URGENT RE: Clark Mountain Burro Herd Mojave National Preserve.

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If anyone is interested and/or able to support this issue. This is the email that I received...

On Wednesday April 12th 2006 Public Lands For Public Use is scheduled to have a meeting with NPS of the Mojave National Preserve, BLM Wild Horse & Burro and Senator Feinsteins Representatives regarding the Clark Mountain Burros.

BLM is prepared to offer an agreement with NPS to reopen the Clark Mountain Herd Area and bring it up to a viable gene pool. There are less than 80 head of burros left in the wild. This working relationship is favored by Senator Feinstein. We have heard that Senator Feinstein is seeing that the Public wants a Burro Herd to remain on Clark Mountain. This is the first of many long nights for us preparing documents and asking for help from others. Research is ongoing on this herd, questions are still unanswered when it comes to their lines. We have the people capable of helping us to trace that. We hope to enlist Dr Tom King in a National Historic Preservation Nomination for them. Public Land For Public Use will stay involved with this herd

What we are asking from you and your groups or lists, is to show Senator Feinstein just how much the public wants our Western Heritage saved in the representation of the Clark Mountain Burro issue. Without all of our combined efforts these burros will become extinct. Their herd level is down to a non viable gene pool and it will take a great deal of work to build this herd back up to a manageable level. Please send letters, email or faxes to Senator Feinstein showing her that she has our support to continue this fight for the livelihood of this herd.

Public Lands For Public Use has always worked to preserve our American Western Heritage however; without your help we feel this may fall on deaf ears. It is a monumental battle we will be entering into. You can bet the moment we leave that meeting a phone call will be made to the other side and they will come at us with all they have. We were asked tonight if we were ready for a fight, our answer to that was "it is all we have ever known". No issue we have been involved in has been handed over to us, so yes, Public Lands For Public Use is ready. We do not want to see one more death caused by abusive treatment, or one more burro shot because some Ranger or Resource person has told a hunter they can feel free to shoot them. We don't want one more burro removed from the native range unless it is under a proper management course. And then all the paperwork better be correct and a need be identified, not just because one species takes rank from another because of some false environmental documentation. We are not talking thousands of Burros we are only talking about healthy herd.

So please write letters or send faxes to Senator Feinstein showing her she has your support for this issue. Take a moment and consider the Clark Mountain Burro that will cease to be if you do not take that moment. The burro steadfast in his duty to the past. Let us make sure the Clark Mountain Burro claims it place in our American History and can finally live his/her life out in peace on the only range it has ever known.

To reach Senator Feinstein by email [e-mail] to fax letters to 310-914-7318 or 619-231-1108 make sure you mark them URGENT RE: Clark Mountain Burro Herd Mojave National Preserve.

We understand that tomorrows meeting is the first of many. We hope to at least come away with a moratorium on no more burro removals until this is settled. If we manage to walk out the door with just that much it at least a step in the right direction.

Public Land For Public Use thanks you for your co-operation in this very important matter.

Jennifer & Ken Foster
Public Land For Public Use

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