Craig Downer

The featured speaker at Monday's Democratic luncheon will be biologist Craig Downer, who will explain with specificity why he strongly supports SB90, a bill which designates the wild mustang as the official state horse of the State of Nevada.

The Legislative Counsel’s digest of SB90 states: "Existing law designates numerous state emblems, including, without limitation, a state bird, state insect, state reptile, state animal, state fish and others. This bill designates the wild mustang as the official state horse of the State of Nevada."

The body of the bill reads as follows:

The featured speaker at Carson City's June 14th Democratic luncheon will be wild horse and burro ecologist and biologist Craig Downer. His appearance follows on from the extended presentation on climate change he gave at the April 26th tele-luncheon, when there was insufficient time to summarize the points made or engage in a question and answer session with in-person attendees and those who took advantage of the full-length, on-demand video recording. All those seeking such clarifications are encouraged to attend.

The featured speaker at Monday's Democratic tele-luncheon will be biologist Craig Downer, who will explain how climate change is impacting Nevada's herds of wild horses and burros. Over the years, he has collected data from more than fifty herd management areas, and supplied the BLM and the public with valuable research based on hundreds of scientifically based ecological evaluations.

The featured speaker at Monday's Carson City Democratic tele-luncheon will be Chas Macquarie of the Citizens’ Climate Lobby. In honor of Earth Day, his presentation will lay out the scientific fundamentals of climate change, the ample evidence that it's happening right now all around us, and public policy proposals with the potential to slow the rise in atmospheric carbon dioxide.