The news releases are almost identical:

• BLM
• Forest Service

The memorandum of understanding, signed by both agencies, will strengthen coordination, cut bureaucratic red tape and deliver immediate, tangible support for America’s farmers and ranchers who rely on public lands.

The vacant allotment finder may be one of the first achievements of the partnership.

“By working closely with American ranchers, we are enhancing communication, investing in innovation, and modernizing our approach to land management practices,” according to Secretary Burgum, “to deliver real results for the people who feed and sustain this country.”

Yep, if it wasn’t for them we’d all be vegans.

The aim of the grazing program is to ensure that high-net-worth individuals receive generous government benefits, often at the expense of America’s wild horses and burros, with no means testing and no expiration dates.

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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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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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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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Not according to the law of contradiction.

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

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

3. Law of contradiction: A ∩ A^c = ∅, 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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They’re not companies.

They don’t invest in real estate.

They’re rangeland eugenicists in training.

What advocate isn’t striving to become a certified applicator of restricted-use pesticides?

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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.

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