SHERYL CROW OPPOSES MISTREATMENT OF WILD MUSTANGS
FROM THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
SHERYL CROW is joining the call for a halt to U.S. government round ups of wild horses in the west, stating that they’re inhumane and unnecessary.
The GRAMMY AWARD winning singer is asking President Barack Obama and Interior Secretary Ken Salazar to scrap a proposed roundup of 2,500 mustangs in northern Nevada.
SHERYL, who campaigned for President Obama last year and performed at his inauguration, opposes Ken Salazar’s plan to move thousands of wild horses to preserves in the midwest and east to protect horse herds and the rangelands that support them.
U.S. Bureau of Land Management officials say they plan to remove 11,500 wild horses and burros from the range over each of the next three years because booming numbers of the animals are damaging the range.
