Hello and Happy late Tuesday night!

We have a quick update for you.

We are literally doing everything we can to save this historic herd of wild horses.  We are starting to see the fruits of our hard work!

Tonight, we attended the Medora City Council meeting.  We went there asking that they pass a resolution asking the park to stop the roundup.  The council USUALLY takes time to look at proposed resolutions and then come back in the next month and vote on them.  This is what happened with the resolution we asked them to pass in August that got passed at the September meeting.  We let them know that the park has the wild horse round up scheduled for October 10^th. 

We worked for this one!  In the end, the council voted UNANIMOUSLY to pass the resolution. THANK YOU to the Medora City Council members for passing this resolution on such short notice!

Please note: THIS DOES NOT STOP THE ROUNDUP!!!

The resolution will now be sent to our federal legislators and the park.  It lets our federal legislators know that the City of Medora needs their help with this issue. 

Please know that walking into the meeting prepared helped!

Our petition had 1640 signatures when I printed it out today! (we are currently at just under 1900!)  That petition was presented to the Medora City Council, and I also emailed it to our state and federal legislators.  If you have not signed the petition yet, please do!  We will be sending it to our federal legislators again at the end of the week.  You can sign the petition here: https://secure.everyaction.com/4dmUjJg8pk2-feWZLe8-pg2

I am also thankful to Dr. Castle McLaughlin and renowned Ecologist, Craig Downer.  They both provided statements for me to take to the Medora City Council meeting today!

You can read their statements here:

I told you we had some pretty great allies working with us! THANK YOU to both Dr. McLaughlin and Craig Downer for providing statements to help us convince the council to pass the resolution!

A special THANK YOU again to Holly at Bice Policy Group for drafting this resolution for us on such short notice!  They adjusted the language on the resolution slightly from what we submitted.  I will have a copy tomorrow and will share it as soon as we get it.

We also spent some time with KX News today.  You can see the interview on their website: https://www.kxnet.com/news/top-stories/wild-horse-advocates-hoping-to-stop-latest-theodore-roosevelt-national-park-roundup/?utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=socialflow&fbclid=IwY2xjawFpn0RleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHZsuhgYIuzij6dHZduTbYTv67StPgG0bT4m4t8A-TCkM8IGlj1b28W1_zQ_aem_TG-1pYfyo907sVHaI-wEcg

Patrick Springer’s article in the Fargo Forum will be out tomorrow. 

We also have a lot more we are working on that is starting to come together!  We will share updates as we can!

We will also be meeting with the park again tomorrow afternoon.  We will update you on that meeting as well.

Remember:

“The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again.”

“who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly….”

THANK YOU to all of in the arena Daring Greatly with us!  This was a big win for us tonight.  We really worked for this one!  Each one of you who took a moment to sign the petition, shared the link and encouraged others to sign helped make today possible! THANK YOU AGAIN! 

We cannot tell you how much we appreciate your help and support as we continue to Fight for the Spirit of the Badlands.

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