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On the Eve of Christmas

Western Horse Watchers Commentary December 24, 2020December 24, 2020

Courtesy of Megan Smith.

Published December 24, 2020December 24, 2020

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The number of wild horses an area can support is almost impossible to determine* but Western Horse Watchers does it all the time

*So stated by an expert at the Campaign Against America’s Wild Horses

Featured

Undeniable Truths of the Wild Horse World

Roundups, Emergencies and Escalating Problems

New Management Paradigm for Wild Horses

Key Terms Explained

Rangeland Conditions In Horse-Free Areas

Allotment Status Recap

Grazing Program Ancillaries

Public-Lands Ranching Is Big Business

Filling in the Gaps at Healthy Horse HMA

Example of Downstream Focus, Confusing Cause and Effect

New Wild Horse Management Plan: Reinforcing the Narrative

Wild Horse Overpopulation?

The Land Can Only Support 27,000 Wild Horses and Burros

Overpopulation Explained

What is an Excess Horse?

Management Priorities in Wild Horse Areas

Management of Western Rangelands in 2018

Economics of Wild Horse Gathers

Wild vs. Feral: Are America’s Horses a Re-Introduced Species?

If This Blog Was Managed Like Western Rangelands

Short End of Stick

Piceance-East Douglas HMA

Desatoya HMA

Pancake HMA

Paisley Desert HMA

Hypothesis Revisited, Again

Jackson Mountains HMA

Wild Horse Tech

What Do the AUM Numbers Tell You About an HMA?

How to Convert AMLs to AUMs and Vice Versa

How to Convert AUMs to Cow/Calf Pairs and Vice Versa

How to Compute ‘Horses Denied’

What is a Stocking Rate?

What Do Stocking Rates Tell You About HMAs?

Forage Supply and Demand

Rule of Four

Rule of Five

Roundup Checks and Balances

How to Compute Wild Horse Growth Rates

How to Compute Resources Liberated by WHB Roundups

Evaluating Management Priorities in Mixed-Use Areas

Resource Allocation Quiz

Example of ‘Principally But Not Necessarily Exclusively’

Feasibility of Decimating Wild Horse Herds with Contraceptives

Hall of Shame

PZP Manifesto from 2018 (Signatories at end)

Path Forward (Signatories on first page)

Producers of Range-Fed Beef (How to Identify)

Not the Answer

Mass Training

PZP

Sanctuaries

The Answer

How Wild Horses and Burros Should Be Managed

Other Mandated Uses

‘Perseverance’ on Mars, Stakes Claim for Public-Lands Ranchers

‘Perseverance’ Tests Martian Soil

‘Perseverance’ Finds No Pinyon Pines or Juniper Trees

The Multiple-Use Mission of ‘Perseverance’

Stakeholders Optimistic about ‘Perseverance’ and ‘Ingenuity’

Videos

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