The Oak Creek herd lives on private land in the Tehachapi Mountains north of Los Angeles, now cluttered by man-made bird choppers.

You can stop the spread of eyesores like this on November 8.  Not the horses, the Democrat pinwheels.

The report did not indicate if the advocates had offered to get rid of them with the Montana Solution.

The updated Decision Record and Environmental Assessment were posted to the project folder on October 21.

The active AUMs in the Alvord Allotment would increase to 8,992, as shown in Table 1 of the DR, compared to 7,355 in the previous authorization.

Of the 1,892 previously suspended AUMs, 255 would remain off limits, putting 1,637 in play, for a new total of 8,992.

New authorization = 1,892 – 255 + 7,355 = 8,992 AUMs per year

The resource increment would support an additional 136 wild horses.

Instead, those animals will remain in off-range holding at a cost of $248,200 per year, to be laid at the feet of American taxpayers, while the BLM collects an additional $2,210 per year in grazing fees from ranching activity inside the HMA.

Would you say the change qualifies as a wise use of the public lands?

Taxpayers and wild horses have been rooked by the bureaucrats, with the cooperation of the advocates (yes, the HMA has a fertility control program), to prop up a failed industry on America’s public lands.

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These horses are a national treasure.  They’ve survived on their own for 500 years.

Today, they are threatened not by man-made climate change, which is a hoax, not by visitors, motorists, development or swamp cancer, but by Meg Puckett and her ruinous darting program, carefully omitted from this story by PBS North Carolina.

Another exmple of managing the numbers to fit what’s available for the horses, a guiding principle of the advocates.

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The decision was announced yesterday, according to a story by The Oregonian, despite the prosecutor’s recommendation of seven more years behind bars.

The defendant pleaded guilty to arson at a meatpacking plant in Redmond, Oregon and to conspiracy to commit arson at the wild horse corrals near Litchfield, California.

The fire in Oregon was intended to stop the slaughter of wild horses at the facility.

The goal at Litchfield was to destroy the corrals and set the horses free.

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The project folders have been populated with maps and documents.

Comments on the Draft EA will be accepted through November 30.

The Proposed Action features removal of excess burros through one or more roundups, population suppression using PZP or GonaCon-Equine and IUDs, and GPS tracking of animals over a ten-year period, as discussed in Section 2.2.1 of the EA.

The HMA covers 89,392 acres in eastern Utah and the 100 burros allowed by plan require 600 AUMs per year,

The equivalent stocking rate is 0.6 wild horses per thousand acres, slightly more than half of the target rate across all HMAs.

The current population is thought to be 151, as shown in Table 2.1.

The HMA intersects two grazing allotments, not mentioned in the BLM news release.

About 70% of the HMA falls within Robbers Roost, with a tiny fraction in Saucer Basin, according to the Western Watersheds map.

Table 3.1 does not provide the percentages of the allotments inside the HMA, so the forage assigned to livestock and the number of burros displaced from their lawful home by permitted grazing are not known at this time.

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