONAL PARK SYSTEM.
- Horses have lived “wild” in TRNP for generations and MILLIONS of Park guests cherish these animals as an integral a part of the cultural heritage of the Badlands.
- These horses should be managed to protect pure behaviors simply as Teddy Roosevelt would have skilled. He would have seen stallions defending their households, foals with their moms and aunties, and your complete repertoire of pure “wild” horse behaviors.
- To guard the GENETIC HEALTH of the herd and promote its genetic viability, the minimal inhabitants needs to be 150 or extra. By permitting the horses to make use of extra areas of the TRNP, the herd can – and may – be managed at a HIGHER MINIMUM POPULATION LEVEL.
Your voice makes a distinction. Please submit your feedback on to the Park Service by clicking right here. The deadline for submitting feedback is October 25, 2023.
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