Exposing the Hypocrisy, Lies and Incompetence of the Wild Horse Advocates
A new project was opened today in ePlanning but no documents were posted for public review.
The Red Desert Complex includes the Antelope Hills, Crooks Mountain, Green Mountain, Lost Creek and Stewart Creek HMAs in Wyoming.
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The capture total as of March 24 was 63 according to the gather page.
The incident began on March 16 but no animals were caught until Day 8.
RELATED: BLM Announces Pancake Bait Trap Roundup.
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The agency has drafted five new forms to collect information from the public regarding adoption or purchase of wild horses and burros.
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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Some observers say the injuries are intentional, inflicted by trained dogs.
RELATED: Who’s Mutilating Wild Burros in Reche Canyon?
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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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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.
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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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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The incident will begin on or about April 1 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 1,100.
The HMA covers 157,180 total acres, including 146,701 public acres.
Operations will not be open to public observation.
Animals identified for removal will be taken to the off-range corrals at Ridgecrest.
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.
RELATED: Bullfrog Emergency Roundup?
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The new roundup schedule ignores solutions developed by the task force according to a story by The Colorado Sun.
Despite the recommendations, Scott Wilson, former Director of Strategy and Awareness with the Campaign Against America’s Wild Horses, said “…we are back where we were in 2022, with more than 1,000 horses being targeted for removals by helicopter.”
The group argued that strategic darting, not motorized removal, should be at the center of the state’s management efforts.
RELATED: Colorado Wild Horse Working Group Updates Eradication Plan.
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On the southern edge of the Virginia Range with Art, documenting the mass sterilization program inflicted on the herd by the Campaign Against America’s Wild Horses and its army of nitwits.
Refer to the AdvocateSpeak decoder for the meaning of self-boosting mares.
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This year it’s called the National Wild Horse & Burro Conference, a successor to the Save Our Wild Horses Conference.
The field trip on Day 2 leads to the Onaqui Mountain HMA, where the advocates have added GonaCon to their darting repertoire, a practice they previously opposed, to beat the horse population down in favor of livestock.
Just another example of the downward spiral of wild horse advocacy.
Day 4 features presentations about rescues, sanctuaries, innovative programs and real pathways to getting horses into homes—exactly what the ranchers want.
Not to be discussed is the model employed by American Prairie and the Wild Horse Refuge: Owning or controlling private property tied to public lands and flipping the preference to horses.
The topic is of critical importance as the BLM has awakened to a new understanding of the meaning of livestock, a move prompted by ranching interests to discourage, if not preclude, the conversion of grazing allotments to wild animal preserves.
RELATED: Reminder About Sanctuaries.
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A stallion was captured on March 19 according to the gather page.
The incident began on March 15 but no animals were caught until Day 5.
RELATED: BLM Announces Caliente Bait Trap Roundup.
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The last roundup schedule of FY25 showed 16 darting programs, nine employing PZP, six using GonaCon and one based on both.
In the new schedule for FY26, the program at Little Book Cliffs has shifted to the mix, bring the total in that category to two.
It’s a small change that reflects desperation of the advocates to remain relevant, keep their seat at the table and prove that fertility control is the preferred alternative to motorized removal.
Even if they resort to methods they previously opposed.
The move follows shifting attitudes in Arizona, where the advocates will supplement their mass sterilization program with motorized removal to hasten the decline of the Salt River herd, starting this summer.
PREVIOUS: Foal-Free Friday, Social Engineering Edition.
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They’re not on the schedule for FY26 and probably won’t be attempted before October according to a story by WyoFile, to make sure funding is in place and they’re on sound legal footing.
The changes authorized in the 2023 final planning documents have already been implemented in the ArcGIS Viewer.
Funding for FY26, which began on October 1, was not approved until late January.
RELATED: BLM Moves Rock Springs Roundups into Next Year.
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The reality is the remnant staff at the Campaign Against America’s Wild Horses is still composed of defeatists, pesticide pushers and ranching sympathizers.
Let the reformation continue.
RELATED: Housecleaning at CAAWH?
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They’re horrified to see growth and genetic vigor.
They want the land managed primarily for livestock.
They have nothing to offer America’s wild horses.
RELATED: BLM Releases 2026 Population Estimates.
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The temporary position is based in Havre.
The successful candidate will monitor rangeland conditions and participate in wild horse utilization checks and cattle compliance checks according to the job posting.
The application period closes on March 30.
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The authorization use report for Mosier Gulch indicates nine head on a twelve-month grazing season, species unknown.
The allotment master report gives the permittee as DEMATTEIS, JOHN AND LAURA.
A search for John Dematteis associated him with Yak Daddy Ranch in Buffalo, a small town east of the allotment.
Products and services include meat and live sales for starting your own herd.
Yaks were introduced to North America in the early 1900’s according to the site, putting them in the same category as cattle and sheep (not indigenous).
Does the permit comply with the BLM’s new understanding of the meaning of livestock?
Probably, in that the animals are used for production-oriented purposes.
They generate an income for their owners.
That’s what American Prairie needs to show in response to the agency’s flip-flop on their grazing permits.
An admission fee of 25¢ should do it.
RELATED: BLM Reneges on American Prairie Grazing Permits.
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Here’s an archive view of the staff last May. Scroll down to “Our Team.”
Here’s the current roster.
These individuals are no longer on the list:
In recent years, Roy transformed the nonprofit into a ranching advocacy group, with heavy reliance on pesticides to achieve the government’s population goals, while the board looked the other way.
Her bogus land trust is in an area where livestock are welcomed but horses are not.
The title of largest attempted eradication of wild horses belongs to her for the mass sterilization program on the Virginia Range.
A sigh of relief must have gone up at her departure.
Western Horse Watchers does not know who’s currently driving the bus and if the reduction-in-force is part of a restructuring and rededication to its original mission.
RELATED: CAAWH Seeks Operations & Executive Support Manager?
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They’re usually not open to observation, interfering with the public’s right to know what their government is doing.
The risks of injury and death, after the gate closes, are similar to those of forcible removal, as the writer of a commentary in Nevada Current points out.
Especially during foaling season.
As of this morning, the BLM has not posted any results for the roundups mentioned in the column (Antelope & Triple B, Caliente, Pancake, Spring Mountains).
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