Contact information for your US Senators & Members of the House of Representatives
You have 2 U.S. Senators. To look up your Senators, go here:
www.senate.gov/senators/senators-contact.htm
Contact each Senator and your US Representative by phone, by fax, by using the Contact page on their website, and by mail. All of that information is available on their website, usually at the bottom of the home page.
Please take the time to make a quick phone call to each Senator and Representative and use the script below. Alternatively, you can reach the US Capitol Switchboard at (202) 224-3121. The operator will ask which state you are calling from followed by which Senator or Member of the House you want to speak to.
Give them the name of the your 1st Senator, leave your message for him/her, then call back and ask the for the 2nd Senator. Then call a 3rd time to reach your Representative. When the operator transfers you each time, you will either get voice mail so you can leave a quick message, or you will reach a staff member who will take a message.
You have 1 U.S. Representative. To look up your member of the House of Representatives, go here: www.house.gov/representatives/find-your-representative
You should be calling your Representative on bills that start with H.R. and both of your Senators on bills that start with S. You should also be calling them on issues related to wild horses and burros. You can make a call and simply say:
"Hello Senator (or Representative) _______, I am calling to ask for an immediate moratorium on all wild horse and burro roundups until Congress can investigate the Bureau of Land Management's wasteful spending of taxpayer dollars and mismanagement of the Wild Horse & Burro Program. I am asking you to ensure our wild horses & burros are given their rightful protections under the Wild & Free-Roaming Horses and Burros Act of 1971 in the form of Herd Management Area Plans, that the abusive & cruel roundups via helicopters that cause life threatening injuries and deaths to the horses will stop happening, and that our taxpayer dollars are not abused by the Bureau of Land Management. Save our wild horses, burros, wildlife, and public lands before it's too late. Thank you."
Contact Information for the USFS (Forest Service):
The current White House administration is planning to relocate the USFS to Utah and eliminate most of the offices. We have no idea how this will affect the wild horse herds managed by the USFS.
USFS: United States Forest Service
The new head of the USFS is Tom Schultz. Here is his introduction page.
Use this contact form to send an email to the National Office of the forest service:
www.fs.usda.gov/about-agency/contact-us
USFS National Headquarters
- Phone: 800-832-1355
- Mailing Address: 1400 Independence Ave., SW, Washington, D.C. 20250-0003
- Physical Address: 201 14th St. SW, Washington, DC 20250
For the Big Summit wild horse herd in Oregon:
Ochoco National Forest
Forest Supervisor
160 NE Third St
Prineville OR 97754
Sample message: Protect the Big Summit wild horse herd! 12-57 horses on 27,000 acres is not a genetically viable number. Please find a way to work with the wild horses to allow them to remain wild and free for generations to come.
For the Heber Wild Horses in Arizona:
Black Mesa District Forest Service Contact address is
The Apache-Sitgreaves National Forests' Public Affairs Office
PO Box 640, Springerville, AZ 85938
982-333-4301
Email at: as_portal_comments@fs.fed.us
&
Black Mesa District Forest Service
Public Affairs Deputy / Forest Service
Apache-Sitegreaves National Forests Supervisors' Office
Forest Supervisor: Judith Palmer
Deputy Forest Supervisor: Ericka Luna
Public Affairs Officer: Jeffrey Todd
30 S Chiricahua Drive
Springerville, AZ 85938
(928) 333-6336
Fax (928) 333-5966
Sample message: Protect our cherished Heber wild horse herd. Please find a way to work with the wild horses, not remove them and replace them with cattle. Keep our wild horses living wild and free for generations to come!
For the Devil's Garden Wild Horses in California:
Modoc National Forest
225 West 8th Street
Alturas, CA 96101
Sample message: Protect our cherished Devil's Garden wild horse herd! Please find a way to work with the wild horses, not remove them and replace them with cattle. Keep our wild horses living wild and free for generations to come!
Messages for the President, Dept. of the Interior, Senators, Members of the House, and the United States Forest Service:
We want our messages to be polite and factual. We want change to happen NOW, not in 10 years when it will be too late (The Bureau of Land Management's 10 year Path Forward plan is a plan to extinction for our wild horses), and we don't want any more horses, wild or domestic, shipped over our borders to slaughterhouses in Mexico or Canada. Use your own wording or see below for some examples of what you can write on your postcards to your Senators and members of the House of Representatives (when referring to the SAFE Act HR 1661 or S 775, you must use language that includes 'horses' as there are other Safe Acts in legislation).
Be respectful and professional. You can use your own wording or work off the sample messages below:
Messages to the President & Department of the Interior:
- When are we as a country going to start doing what's right and protect our public lands and wildlife? Protecting our wild horses also protects the land and water resources from the destructive cattle industry. Help us save our wild horses now!
- Impose a immediate moratorium on all roundups of wild horses and burros. They deserve to be protected and allowed to live wild and free. Require the Bureau of Land Management to implement and abide by herd management area plans, remove cattle from wild horse HMA's
- Please work to ensure that our domestic and wild horses & burros are protected from being shipped to slaughter in the US and over our borders to other countries. The American public does NOT support horse slaughter.
- Our wild horses & burros are American icons of the West. They deserve to live wild and free on the lands they were born on. Help us protect our wild horses & burros now by demanding the Bureau of Land Management create and abide by Herd Management Area Plans that contribute to the well-being of our wild horses & burros.
- The Bureau of Land Management is out of control, eliminating our beloved wild horses & burros, catering to cattle ranchers, and destroying our public lands. Help us to protect our wild horses & burros, icons of the American West.
Messages to the Senate and House of Representatives:
- STOP funding the Path Forward Plan proposed by the BLM, ASPCA, & HSUS - it is NOT a plan to protect our wild horses. There is a better way. Require the Bureau of Land Management to create and abide by herd management area plans before wasting our tax dollars on cruel roundups and inhumane long term holding pens for our wild horses and burros.
- Please pass the SAFE Act HR 1661 and S.775 to protect our wild horses & burros and domestic horses from being shipped to slaughter!
- Please reintroduce H.R. 249 and have the language of the Burns Amendment stricken from the Wild Free-Roaming Horses & Burros Act. That action would directly protect wild horses and burros from slaughter by undoing the changes to the Act that permitted it.
- Cattle are an environmental crisis, contributing to ecosystem destruction and depleting our water resources on public lands. Save our wildlife, wild horses & burros, and public lands now before it's too late. The Bureau of Land Managements own rangeland health data maps show widespread damage by millions of privately-owned cattle and sheep both inside and outside of areas designated for wild horses' principal use and protection. Incremental grazing income from livestock producers is just $955,800 per year. Yet the Bureau wants to spend $59 million to remove wild horses and $43 million per year to stockpile them in long-term holding pens. The cost to leave our American mustangs wild and free? $0
- Please ensure our wild horses are given their rightful protections under the Wild & Free Roaming Horses & Burros Act of 1971 in the form of Herd Management Area Plans. Require the BLM to work with our horses, not remove them to the point of extinction levels.
- Please work to ensure that our domestic and wild horses & burros are protected from being shipped to slaughter in the US and over our borders to other countries. The American public does NOT support horse slaughter.
- Stop allowing cattle and sheep to decimate our public lands and wild horse herds. We want to see wild horses & wildlife on our public lands, not livestock. Protect our wild horses and public lands now.
- Our wild horses are beautiful creatures who grace our public lands. Help us protect them and in turn protect our public lands from the oil, mining, and cattle industries that destroy valuable ecosystems.
- The Bureau of Land Management is out of control, rounding up our wild horses at unprecedented levels. Our wild horses are not destroying our public lands, millions of cattle & sheep are!
- Our wild horses are being treated as scapegoats by the BLM. Cattle destroy ecosystems, wild horses do not. Protect our wild horses and in turn protect our public lands and wildlife!
- Cattle grazing on our public lands is a privilege, it’s not a right. Stop allowing the cattle industry to dictate what happens on OUR public lands. The Bureau of Land Management collects only $955,800 a year from grazing fees, but will spend $59 million to round up our wild horses and another $43 million annually to house them in long-term holding pens.
- The Bureau of Land Management is out of control, decimating our wild horse herds, paying millions of dollars to helicopter pilots to chase our wild horses and to put our wild horses in long-term holding. There IS a better way. Protect our wild horses and public lands now!
Message to the USFS / Unites States Forest Service:
- When are we as a country going to start doing what's right and protect our forest lands and wildlife? Protecting our wild horses also protects the land and water resources from the destructive cattle industry. Help us save our wild horses now!
- Re-wild our wild horses & burros to help fight wildfires in the West. We want to see our wild horses living free, not rounded up and replaced with cattle. Stop rounding up our treasured wild horses.
- Our wild mustangs are American icons of the West. They deserve to live wild and free on the lands they were born on. Help us protect our wild horses.
- Cattle are an environmental crisis, contributing to ecosystem destruction and depleting our water resources on public & forest lands. Save our wildlife, wild horses & burros, and forest lands now before it's too late.
- Stop rounding up our wild horses & burros when they wander off HMA's. Require ranchers to fix their fences when damaged and return the wild horses to their HMA's. Let our wild horses live wild and free.