1. You must not allow your appointees on the Nevada Nevada Board of Agriculture to allow for the transfer ownership of the Virginia Range horses to a private entity. This paves the path for our cherished Virginia Range horses to be sent to slaughter auction.
2. Your Agriculture Board failed to conduct even basic research on the legalities and implications of this action, even forbidding members of the public from discussing alternate proposals. It was evident to all that the members you appointed to the Board of Agriculture had their minds made up prior to the meeting.
3. Dozens of Nevadans and business leaders gave testimony opposing this action and only one out-of-state public comment (by a pro-horse slaughter nonprofit group) was made in favor of the action.
4. You are failing Nevadans and instead allowing a small minority of cattlemen to run the state. Your own GOED states that throughout the entire state of Nevada agriculture generates fewer than 8,000 jobs. Yet the Tahoe Reno Industrial Center outside of Reno -- which has repeatedly stated that wild horses ATTRACT new business -- has created 12,000 new jobs and that number continues to climb.
5. Polls show that 78% of NEVADANS want wild horses protected. Business leaders who are driving Nevada's economic development are telling you that wild horses are good for business. Nevadans are overwhelmingly contacting you asking you to protect the Virginia Range horses and all wild horses in the state.
6. Please stop listening to a small group of extremist ranchers who want to get rid of wild horses and listen to US -- the majority of YOUR CONSTITUENTS.
7. Please take immediate action to notify the Board of Agriculture and NDA that the recent Board vote regarding the Virginia Range horses must be rescinded and instruct the NDA to fulfill it's obligation under the Cooperative Agreement and work in good faith to privately resolve any issues and resume the humane management of the Virginia Range horses as started four years ago with the American Wild Horse Campaign.
