Western Horse Watchers Association
Exposing the Hypocrisy, Lies and Incompetence of the Wild Horse Advocates
We’re not going to push back against the public-lands ranchers, and we don’t care if they receive the lion’s share of the resources, we just want the horses treated humanely as they’re forced off their lawful homes and into government feedlots.
How does that help America’s wild horses?
The news release on EIN shows that you can develop a large following, and hold your audience spellbound, teaching them everything that is wrong.
Advocates with the Salt River Wild Horse Darting Group, an afffiliate of the Campaign Against America’s Wild Horses, laid out a plan on April 5. Here’s what they need:
The fifth step, of course, is pumping the poison into the mares for four of five years until they become sterile.
“We’re protecting them from removal by getting rid of them with PZP.”
A snippet from their page on socialist media (sidebar on the right) indicates the number of dead horses has increased to 20, with more than 30 missing.
Sounds like they’ve already accomplished steps 2 and 3.
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Refer to this column by Craig Downer in The Nevada Independent.
A parallel path would include restoring the WHB Act to its original form.
But you can probably discard them on the basis of their titles.
Consider this search result on Bing regarding the shooting of wild horses in the Apache-Sitgreaves National Forest near Alpine, AZ. The link pointed to a report in The News & Observer of Raleigh, NC.
Take a guess: Were any advocates interviewed for the story? Will it give you an accurate picture of what’s happening on America’s public lands?
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Earlier this year, advocates with the Salt River Wild Horse Darting Group, an affiliate of the Campaign Against America’s Wild Horses, offered to facilitate the removal of the Jumping Mouse horses near Alpine, while reducing the size of remaining herd with the Montana Solution.
They were rebuffed by the Forest Service.
Now, others are getting rid of the horses, not with darting rifles, but with real rifles, and they don’t like it.
Getting rid of wild horses is their job.
They have a better way. They intend to be leaders in the wild horse removal business and they don’t want any competition.
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The advocates reported that the horses were shot in the abdomen, face and between the eyes, according to the story by KPHO News.
Shots to the abdomen may have occurred from longer range, to make the animals approachable, with kill shots applied at short distance.
Where do you find expertise in killing wild horses by gunshot? At wild horse roundups, where it is often associated with pre-existing conditions.
The method was sanctioned by PIM 2021-007, Euthanasia of Wild Horses and Burros Related to Acts of Mercy, Health or Safety.
From paragraph VI.2 in Attachment 1:
A properly placed gunshot to the brain of an animal that is calm and still, or humanely restrained, instantly produces an unconscious state followed quickly by a painless and humane death. This method of euthanizing wild horses and burros requires only minimal handling and restraint; and when performed on the range, drug residues that may poison wildlife are not a concern. Only qualified and experienced persons skilled in the safe handling and use of firearms and trained by a veterinarian will perform the procedure. The optimal placement of a gunshot is from the front of the animal, perpendicular to the skull at a point one inch above the intersection of two imaginary lines drawn like an “X” from the eyes to the base of the ears. Typically, when euthanizing a wild horse or burro in this manner with a handgun, the animal will be approached to within five-to-six feet and the gun will be held within a few inches or up to two-to-three feet from the animal.
This information is not limited to government contractors or the agencies that hire them. The image above was found at thinklikeahorse.org.
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The Salt River Wild Horse Darting Group and the Campaign Against America’s Wild Horses have pledged $20,000 for the arrest and conviction of the persons responsible, with an additional $5,000 contributed by Animal Wellness Action, according to a report by The Arizona Republic.
All three groups are PZP fanatics, eager to get rid of wild horses with the Montana Solution.
They did not say what law or laws have been violated.
The number of deceased horses has risen to 15, with 20 still missing and presumed dead, according to volunteers with SRWHDG.
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At the Ozark National Scenic Riverways with Tim Layton.
The story by FOX10 News in Phoenix indicated that the dead animals were found near Forest Road 25 in the Alpine and Springerville Ranger Districts.
The Western Watersheds map shows Road #25 in the PS Allotment, about 15 miles southwest of Alpine and near the area where the Jumping Mouse horses were trapped earlier this year.
The area is not just known for its grazing potential, but is home to some of the best elk and mule deer habitat in Arizona.
The Annual Operating Instructions for PS indicate two pastures, with grazing seasons ending in just a few days.
The case, brought by the Vermont Law and Graduate School’s Environmental Advocacy Clinic on behalf of Wild Horse Fire Brigade, seeks to halt the removal of wild horses from private property within and adjacent to the HMA in southern Oregon, according to a news release dated October 8.
Plaintiffs allege that the BLM has violated the WHB Act and/or NEPA and have asked the Court to issue a temporary restraining order stopping the roundup.
The incident started on September 26. To date, three horses have been captured.
If free-roaming horses or burros stray from public lands onto privately owned land, the owners of such land may inform the nearest Federal marshall or agent of the Secretary, who shall arrange to have the animals removed, per §1334 of 16 USC 30.
The BLM issued a CX and DR for the action two years ago. The map on page 5 of the pdf shows much of the land inside the HMA is privately owned.
Is Oregon a fence-out state?
The CX was the only document posted to the project folder in ePlanning.
The aim of the Wild Horse Fire Brigade is to move wild horses from areas where they’re not wanted (by public-lands ranchers) to remote wilderness areas not particularly suited to livestock grazing.
“Horses are significantly more ecologically appropriate in wilderness areas over ruminant livestock like cattle, sheep, and goats,” according to its founder.
Achievement of that end would constitute victory for the ranchers in their long-held goal of purging wild horses from western rangelands.
Fourteen horses have been found dead so far, according to a story posted this evening by KPHO News of Phoenix.
Simone Netherlands, ringleader of the Salt River Wild Horse Darting Group, told the reporter that the “atrocity shows … just how much hate there is for these horses.”
Speaking of hate, Western Horse Watchers estimates that the group, an affiliate of the Campaign Against America’s Wild Horses, gets rid of about 80 wild horses every year at the Salt River.
Their colleagues on the Virginia Range are getting rid of an estimated 400 to 600 wild horses every year with the Montana Solution.
Who’s the greater threat to America’s wild horses? Shooters or the advocates?
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If the advocates endorse it, it’s bad.
For example, the Animal Welfare Institute, in cooperation with the Campaign Against America’s Wild Horses, claims that HR 9154, which would amend the WHB Act, represents a long overdue upgrade to the law so that wild equines can be managed humanely in their natural habitats for Americans to enjoy.
This, of course, means “get rid of them with the Montana Solution” so ranchers can be the primary consumers of resources in their lawful homes.
The advocates were defeated a long time ago.
Today, they carry water for the bureaucrats and ranchers.
They treat their cherished horses and burros—sorry, they may be switching to beloved, as seen in the article by the Las Vegas Review-Journal—the way you treat your beloved ants and roaches.
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A brief report by Fox10 News in Phoenix suggests they are aware of the incident.
Western Horse Watchers still can’t find a statement at the ASNF home page.
The Forest Service argues that the horses migrated into the area after the 2011 Wallow Fire and are therefore not entitled to protection under the WHB Act.
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This article by the Las Vegas Review-Journal does not provide a link to the measure but Western Horse Watchers suspects it’s HR 9154, introduced yesterday in the House and referred to the Committee on Natural Resources.
The text is not available as of today.
The bill would provide more federal funds and resources to protect wild horses and burros from slaughter, or killed for management goals, implement fertility control and eliminate cash for adoptions that have led to slaughter in Mexico and other countries, according to the report.
To most people, protection means stop the losses, prevent extinction and change whatever needs to be changed to help the species recover.
Not so in the wild horse world. Protection means get rid of them with the Montana Solution, with benefits accruing to the public-lands ranchers.
Earlier this year, lawmakers proposed the ridiculous helicopter ban nicknamed “Save a Horse, Hire a Cowboy.” Wild horses would be removed from their lawful home by wranglers, not helicopters, in favor of the ranchers.
Prompted by video from the Pancake roundup showing a foal running on a broken leg, a subsequent video from the Buffalo Hills roundup showed how it would work. “Abuse a foal, pardon a cowboy.”
A few months later, lawmakers came up with another brilliant idea: Train combat veterans to dart wild horses with PZP, the “Veterans Against Mustangs Act.”
These bills do not address the problems of resource management and multiple use and are therefore of no benefit to America’s wild horses.
The incident occurred in the Apache-Sitgreaves National Forest in eastern Arizona, according to a news release on EIN by Advocates for Wild Equines.
Western Horse Watchers has been unable to find a statement by ASNF.
ISPMB tried unsuccessfully earlier this year to stop the removal of wild horses from an area southwest of Alpine designated for the New Mexico Jumping Mouse.
Forest Service lands around Alpine, denoted by green in the Western Watersheds map, are subject to permitted grazing.
The Forest Service views the horses as trespass livestock. The herd is not protected by the WHB Act, which no longer functions as Velma attended.
The Montana Solution inhibits fertilization by creating anti-zona pellucida antibodies which bind to the zona pellucida of the oocyte, alter their conformation, and block sperm attachment to the zona pellucida receptors, according to the pesticide fact sheet provided by the EPA.
If this is true, why don’t mares bear fruit when the injections are stopped, after four to five successive years of treatment?
The herd on the Maryland side of Assateague Island should have doubled in the six years since the darting program was shut off. The population at the time was around 80, according to the chart provided by the Park Service.
As of yesterday, the population was 78.
Mares that don’t return to normal function are labeled “self-boosting” by the advocates, suggesting they produce their own antibodies, when in reality their ovaries have been destroyed, or nearly so.
This is not a defect, it is part of the plan.
The advocates treat their cherished horses and burros the way you treat your cherished ants and roaches.
Don’t give them a penny.
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The meeting begins October 10 at 5:30 PM Pacific time, according to an announcement dated October 5.
The advocates announced three weeks ago that they have a better way to get rid of wild horses and they’re using the Virginia Range to prove it.
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He ran off with a band of wild horses eight years ago and his owner gave up the search three years later.
But the two have been reunited according to a story by KUTV News of Salt Lake City.
The article said he was picked up “when BLM managers rounded up a herd of mustangs near military property in Tooele County in the last week of September.”
That was probably Cedar Mountain.
The gather page does not mention the capture or release of a branded/claimed horse.
The lunacy continues for the third and final day at 0800 Pacific time.
Here’s a preview of what you haven’t seen, and won’t see, at the meeting. Data from the North Lander Complex in Wyoming.
The government collects 49,311 × 1.35 = $66,570 per year in grazing fees from ranchers occupying the lawful home of wild horses, while it spends 4,108 × 5 × 365 = $7,497,100 per year to care for the animals forced into feedlots on their behalf.
This is a scam on American taxpayers.
The Board has been co-opted by ranchers and ranching sympathizers.
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The Assateague Island Alliance reports 78 wild horses living on the Maryland side of the island as of today, compared to 78 horses a year and a half ago.
Seven foals were born this year.
The herd could only generate a nine percent birth rate, and a zero percent growth rate, six years after the darting program was shut off.
Could this explain why the Park Service stopped publishing census results?
The advocates no longer point to the island as a paragon of wild horse management.
They are now trying to ruin the Virginia Range and Salt River herds.
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