Chincoteague Foaling Season Underway

The list maintained by DSC Photography shows four new lives, all female.

Only 99 more needed to tie last year’s record.

The herd, known for its abnormal sex ratio and unprecedented birth rate, has been manipulated by the Saltwater Cowboys into a moneymaker for the Chincoteague Volunteer Fire Company while FWS looks the other way.

RELATED: Trends in Chincoteague Pony Auction Results.

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BLM Launches Vacant Allotment Finder

The web-based app helps ranchers locate allotments that might be suitable for grazing and provides easy instructions to obtain a permit according to the news release.

The disclaimer, which must be acknowledged to access the site, says it displays potential opportunities for grazing on Bureau of Land Management, U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service and U.S. Forest Service lands.

Acreage and AUMs are estimates and NEPA reviews may be required.

The announcement did not mention base properties and did not indicate if said parcels could be repurposed by interested parties as wild horse preserves.

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Currituck County Scrubs Wild Horse Meeting Materials

Yesterday the Agendas & Minutes page contained links to documents from three special meetings.

Today, it has links for March 12 only, minus the minutes.

Minutes from the September 18 special meeting put the herd size at 112 but did not indicate the number of males and females.

The number of self-boosting mares was not provided.  (Refer to the AdvocateSpeak decoder if you don’t know what that means.)

The size of the breeding population was not provided.

The effect on genetic diversity was not discussed.

Healthy mares were not darted in 2025 due to questions about the long-term effects of PZP according to comments under Action 1K (bottom of page 12 in the pdf).

In an attempt to thwart a better understanding of how the pesticide works, protocols are in place to send the uterus—not the ovaries—of any deceased mares to researchers at the Science and Conservation Center for analysis (manufacturers of PZP).

RELATED: Currituck Wild Horse Advisory Board Meets Today.

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BLM Announces Lake Pleasant Bait Trap Roundup

The incident will begin on April 1 according to the news release.

The capture and removal goals are 1,500 each.

The target is burros.

The current population is thought to be around 2,300.

The HMA covers 103,473 total acres, including 60,836 public acres, and the number of animals allowed by plan is 208.

Operations will not be open to public observation.

Animals identified for removal will be taken to the off-range corrals in Florence.

There are no plans to treat any of the jennies with fertility control pesticides and return them to the range.

The roundup will liberate up to 9,000 AUMs per year for other mandated uses of public lands, which is of little interest to drillers, miners, loggers, tourists, hikers and campers, but it’s great news for _________.

RELATED: BLM Issues Lake Pleasant Final Planning Documents.

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West Douglas Paradox

The herd area is not suitable for wild horses but the allotment that contains most of it supports livestock equivalent to 962 wild horses.

The equivalent stocking rate in the allotment is 6.9 wild horses per thousand public acres, almost seven times higher than the rate that avoids rangeland degradation (one wild horse per thousand acres according to your faithful public servants).

If the bureaucrats and advocates held a lying contest, who would win?

RELATED: Can Public Lands Be Suitable and Not Suitable for Wild Horses?

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NMACO Building Wild Horse Training and Transition Facility

The project started with the donation of a ten-acre parcel according to a story by The Journal of Cortez, CO.

It’s not a base property and doesn’t have grazing privileges on public lands.

The facility reflects a shift in the group’s priorities, from keeping wild horses on public lands to ownership of displaced animals and placing them into private care.

The ranchers couldn’t be happier.

Western Horse Watchers refers to the trend as the downward spiral in wild horse advocacy, characterized by acceptance of methods that were previously eschewed.

If a proposed refuge doesn’t include public lands and doesn’t displace livestock therefrom, it’s not worthy of your support.

RELATED: Mesa Verde Roundup Continues.

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Can Public Lands Be Suitable and Not Suitable for Wild Horses?

Not according to the law of contradiction.

1. Law of Identity: A = A, A is A.

2. Law of excluded middle: A ∪ Ac = S, everything is A or not A.

3. Law of contradiction: A ∩ Ac = ∅, nothing is A and not A.

Unfortunately, those are rules of thought.  The material world need not conform.

Consider the West Douglas Herd Area in Colorado.

A BLM spokesman said it’s not suitable for wild horses according to an article about the new roundup schedule by The Colorado Sun.

A wildfire destroyed most of their food.

But the HA lies mostly within the Twin Buttes allotment, with a small portion in East Douglas Creek, and the allotment master report for Twin Buttes shows only nine percent of the authorized AUMs in the suspended column.

The active AUMs would support 962 wild horses.

Can a fire burn some of the forage and most of the forage?

Can the land be fit for wild horses and not fit for wild horses?

The bureaucrats would have you believe that.  They’re as nutty as the advocates.

RELATED: BLM Defies Colorado Wild Horse Working Group?

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Foal-Free Friday, Rangeland Eugenics Edition

Proponents of eugenics claimed they were trying to improve genetic quality while critics said they were trying to preserve the position of dominant groups in the population.

A disproportionate number of those identified for sterilization were African American, Asian American and Native American women according to an article by Wikipedia.

The idea was to diminish those who were seen as unfit for society—the poor, the disabled, the mentally ill and persons of color.

The movement may have fallen out of favor but some practices, such as sterilization, have spread to America’s public lands.

We need to cleanse the range of certain undesirable elements that rob forage from livestock and return little if any economic benefit.

What you may not realize is that today’s eugenicists, like their predecessors, have a hidden agenda.

They want the ranchers to win.

PREVIOUS: Foal-Free Friday, Downward Spiral Edition.

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BLM Announces Black Mountain Bait Trap Roundup

The incident will begin on or about April 2 according to the news release.

The capture and removal goals are 500 each.

The target is burros.

The current population is thought to be around 3,900.

The HMA covers 773,136 total acres, including 543,307 public acres, according to the 2026 population dataset.

Operations will not be open to public observation.

Animals identified for removal will be taken to the Axtell off-range corrals in Utah.

There are no plans to treat any of the jennies with fertility control pesticides and return them to the range.

The roundup appears in the new schedule.

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Forest Service Announces New Information Collection Request

The agency has drafted five new forms to collect information from the public regarding adoption or purchase of wild horses and burros.

  • FS-2200-0032, Request to Purchase Wild Horses with Limitations
  • FS-2200-0033, Bill of Sale with Limitations for Wild Horses and Burros
  • FS-2200-0034, Wild Horse and/or Burro Selection
  • FS-2200-0035, Agreement for Maintenance and Care of Wild Horses and Burros
  • FS-2200-0036, Wild Horse and Burro Title Application Inspection Form

Refer to this notice in the Federal Register.  There was no news release.

Comments on the forms will be accepted through May 26.

Unfortunately, they’re not available online but Western Horse Watchers has requested pdfs to post here.

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Finance Committee to Consider HB26-1306

The hearing is set for April 6.

The bill would create a Colorado wild horse license plate, fees and compulsory donations notwithstanding.

The tags should feature an image of an advocate shooting a darting rifle, reflecting the state’s commitment to barren mares, shrinking herds, increasing death rates, abnormal sex ratios and loss of genetic diversity.

RELATED: Colorado to Offer Wild Horse License Plate?

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Advocates Protest Spring Mountains Roundup

The announcement did not give the names of the organizers but the event was set for March 23 at the BLM office in Las Vegas.

The description included a link to material written by the Campaign Against America’s Wild Horses.

Demands included cessation of motorized removal, implementation of fertility control and transfer of captured animals to sanctuaries.

Pesticides are referred to as vaccines.

The advocates want them off the range as much as the bureaucrats and ranchers.

As of today, the gather page shows no wild horses captured, with seven consecutive days of “No animals were in the bait and water corrals by EOB yesterday.”

RELATED: BLM Announces Spring Mountains Bait Trap Roundup.

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Mesa Verde Roundup Continues

The Park Service hasn’t updated its page in almost a year but a story by The Journal says 60 horses have been removed since low-stress trapping began.

Wild horses have been found in the Canyons of the Ancients National Monument and Weber Canyon according to the report.

RELATED: Mesa Verde Roundup Grinds On.

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