BLM is giving a tour of the Indian Lakes (Broken Arrow) facility on October 27. The facility is approved to house 7,600 wild horses on 320 acres containing 75 large holding pens and small sick pens.
Onsite at the tour BLM should be providing attendees with:
- Map of facility.
- Pen number and with the area where horses and burros in the pen were captured from and year. In other words, an actual inventory list. (Even Walmart knows what products are in a massive store.
BLM should provide attendees (and the rest of the public) a URL to an open web portal that contains:
- Map of facility with the area of horse and burro origination (gather event name).
- Animal arrival and departure records.
- Current inventory (animals freeze-marked, unmarked, and foals born at the facility).
- Animal preparation records (Equine Infectious Anemia (EIA) testing and application of freeze-mark).
- Animal vaccination, deworming, and hoof trimming records.
- Records of routine veterinarian visits (required documentation and must be maintained at the facility).
- Data showing daily evaluation of an animal's condition (hoof, injury, in need of veterinarian evaluation/treatment, and/or supplemental feeding).
- Animal death records.
- Data showing compliance with BLM Euthanasia policy and CAWP Euthanasia standards, including method used.
This information should be provided at every single tour of a facility where there are no regular visiting hours.
Doing so, will relieve the burden on the FOIA office, clear the backlog and provide some form of transparency.