How Is PZP Used?

A report by the Science and Conservation Center, a producer and distributor of PZP located on the grounds of ZooMontana, indicates that 93% of the doses shipped in 2025 were ordered for horses.

SCC’s partner organizations include many familiar names, some who participated in the 2026 pesticide roundtable.

A story by KTVQ News said the BLM has partnered with ZooMontana to implement PZP darting in the Pryor Mountain HMA.

RELATED: Pesticides, Not Roundups, to Destroy Pryor Mountain Herd.

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Advocates Protest Loss of Red Desert Cremellos

Eight horses were euthanized for blindness but only three are getting their attention.

They were dispatched on October 19 according to a story by Cowboy State Daily.

The condition is not life threatening.

They lived in the wild, survived the chase and didn’t crash into pipe panels breaking their necks.

So the real problem might be that they were deemed unadoptable and unworthy of transfer to off-range pastures, despite an offer by a sanctuary to take them.

RELATED: Blindness: Death Sentence for BLM Horses?

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Red Desert Roundup Ends

The incident concluded on October 29 with 1,035 horses captured, 1,018 shipped, none released and 17 dead.

There were no unaccounted-for animals.

The death rate was 1.6%.  Sixteen deaths were intentional.

The capture total included 372 stallions, 435 mares and 228 foals.

Operations spanned 14 days and the average daily take was 73.9.

The roundup liberated 12,420 AUMs per year for other mandated uses of public lands.

That number will go down if some of the horses, treated with fertility control or not, are returned to the range.

RELATED: BLM Announces Red Desert Roundup, Finally.

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BLM Closing Public Lands for Cedar Mountain Roundup

A new project has been opened in ePlanning and two documents have been uploaded.

Areas within two miles of active trapping locations and temporary holding facilities will be closed to all public entry during the incident, with the exception of contractor personnel and observers escorted by BLM staff, according to the Decision Record.

The map on page 4 indicates that the entire HMA will be closed plus lands to the east and west.

The Swasey HMA, listed in the schedule with Cedar Mountain, was not mentioned.

That incident will begin a week earlier.

PREVIOUS: Swasey and Cedar Mountain Roundups Go to Cattoor.

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Red Desert Roundup Over?

It is if you’re the Campaign Against America’s Wild Horses, a leader in mass sterilization and instigator of the largest attempted eradication of wild horses in Nevada.

There has been no news release and 84 horses were shipped on October 28, leaving 74 unaccounted-for animals.

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

PREVIOUS: Red Desert Capture Goal Reached, Incident Not Over.

UPDATE: The remaining animals shipped on October 29.

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Foal-Free Friday, Fork in the Road Edition

This chart shows what can happen after a genetic bottleneck, which occurs when wild horses are removed from an established herd.

Which path do the advocates prefer?

Consider the opinion piece in PJ Media, co-authored by the executive director of the Campaign Against America’s Wild Horses, that Google censored.

“Without on-range fertility management, herd populations will quickly recover, triggering another gather in just a few short years.”

“[R]eforms must mandate comprehensive fertility management alongside every future gather and establish a clear timeline to phase out roundups altogether.”

They don’t want the high road to recovery.

They want the low load to extinction, to be achieved with never-ending fertility control.

They are enemies of the horses and servants of the ranchers.

Don’t give them a penny.

PREVIOUS: Foal-Free Friday, Irreparable Harm Edition.

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Forest Service Seeks Information on Double Devil Vet Services

The purpose of the RFI is to identify suppliers that can meet the requirement of services within one hour as specified in the Performance Work Statement.

The place of performance is the Double Devil Wild Horse and Burro Corrals, seven miles northwest of Alturas, CA in the Modoc NF.

The Forest Service does not intend to award a contract on the basis of the RFI or to pay for the information solicited.

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Court Sides with Government in Stone Cabin Appeal

The Ninth Circuit ruled that gather plans for the Little Fish Lake JMA and Stone Cabin Complex complied with the immediacy requirement of the WHB Act according to an opinion filed today.

The panel noted that the Act requires the BLM to promulgate gather plans that remove excess animals as promptly as logistically and reasonably possible but grants the agency significant latitude to determine what is logistically and reasonably possible, concluding that neither of the plans ran afoul of that provision.

PREVIOUS: Ninth Circuit Wrangles with Meaning of Immediate.

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BLM Hiring Horse Wranglers in California and Idaho

The jobs, associated with off-range holding facilities, are not open to the public.

There are two vacancies at Litchfield, two at Ridgecrest and one at Boise.

Pay ranges from $26.46 to $34.94 per hour.

Applications are due by November 12.

PREVIOUS: BLM Seeks Wild Horse Wranglers in Nevada.

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Pryor Mountain Roundup, Day 3

The incident started on October 25.  Results through October 27:

  • FY: 2027
  • Scope: Pryor Mountain HMA
  • Target: Horses
  • AML: 120
  • Pre-gather population: 187
  • Type: Planned
  • Contractor: None (BLM staff)
  • Contract amount: N/A
  • Unit cost: N/A
  • Method: Bait
  • Capture goal: 100
  • Removal goal: 37
  • Captured: 11, up from 3 on Day 1
  • Shipped: None
  • Released: 2, up from zero on Day 1
  • Deaths: None
  • Average daily take: 3.7
  • Unaccounted-for animals: 9
  • Snippet from statute: It is the policy of Congress that wild free-roaming horses and burros shall be protected from capture, branding, harassment, or death
  • Snippet from manual: To protect wild horses and burros from unauthorized capture, branding, harassment or death

The figures above are based on the daily reports.

The traps may have been activated on October 20 but no horses were caught until October 25, referred to above as Day 1.

The capture total includes 2 stallions, 7 mares and 2 foals.

The stallions were released on Day 2.

Youngsters represented 18.2% of the animals gathered.

Of the adults, 22.2% were male and 77.8% were female.

Body condition scores were not given.

A map at the gather page shows trap sites and closure areas.

Up to 43 mares will be treated with fertility control and released, prolonging the genetic bottleneck created by the roundup.

The HMA is not subject to permitted grazing but is adjacent to BLM and FS allotments.

PREVIOUS: Pryor Roundup in Progress.

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BLM Hiring for Wild Horse and Burro Program

These positions are not open to the public:

If the fertility specialist must lie about the long-term effects of the pesticides, an advocate might be the best choice.

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Humane Management: Recovery Is Not an Option

Participants in the one-time invitation-only pesticide roundtable are now preaching the gospel of never-ending fertility control.

A few days ago, Return to Normal (Before WHB Act), a signatory to the “Path Forward” and close supporter of the ranchers, reiterated its support for humane population reduction, a ploy to substitute chemical extermination for motorized removal.

The Campaign Against America’s Wild Horses, a leader in mass sterilization and another participant in the roundtable, has jumped on the bandwagon with a ridiculous piece in PJ Media about the BLM’s Wild Horse and Burro Program.

The writers pointed to the Callaghan roundup, noting that “Without on-range fertility management, herd populations will quickly recover, triggering another gather in just a few short years.”

That’s a good thing, an admission that helicopters, unlike fertility control, don’t cause irreparable harm.

They questioned why the agency relies on roundups instead of ovary-killing pesticides, which have “fiscal and moral advantages.”

Historically, the agency has opted for the lesser of two evils and we should be grateful for that.

That does not alleviate the need for other options, such as restoring lands now designated as HAs, purging the bureaucracies of ranchers and ranching sympathizers, and converting allotments to wild horse preserves as American Prairie has done for bison in Montana.

As for the advocates, they can be ignored.  They are stuck in a mental prison of their own making and have nothing to offer America’s wild horses.

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Burgum Signs Order Expanding Grazing Opportunities

The diktat directs the BLM, FWS and BOR to identify lands that can be made available for livestock grazing according to the news release.

The BLM has 60 days to present a plan to eliminate its permit renewal backlog and 30 days to identify new lands for grazing.

The announcement did not indicate if aerial shooting of wild horses was an acceptable method for achieving the goals or if kissing rancher ass would sway the results of next week’s elections.

RELATED: BLM Launches Vacant Allotment Finder.

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Red Desert Capture Goal Reached, Incident Not Over

Aerial operations may be winding down but there are 162 unaccounted-for animals as of Day 12.

1,035 – 860 – 0 – 13 = 162

Note that all but one of the deaths were intentional, animals euthanized for physical defects.

The advocates would have you believe that most deaths are due to helicopters so you’ll demand an end to roundups (which don’t inflict irreparable harm) and support their ruinous darting programs (which do).

PREVIOUS: Red Desert Roundup, Day 11.

UPDATE: The BLM has revised the death count which now stands at one accidental, attributable to the roundup, and 16 intentional, which would have occurred if a low-stress method such as bait trapping was used instead of a helicopter.

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Red Desert Roundup, Day 11

The incident started on October 16.  Results through October 26:

  • FY: 2027
  • Scope: Green Mountain and Stewart Creek HMAs (two of five in Complex)
  • Target: Horses
  • AML: 475 (720 for Complex)
  • Pre-gather population: Unknown (2,278 for Complex)
  • Type: Planned
  • Contractor: Sampson
  • Contract amount: $393,488
  • Unit cost: $380
  • Method: Helicopter
  • Category: Cruel and costly (according to advocates)
  • Better way: Snuff out life with PZP, pray for older horses to die (per advocates)
  • Capture goal: 1,035
  • Removal goal: Unknown
  • Captured: 1,013, up from 776 on Day 9
  • Shipped: 784, up from 588 on Day 9
  • Released: None
  • Deaths: 12, up from 11 on Day 9
  • Average daily take: 92.1
  • Unaccounted-for animals: 217
  • Snippet from statute: It is the policy of Congress that wild free-roaming horses and burros shall be protected from capture, branding, harassment, or death
  • Snippet from manual: To protect wild horses and burros from unauthorized capture, branding, harassment or death

The figures above are based on the daily reports.

The sidebar at the gather page says 1,014 horses captured, 98% of the goal.

One horse was dispatched on Day 10 for a physical defect.

The death rate is 1.2%.

To date, all deaths are intentional.

The capture total includes 360 stallions, 429 mares and 224 foals.

Youngsters represented 22.1% of the animals gathered, a sign of genetic vigor.

Of the adults, 45.6% were male and 54.4% were female, no indication of an abnormal sex ratio.

Body condition scores were not given.

The location of the trap site was not disclosed.

An unspecified number of mares will be treated with fertility control and returned to the range, prolonging the genetic bottleneck created by the roundup.

The Complex is subject to permitted grazing.  Resources liberated to date:

  • Forage: 12,156 AUMs per year
  • Water: 10,130 gallons per day

Public lands within two miles of active trapping locations and temporary holding pens are closed to the public, with the exception of observers escorted by BLM staff.

PREVIOUS: Red Desert Roundup, Day 9.

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Critical Races Theory

The advocates like to lecture us about roundups and loss of freedom but next week on November 3 they’ll vote for totalitarians (candidates with a D by their name) who would enslave us to an all-powerful centralized government.

They want the commies to win—another reason why you shouldn’t give them a penny.

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BLM Issues Muddy Creek Final Planning Documents

The DR, FONSI and EA were posted to the project folder on October 21.

The Decision Record authorizes Alternative B, the Proposed Action, discussed in section 2.2 of the Environmental Assessment.

  • Adoption of new HMAP
  • Removal of excess animals to low AML
  • Application of fertility control pesticides
  • Maintenance of 50/50 sex ratio
  • Introduction of horses from other areas

Table 2-1 compares management actions for the three alternatives considered in the analysis.

The HMA is subject to permitted grazing.

Table 3-2 gives livestock types, AUMs and seasons of use.

A roundup is on the schedule with a start date of December 1.

PREVIOUS: Muddy Creek EA Out for Review.

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