Because getting rid of wild horses is their job.
Month: September 2023
Devil’s Garden Roundup Begins
The incident started yesterday as scheduled, with 15 horses captured and no deaths.
Body condition scores ranged from 4.5 to 5, suggesting they’re not starving.
Overpopulation means more horses than allowed by plan, not necessarily more horses than the land can support.
You Could Have Made a Killing this Weekend at Burning Man
While everyone else was trying to get out, you could have rolled in with a truckload of Muck Boots.
Valley Vet has them for $110 per pair but what would they fetch under conditions of rain and mud in the middle of nowhere?
The Man Won’t Burn this Year at Burning Man?
The playa is now a mudhole, thanks to storms that rolled through starting on Friday.
Normally the problem is dust.
Nevada is the driest state in the nation so three months’ worth of rain in the valley may amount to an inch or less.
Most precipitation occurs in the mountains, with snowmelt feeding creeks and ponds.
Exodus starts today at noon local time, with “Leave No Trace” difficult to achieve.
The event occurs every summer on BLM land northeast of Gerlach.
The reporter in Wadsworth may be standing along State Route 447, the hopping-off point from I-80.
Curiously, the bonfire, if it occurs, will be watched by thousands of climate alarmists as it spews greenhouse gasses and particulates into the air.
Pilots, Panels and Pesticides: A New Plan to Protect Permittees
Pilots to push the horses into the traps, stitched together with pipe panels, where some break their necks.
Ovary-killing pesticides to reverse population growth.
Public lands managed primarily for permitted grazing.
This is not business as usual, it’s catch-treat-release.
Herd management areas are now herd treatment areas, with stagnant or dwindling populations, thanks to the pioneering work of the wild horse advocates.
RELATED: Catch-Treat-Release, Misuse of GonaCon, Roll Out at Reveille.
Mustang Monday
In Fernley, NV, northeast corner of the Virginia Range, with Desert Explorer 302.
As the advocates expand their darting program into this area, the horses may feel safer in town than on the range.
The cremello at 0:26 may have been hit.
West Douglas Roundup, Day 3
Five horses were taken on Day 2, followed by 34 on Day 3, bringing the total to 65.
No horses have escaped, none have been shipped and no deaths have been reported.
There were no unaccounted-for animals.
Foals represented 20% of the horses captured.
Of the adults, 56% were male and 44% were female.
With a capture and removal goals of 122, the incident is approximately 53% complete.
The HA is managed principally for livestock, in defiance of the original statute.
RELATED: West Douglas Roundup in Progress.
From Tolerance to Acceptance to Misuse and Abuse
Like helicopters, the fertility control pesticides are tools for boosting rancher prosperity, a goal of federal agencies charged with wild horse protection.
This is why the helicopter ban is a ruse: It changes the way wild horse removals are carried out but does not stop them.
In a 2012 paper posted by the Billings School of PZP Darting and Public Deception, Jay Kirkpatrick, developer of the Montana Solution, speculated that “the greatest cause for opposition to PZP is the failure of advocacy groups to understand that there are really only two choices for wild horse management – roundups and removal or fertility control. There are no other choices.”
He noted in his opening remarks that “oversight by The Humane Society of the United States assures that the vaccine is used only to slow reproduction and may not be used for the extermination of entire herds. PZP is designed to bring about short-term infertility and is reversible, if not used beyond five consecutive years. It reduces the need for gathers and preserves the original gene pool in each herd.”
All of this turned out to be false.
On Assateague Island, where the pesticide was applied for over twenty years, the herd has been ruined.
On the Salt River and Virginia Range, advocates associated with the Campaign Against America’s Wild Horses are using the product to reverse population growth, not slow it.
They don’t follow EPA rules for its use.
A common violation is failure to wear the proper PPE.
In other areas, the advocates use the product to control horses that interfere or could interfere with animal agriculture, a purpose for which it was not approved.
In some cases, the justification is safety hazards to passing motorists, another illicit use.
The product label indicates PZP is intended for use on female wild horses and burros, privately or publicly owned, that are capable of doing environmental damage. That’s it.
There are two other reasons why population suppression is necessary, or not necessary, depending on your point of view:
- Habitat loss
- Confiscation and reapportionment of resources
If you think more land should be taken from the horses and given to the ranchers, along with their food and water, you’ll demand greater use of pesticides and helicopters.
If you believe the trend is unacceptable, and want the land managed principally for the horses as specified in the original statute, you’ll oppose removal by any means.
RELATED: How the Advocates Respond to Habitat Loss.
Salt River Darting Program by the Numbers
If the initial population was 450 and the goal in ten years was 250, a six percent death rate and zero percent birth rate would be needed:
450 × (1 – .06) ^ 10 = 242
This is nonstop darting for ten years with 100% efficacy. The mares will be sterile and the herd will be ruined, just like Assateague Island.
On the bright side, the advocates may convince the bureaucrats and ranchers of their tenacity and ruthlessness, and the feasibility of nonmotorized removal, breaking the Cattoor monopoly.
New Colt Slips Through Salt River Darting Program
The birth occurred in August but the advocates said nothing out respect for the horses, which they achieve by poisoning the mares with ovary-killing pesticides.
Now, they’re praying for a predator to fix the mistake, as they did for Mirabelle.
The article said his mom has been darted five times but did not say if that was a primer plus four boosters and if the injections had been given in consecutive years.
The threshold for sterility is usually taken as five consecutive years (primer plus five boosters).
Such animals are said to be “self-boosting,” a term in common use among the advocates.
What about the other mares that have been darted five times? A herd of 400 plus should be producing more than two foals per year!
Truth is, the breeding population is nearly zero, thanks to Simone Netherlands and her band of merrymen. Here she is in fine form, showing off her bona fides to other like-minded individuals:
The writer did not dispute that PZP is a restricted-use pesticide.
You only need to look at the herd on Assateague Island to see where this is going.
There is no way these phony voices for wild horses can achieve the population reduction targets given to them by Arizona bureaucrats without sterilizing the mares.
The darting program skews the sex ratio in favor of females, exactly what they don’t want and don’t need.
They know this and they are pushing ahead full speed.
The same thing is happening on the Virginia Range, where their parent organization, the Campaign Against America’s Wild Horses, leads the effort.
RELATED: If You Repeat a Lie Long Enough, People Will Believe It.
If You Repeat a Lie Long Enough, People Will Believe It
Overpopulation is the analog of climate change in the wild horse world.
Both are lies.
Suzanne Roy, feckless leader of the Campaign Against America’s Wild Horses, beats the fertility control drum in today’s edition of The Colorado Sun, claiming that the best way to protect wild horses is through fertility control.
If you still think she’s playing with a full deck, watch her May 16 testimony before the Nevada State Assembly regarding SB90.
The piece was probably drafted by her subordinates.
Poisoning mares with ovary-killing pesticides protects other users of public lands, such as hunters and ranchers, not wild horses.
Roy and her followers are getting rid of them! The latest assault is on the Cedar Mountain herd in Utah, with the blessing and financial support of the Bureau of Livestock Multiplication.
At the Virginia Range, site of their flagship darting program, which Roy describes as the world’s largest, these zealots are running the herd into the ground. Go to the Year 4 Report submitted to the NDA. If you can’t access the document, click here.
You know about herd management areas but are you aware of herd treatment areas?
That’s their glorious vision for America’s wild horses: To convert HMAs to HTAs!
Thumbs down for helicopters, thumbs up for pesticides.
As for the other users of public lands, the same report indicates Roy sent her henchmen to the 2022 FREES conference to sell the idea of nonmotorized removal to the ranchers and ranching sympathizers.
The Nevada State Director is Tracy “You need to manage the numbers to fit what’s available for the horses” Wilson, champion of habitat loss and livestock encroachment.
These people, who claim to be voices for the horses, are frauds, no getting around it.
RELATED: Choosing Your Words Carefully.
West Douglas Roundup in Progress
The incident started today as scheduled, with 26 horses captured, none shipped, none released and no deaths.
RELATED: On the Eve of the West Douglas Roundup.
Socialist Media Update for August 2023
Traffic from Facebook and Twitter accounted for 2.1% of the total in August, continuing the shift that started in June.
July was the dead cat bounce.
RELATED: Socialist Media Update for July 2023.
New Pest Control Plan for Alamo, Lake Havasu, Big Sandy Burros?
A new project was opened in ePlanning yesterday but no documents were posted.
Three HMAs are affected.
The National Data Viewer shows habitat loss and livestock encroachment.
Tracy Wilson, defeatist, pesticide pusher and ranching sympathizer with the Campaign Against America’s Wild Horses, a leader in nonmotorized removal, said of a similar problem on the Virginia Range “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, and its underlying beliefs, easily translate to wild burros.
Foal-Free Friday, Removal by Pesticides Edition
A goal for August in the July report for the Virginia Range darting program is to continue to maximize booster treatments to mares to prevent pregnancies, allowing for continued population reduction. Click here if you can’t access the document.
You need not know how to convert an AML to AUMs or how to compute a forage allocation for livestock in an area set aside for wild horses.
You need to know how much adjuvant to add to the PZP! (Remember, you’re not pushing back against the ranchers, you’re trying to help them.)
Got that?
The advocates believe wild horse and burro populations should be reduced with ovary-killing pesticides, not motorized equipment.
They’ve allowed themselves to be manipulated by the bureaucrats and ranchers, earning them the title of Useful Idiots.
RELATED: Foal-Free Friday, “Stay Barren” Edition.
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