A site is needed to help the advocates manage their decline into oblivion.

They’re wrong about almost everything in the wild horse world.

Most of their ideas help the cattlemen, not the horses.

They’d never recommend their darting programs for privately owned livestock, only the animals they claim to protect.

Of immediate need is professional counseling, with tips and advice leading to the acknowledgment of their errors, including the solicitation of money under false pretenses and their desire to be respected by the bureaucrats and ranchers, not you.

Instead of bucking the long-term trend in resource management, indicated by the chart above, they go along with it.

One of their leaders spilled the beans last year with this remark: “You need to manage the numbers to fit what’s available for the horses.”

Are they defeatists or what?

You can have your wild horse and burro program as long as it doesn’t interfere with the grazing program.

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Here is your chair of the Wild Horse and Burro Advisory Board, a PZP fanatic and leader of two working groups at the FREES Network, a ranching advocacy group hosted by Utah State University Extension, preaching the overpopulation narrative and fertility control gospel at The Wildlife Society’s 2022 Annual Conference in Spokane, WA.

Although the remark about “learning to love and understand people who are completely opposite of what you might be thinking” was probably a reference to the public-lands ranchers, it also applies to those of us who actually care about the horses and want them managed according to the original statute.

Return to Freedom was a signatory to the ill-advised “Path Forward” of 2019, a plan that put ranching interests far above those of wild horses—in the lawful home of wild horses.

The underlying belief, never acknowledged by the advocates, is that most of the forage in areas identified for wild horses should be consumed by privately owned livestock.

That was the message to those attending yesterday’s online meeting, according to a story by INFORUM of Fargo, ND.

The author appeared in Nokota Heart, the 2011 documentary about the original wild horses of TRNP, but he does not mention Sitting Bull, Leo Kuntz and the Nokota breed.

As for the advocates, pay no attention as they feign concern for the horses.

What they really want is a contract with the Park Service to sterilize the mares, as indicated in Alternative C of the scoping newsletter.

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There is little if any diversity of thought among the wild horse advocates.

Curiosity is also in short supply.

In their desire to be respected by the bureaucrats and ranchers, they focus almost exclusively on removal, not on preservation.

They don’t want you questioning the overpopulation narrative and mismanagement of resources in areas identified for wild horses.

They don’t want you questioning their authority.

And they damn sure don’t want you questioning their knowledge, abilities and understanding of the issues.

So they operate inconspicuously, quietly stalking the mares and poisoning them with their favorite pesticide.

There are no helicopters, no traps, pipe panels or trailers.

There are no observers sitting in blinds to document cruelty, injuries and deaths.

Sterility is the long-term goal.  Mares so disposed are said to be “self-boosting.”

There is no accountability to the public, no data on herd size, birth rates, death rates, percentages of males, females and foals, changes year over year.

There is no adverse effects reporting, no information on unexpected results.

The bureaucrats keep the destruction out of the public eye, with the aid of a compliant media.

These charlatans are free to conduct their business as they please, within the confines of the law, but you don’t have to be part of it.

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The Assateague Island Alliance reported 78 horses on the Maryland side of the island as of January 4, no change from December.

The current roster shows band affiliation but does not indicate sex.

New foals probably won’t be hitting the ground for another six to eight weeks.

The herd shows little if any growth since 2016, when the safe, proven and reversible fertility control program was shut off, a result that will please most of the advocates.

Others will realize that the herd has been ruined by the Montana Solution and the nitwits who promote it.

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In this map from the National Data Viewer, areas of critical environmental concern are shown in gray, herd areas are black, the HMA is orange and the allotments are green.

The presence of livestock in the lawful home of wild horses tells you that the land can support many more animals than the government admits.

Instead of working in support of the horses, the advocates work in favor of the ranchers by destroying the ovaries of the mares with their favorite pesticide.

The practice is not unique to McCullough Peaks.

It’s accepted and promoted everywhere in the wild horse world by frauds who claim to have a better way to manage wild horses.

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Pummel the mares with your favorite pesticide, destroy their ovaries and let the herds die off.

Tell your donors that it’s safe, proven and reversible.

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Put simply, they buy small amounts of land to achieve landscape-scale results.

They can assemble three million acres of public lands by acquiring and managing 500,000 acres of private lands, creating a fully functioning ecosystem complete with migration corridors and all native wildlife.

This is how you turn 5,000 deeded acres into a 40,000-acre ranch.

Madeleine Pickens purchased base properties in Nevada fifteen years ago with the goal of returning wild horses to the range, but the plan was thwarted by the BLM at the behest of ranching interests.

Will the same thing happen to American Prairie?

The wild horse advocates use the Montana Solution to achieve their land-use goals, which align with those of the bureaucrats and ranchers.

Curiously, the Billings School of PZP Darting and Public Deception is only about 150 miles from the American Prairie project area.

RELATED: State Tries to Block American Prairie Grazing Decision.

McCarthy succeeded on the 15th ballot and House lawmakers took their oaths of office shortly thereafter, according to a story dated January 7 by The Hill.

The one-horse pony acknowledged the result.

The advocates can now mobilize their lobbyists to resurrect the stupid ideas from 2022, including the helicopter ban (removal of wild horses by wranglers), the veterans for livestock act (get rid of them with the Montana Solution) and the surgical sterilization is bad act (but not chemical sterilization if achieved with their favorite pesticide).

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Montana Governor Greg Gianforte has joined forces with the Montana Department of Agriculture, Montana Department of Livestock, Montana Department of Natural Resources and Conservation and the Montana Department of Fish, Wildlife and Parks in opposition to a change in livestock type on seven allotments requested by American Prairie and granted by the BLM in 2022.

Not mentioned in the article by Western Livestock Journal is that American Prairie obtained preference by acquiring base properties tied to the allotments, a customary, legitimate and necessary step in applying for grazing permits on public lands.

Almost certainly the governor acted in response to butthurt ranchers, their overlords, cheerleaders and political allies who see the decision as threat to their domination and control of government agencies and the lands they manage.

The planning area included lands near the Charles M. Russell National Wildlife Refuge in northern Montana.

RELATED: American Prairie Grazing Decision Finalized.