Governor Jim Gibbons

Nevada State Capitol

101 N. Carson Street

Carson City, NV 89701

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Dear Governor Gibbons,

I have heard and read about your program that is being administered through the Department of Agriculture, claiming there are too many horses on the Virginia Range. Why would you take this strong symbol of our state and choose to send them to slaughter?

Please accept my contribution to the State of Nevada -- a Nevada State Quarter. Note the symbol that was chosen by the people of Nevada to best represent our state to the rest of the nation is a wild horse. Not the wild burro or bighorn sheep or livestock, but a wild horse.

                                    <tape quarter

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I insist that the state keep this contribution and that it go solely towards the cost of preserving the wild horses on the Virginia Range in the State of Nevada. I also strongly urge that you take another look at your current round up policy with regards to the wild horses on this range and all others within the state and reverse your position immediately.

The wild horses of Nevada should be allowed to remain just that -- Wild Horses.  Leave them on the range where they belong.

Thank you,

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