Month: January 2019

PZP Zealotry on a Global Scale

Video by the Botstiber Institute for Wildlife Fertility Control, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation of the animal kingdom, the Population Bombers of the wild horse world, spreading the serpent’s venom across the land.

They don’t allow comments on their YouTube channel.  Are they worried that someone might disagree with them?

The video provides a ‘who’s who’ of contraceptive advocacy on western rangelands.

Illinois Sanctuary Finds Homes for ‘Excess’ Wild Horses

Refer to this story, published today by St. Louis Public Radio, an NPR affiliate (and probable conduit of Marxist propaganda).  Includes audio.

While the efforts of the owners are commendable, they are too late, too far downstream in the process.  They guarantee more horses will be removed from western rangelands, because they focus on symptoms, not on causes.

This is also true for the PZP zealots, who think shooting wild mares in the ass with contraceptives is the answer.  It is not.  It is capitulation to the anti-horse agenda, assent to the wild horse narrative.

Advocacy must be aimed at keeping these animals on the range.

That means pushing back against the public-lands ranchers and those at the BLM and Forest Service who coddle them.  Same for land managers at the state level.

Founder of South Dakota Wild Horse Sanctuary Remembered

Dayton O. Hyde, founder of the 11,000 acre Black Hills Wild Horse Sanctuary, died 12/22/18 at the family ranch in Oregon.  He was 93.  Refer to this story posted 12/30/18 by the Herald and News of Klamath Falls.

The sanctuary was in the news recently because of a conservation easement that affects over 70% its land.  It will continue operations under the leadership of Susan Watt.

UPDATE: Added video by Black Hills Wild Horse Sanctuary.

Palomino Valley Corrals, Day Ten of Government Shutdown

Monday, December 31, 2018, a cold and windy day in northern Nevada.  It’s day ten of the federal government shutdown.  Nobody to be seen at BLM’s Wild Horse and Burro Center, about twenty miles north of Sparks on Highway 445.

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The visitor gate was shut.

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A temporary sign told the story.

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The office was idle.

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You’ll have to read the signs to find out what goes on there.  The display is on the south side of the facility, along Ironwood Road.  See this video.

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This one tells the story of wild horses and burros on public lands in the western U.S.

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There’s also some information on how to gitcha one.

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Although nobody was there to identify the horses and show you around, someone has been stopping by to feed them.

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These guys looked okay, despite the harsh conditions and lack of shelter.

‘Lunatic Farmer’ Longs for Horsemeat Dinner

Refer to his blog post dated 12/26/18 about the wild horse ‘problem’ on western rangelands.  Opposing comments are not allowed so they are presented here:

Sir, the symptoms you describe are the result of a strong connection to agriculture and the rural lifestyle.

Many of the wild horses and burros now wasting away in long-term holding got there because of livestock and public-lands ranching.

The agency charged with the care of those animals has steadily given more and more of their land (set aside for them by the WHB Act of 1971) to the ranchers and other commercial interests, while gradually reducing the number of horses and burros allowed to live in the remaining areas.

The figures you cited are correct.  BLM says the land, 27 million acres in ten western states, can only support 27,000 wild horses and burros.  That works out to one animal per thousand acres, almost nothing.

The same agency allows ten to twenty times as many cow/calf pairs on western rangelands, depending on the area.  In some cases it’s the same territory set aside for the horses!

You may wish to view this aerial footage from SE Oregon: https://youtu.be/zFofShEuZJk.  What do you see at 3:06?  At 3:36?  Which species is in the majority?

Twenty seven thousand has nothing to do with the carrying capacity of the land.  It only represents the forage loss the ranchers, and their allies at the BLM, are willing to tolerate.

By the way, the fossil record shows that horses are a native species in North America.  They died off around 12,000 years ago and were reintroduced by Spanish explorers, as you noted.

Keep in mind that many of the horses and burros roam on the harsh landscape of the Great Basin.  They have not destroyed their habitat, that’s what the high desert looks like.  Here’s an example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HOzB6ltmZ20.