<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 13px; "><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; color: rgb(127, 127, 127); "><b>Indeed, or why they feel the need to do so?</b></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 13px; "><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; color: rgb(127, 127, 127); "><b><br></b></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 13px; "><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; color: rgb(127, 127, 127); "><b>Jo</b></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 13px; "><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; color: rgb(127, 127, 127); "><b><br></b></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 13px; "><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; color: rgb(127, 127, 127); "><b><br></b></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 13px; "><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; color: rgb(127, 127, 127); "><b>From: </b></span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; ">Jim and_or Ginny Owen <<a href="mailto:spiriteagle99@hotmail.com">spiriteagle99@hotmail.com</a>><br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 13px; "><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; color: rgb(127, 127, 127); "><b>Date: </b></span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; ">December 23, 2010 6:43:50 PM PST<br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 13px; "><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; color: rgb(127, 127, 127); "><b>To: </b></span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; "><<a href="mailto:mail@cdtsociety.org">mail@cdtsociety.org</a>>, cdt-l <<a href="mailto:cdt-l@backcountry.net">cdt-l@backcountry.net</a>><br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 13px; "><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; color: rgb(127, 127, 127); "><b>Subject: </b></span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; "><b>Re: [Cdt-l] Wild Horse Roundup</b><br></span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 13px; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 13px; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 13px; ">Any idea what they intend to do with those 600 horses?</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 13px; "> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 13px; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 13px; ">Jim</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 13px; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 13px; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 13px; "><a href="http://www.spiriteaglehome.com/">http://www.spiriteaglehome.com/</a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 13px; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 13px; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 13px; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 13px; "> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 13px; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 13px; ">> Date: Thu, 23 Dec 2010 17:16:21 -0500</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 13px; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 13px; ">> From:</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 13px; "> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 13px; "><a href="mailto:mail@cdtsociety.org">mail@cdtsociety.org</a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 13px; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 13px; ">> To:</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 13px; "> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 13px; "><a href="mailto:cdt-l@backcountry.net">cdt-l@backcountry.net</a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 13px; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 13px; ">> Subject: [Cdt-l] Wild Horse Roundup</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 13px; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 13px; ">></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 13px; "> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 13px; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 13px; ">> BLM is proposing to reduce the wild horse population of Wyoming's Great Divide</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 13px; "> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 13px; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 13px; ">> Basin next summer. The Bureau estimates that the herd numbered about 1000 last</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 13px; "> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 13px; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 13px; ">> April. The plan is to remove some 600 excess horses, using helicopter roundups</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 13px; "> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 13px; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 13px; ">> to bring the population down to roughly 400 to 600 wild horses. (A similar</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 13px; "> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 13px; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 13px; ">> roundup was carried out in 2007.)</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 13px; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 13px; ">></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 13px; "> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 13px; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 13px; ">> The Rock Springs Field Office is inviting comments (to</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 13px; "> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 13px; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 13px; ">></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 13px; "> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 13px; "><a href="mailto:dividebasin_hma_wy@blm.gov">dividebasin_hma_wy@blm.gov</a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 13px; ">) by January 21.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 13px; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 13px; ">></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 13px; "> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 13px; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 13px; ">> CDTS does not now expect to comment -- but would welcome the thoughts of the CDT</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 13px; "> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 13px; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 13px; ">> community.</span></body></html>