Theresa Barbour - Val Hogsett
I went to a community college, I had a complete scholarship during my years there, which extended to Baldwin Wallace University for law. I made a decision to move back to where my family was and away from the city to raise my 3 children. After that, I audited several courses but never went back to university because of the way credits transferred and the repeat courses I would have to take to get my law degree at Ithaca University and I audited a few courses at Cornell University as well.
I went on to work as a public library director. During my time there I was responsible for all the day-to-day tasks which included coordination of a volunteer team, my assistant, and communications with my board of directors. I was responsible for the purchasing of various media materials, development of programs and implementation of them, community outreach, writing grants, doing the annual reports, and even lobbying for legislation for continued funding for public libraries. When I started my job there I began the day they had computers delivered and began transitioning from the old method of using a card catalog and checking out materials via written card to everything being done on the computer. So my job also involved training my assistant and all of our front desk volunteers on how to use the new programs, and sometimes that meant how to use a computer. I was also involved in the development of a policy manual for the library.
I began my life in animal rescue and advocacy as a teenager, and that has continued throughout my adult life. I ran a horse rescue, and was responsible for obtaining animals from special needs requests to auctions. I lobbied for better animal protections at a state level, and to get an Animal Control department started in my county. I represented myself in a court case against a couple who starved a horse I sold to them and never paid for the horse and tack they received from me. After fighting with the county to prosecute the man, and getting him convicted I also won the civil suit where I represented myself in court for the financial end of that ordeal. At that point I had become aware of the plight of wild horses and the Bureau of Land Management. I was made aware of the lack of protections for horses that had been removed from public lands, and how impossible it was to get BLM to do a compliance check in any eastern state. That awareness through seeing abused and starving wild horses in an adoptive home, and not being able to do anything for them made me the wild horse advocate I am today. I have been a volunteer, and for a time a board member of Ciitzens Against Equine Slaughter for about a decade now. My duties for them have included website developement, treasurer, public relations, documenting wild horses and gathers, going to holding facilities, going to meetings of the BLM and the Forest Service, and to various public lawmakers to lobby for wild horses or to testify in hearings. However, my main task is research and legal work. I have been a pro se attorney in several cases filed for the wild horses.
I am semi-retired but still focused on environmental issues, indigenous rights, and other human rights and animal rights issues. Humans need to be more aware of the changes we force upon the world and recognize that our actions have reactions that are often devastating. The only true problem nature has is the overpopulation of humans.
Phone: 15413156650
Address: PO BOX 115
Drain. OR 97435
I went on to work as a public library director. During my time there I was responsible for all the day-to-day tasks which included coordination of a volunteer team, my assistant, and communications with my board of directors. I was responsible for the purchasing of various media materials, development of programs and implementation of them, community outreach, writing grants, doing the annual reports, and even lobbying for legislation for continued funding for public libraries. When I started my job there I began the day they had computers delivered and began transitioning from the old method of using a card catalog and checking out materials via written card to everything being done on the computer. So my job also involved training my assistant and all of our front desk volunteers on how to use the new programs, and sometimes that meant how to use a computer. I was also involved in the development of a policy manual for the library.
I began my life in animal rescue and advocacy as a teenager, and that has continued throughout my adult life. I ran a horse rescue, and was responsible for obtaining animals from special needs requests to auctions. I lobbied for better animal protections at a state level, and to get an Animal Control department started in my county. I represented myself in a court case against a couple who starved a horse I sold to them and never paid for the horse and tack they received from me. After fighting with the county to prosecute the man, and getting him convicted I also won the civil suit where I represented myself in court for the financial end of that ordeal. At that point I had become aware of the plight of wild horses and the Bureau of Land Management. I was made aware of the lack of protections for horses that had been removed from public lands, and how impossible it was to get BLM to do a compliance check in any eastern state. That awareness through seeing abused and starving wild horses in an adoptive home, and not being able to do anything for them made me the wild horse advocate I am today. I have been a volunteer, and for a time a board member of Ciitzens Against Equine Slaughter for about a decade now. My duties for them have included website developement, treasurer, public relations, documenting wild horses and gathers, going to holding facilities, going to meetings of the BLM and the Forest Service, and to various public lawmakers to lobby for wild horses or to testify in hearings. However, my main task is research and legal work. I have been a pro se attorney in several cases filed for the wild horses.
I am semi-retired but still focused on environmental issues, indigenous rights, and other human rights and animal rights issues. Humans need to be more aware of the changes we force upon the world and recognize that our actions have reactions that are often devastating. The only true problem nature has is the overpopulation of humans.
Phone: 15413156650
Address: PO BOX 115
Drain. OR 97435
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In the proposed plan Forest Service plans to set population levels far below the level needed for genetic viability. This will be a slow genetic extinction of the herd. And this population range Forest Service sees as appropriate does not take into consideration the predators in the area, the true size of their territory, or the public's wishes.
In our public comments on this plan, you can see the history of the area, with articles and interviews from before the 1971 Act passed. Information that makes it clear that public lands ranchers in that area were worried about the horses gaining any federal protections well before they did, and they began getting rid of horses. This hasn't stopped to this day.
The organizations I volunteer for and work with Citizens Against Equine Slaughter, Wild Horse Observers, and the newly formed Oregon Wild Horse Organization have been volunteering to haul water, do fence maintenance to keep horses off the highway, adjust gate positionings, and most of all document the various bands within the herd. Read the full 2 part series that was our public comments on the proposed management plan.
As of July 2022, the Forest Service has not announced a final decision on this plan.
In the proposed plan Forest Service plans to set population levels far below the level needed for genetic viability. This will be a slow genetic extinction of the herd. And this population range Forest Service sees as appropriate does not take into consideration the predators in the area, the true size of their territory, or the public's wishes.
In our public comments on this plan, you can see the history of the area, with articles and interviews from before the 1971 Act passed. Information that makes it clear that public lands ranchers in that area were worried about the horses gaining any federal protections well before they did, and they began getting rid of horses. This hasn't stopped to this day.
The organizations I volunteer for and work with Citizens Against Equine Slaughter, Wild Horse Observers, and the newly formed Oregon Wild Horse Organization have been volunteering to haul water, do fence maintenance to keep horses off the highway, adjust gate positionings, and most of all document the various bands within the herd. Read the full 2 part series that was our public comments on the proposed management plan.
As of July 2022, the Forest Service has not announced a final decision on this plan.