HR 9154 Text Released, Finally

The short title is the Wild Free-Roaming Horses and Burros Protection Act of 2022, originally marked HR 9154, written by special interests for special interests.

“In order to better manage and protect wild free-roaming horses and burros, and to achieve and maintain a thriving natural ecological balance, the Secretary shall implement the most humane, minimally invasive, scientifically proven fertility control methods, such as reversible immunocontraception vaccines, to achieve on-range management goals.”

“In carrying out this paragraph, the Secretary may contract with or enter into partnerships with nonprofit organizations (with preference given to veterans organizations and animal welfare or wild horse organizations trained or otherwise certified in the humane management or population control of wild horses and burros [such as the Campaign Against America’s Wild Horses and its surrogates]).”

Prediction verified.

RELATED: Bold Prediction for HR 9154.

Thriving Ecological Balance-3

Wild Horses Should Be So Lucky

The October edition of Horse Tales has been published.  After taking a month off, the real estate agent and PZP darter in the Minden/Gardnerville area, an acolyte of the Campaign Against America’s Wild Horses, is back with a column about the challenges of identifying wild horses for safe, proven and reversible birth control, starting on page 4.

VR Darting Injury 09-15-21

The article applauds the amazing support group in northern Nevada consisting of hard-working volunteers donating their time and energy, passionate people who donate the funds for the fertility control and equipment like gas-charged rifles, the vaccine and so many other supplies that help the advocates keep wild horses wild.

Makes you want to puke, doesn’t it?

What do they mean by keeping wild horses wild?

  • Barren mares
  • Confused stallions
  • Shrinking herds
  • Injuries and infections
  • Abnormal sex ratios
  • Disruption of natural order
  • Sterility
  • Massive human involvement
  • Subordination to livestock

Who would want this for America’s wild horses?

Their allies, the bureaucrats and ranchers, whose approval they seek at all costs.

Advocates are the Predators 11-30-21

Foal-Free Friday, Predecessor to Horse-Free Friday

Advocates on the Virginia Range have been darting the mares for four years, starting in 2019.

With many now at risk of sterility, will the monster-in-charge at the Campaign Against America’s Wild Horses give the order to continue the assault?

Given their ability and willingness to get rid of wild horses with the Montana Solution, and their desire to impress the bureaucrats and ranchers, they will likely pursue their goal of herd destruction.

Next to the bureaucrats and ranchers, the advocates are the greatest threat to America’s wild horses, as noted earlier this week, not hunters, not shooters, not motorists, tourists, campers, hikers, drillers, loggers or miners.

RELATED: Foal-Free Friday, Fitting the Herds to the Resources Edition.

Mustangs Grazing on Virginia Range 10-15-22

Wild Horses Found Dead in Southeast Utah

The remains of 16 animals have been discovered on an unnamed grazing allotment between the towns of Bluff and Montezuma Creek, according to a news release posted yesterday by Advocates for Wild Equines.

The horses may have crossed the San Juan River onto BLM land from the Navajo reservation or migrated there from canyons and forests to the west, where wild horses have been spotted.

The Western Watersheds map shows three allotments on the north side of the river between Bluff and Montezuma Creek.

Montezuma Creek Horse Shooting Map 10-20-22

The Allotment Master Report puts all three in the Improve category and the map indicates all AUMs have been assigned to cattle.

There are no HMAs or WHTs in this part of the state.

McCullough Advocates Protect Livestock Not Wild Horses

Livestock on the McCullough Peaks HMA, an area set aside for wild horses, receive 3.6 times more forage than the horses, at least in theory.

As the herd grows, the horses reclaim more and more of their food from the ranchers, upsetting the thriving ecological imbalance established by the bureaucrats.

Advocates with Friends of a Legacy, eager to please the bureaucrats and ranchers, have the answer: Get rid of excess horses with the Montana Solution, so cattle can access 78% of the authorized forage in the lawful home of wild horses.

Their partnership with the BLM works through honesty and communication, according to a BLM news release, except the horses have been cheated by the bureaucrats, donors have been duped by the advocates and the ranchers are laughing all the way to the bank.

RELATED: McCullough Fundraiser Benefits Ranchers Not Horses.

Trajectory of Wildh Horse Fertility Control Program 04-11-21

Many More Wild Horses Lost to Advocates Than Alpine Shooters

A report by KPNX News of Phoenix indicates 25 horses confirmed dead with 25 missing and presumed dead.

That’s fifty wild horses that should be in the forest but aren’t.

To the west, at the Salt River, the losses are higher but nobody complains.

The woman interviewed for the story, ringleader of the Salt River Wild Horse Darting Group, denies life to an estimated 80 wild horses every year with the Montana Solution.

That’s eighty wild horses that should be there but aren’t.  Every year.

To the north, on the Virginia Range, the losses are far greater.

Advocates with the Campaign Against America’s Wild Horses deny life to an estimated 600 wild horses every year with their safe, proven and reversible darting program.

That’s 600 wild horses that should be there but aren’t.  Every year.

The same thing is happening at Onaqui, Sand Wash Basin, McCullough Peaks, Pine Nut Mountains, Piceance, Little Book Cliffs, Spring Creek Basin and Pryor Mountains.

Who’s the greater threat to wild horses?  The advocates or the shooters?

RELATED: Alpine Reward Jumps to $35,000.

Bold Prediction for HR 9154

Ten days have passed since the bill was introduced but the text has not been published, so a little speculation is in order.

Consider this example from the North Lander Complex in Wyoming:

A. Forage allocations before HR 9154, neglecting wildlife:

  • Horses – 11.5%
  • Livestock – 88.5%

B. Forage allocations after HR 9154:

  • Horses – 11.5%
  • Livestock – 88.5%

Conclusion: The bill is of no use to America’s wild horses.

The problem is resource management.

RELATED: Status of HR 9154?

Allocating Resources 05-08-21

Alpine Reward Jumps to $35,000

A report by KPHO News of Phoenix does not indicate who pledged the additional funds.

Previously, the payout was $25,000.

The advocates are still upset that others are getting rid of the horses when they had offered earlier this year to do the same thing.

The incident must not interfere with the removal of wild horses by the Forest Service according to a representative of the Center for Biological Diversity, the group that instigated the roundup of the Jumping Mouse horses in March.

RELATED: Forest Service Confirms Facts as More Alpine Horses Found Dead.

UPDATE: Added video.

Mesa Verde Wild Horses Arrive at Mustang Camp

A report by KOB News of Albuquerque indicates they’re now in the hands of trainers who can’t accomplish anything without bags of alfalfa cubes over their shoulders.

The executive director said of one animal “The biggest problem with this horse is not getting it to come to you, it’s getting it to go away.”

Who could have predicted that?

RELATED: First Wild Horse Band Removed from Mesa Verde National Park.

UPDATE: Added video.

FREES Conference Comes and Goes, Yawn

Organizers pulled a disparate group together, including private landowners, animal welfare advocates, federal land managers, political leaders, cattle ranchers, wildlife managers, sport hunting and wildlife conservation organization and representatives from Native American tribes, to sit face-to-face and confront the hard realities of wild horse management, according to a story by Utah State University, sponsor of the event.

A goal of the summit was to create a safe space for conversations, where wild horse advocates and other frauds could come out of the closet in support of the public-lands ranchers.

The new modeling tool unveiled at the conference didn’t show the audience, much less U.S. taxpayers, how much they’re being fleeced by their precious government to prop up a failed industry on America’s public lands.

Call it Amtrak on the range.

It’s not a passenger train, it’s a gravy train.

RELATED: SHOCKER: FREES Network Supports Helicopter Roundups!

UPDATE: Refer to this commentary in CounterPunch by Eric Molvar of the Western Watersheds Project.  The McCullough Peaks herd is now a curated horse exhibit, ruined by the advocates in favor of the ranchers.

New YouTube Video Doing Well?

Less than two minutes long, it received 100 views in less than 12 hours.

Most videos on the channel don’t reach 50, ever.

New Video 100 Views 10-17-22

The film touches on the safe, proven and reversible fertility control program authorized by the Nevada Department of Agriculture and carried out by the Campaign Against America’s Wild Horses.

Despised by the bureaucrats, ranchers and advocates, Western Horse Watchers brings you the truth about wild horses, resource mismanagement and the Love Triangle on America’s public lands.

RELATED: Beneficiary of Virginia Range Darting Program Revealed.

Getting Rid of Wild Horses 03-18-22

Forest Service Confirms Facts as More Alpine Horses Found Dead

Wildlife activists say at least 25 horses have been killed inside the Apache-Sitgreaves National Forests, with 25 missing as of yesterday, according to a report published this morning by The Washington Post.

The article includes a photo of a dead foal provided by Alpine Wild Horse Advocates, an offshoot of the Salt River Wild Horse Darting Group, an affiliate of the Campaign Against America’s Wild Horses.

Simone Netherlands, ringleader, said the horses should be protected from killing and harassment but not from her and her army of nitwits: “They should be … managed through humane fertility control in the field, which is not only more humane but also more cost effective and more efficient in reducing the population in the long run.”

Protect Wild Horses from Advocates 08-29-21

Wildlife activists, indeed.

RELATED: Roadmap for Saving the Alpine Wild Horses?

Beneficiary of Virginia Range Darting Program Revealed

Trailcams have been picking up more cattle than horses in the last few months, mostly at night, but these images are unmistakable.

“As you start reducing the amount of available space and forage, then you need to manage the numbers to fit what’s available for the horses,” according to Tracy Wilson, ranching advocate and field marshal for the Campaign Against America’s Wild Horses.

Cattle on Virginia Range 08-18-22

Currituck County Commissioners Should Study Assateague Island

If they are concerned about the sustainability of their herd, and the long-term effects of the Montana Solution, they should study the results on the Maryland side of Assateague Island, where the pesticide was applied for over twenty years.

Six years after the safe, proven and reversible darting program was shut off, the herd should have doubled in size, at least, but it has not grown according to data provided by the Assateague Island Alliance.

For years the advocates pointed to the island as a model of wild horse management, knowing exactly what would happen.

Now, they’re trying to ruin the herds on the Virginia Range and Salt River.

RELATED: Sustainability of Currituck Wild Horses Questioned.

PZP and Sterility 09-29-22

Montgomery Pass Wild Horses Migrating Westward?

A report posted this morning by the San Francisco Chronicle indicates they’re taking up residence near Mono Lake, noting that in other western states, the herds have toppled pristine lands, commandeered forage for livestock and pose hazards to humans.

The story is no different here.

Their origin is thought to be the Montgomery Pass WHT/HMA.

The Western Watersheds map shows the arrangement.

Montgomery Pass Herd Migration 10-14-22

The photos show few if any foals.

The bad news is that advocates with the Campaign Against America’s Wild Horses are already eyeing the animals.

A representative stated “They have the same status as the bald eagle.  The fact that we would round them up with helicopters is just inhumane.”

The implication, of course, is that they’re ready to sink their claws into the herd and ruin it with the Montana Solution.

Foal-Free Friday, Fitting the Herds to the Resources Edition

In the September 15 story by KUNR Radio about the Virginia Range darting program, Tracy Wilson, Nevada State Director for the Campaign Against America’s Wild Horses, told the reporter that “As you start reducing the amount of available space and forage, then you need to manage the numbers to fit what’s available for the horses.”

The statement reflects their defeatist mentality and desire to please the bureaucrats and ranchers at the expense of America’s wild horses.

What if the government assigns 84% of their food on public lands to privately owned livestock?

“You need to manage the numbers to fit what’s available for the horses.”

They are failures and frauds.  Don’t give them a penny.

RELATED: Foal-Free Friday, Safe, Proven and Reversible Edition.

Virginia Range Darting Program 10-13-22

Sustainability of Currituck Wild Horses Questioned

The topic was discussed at the September 19 meeting of the county commissioners according to a report posted today by The Coastland Times.

One of the commissioners claimed that only six mares were fertile but the herd manager stated in a subsequent interview that 19 out of 53 mares (36%) were producing.

The percentages of males and females in the herd were not given.

The story indicated that a contraceptive process several years ago—sorry, a safe, proven and reversible fertility control program—ended up making several mares sterile.

The article also indicated that the filly put down by the advocates last month contracted swamp cancer.

RELATED: Currituck Filly Dies.