Western Horse Watchers Association
Exposing the Hypocrisy, Lies and Incompetence of the Wild Horse Advocates
Someone has been putting out hay for the horses at Big Summit WHT, according to a report posted yesterday by KTVZ News in Bend, OR, creating a safety hazard near a road in the Ochoco National Forest.
The Forest Service said visitors should not feed or touch wild horses, which can change their behavior and eventually lead to their removal from public lands.
RELATED: Horse Befriended by Campers Removed from Big Summit WHT.
The Lobos Family searches for the Banker Horses in early September, 2018, just before the arrival of Florence.
RELATED: Florence Reaches Outer Banks.
Video posted 03/17/19 by Backyard and Adventures Beyond. These horses eat wild guava according to the comments.
Steve Hostetler filmed this video at Sand Wash Basin HMA in September of last year.
He said the youngster coming in on the left at 1:12 was over at a water hole harassing older stallions. Check out his bi-colored tail…pretty!
On the Virginia Range.
Refer to this news release and infographic, published 03/15/19. The federal plan for managing the habitat is now coordinated more closely with state plans for conserving the species, according to the announcement.
The protective measures apply to nearly 60 million acres of sagebrush steppe in eleven western states.
One thing you can be sure of: The plan will never result in larger AMLs and more wild horses on western rangelands.
If you can’t have green beer, ask for green grass!
A report posted 03/14/19 by 13 News Now in Norfolk, VA says a disease that infected some of the wild horses on Assateague Island last year is the subject of research aimed at preventing it. The chances of surviving the infection are low if not treated early.
No new cases of the disease, known as pythiosis, have been reported in 2019 according to the report.
The mustangs remind you that today is the second Friday of Lent, no meat.
A rule change announced last May that allowed an individual to purchase up to 25 wild horses and burros per day, no questions asked and no waiting period, has been dropped, according to a report that appeared today in YubaNet of Nevada City, CA.
Sales will now be limited to a maximum of four wild horses or burros every six months, a rule that went into effect in 2014.
The report did not indicate if the limits apply to WHB adoptions.
A covered arena at The Serenity Ranch in Bozeman collapsed on March 2 but nobody was hurt, according to a report posted yesterday by KTVQ in Billings.
The facility helps women veterans cope with PTSD and related issues. It also rescues mistreated and wild horses.
Adoption events will occur this month in Arkansas, Arizona, Texas, Colorado, California and Nevada. Refer to the BLM adoption schedule for details.
What will be the results for the horses involved? How many will end up at livestock auctions or kill pens?
It’s not about finding good homes for the horses, it’s about pushing more them off the range so their food can be sold to public-lands ranchers.
RELATED: Adoption Incentives Start Today.
The pintos in this video are amazing! H/T Black Hills Wild Horse Sanctuary.
A group of wild horse ‘advocates’ will be at the Nevada state capital today, urging the governor to resume a ‘humane fertility control program’ for the Virginia Range mustangs, according to a report posted this morning by FOX-11 in Reno.
Members of the darting team will be on hand to demonstrate fertility control equipment and techniques. It’s not about reducing population growth but reducing the number of horses on the Virginia Range. How many of them are aborting, contracepting, and sterilizing in their own lives?
A darting program sponsored by the American Wild Horse Campaign was terminated by the Nevada Department of Agriculture in October 2017.
The Virginia Range, with a population density exceeding ten horses per thousand acres, contradicts statements made by the BLM and ranchers that western rangelands are overpopulated and subject to damage when wild horse populations surpass AMLs, which are usually set at one horse per thousand acres.
That’s why you have to push back against these people.
BLM announced today that persons who adopt wild horses and burros can receive a $500 payment from the government within 60 days of the adoption date, and an additional $500 within 60 days of titling for each animal adopted.
The incentive is available for animals at BLM facilities, off-site adoption events or the Online Corral.
The current wild horse and burro population on western rangelands is now more than triple the number the land can support along with other legally mandated uses, according to the news release.
That means the driver for the incentives, which appeared in the infamous BLM Report to Congress, is public-lands ranching.
If it was really about saving money or protecting the land, they’d leave the horses on the range and tell the ranchers to take a hike.
RELATED: Wild Horse Overpopulation?, Economics of Wild Horse Gathers.
At the watering station on the Virginia Range.
Might as well stay inside and eat.
Dozens of mustangs on the Warm Springs Indian Reservation are trapped in a valley with no food, according to a report posted today in The Bulletin of Bend, OR.
Volunteers with Mustang MEND and Central Oregon Equine Rescue are working with families in the area to get hay to the horses.
They are also discussing birth control options with tribal leaders who manage the horses, according to the report.
Never let a crisis go to waste.
A syndicated report about wild horse overpopulation, originating in Cheyenne, WY, appeared today in national news outlets, many of them left-wing rags only too happy to repeat the lies of their precious government.
A representative of The PZP Channel suggested that shooting wild mares in the ass with contraceptives was better than forcing them off their home range and shipping them to private pastures. Never mind that the land was set aside for them in the 1971 statute (as it exists today, amended by ranching interests).
The original news release, posted by the BLM on 03/04/19, said the current wild horse and burro population in the western U.S. is “more than triple the number of animals the land can support in conjunction with other legally mandated land uses.”
Refer to the Lexicon if you don’t know the meaning of ‘other mandated uses.’
There is no wild horse overpopulation. It’s nothing more than a bullshit storyline to justify current land-use policies and give cover to the government serfs.
RELATED: Wanted: More Off-Range Pastures for WHB.
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