Exposing the Hypocrisy, Lies and Incompetence of the Wild Horse Advocates
The bill cleared the chamber today 52-11-2 following a heated debate.
You can view the proceedings by selecting the Agenda tab at the video recording and clicking on HB26-1306 at timestamp 1:27:26 PM.
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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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The advocates are nodding in agreement.
Suckla is a farmer and rancher in Cortez according to his profile in Wikipedia.
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At the Currituck Outer Banks with Worth The Pennies.
It’s not clear if the darting program was shut off soon enough to avoid herd collapse.
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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.
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The measure carried on a voice vote of 9 to 2.
The hearing was called to order at timestamp 8:32:10 in the video.
The vote was taken at 8:36:01.
The next step is a second reading of the bill on April 28.
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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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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.
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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.
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Three fillies and a colt have come out of hiding according to a report by WITN News.
Meanwhile, at the Chincoteague NWR, the foal count has climbed to 13.
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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.”
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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.
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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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It’s the first item on the April 24 agenda.
The bill would create a wild horse license plate
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A management evaluation has been copied to the documents folder with comments due by May 21.
The news release said the current population is thought to be 2,093, compared to an AML of 265.
Three HMAs are affected.
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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
B. Convert to Wild Horse Preserve
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.
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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.
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A. Build a coalition against motorized removal.
B. Offer mass sterilization as a humane alternative. Call it wild horse conservation.
C. Tacitly support the overpopulation narrative and removal of excess animals.
D. Don’t talk about shrinking herds, abnormal sex ratios, increasing death rates, loss of genetic diversity and who you’re really trying to protect.
E. Recognize your donors and volunteers for saving thousands of wild horses.
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At or near the Saulsbury HMA with Paul Sylvester.
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The BLM announced last week that eleven allotments in the Book Cliffs area had been relinquished and are now available for grazing.
They’re not in the vacant allotment finder.
The Utah rangeland management page has maps and application forms.
An open house will be held on April 29 at the Vernal Field Office for interested parties.
The allotment master report gives management status, acreage and AUMs, but not active AUMs.
The active AUMs can be estimated from data in this spreadsheet.
Most of the acreage is in the Improve category, suggesting that your stewards of the public lands were not taking their responsibilities seriously.
The allotments offer an estimated 18,075 active AUMs on 286,284 public acres, with a capacity of 1,506 wild horses.
The stocking rate would be 5.3 wild horses per thousand public acres, five times higher than the target rate across all HMAs.
Your faithful public servants employ a double standard for resource management, one for wild horses and another for livestock.
Here we are using the standard for livestock, which is usually higher, sometimes much higher.
The ranching community will likely keep the offering under wraps because they subscribe to a philosophy of no net loss of AUMs—especially to pests!
The advocates won’t pursue it because they’re pesticide salesmen, not conservationists.
That leaves organizations like American Prairie and The Wild Horse Refuge.
The location map shows the arrangement.
Green River and Birchell are on the west side of the Uintah & Ouray Reservation but the allotments on the east side might make a good wild horse preserve.
It’s not clear if one base property can secure grazing preference on multiple allotments.
The bureaucrats would likely throw as many roadblocks in your way as they can because they, like the advocates, want the ranchers to win.
Remember, if a proposed refuge doesn’t include public lands and doesn’t displace livestock therefrom, it’s not worthy of your support.
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