Western Horse Watchers Association
Exposing the Hypocrisy, Lies and Incompetence of the Wild Horse Advocates
The animal was found near a strip mine by the Martin County sheriff, according to a story by the Louisville Record Courier.
A $2,000 reward has been offered for information in the case. Other details were concealed by a stupid GoogleQuestion.
The incident follows a series of shootings in Floyd County in December 2019.
The operation will target an unspecified number of youngsters, starting with ten this week, and will continue until NPS personnel believe the population is under control, according to a story posted yesterday by KX News of Bismarck, ND.
The last roundup occurred in 2019.
NPS uses tranquilizer darts to capture the animals.
The original wild horses of TRNP, thought to be descendants of Sitting Bull’s horses, were removed from the park over twenty years ago. Some were rescued by Leo Kuntz and taken to his ranch near Linton. He called them Nokotas.
The Allotment Information report in RAS for all districts and field offices in New Mexico yielded 1,703 unique rows after removing 167 duplicates. The duplicates corresponded to allotments with more than one permit.
The breakdown by category shows about 43% with custodial status:
One fourth of the allotments fall into the Improve category.
Approximately 49% of the land does not meet standards for rangeland health, according to the breakdown by public acres:
Roughly 39% of the land falls into the Maintain category.
The condition of the Custodial allotments is not known.
Privately owned livestock can access almost nine million acres of BLM lands in the state, compared to 25,000 acres for wild horses.
The condition of allotments managed by the Forest Service is unknown.
RELATED: Allotment Status in Montana.
A mare from the Colville Indian Reservation, stranded on an embankment west of Spokane, WA, has been nursed back to health and recovered by tribal members, according to a report by iFiber One News of Ephrata, WA.
A roundup in the area two years ago was called off when the contractor could only find a tiny fraction of the animals specified in the agreement.
Refer to this report by The Sierra Nevada Ally. Their response is so predictable: Get rid of the horses with contraceptives, not helicopters. Whose side are they on?
RELATED: Origin of SJR3?
A draft resolution that resembles the formal text was prepared in 2020 by the Coalition for Healthy Nevada Lands, Wildlife and Free-Roaming Horses and was submitted to the Public Lands Steering Committee of the Nevada Association of Counties.
The cover letter was written by the woman who spoke to the Committee on Natural Resources yesterday at the beginning of the hearing.
She was an organizer for the ‘Horse Rich Dirt Poor’ forum in October 2019 and describes her group as a “small band of volunteers.”
Western Horse Watchers believes that the Coalition is not an advocacy group, at least not for wild horses, and that its members are motivated by more than a concern for rangeland health in Nevada.
RELATED: SJR3: Heard, No Action.
That’s the current status of the resolution, according to the overview at the Nevada Electronic Legislative Information System (NELIS).
Letters and testimony have been posted as exhibits.
RELATED: Nevada Legislature to Consider SJR3 This Week.
UPDATE: Video of hearing begins at timestamp 3:35:22.
A report by the Quay County Sun of Tucumcari, NM says the Forest Service has pledged $40,000 for a new program at Mesalands Community College aimed at adopting out excess horses from the Jicarilla WHT.
The program would start with four to five animals, set to arrive in August.
The WHT is subject to permitted livestock grazing and has an AML of 50 to 105.
Resource allocations are not known.
Folks, this may be relevant to the wild horse world.
No wait, it was taken from the wild horse world.
Researchers are using PZP to manage deer populations in the Hudson Valley, according to a report posted yesterday by the Times Union of Albany, NY.
The story did not indicate if the animals had been robbing forage from privately owned livestock and if the residents favored annual injections over low-flying helicopters.
The Allotment Information report in RAS for all districts and field offices in Montana yielded 5,320 unique rows after removing 265 duplicates. The duplicates corresponded to allotments with more than one permit.
The breakdown by category shows a majority with custodial status.
About 14% of the allotments are in the Improve category.
The breakdown by acreage shows over half of the land in the Maintain category:
Roughly 34% of the acreage does not meet standards for rangeland health.
The condition of the custodial allotments is not known.
Privately owned livestock can access over eight million acres of BLM lands in the state, compared to 27,000 acres for wild horses.
The status of allotments managed by the Forest Service is unknown.
RELATED: Status of Allotments in California.
The event will occur at BLM headquarters in Grand Junction, CO. Go to the organizer’s page (on socialist media) for more information.
A hearing by the Senate Committee on Natural Resources is set for March 23, according to a report by The Sierra Nevada Ally, a non-profit based in Reno.
The resolution urges Congress to provide funding for reducing wild horse and burro populations in the state to appropriate management levels.
A search for key terms yielded these results:
What might be the driving force behind the resolution? Who drafted it?
How many of these terms can you find in the original WHB Act?
RELATED: Livestock Grazing in Nevada, Status of Allotments in Nevada.
On the Salt River with SuzTube.
The Allotment Information report in RAS for all districts and field offices in California yielded 659 unique rows after filtering out 110 duplicates. The duplicates corresponded to allotments with more than one permit.
The breakdown by category shows about half with custodial status:
About one fourth of the allotments are in the Improve category.
Roughly 62% of the land does not meet standards for rangeland health, according to the breakdown by public acres:
For every acre in the Maintain category, there are two acres in the Improve category.
The condition of the Custodial allotments is not known.
Privately owned livestock can access six million acres of BLM lands in the state, compared to two million acres for wild horses and burros.
The condition of allotments managed by the Forest Service is unknown.
RELATED: Allotment Status in Arizona.
Just came across this listing in the Virginia Range. Maybe because a lot of people are fleeing California?
Land owners can help the wild horses by declaring their properties to be PZP-free zones.
RELATED: No!
It’s not a problem involving random sampling, statistical inferences and confidence levels. The characteristics of the population are already known.
Just get the forage allocations for all of the areas not managed principally for wild horses and burros (which is most of them), add the forage amounts for livestock and divide the sum by twelve.
Add that result to the current AML of 27,000 and there’s your answer.
FOIA requests may be required.
Water may be limiting factor in some areas.
The discussion yesterday suggests that it’s way more than 27,000.
The forty-or-so areas in the analysis were not randomly selected from the population of about 200 areas, so the accuracy of the answer cannot be assessed and a margin of error cannot be applied. It’s mostly an extrapolation so take it with a grain of salt.
What you can conclude is that statements such as “The land can only support 27,000 wild horses” are incomplete. “The land can only support 27,000 wild horses because we’ve sold most of their food to the public-lands ranchers” would be a bit more accurate.
RELATED: Estimating the True AML for All Wild Horse Areas in the West.
The ‘Short End of Stick’ reports have considered 34 areas to date. Some of them are complexes, consisting of several HMAs, so let’s round the number to 40. Approximately 50,000 wild horses have been displaced from those areas by privately owned livestock.
There are roughly 200 HMAs and WHTs not managed principally for wild horses and burros. For simplicity, let’s assume they’re all inhabited by horses.
If 50,000 horses were displaced from 40 of the 200 areas, and the same relationship exists in the other 160 areas, then the total number of horses displaced in all areas would be 250,000.
The True AML would be equal to the current AML plus the total number of horses displaced, i.e., 27,000 + 250,000 = 277,000, ten times higher than the current AML.
The current wild horse population is said to be around 100,000, well within this range.
The new stocking rate would be 277,000 ÷ 27,000,000 × 1,000 = 10.3 horses per thousand acres, in line with the stocking rate on the Virginia Range (before the fertility controllers started their war on the horses).
The miniscule AML of 27,000 reflects current management priorities on western rangelands.
Data from the Short End of Stick reports show 16% of the forage going to the horses, with the balance going to livestock, on lands set aside for the horses.
RELATED: Hypothesis Confirmed.
A BLM report from last August shows 46,492 wild horses and 1,359 wild burros in off-range holding.
These animals require 46,492 × 12 + (1,359 ÷ 2) × 12 = 566,058 AUMs per year.
The original claim was that the number of wild horses and burros in short-term and long-term holding can be explained by the misappropriation of forage on just a few dozen HMAs.
Data from the ‘Short End of Stick’ reports, representing about three dozen HMAs, are summarized below.
The forage diverted to livestock, 630,497 AUMs per year, could easily support all of the animals in off-range holding, equivalent to 52,541 horses, for a True AML of 62,582.
What would the True AML look like if this analysis was carried out on all of the HMAs and WHTs? Only four of them are managed principally for wild horses and burros.
The WHB program is nothing more than a grazing program ancillary, designed to give ranchers unfettered access to cheap feed on America’s public lands.
How many of these animals could be returned to their home range if drilling and mining were stopped? A few dozen?
This one of the reasons why fertility control programs are wrong and the ‘advocacy’ groups that promote them should be avoided. They shift resources to the ranchers by getting rid of the horses.
RELATED: Hypothesis Revisited, Again.
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