Western Horse Watchers Association
Exposing the Hypocrisy, Lies and Incompetence of the Wild Horse Advocates
The event was announced in a January 20 news flash distributed by Lucky Three Ranch.
As a public service, your host has peeled away the veneer, revealing the vision and mission of this shady group and its supporters.
It’s a herd you want to avoid.
The advocates lecture us about family and freedom, yet wherever they’re involved the mares are barren, the herds are shrinking and the ranchers are winning.
RELATED: Assessing the Risk of Sterility in PZP Darting Programs.
As of yesterday, the capture total exceeded the goal by eleven percent and there was no indication that gather operations had concluded.
RELATED: Black Mountain Roundup, Day 15.
The incident began on December 28. Results through January 23:
The figures in this post are based on the daily reports, not the totals posted by the BLM.
Helicopters did not fly on Day 27.
The death rate is 1.1%. All deaths are chargeable to the roundup.
The capture total includes 726 stallions, 811 mares and 218 foals. The sidebar at the gather page says 805 mares captured.
Youngsters represented 12.4% of the animals gathered, consistent with a herd growth rate of seven percent per year.
Of the adults, 47.2% were male and 52.8% were female, no evidence of an abnormal sex ratio.
The name of the contractor was not given and the location of the trap site was not disclosed.
Body condition scores averaged 3 on Day 26.
The sidebar puts the total shipped at 1,728.
The Complex is managed primarily for animal agriculture. The National Data Viewer shows habitat loss and grazing allotments. Click on image to open in new tab.
*According to advocates.
Day 27 ended with 6 unaccounted-for animals. The totals at the gather page show two more horses processed than captured.
There are no plans to treat any of the captured mares with fertility control pesticides and return them to the range.
Other statistics:
Overpopulation means more horses than allowed by plan, not necessarily more horses than the land can support.
The ability of the Complex to sustain wild horses has been limited by the bureaucrats, who have assigned most of their food to the public-lands ranchers.
Refer to these reports for an indication of the problem:
RELATED: East Pershing Roundup, Day 25.
The incident started on January 9. Results through January 23:
The figures in this post are based on the daily reports, not the totals in the sidebar.
The capture goal has been exceeded by 11.2%.
The death rate is 0.2%.
The capture total includes 445 jacks, 505 jennies and 162 foals.
Youngsters represented 14.6% of the animals gathered.
Of the adults, 46.8% were male and 53.2% were female.
The name of the contractor was not given and the location of the trap site was not disclosed.
The HMA is subject to permitted grazing.
The National Data Viewer shows habitat loss and overlapping allotments. Click on map to open in new tab.
The management plan assigns 2.5 times more forage to livestock than the burros.
The roundup supports three tenets of rangeland management.
*According to advocates
RELATED: Black Mountain Roundup, Day 13.
The project would implement virtual fencing in the Board Corral Allotment on the west side of Sheldon NWR to obtain a more uniform distribution of cattle and reduce grazing pressure on seeps, springs and wet meadow resources.
According to Section 3.1.1 in the Draft EA, livestock continually congregate, trample and utilize riparian areas and springs on the allotment. Many forgeable upland areas in the South Use Area receive little to no use due to water constraints, lack of boundaries and cattle attraction to the riparian corridor.
Under the Proposed Action, the BLM would purchase the base stations and the permittee would rent or purchase the livestock collars.
The allotment, in the Improve category, offers 690 active AUMs on 15,330 public acres, or 45.0 AUMs per year per thousand public acres, equivalent to 3.8 wild horses per thousand public acres.
Despite this, land managers insist that public lands in the western U.S. can only support one wild horse per thousand public acres (27,000 animals on 27 million acres).
The allotment overlaps the north end of the Massacre Lake HA, an area identified for wild horses but managed principally for livestock.
The EA was copied to the project folder with related documents.
Comments will be accepted through January 31.
RELATED: Virtual Fences Coming to a Pasture Near You?
The incident started yesterday with ten horses captured, none shipped, six released and no deaths.
The original gather page has been 404’d.
The HMA is managed principally for livestock. The horses receive an estimated 4.3% of the authorized forage, neglecting wildlife.
What would they get if they had an HMAP?
4.3%.
Pay no attention to the advocates, they are clueless.
RELATED: HMAPs Must Comply with RMPs.
The incident began on December 28. Results through January 21:
The figures in this post are based on the daily reports, not the totals posted by the BLM.
A stallion was put down on Day 24 due to a poorly healed nose injury, followed by another stallion and filly for blindness, lifting the death rate to 1.2%. They’d be alive today if there was no roundup.
The capture total includes 699 stallions, 774 mares and 204 foals. The sidebar at the gather page says 768 mares captured.
Youngsters represented 12.2% of the animals gathered, consistent with a herd growth rate of seven percent per year.
Of the adults, 47.5% were male and 52.5% were female, no evidence of an abnormal sex ratio.
The name of the contractor was not given and the location of the trap site was not disclosed.
Body condition scores ranged from 3 to 5 on Days 24 and 25.
The sidebar puts the total shipped at 1,480.
The Complex is managed primarily for animal agriculture. The National Data Viewer shows habitat loss and grazing allotments. Click on image to open in new tab.
*According to advocates.
Day 25 ended with 176 unaccounted-for animals.
There are no plans to treat any of the captured mares with fertility control pesticides and return them to the range.
Other statistics:
Overpopulation means more horses than allowed by plan, not necessarily more horses than the land can support.
The ability of the Complex to sustain wild horses has been limited by the bureaucrats, who have assigned most of their food to the public-lands ranchers.
Refer to these reports for an indication of the problem:
RELATED: East Pershing Roundup, Day 23.
The EPA registers pesticides and their use on specific pests and under specific circumstances. For example, “Pesticide A,” registered for use on apples, may not be used legally on grapes, or an insecticide registered for “outdoor use” may not legally be used inside a building.
Therefore, Zonatstat-H, which is registered for use on female horses and burros capable of doing environmental damage, may not be legally used on herds that __________.
a.) Are overpopulated
b.) Pose safety hazards to motorists
c.) Interfere or could interfere with animal agriculture
d.) All of the above
e.) None of the above.
The correct answer is d, meaning that PZP darting programs, which cause more long-term harm than roundups, are unlawful, should be stopped immediately and their organizers investigated by federal law enforcement.
RELATED: Multiple Use Applies to Public Lands, Not Registered Pesticides.
Horses have the day off. At the Black Mountain HMA with ZacksRides.
They protect the ranchers, not the horses. Don’t give them a penny!
The incident started on January 9. Results through January 21:
The figures in this post are based on the daily reports, not the totals in the sidebar.
A jack was put down on Day 12 due to a leg injury.
The death rate is 0.2%.
The capture total includes 404 jacks, 442 jennies and 140 foals.
Youngsters represented 14.2% of the animals gathered.
Of the adults, 47.8% were male and 52.2% were female.
The name of the contractor was not given and the location of the trap site was not disclosed.
The HMA is subject to permitted grazing.
The National Data Viewer shows habitat loss and overlapping allotments. Click on map to open in new tab.
The management plan assigns 2.5 times more forage to livestock than the burros.
The roundup supports three tenets of rangeland management.
The incident will likely conclude tomorrow.
*According to advocates
RELATED: Black Mountain Roundup, Day 11.
The incident started on January 9. Results through January 19:
The figures in this post are based on the daily reports, not the totals in the sidebar.
Helicopters did not fly on Day 11 due to maintenance.
The death rate is 0.1%.
The capture total includes 345 jacks, 375 jennies and 113 foals.
Youngsters represented 13.6% of the animals gathered.
Of the adults, 47.9% were male and 52.1% were female.
The location of the trap site was not disclosed.
The HMA is subject to permitted grazing.
The National Data Viewer shows habitat loss and overlapping allotments. Click on map to open in new tab.
The management plan assigns 2.5 times more forage to livestock than the burros.
The roundup supports three tenets of rangeland management.
The incident will likely conclude in three days.
*According to advocates
RELATED: Black Mountain Roundup, Day 9.
Sorry boys, it’s been nice but it hasn’t been real nice. Your sacred status on America’s public lands has been reviewed and found to be, well, inconvenient.
That’s the message in Section 3.11.4.2 of the Draft EIS for the Libra Solar Project southeast of Yerington, NV.
The facility will appropriate 1,722 acres in the Gray Hills allotment and 3,419 acres in the Perry Springs-Deadman allotment, resulting in the loss of 218 AUMs per year.
That’s equivalent to 18 wild horses running free in the allotments.
Why not do that and avoid all the mess?
The Allotment Master Report puts Gray Hills and Perry Springs in the Maintain category, offering a combined 6,065 active AUMs on 158,468 public acres, or 38.3 AUMs per year per thousand public acres, equivalent to 3.2 wild horses per thousand public acres.
This brings more embarrassment to the bureaucrats and ranchers, who insist that public lands in the western U.S. can only support one wild horse per thousand acres.
Figure 3.11-2 in the EIS shows water sources for Gray Hills originating southeast of the proposed plant in an area that turns out to be the Wassuk HMA. Another example of resources taken from the horses for the benefit of the ranchers.
If the bureaucrats are willing to subordinate the ranchers to their agenda of weakness and vulnerability—the goals of green energy—you can be sure the horses don’t have a chance.
The advocates won’t complain because they vote for it.
There won’t be much pushback from farm bureaus, stockgrower’s associations and cattlemen’s groups because they’re also run by left-wing kooks.
The EIS and related documents have been copied to the project folder in ePlanning.
Comments will be accepted through March 4 according to the news release.
RELATED: How Is Solar Energy Like Wild Horses?
The incident began on December 28. Results through January 19:
The figures in this post are based on the daily reports, not the totals posted by the BLM.
A mare and stallion were dispatched on Day 22 for pre-existing conditions, followed by another stallion on Day 23, lifting the death rate to 1.1%.
The capture total includes 644 stallions, 706 mares and 185 foals. The sidebar at the gather page says 700 mares captured.
Youngsters represented 12.1% of the animals gathered, consistent with a herd growth rate of seven percent per year.
Of the adults, 47.7% were male and 52.3% were female, no evidence of an abnormal sex ratio.
The location of the trap site was not given.
Body condition scores ranged from 3 to 5 on Days 22 and 23.
The sidebar puts the total shipped at 1,394.
The Complex is managed primarily for animal agriculture. The National Data Viewer shows habitat loss and grazing allotments. Click on image to open in new tab.
*According to advocates.
Day 23 ended with 123 unaccounted-for animals.
There are no plans to treat any of the captured mares with fertility control pesticides and return them to the range.
Other statistics:
Overpopulation means more horses than allowed by plan, not necessarily more horses than the land can support.
The ability of the Complex to sustain wild horses has been limited by the bureaucrats, who have assigned most of their food to the public-lands ranchers.
Refer to these reports for an indication of the problem:
RELATED: East Pershing Roundup, Day 21.
The advocates lecture us about family and freedom, yet wherever they’re involved the mares are barren, the herds are shrinking and the ranchers are winning.
The same pattern appears in the general population, which grew just 7.4% between 2010 and 2020, and apparently Nabisco has noticed.
In 2016, a family-size box of graham crackers contained six packs of nine crackers and weighed 28.8 ounces.
Later that year, the company trimmed the size to 25.6 ounces and reduced the count to eight crackers per pack.
Now the company is rolling out the new and improved version, which consists of four packs of nine.
If it was shrinkflation, the change would be small to evade detection by consumers.
But in this case the change is large and obvious.
What does it say about our culture and the direction we’re heading?
Nobody talks about wild horse removal more than the advocates.
Whether it’s the Rancher Protection Act, the Veterans for Pesticides Act or “safe, proven and reversible fertility control,” their babble always points to “humane management,” a codeword for nonmotorized removal.
They have the solution. You don’t need to know about the underlying conditions.
For example, at the Tobin Range HMA, part of the East Pershing Complex, livestock receive 22 times more forage than the horses.
Their answer? More poison. Beat the population down with PZP so ranchers can have most of the resources. In the lawful home of wild horses!
They are wolves in sheep’s clothing and don’t deserve a penny of your financial support.
RELATED: Foal-Free Friday, Selling Poison as Conservation Edition.
The incident started on January 9. Results through January 17:
The figures above are based on the daily reports.
A burro was dispatched on Day 9. No details were given.
The death rate is 0.2%.
Youngsters represented 13.3% of the animals gathered.
Of the adults, 51.2% were male and 48.8% were female.
The location of the trap site was not disclosed.
The HMA is subject to permitted grazing.
The National Data Viewer shows habitat loss and overlapping allotments. Click on map to open in new tab.
The management plan assigns 2.5 times more forage to livestock than the burros.
The roundup supports three tenets of rangeland management.
*According to advocates
RELATED: Black Mountain Roundup, Day 7.
The incident began on December 28. Results through January 17:
The figures above are based on the daily reports, not the totals posted by the BLM.
A stallion was dispatched on Day 21 for club feet.
The death rate is 1.0%.
The capture total includes 601 stallions, 630 mares and 157 foals. The sidebar at the gather page says 624 mares captured.
Youngsters represented 11.3% of the animals gathered, consistent with a herd growth rate of six percent per year.
Of the adults, 48.8% were male and 51.2% were female, no evidence of an abnormal sex ratio.
The location of the trap site was not given.
Body condition scores ranged from 3 to 5 on Days 20 and 21.
The Complex is managed primarily for animal agriculture. The National Data Viewer shows habitat loss and grazing allotments. Click on image to open in new tab.
*According to advocates.
Day 21 ended with 98 unaccounted-for animals.
There are no plans to treat any of the captured mares with fertility control pesticides and return them to the range.
Other statistics:
Overpopulation means more horses than allowed by plan, not necessarily more horses than the land can support.
The ability of the Complex to sustain wild horses has been limited by the bureaucrats, who have assigned most of their food to the public-lands ranchers.
Refer to these reports for an indication of the problem:
RELATED: East Pershing Roundup, Day 19.
The action will protect wild horse and wildlife habitat within the Pryor Mountain Wild Horse Range for an additional 20-year term, according to a notice appearing this morning in the Federal Register.
The original withdrawal occurred under Public Land Order No. 7628.
The National Data Viewer puts the affected parcels at the southern end of the WHR.
Persons wishing to submit comments must send them in writing to the Billings Field Office as described in the announcement.
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