Please Help Save

the Preservation Herd from Drought!






A Message from Magpie,

White Sands Herd

 


I realize that there are so many needs in the world today and I hope you will keep me at the top of your priority list.  You see, if ISPMB had not rescued my herd, my family and I would not be here today! But after all those good deeds, South Dakota is experiencing a drought unequaled in modern history.  There is not enough grass for all of us to eat and hay is getting expensive.  But we have to have hay to make it through the winter.

My friends at ISPMB work so hard that I thought here is an easy way you can help them out!





 

 

 Sponsor me or one of my friends:


 

 $    150.00
 
 

 Sponsor an orphan foal:


 

 $    500.00
 
 

 Sponsor my entire band:


 

 $ 1,000.00
 
 

 Sponsor my herd:


 

 $ 5,000.00
 



Receive a beautiful certificate with our pictures on it and a story about us. The most important thing is that you are helping to keep ISPMB's conservation program alive. That means that I can still be wild and free.  You know that my herd exists nowhere else in our country but with ISPMB.  I hate to think what would have happened to me if ISPMB didn't save all of us.

I don't know much about the green bills humans call money.  I do know they are the same color as my hay and without them, I'll be without my green hay.  Please help us make it through this winter and please pray for normal rainfall next year.  Any amount you can give will help, and 100% of your contributions will go towards buying hay and similar necessities.  You will be helping a whole lot of horses.

Isabella, one of the orphans.







International Society for the protection of Mustangs and Burros

PO Box 55

Lantry, SD 57636

Karen A. Sussman, President

605.964.6866

605.365.6991 (mobile)

Saving America's Wild Horses & Burros since 1960

www.ispmb.org

Become a member of ISPMB today!

http://www.ispmb.org/membership.shtml










 

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A Letter from ISPMB President Karen Sussman





 Dear Friend of ISPMB,

 South Dakota is experiencing the worst drought in its history and our north central
 area has been declared the epicenter of the drought in our nation.  Winter is fast 
 approaching and we do not have our hay supply because of the increase in demand,
 lack of supply and the bottom line of escalating prices.

 There has been NO hay production within 100 miles because of below record level
 rain and snowfall.  The drought is worse than the 30’s Dust Bowl.  We are facing a
 potentially harsh winter in the ten-year weather cycle.  Ten years ago, the blizzards
 were so bad that 650,000 livestock died in South and North Dakota.  The situation has
 a potential for our animals far more severe than the Katrina disaster.  

 Hay prices have doubled already and as winter approaches and gas prices continue to
 increase, the cost of hay will nearly triple.  

 Ranchers can sell their livestock but ISPMB is managing the first ever conservation
 program to save endangered and threatened herds and we cannot sell our animals and
 replace them next year.

 The information that we are recording daily from observing behaviors is invaluable
 to the welfare and future of wild horses on public lands.  Our goal has always been
 to create a Model Management Program for wild horses on public lands.

 Can you help us with a generous donation?  Each truckload of hay that arrives now
 costs $2500 and we will need 60 truckloads to make it through until June of next
 year. If you can purchase a truckload, our hay dealer is taking Master Card and
 Visa.  We need your help more than ever and will appreciate any size donation.

 We have had no grass since June and our reserve hay supply is gone.  Please help us
 keep these rare and endangered herds alive through this natural disaster.

 Most sincerely,



 Karen A. Sussman
 President, ISPMB

 P.S.   ISPMB has been active all year working to end horse slaughter in our
        country.  We have had a great success in the House of Representatives – now
        onto the Senate.  Please call your Senators today and ask that they support
        S.1915 – The American Horse Slaughter Prevention Act.

        In July, I was honored by being inducted into the Mustang Hall of Fame in
        Reno, Nevada following in the footsteps of my predecessor, Wild Horse Annie
        whose moccasins no one can fill.

        Please watch for the November issue of Vanity Fair for their coverage about
        Annie, ISPMB and the current crisis facing wild horses.





What you do speaks so loud that I cannot hear what you say

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
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