You know you’d rather be in Elko shmoozing with the ranchers.
But if your donors found out they’d cut you off at the knees.
What’s an advocate to do?
Keeping up appearances is important, so you’d better spend the week in Reno, at the Saving Our Wild Horses & Wildlife Conference.
The relationship to Save Our Wild Horses is not known. An email seeking clarification was not immediately answered.
The speakers list includes pesticide pushers and ranching sympathizers.
The field trip on Day 1 will likely involve the Palomino Valley off-range corrals.
In an optional field trip after the conference, participants will travel to Tonopah and the Stone Cabin HMA, described at the birthplace of wild horse advocacy.
The HMA is known for the first wild horse roundup under the WHB Act, but wild horse advocacy was born 25 years earlier on the Virginia Range when Velma first encountered the horse runners on their way to a rendering plant.
HMAs weren’t even a pipedream.
Sadly. her vision for wild horses has been completely lost on today’s advocates.
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UPDATE: The email was answered. SOWH&W is an offshoot of SOWH, which hosted conferences in 2022 and 2023.
Western Horse Watchers Association 
It is progression of and was the foundation of an open conference where people could listen to experts and decide for themselves. At none of our events do we address BC.