Western Horse Watchers Association
Exposing the Hypocrisy, Lies and Incompetence of the Wild Horse Advocates
One of my favorite photos from the Carson City rally on April 23.
The caption does not say “Get rid of us,” as the advocates would have it.
If the ranchers were confined to their base properties and expected to pay market rates to feed their animals, you could open the gates and set them free. Several times over!
The numbers will likely go higher but the inmates and staff at a horse training facility in Colorado can’t match the damage inflicted on the herd by the advocates in Nevada.
As noted yesterday, the Campaign Against America’s Wild Horses and its army of volunteers have pumped nearly 6,000 doses of PZP into the mares over the last three years, with somewhere between 1,500 and 2,000 lives denied over the same period.
A member of the CAAWH board told CBS News in a story yesterday that “If there weren’t roundups we wouldn’t have the consignment and we wouldn’t have this contagion so the bigger picture this could have been avoided,” a reference to the Montana Solution and the group’s raison d’être.
No more roundups, no more off-range holding and no more horses.
Move over Cañon City, the advocates will not be outdone.
RELATED: Death Toll Rising at Cañon City Off-Range Corrals.
No, because it’s focused on the wrong things.
Consider this example from the North Lander Complex:
A suite of tools will be needed to make this a reality for the ranchers and the Proposed Action in the new resource enforcement plan promises to do exactly that.
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The incident began yesterday, according to the gather page, with 13 burros captured, 13 shipped and no deaths.
The location of the trap site was not specified.
Ten more horses died today, according to a statement at the Colorado HMA page, bringing the total to 67.
RELATED: Veterinarians Trying to Identify Cañon City Illness.
BLM posting updates to this page.
Lab tests in progress. No new deaths reported.
Horses showing signs of illness have been isolated from the population.
Some of the horses captured last August in the West Douglas roundup were tested for equine infectious anemia and were separated from other animals at the corrals until they were cleared of any infections.
The Campaign Against America’s Wild Horses posted the numbers to their donations page on EveryAction.
There have been no roundups because the advocates are achieving same results with the Montana Solution. The herd has likely reached the tipping point and is now dying off.
Would you be surprised if they receive support from the bureaucrats and ranchers?
Western Horse Watchers believes they are underreporting (ahem, cough-cough, lying about) the reduction in birth rates, based on trailcam images over the past year.
The mares have received an average of 3.3 treatments each, so they are about two years away from sterilization.
Will the advocates back off, allowing the mares to foal, or will they press on with their anti-horse agenda, ruining the herd but pleasing the bureaucrats and ranchers whom they adore?
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The meeting, to be livestreamed, begins at 3 PM mountain time.
Helicopter roundups are the fastest way to shift resources back to the public-lands ranchers in areas set aside for wild horses.
The advocates are trying to take market share from the contractors by swaying public opinion in favor of the Montana Solution.
An unidentified but highly contagious and fatal disease has spread through the facility since April 23, according to a BLM news release posted today.
There are currently 2,550 horses at the corrals, including those captured from West Douglas and Sand Wash Basin.
Refer to this audio segment by Steamboat Radio of Steamboat Springs, CO.
The incident concluded on April 14, according to a statement at the gather page, with 17 horses trapped, 17 shipped and no deaths.
Foals represented 12% of the animals captured. Of the adults, 40% were male and 60% were female.
The capture goal was 70 and the removal goal was 39. Mares returned to the area were to be treated with fertility control.
The pre-gather population was around 224, compared to an AML of 253.
The HMA is managed primarily for livestock, with 79% of the authorized forage directed to permitted grazing.
RELATED: Challis Roundup Announced.
Near Steens Mountain with heatherslittlethings.
The incident will begin tomorrow, according to a news release dated April 22, with up to 490 burros gathered from three HAs on the west side of the park. The removal goal was not specified but will likely be identical.
Refer to the maps in Appendix B of the project documents for the arrangement.
Helicopters will push the burros into the traps “at a slow pace” with “care and compassion” and the operation will be open to public observation.
Gather stats and daily reports will be posted to this page, which does not appear at the site for gathers and removals in California.
Captured animals will be taken to the off-range corrals at Ridgecrest.
Roundups in two of the HAs are listed on page 2 of the latest schedule.
The Decision Record authorizing the actions was signed a year ago.
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Doesn’t matter.
If the bureaucrats and ranchers say they’re overpopulated, the advocates, desperate for a seat at the table, jump to attention asking “How many do you want us to eliminate?”
Photo taken April 21, timestamp is off by about 20 hours.
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Your host brings a water tank over to the pumphouse for bleaching.
Replaced bulb in UV sterilizer and put system back in service.
Took two years to build, documented in this YouTube video.
RELATED: Weather Cooperates for Carson City Rally.
But they’re not bringing any babies with them.
Trailcams haven’t picked up much activity until recently.
Water system put back in service yesterday after the Carson City Rally.
One group demonstrated at the capitol and another in front of the legislature.
Both received strong support from passing motorists.
RELATED: Details Released for Wild Horse Freedom Rally in Carson City.
The Park Service announced today that wild burros will be removed from Death Valley National Park starting on April 25, but did not specify the capture and removal goals.
Helicopters will drive the animals into the traps.
The news release did not indicate if the incident will be open to public observation.
Burros removed from the park will be taken to the off-range corrals at Ridgecrest.
The current population is thought to be around 4,000.
The animals are not federally protected according to the Q&A.
The rescue initially tasked with the removal is still involved.
It’s how they signal to each other that they’re down with the Montana Solution.
Wild horses should be restricted to 20% or less of the authorized forage in their home range and if they’re consuming more than their allocated share of the resources, the best way to get rid of them is PZP, not helicopters.
RELATED: Wild Horse Freedom Rallies Set for Next Weekend.
Some horses are still showing signs of illness, according to a BLM news release, so an adoption event scheduled for May 6 has been postponed and the facility remains closed to the public.
You knew this story was DOA with the introduction of the PZP fanatics at 0:50.
Note the “Stay Wild” cap. Big red flag.
The woman interviewed at 1:57 claims the livestock industry drives most of the roundups, yet her organization is as eager to get rid of the horses as the ranchers.
Poorly researched and off the mark, the report gets an F.
And contrary to the advice in the video description, don’t give these people a penny.
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