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Monday, April 21, 2008
PHANTOM'S HOME HERD IN DANGER
Dear Readers,
The Phantom's home herd is in danger and you can help.
Please read the article below. Tomorrow I will tell you what you can do!
Best,
Terri
Country singer Willie Nelson has joined in a fight to preserve a wild horse herd roaming mountains near the old Nevada mining town of Virginia City — and Gov. Jim Gibbons is getting a lot of calls as a result.
Singer-songwriter Lacy J. Dalton, who lives near Virginia City, asked Nelson to help stop what she and other wild horse advocates saw as a move by the Nevada Agriculture Department to round up a herd of about 1,200 horses for eventual livestock sales — where they could be sold for slaughter.
“That’s exactly what they intend to do,” Dalton said. “It’s probably fueled by old-paradigm thinking about the horses, not seeing that they can be the most tremendous asset to tourism here in Northern Nevada.”
“Over my dead body will they take those horses,” said Dalton, who toured with Nelson, also a wild-horse advocate, in the 1980s. “It’s wrong, it’s stupid and shortsighted.”
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PHANTOM'S HOME HERD IN DANGER
Dear Readers,
The Phantom's home herd is in danger and you can help.
Please read the article below. Tomorrow I will tell you what you can do!
Best,
Terri
Country singer Willie Nelson has joined in a fight to preserve a wild horse herd roaming mountains near the old Nevada mining town of Virginia City — and Gov. Jim Gibbons is getting a lot of calls as a result.
Singer-songwriter Lacy J. Dalton, who lives near Virginia City, asked Nelson to help stop what she and other wild horse advocates saw as a move by the Nevada Agriculture Department to round up a herd of about 1,200 horses for eventual livestock sales — where they could be sold for slaughter.
“That’s exactly what they intend to do,” Dalton said. “It’s probably fueled by old-paradigm thinking about the horses, not seeing that they can be the most tremendous asset to tourism here in Northern Nevada.”
“Over my dead body will they take those horses,” said Dalton, who toured with Nelson, also a wild-horse advocate, in the 1980s. “It’s wrong, it’s stupid and shortsighted.”
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Posted by Terri Farley @ 10:22 PM
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