Good morning!  We hope everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving! 

Have you sent in your comment letter to Theodore Roosevelt National Park yet? 

If you have procrastinated, or maybe you JUST found out about the plight of the wild horses that call the Park home – TODAY is the LAST day to submit your comments on the Draft Environmental Assessment (EA)!

REMEMBER: Comments will ONLY count when you submit them on the Park’s planning website: https://parkplanning.nps.gov/commentForm.cfm?documentID=132035

OR

When you have them postmarked by TODAY (11/24/2023) and mail them to: Superintendent, Theodore Roosevelt National Park, P.O. Box 7, Medora, ND 58645.

Chasing Horses Wild Horse Advocates made it easy for you!  We have a sample comment letter that you can sign onto AND use to write personalize to write your own comment letter to the Park: https://secure.everyaction.com/9pae2T4Ud0SItoaoX10DmA2

THIS is the last day that comments will be accepted on the Draft EA.  Please make sure you exercise your right to weigh in on the future management of the wild horses that call Theodore Roosevelt National Park home.

The “fate” of these horses will not be decided today.  TODAY is all about getting your comments in.

Once today passes, the Park will look over the comment letters and be back in the spring and let us know what they decided: will they present us with a FONSI (Finding Of No Significant Impact) or will they move forward with an Environmental Impact Statement (EIS).

At that time, and depending on what they decide, our lawyers will let us know if we have any legal recourse and we will talk about our next steps.

We have said it many times before, and we will say it again, we are at the start of what will more than likely be a very long fight for the freedom of these horses. 

Today is just one step in our process.

There are also a lot of other things we are also working on to help these horses.  We will share more of that next week.

For today, PLEASE make sure you get those comments uploaded to the Park’s planning website or postmarked TODAY and mailed to them.

Just under 200 wild horses are depending on you to speak up for them!

Thank you for your support and have a GREAT day!

P.S. Another way that you can help wild horses everywhere is to share an article published by the Associated Press (AP) yesterday!  The more shares the article gets, the more it sends a message to the AP that there is an interest in stories about wild horses! You can find the article here: https://apnews.com/article/north-dakota-national-park-wild-horses-890fa54e02c31e40bece168c593da6ae

The article may also find its way to your local newspaper – if it does, be sure to send a letter to the editor to keep the TRNP wild horses in the news!

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