Wild Horse and Burro Week set for Pa.
t AIJiIXANDKIA, VA - Plans are
underway for Pennsylvania's first
Wild Horse and Burro Week to be
field Oct. 17-23, the U S Interior
Department's Bureau of l,and
Management announced
Special events, exhibits and
demonstrations will be open to the
public free of charge Saturday and
Sunday, Oct 22-23. They will take
place at the Northeast Wild Horse
and Burro Adoption Center,
located in Lewisberry, which is
between Harrisburg and York. The
center, which will also be
celebrating Us first anniversary, is
operated for the Bureau by Frank
and Dons Goodlander on their
Y ork County farm.
The purpose of Wild Horse and
Burro Week is to focus on the
historic role of these animals, now
protected be federal law, and
create public awareness of the
Adopt-a-Horse and Burro
Program, which placed excess
animals with people who will
ovide them good home. If left on
the western public rangelands
these animals would probably
[suffer from starvation because of
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overpopulation, according to the
Bureau.
The public is invited to lour the
facilities to see wild horses and
burros, and gentling and training
demonstrations On the weekend
there will be country music and
cookouls, a film and slide show
about the animals, and talks by
adopters who will share ex
periences about their animals
Also, exhibits and sales of Penn
sylvania crafts and farm products
will be held. A Stale-wide poster
contest will be held for elementary
school students, and there will
even be a Junior Bass Fishing
Contest.
Schools, senior citizen, civic and
farm organizations are invited to
arrange for bus tours during the
week by calling the Goodlanders at
(717)938-2560.
Adopters from throughout the
Northeast will be invited to lake
part in the activities, and efforts
are being made to attract tourists,
according to the Bureau, The
Goodlanders say they welcome
-.people to camp on the grounds, but
arrangements should be made
ad this ad & th
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with them in advaiuc Motels and
campgrounds with hookups ait
also within a short distance Itoni
the Adoption Lentei
Protected undei the Wild Horse
and Burro Act ot 1971, current!)
47.800 wild horses and 13,.i(X) bui ros
are on the range in 10 western
stales Since 1973. 4b,000 animals
have been adopted nationwide, and
some 10,000 have been adopted
here in the East Already, more
than 500 animals have been
adopted trom the Pennsylvania
Adoption Center which opened last
July The center is the only one of
its kind tn the Northeast
Spanish conquistadors and
missionaries are said to have in
troduced horses and burros to the
Americas in the 1600’s. Indians got
their horses from Spanish camps
Through the years, escaped oi
abandoned animals formed the
first wild horse and burro herds.
The herds mullipled and a great
many roamed the open range.
Because of their value as pet food,
mustangers” rounded them up
for profit. Herds were often driven
to extiaustion and destruction, the>
sold to canneries.
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10 We recommend the law In
enforced on weed mowing on -tale
property including highways
\s in many of the proposed
policies, the current dairy
situation and its problems
remained a leading topic of the
evening Steve Scope Farmers
Home Administration explained
the basic requirements of the
emergency loan program If you
don't need the money. don’t borrow
it.” he stated and stressed the need
for complete records
Constance Ohhnger. 1983 Berks
County Dairy Princess, cautioned
dairy farmers about promoting
milk m June and forgetting about
the rest of the year Milk
promotion has to be a 365-day
effort, on every occasion
possible,” she stated very
seriously
President Koch also announced
that the association will be
preparing a map of the problem
roads for milk trucks and will have
the cooperation of the Department
of Transportation.
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Lancaster Farming, Saturday, October 8,1983—D25
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[’resident Koch stated, as he
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Praising the leadership of Berks
t mints, Don Missmcr. Rec’ional
Organization Director presented
Star Award certificates to Ralph
Banner, Ra_s Seidel, Dan Harnish
George Moser, Pat Lutz. Lillian
Harmsh, Gertrude Mooie Karl
Hafer. Roger Wagner, I.lojd
Dreibelbis. William Moore, John
Koch, Gloria Christman, Harold
Burger?, Chester Noll, Wilbur
Lutz, Stanles Fox, Herman
Hunsicker. and Joe Ruth M>
sincere appreciation for the
counts's efforts," Musmer con-
eluded
The 1984 Board of Directors are
District ! - Gertrude Moore,
District 2 - John Stump, District 1 ■
Ralph Sanner. District 8 - Earl
Hafer, District 9 - Wilson Rohr
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