BLM Monitoring the Situation at Alkali Hot Springs?

If you’re not up to speed on the case watch yesterday’s episode of Mustang Monday.

Nevada is a fence-out state.

The fence around the property should meet the requirements of NRS 569.431.

If the agency receives complaints about the horses and burros and determines that they’re damaging property or posing a safety hazard to the construction crew, it may order a roundup.

They won’t capture the animals and take them back to their HMAs.

They’ll be permanently removed from the range.

The property is not in an area identified for their use.

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REMINDER: Advocates Surpass Shooters in Race to Eliminate Wild Horses

The loss of nine free-roaming horses in the Apache-Sitgreaves National Forest is just another day at the office for the advocates.

At the Salt River, they’ve taken the herd from 450 to 280.

The largest attempted eradication of wild horses is not being carried out by the BLM in Wyoming but by the advocates at the Virginia Range.

The number of horses lost is not known because they scrubbed their darting resources page and the monthly reports posted thereto. The final result could go as high as 3,000.

New programs are springing up wherever they can convince the bureaucrats that they have a better way.

They are enemies of America’s wild horses and don’t deserve a penny of your support.

RELATED: Heber Shootings Resume.

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Will Greenlink West Pass Through Alkali Hot Springs?

The right-of-way zigzags to the northwest about two miles west of Alkali according to map 11 in Attachment B, one of the appendices to the Final EIS.

The map shows a laydown yard in Goldfield but not Alkali.

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Mustang Monday

An update from Alkali Hot Springs by Desert Water.

One of the horses gets caught in the new fence. Not pretty.

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Phil Sees Shadow, Predicts Six More Years of Advocate Lies

The Prognosticator of Punxsutawney said earlier today that winter’s not going anywhere according to a report by CBS News.

Neither are the lies about wild horse behavior, carrying capacity of public lands and the reversibility of PZP.

You can bring an early spring by giving the advocates the boot.

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Wild Horses and Burros Losing Access to Alkali Hot Springs?

A fence has been built around the property as a part of its conversion to a laydown yard for NV Energy’s Greenlink West project.

Runoff from the spring will go under the fence as shown in the following video but access to the other water holes will be cut off.

The Esmeralda County assessor does not show any sales history for the property.

The APN is 006-261-05 and the current owner is HRH NEVADA RESOURCES, LTD.

The parcel map shows one 80-acre tract, 1,320 ft × 2,640 ft, minus 3.48 acres for Silver Peak Road.

Most of the new transmission line will run across BLM land.

The Decision Record and Final EIS can be found in the NEPA review by clicking on the Documents link near the top of the page.

A map in the January construction report shows the portion near Alkali as Segment 2.

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Would North Clarks Valley Make a Good Wild Horse Preserve?

The allotment is too small but nearly 1,500 acres will be treated for cheatgrass next year according to a BLM news release.

Your faithful public servants claim that rangeland health will deteriorate if wild horse populations exceed one animal per thousand acres but the allotment supports livestock equivalent to three wild horses per thousand acres and it’s in the Maintain category.

The Range Creek HMA, with a target stocking rate of 2.9 wild horses per thousand public acres, is a few miles to the east.

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Jakes Fire Roundup Ends

The incident concluded on January 30 with 180 horses captured, 173 shipped, one released and seven dead.

The capture goal was 182.

A stallion escaped from the trap on the final day but this is not reflected in the data.

180 ≠ 173 + 7 + 1

The death rate was 3.9%.

The capture total consisted of 87 stallions and 93 mares.

No foals were caught.

The average daily take was 36.

The operation liberated 2,148 AUMs per year for other mandated uses of public lands.

There were no plans to treat any of the mares with fertility control pesticides and return them to the range, a huge disappointment to the advocates.

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Heber Shootings Resume

Nine wild horses have been found dead in the Black Mesa Ranger District according to a report by KNAU News.

A news release by ASNF confirms the $5,000 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of those responsible.

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Jakes Fire Roundup, Day 4

The incident started on January 26.

Scope: Snowstorm Mountains and Little Humboldt HMAs
Target: Horses
Type: Emergency
Method: Helicopter
Better way: Beat the populations down with ovary-killing pesticides*
Capture goal: 182
Removal goal: 182
Captured: 154
Shipped: 147
Released: None
Deaths: 7
Average daily take: 38.5
Unaccounted-for animals: None

*According to advocates.

Results for Days 3 and 4 were not posted until today.

All deaths were intentional, the result of pre-existing conditions.

The death rate is 4.5%.

The capture total includes 76 stallions and 78 mares.

No foals have been caught.

The location of the trap site is not known.

The name of the contractor was not given.

The operation has liberated 1,848 AUMs per year.

RELATED: Jakes Fire Roundup Begins.

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Wild Horses and Burros at Alkali Hot Springs?

Remnants of the old spa are on deeded acreage in the Montezuma Allotment, between the Paymaster and Montezuma Peak HMAs.

The PLSS layer in the ArcGIS Viewer indicates the property covers two 40-acre parcels in section 26 of T1S R41E, MDB&M.

The spa is in the southwest quadrant of the easterly parcel.

The allotment master report puts forage availability on the public lands at 13.6 AUMs per year per thousand public acres, barely enough to support one wild horse or two wild burros per thousand acres.

The landscape and animals are documented in this video by Windy Bill.

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Foal-Free Friday, Wicked Women of the West Edition

They are the pesticide pushers, enemies of America’s wild horses and servants of the public-lands ranchers.

They couldn’t convert an AML to AUMs if their lives depended on it, much less compute a forage allocation for livestock in an area identified for wild horses.

But they know how much adjuvant to add to the PZP and how long to mix them.

Resolve now to cut them off.

PREVIOUS: Foal-Free Friday, Turncoats and Sellouts Edition.

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Wild Horses in Boroughs Act?

The bill would increase the number of horse-drawn carriages in densely populated areas to help fight global warming.

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Piñon Base Property Available for $4 Million

W Bar Ranch covers 23,894 total acres according to the agent’s listing, including 1,618 deeded acres, 2,390 state acres and 19,886 BLM acres.

The numbers are very close to those in the allotment master report for Cornucopia Ranch, located a few miles south of Piñon, NM.

The allotment is currently permitted for cattle according to the authorization use report, with a twelve-month grazing season.

The permittee receives 5,032 active AUMs per year, enough to support 419 wild horses.

The stocking rate would be 21.1 wild horses per thousand public acres, despite claims by your faithful public servants that public lands in the western U.S. can only support one wild horse per thousand acres.

The land ratio is good, 17 public acres per deeded acre.

The property might be suitable as a wild horse refuge, saving taxpayers 419 × 6 × 365 = $917,610 per year.

The simple payout period would be 4.4 years.

Wild horses can be placed on public lands not identified for their use by acquiring base properties tied to one or more grazing allotments and flipping the preference to horses.

The advocates could be investing in such projects, which would likely gain value over time, instead of wasting your donations on programs that benefit ranchers.

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SFGATE Looks at Mono Lake Emergency Roundup

Not mentioned in the report are the allotments where the horses roam and the priorities attached thereto.

Comments from a representative of the Campaign Against America’s Wild Horses were not included, a deviation from established practice.

To his credit, the writer did not try to sell mass sterilization as wild horse conservation.

RELATED: Mono Lake Update.

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Would Little Humboldt Make a Good Wild Horse Preserve?

The allotment contains an area identified for wild horses, which is unacceptable.

The ArcGIS Viewer shows the arrangement.

About 70% of the HA is managed principally for livestock.

Horses are tolerated in the HMA, the remaining piece in the northeast corner.

The allotment offers 8,279 active AUMs on 68,879 public acres according to the allotment master report, equivalent to ten wild horses per thousand public acres.

Your faithful public servants claim that public lands in the western U.S. can only support one wild horse per thousand public acres.

You don’t need to buy the base property to put wild horses back in the HA.

You just need to rid the bureaucracy of ranchers and ranching sympathizers and overturn the planning process that zeroed it out.

The advocacy groups could have special funds to acquire base properties not associated with HMAs and WHTs, opening up new spaces on public lands for wild horses.

Instead, they use your donations to buy pesticides so they can beat the horse numbers down in favor of livestock.

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Jakes Fire Roundup Begins

The incident started yesterday as advertised, with 60 horses captured, none shipped, none released and one dead.

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Mississippi Arena Collapses Under Weight of Snow

Been waiting for stories like this to filter in.

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Madeleine Pickens Talks about Wild Horses on Cats Roundtable

The founder of Mustang Monument speaks with John Catsimatidis in this audio segment by WABC Radio in New York City.

The authorization use report indicates the preference on the Spruce allotment has not been flipped to horses, which was part of the deal when she bought the base property.

Her rescued mustangs are probably on the deeded acreage.

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Mustang Monday

At or near the Salt River with Dustin Doppmann.

The absence of foals should sound an alarm about wild horses and those who are trying to wipe them out with fertility control pesticides.

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