Why Do the Advocates Cling to a Faulty Hypothesis?

They need a way to make their lies seem plausible.

The faulty hypothesis is the sperm-blocking theory.

If you stand in the rain with an umbrella, you don’t get wet.

If you set it aside, you get wet.

Hold it up, you stay dry.

Let it down, you get wet.

The umbrella blocks the rain.

Here’s how PZP really works.

If you hold up the umbrella for an hour, you can let it down for an hour before you get wet.

If you hold it up for two hours, you can let it down for two hours before you get wet.

If you hold it up for at least five hours, you can get rid of it.  You won’t get wet no matter how long the storm lasts.

The umbrella made you impermeable.

The distinction between the “historically accepted hypothesis” and a “complementary hypothesis,” which asserts that impermeability is the result of damaged or destroyed ovaries, is discussed on page 135 (138 in the pdf) of the Silver King EA.

See also the ISPMB report starting on page 30.

RELATED: Silver King EA Out for Review.

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Silver King EA Out for Review

It’s in the documents folder with comments due by May 29.

The news release solicits public input but does not indicate for what.

Alternative A, the Proposed Action, features forcible removal to low AML, sex ratio skewing and application of fertility control pesticides.  Refer to section 2.4.

The new HMAP is discussed in Appendix XII.

The HMA overlaps nine grazing allotments per section 3.7 and is managed principally for livestock.

RELATED: Scoping Begins for Silver King HMAP.

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HB26-1306 Strengthens Ties Between Ranchers, Advocates

Why would Larry Don Suckla, a Colorado Republican, be so interested in a bill crafted by liberals, signing on as a cosponsor?

Because he runs cattle in Gypsum Valleys, a short distance from the Spring Creek Basin HMA.

The bill, if signed into law, would help the state buy pesticides to beat the horse populations down in favor of livestock.

The allotment master report puts Gypsum Valleys in the Improve category, suggesting that your stewards of the public lands are not taking their responsibilities seriously.

The allotment offers 1,777 active AUMs on 41,187 public acres, equivalent to 3.6 wild horses per thousand public acres.

The target stocking rate across all HMAs is one wild horse per thousand acres.

Above that, rangeland health will suffer according to your faithful public servants.

Yet they allow almost four times as many animals per public acre in Gypsum Valleys, another example of management duplicity.

We have one standard for wild horses and another standard for livestock.

As for Suckla, he’s probably sending Christmas cards and birthday greetings to TJ Holmes, the rangeland eugenicist at Spring Creek Basin.

RELATED: Colorado Rep Spills the Beans on HB26-1306.

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BLM Announces Bordo Atravesado Bait Trap Roundup

The incident will begin on or around May 6 according to the news release.

The capture and removal goals are 26 each.

The target is horses.

The current population was not given.

The HMA covers 19,614 total acres, including 16,487 public acres, and the number of animals allowed by plan is 60.

Operations will not be open to public observation.

The destination of animals identified for removal was not provided.

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

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Assateague Herd Grew Slightly in 2025

The population climbed to 83 in March, up from 79 a year earlier, according to an undated report by NPS.

The number of births and deaths were not given.

Females outnumbered males by a margin of 1.4:1.

A population with that sex ratio should produce many more foals but it can’t because the mares have been ruined with PZP.

Contrary to a statement in the report, the herd cannot maintain genetic diversity because the breeding population is too small.  Refer to 4.4.6.3 in H-4700-1.

Genetic diversity and long-term viability correlate with birth rates, not herd sizes as the advocates would have you believe.

RELATED: Assateague Herd Grows Slightly.

If PZP is reversible, why is the population still going sideways ten years after the darting program was shut off?

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Advocates Intervene as ASNF Threatens Wild Horse Removal

Who’s leading the charge?  The woman who organized the mass sterilization program at the Salt River, taking the herd from 450 to 280, and who will accelerate the decline with motorized removal starting this summer.

The area along the Mogollon Rim is covered by grazing allotments.

No roundups have been announced at the USFS news site or ASNF news site.

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BLM to Discuss Off-Range Corral Solicitation for Eastern U.S.

The webinar will cover the proposal process and requirements for facilities that care for wild horses and burros removed from public lands.

The event runs from 5:00 to 6:00 PM CDT on May 7 according to the news release.

Registration is required.

RELATED: BLM Seeks Off-Range Corrals in Eastern U.S.

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Foal-Free Friday, Driving the Advocates Nuts Edition

This column has always been dedicated to the wild horse advocates, who are wrong about everything, especially the importance of reproduction to herd survival.

How can you start a nonprofit and attract a large following yet be so out of touch?

As a gentle reminder of their errors, add comments to their socialist media pages about the consequences of their darting programs, such as abnormal sex ratios, injuries and infections, increasing death rates and loss of genetic diversity.

Links to anything on Western Horse Watchers would be most unwelcome.

It won’t change their minds but it might dissuade others from joining their movement.

Breeding, not mass sterilization, assures long-term viability.

PREVIOUS: Foal-Free Friday, Bucking the Trend Edition.

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Where Is the Britton Springs Holding Facility?

A map in a 2016 NEPA review puts it on Crooked Creek Road in the southwest corner of the Pryor Mountain HMA.

In the latest incident, the Decision Record, which may have been issued after the fact, says “The stallion was recently corralled on private property after commingling with, and exhibiting aggressive behavior toward, domestic horses and the individual attempting to corral the stallion.  With landowner permission, the BLM retrieved the horse and transported it to the BLM corrals at Britton Springs within the Pryor Mountain HMA.”

RELATED: BLM Nabs Pryor Stallion.

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BLM Nabs Pryor Stallion

The project description says the Proposed Action is to remove one wild horse from private lands but the news release says the agency retrieved him and took him to the corrals at Britton Springs, as if it’s a done deal.

He strayed from the HMA twice within a 12-day period, resulting in complaints from private landowners.

The incident follows the removal of three wayward horses in December.

RELATED: BLM Captures Three Pryor Mountain Horses.

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Tahoe Bear Advocates Turning to PZP in Lieu of Depredation

The product may break the cycle of mother bears teaching their cubs to break into houses according to a report by the Tahoe Daily Tribune.

In keeping with established practice, the article refers to it as a vaccine, not a pesticide.

It’s not clear if the writer consulted with the wild horse advocates, who use it to stop mares from teaching their foals to survive in the desert.

The story pointed to MOUs with departments of agriculture in Arizona and Nevada, a reference to the mass sterilization programs at the Salt River and Virginia Range, showing that partnerships with state agencies are possible.

Curiously, a representative of the Billings School of PZP Darting and Public Deception said the advocates weren’t trying to decrease the population of black bears, just prevent them from teaching their cubs to break in.

There is a problem with their plan, however: PZP is not approved for use on bears.

A 2017 labeling amendment expanded its scope to white-tailed deer and other cervids but not to ursids.

So not only will the advocates at Lake Tahoe need to get certified at Billings, but they’ll also need to convince the EPA that the pesticide is suitable for bears.

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Best Option for Uintah County Vacant Allotments?

The news release said they “were previously relinquished and are now available to qualified livestock operators,” as if that was the only valid use.

Those searching for wild horse preserves need not apply.

The allotments offer an estimated 18,075 active AUMs per year, which would support 1,506 wild horses, subject to rangeland health evaluations.

The grazing fee is currently $1.69 per AUM and the cost of off-range holding is $6 per head per day.

A. Restore Permitted Gazing

  • Grazing receipts = 18,075 × $1.69 = $30,546.75 per year
  • Cost of caring for wild horses = 1,506 × $6 × 365 = $3,298,140 per year
  • Cash flow = $30,546.75 – $3,298,140 = -$3,267,593.25 per year

B. Convert to Wild Horse Preserve

  • Grazing receipts = $0 per year
  • Cost of caring for wild horses = $0 per year
  • Cash flow = $0 per year

Option B saves taxpayers over $3 million per year.

At an average stocking rate of five wild horses per thousand public acres, which is the case for the Uintah allotments, the 21,000 animals in short-term holding could be put back on the range by cancelling the permits on 4.2 million acres—less than 3% of the BLM land identified for livestock grazing.

RELATED: Potential Wild Horse Preserve in Uintah County?

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Ranchers Butt Heads with Conservationists in Bison Grazing Dispute

The case revolves around the BLM’s new understanding of the meaning of livestock, discussed in a January 16 proposed decision that would cancel American Prairie’s grazing permits.

The agency says it can only issue permits for production herds, not conservation herds.

The decision would also frustrate those who would purchase base properties to establish wild horse preserves on public lands.

RELATED: BLM Reneges on American Prairie Grazing Permits.

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