Red Rock Mares Returned to HMA, Now Crime Scene

A public affairs specialist with the BLM told Western Horse Watchers yesterday that they received their second dose and were released to the range last week.

Your host replied to the email with a link to the 2017 labeling amendment that changed the interval between doses from 30 days to 90 days, seeking comment on the agency’s use of the pesticide.

As of this evening, no response has been received.

The first statement under Directions for Use: “It is a violation of Federal law to use this product in a manner inconsistent with its labeling.”

SHOCKER: Elko County Endorses Wild Horse Fire Brigade

The battlefield is America’s public lands, not urban neighborhoods as stated in a June 12 report by KOLO News.

The idea is to move wild horses from their lawful homes to remote wilderness areas not suited to livestock grazing, so ranchers can have all of their food.

That’s why the commissioners like it, along with the Nevada Lands Council.

A better way to alleviate the conflict is to confine the ranchers to their base properties in a year-round off season and let them pay the going rate to feed their animals.

No more gravy train, no more sucking on the government teat.

KNPR Tours Winnemucca Corrals

The BLM representative is back with another tall tale about wild horses in this 5-minute audio segment: They’re built much differently than domestic horses, evident in the photo below.

The extra chromosome really makes a difference.

Instead of explaining how the conflict on public lands can be alleviated by clearing them of privately owned livestock, a spokesperson for the Campaign Against America’s Wild Horses argued in favor of nonmotorized removal, which helps the ranchers.

Better Way 10-25-23

If they had their way, there would be no more roundups and no need for off-range holding, because there would be no more horses, an intended consequence of mass sterilization with PZP, now in progress at the Salt River and Virginia Range.

They are phonies, leaders of the blind, irrelevant.

Wild Horses Built Much Differently 06-12-24

Bordo Atravesado Roundup, Day 41

The incident started on May 1. Results through June 10:

Scope: Bordo Atravesado HMA
Target: Horses
Type: Planned
Method: Bait
AML: 60
Estimated population: 276
Goals: Gather 235, remove 225
Captured: 234, up from 222 on Day 34
Shipped: 97, up from 63 on Day 34
Released: None
Deaths: 8, up from 7 on Day 34
Average daily take: 5.7
Unaccounted-for animals: 129

The figures above are based on the daily reports.

No activity was reported on Days 38, 39 and 40.

A horse died on Day 41 of injuries related to capture. No details were given.

The death rate is 3.4%.

The capture total includes 115 stallions, 91 mares and 28 foals.

Youngsters represented 12.0% of the animals gathered, consistent with a herd growth rate of seven percent per year.

Of the adults, 55.8% were male and 44.2% were female.

Body condition scores were not given.

The location of the trap site is not known.

The destination of shipped animals was not stated.

The HMA is subject to permitted grazing. Resources liberated to date:

Forage: 2,808 AUMs per year
Water: 2,340 gallons per day

Ten mares will be treated with GonaCon Equine, a fertility control pesticide, and be returned to the range according to the latest schedule.

The roundup supports three tenets of rangeland management.

Caliente Roundup, Day 55

The incident started on April 16. Results through June 9:

Scope: Caliente Complex
Target: Horses
Type: Planned
Method: Bait
Goals: Gather 350, remove 350
Captured: 302, up from 282 on Day 50
Shipped: 271, up from 270 on Day 50
Released: None
Deaths: 9, no change from Day 50
Average daily take: 5.5
Unaccounted-for animals: 22

The figures above are based on the daily reports.

No activity was reported between June 4 and June 8.

The death rate is 3.0%.

The capture total includes 125 stallions, 128 mares and 49 foals.

Youngsters represented 16.2% of the animals gathered, consistent with a herd growth rate of eleven percent per year.

Of the adults, 49.4% were male and 50.6% were female.

Body condition scores were not given.

The location of the trap site is not known.

The Complex is subject to permitted grazing. Resources liberated to date:

Forage: 3,624 AUMs per year
Water: 3,020 gallons per day

There are no plans to treat any of the mares with fertility control pesticides and return them to the range.

The roundup supports three tenets of rangeland management.

RELATED: Caliente Roundup, Day 50.

If Wild Horses Had Principal Use of Notch Butte

The allotment, on the south side of the Saylor Creek HMA in Idaho, offers 3,163 active AUMs on 27,951 public acres, according to the Allotment Master Report.

The forage assigned to horses is zero.

How many wild horses could live there?

Using the principle of forage interchangeability, the True AML would be 3,163 ÷ 12 = 264, the number of horses the land could support if it was managed principally for them as specified in the original statute.

The stocking rate would be 264 ÷ 27,951 × 1,000 = 9.4 wild horses per thousand public acres.

Why is this important?

The bureaucrats and ranchers claim that public lands in the western U.S. can only support one wild horse per thousand acres (27,000 animals on 27 million acres).

The advocates bolster the narrative with their darting programs.

If the allotment was an HMA, the AML would be 28 and 264 – 28 = 236 horses would be consigned to off-range holding because of permitted grazing.

The stocking rate allowed by plan for Saylor Creek is 0.5 wild horses per thousand public acres, yet the Twin Butte Allotment, just over the line from Notch Butte, supports livestock equivalent to 9.8 wild horses per thousand public acres!

BLM allotments in the state carry livestock equivalent to 110,141 wild horses on 11,003,206 public acres, or ten wild horses per thousand public acres.

LRTC Rescue Team Learns About Crime Scene Response

Yesterday, deputies with the Lyon County Sheriff’s Office trained volunteers with Least Resistance Training Concepts on best practices when responding to incidents involving a dead or wounded person or animal, as outlined in a report by KTVN News.

Exercises included a cut fence where horses had been stolen and a party scene where a wild mustang was shot.

The story did not indicate if the session covered unlawful use of pesticides by the wild horse advocates, such as application of PZP to herds that interfere with animal agriculture, pose safety hazards to motorists or are said to be overpopulated.

Mustang Monday

On the Salt River with Gayle Bassani.

The lack of foals is not an accident.

The advocates want the Montana Solution to grow and prosper, not the horses.

If Wild Horses Had Principal Use of Mystery Allotment in Nevada

The True AML would be 300,000 ÷ 12 = 25,000, the number of horses the land could support if it was managed principally for them as specified in the original statute.

That’s roughly 40% of the horses in off-range holding.

Sadly, the allotment exists only in the mind of a public affairs officer with the BLM.

RELASTED: Largest Grazing Allotment in Nevada Revealed.

Largest Grazing Allotment in Nevada Revealed

The heretofore unknown parcel, located somewhere near Elko, offers 15 times more forage than Blue Wing – Seven Troughs, the record holder until now.

Coalition Starts Online Protest of North Lander Roundup

Refer to this news release on EIN.

Your host has not tested the link and is not familiar with the sponsoring groups.

“Large industries and special interest groups that use public lands for oil, gas and mineral extraction and livestock grazing support the removal of wild equine.”

Western Horse Watchers would like to see a position statement from a trade group representing drillers or miners demanding the removal of wild horses from public lands in the western U.S. Put the link in the comments.

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Scoping Begins for Rock Springs Wild Horse Removal

Despite ongoing legal challenges, the BLM announced today the beginning of a plan to remove nearly 5,000 wild horses over a three-year period from the Divide Basin, Salt Wells Creek and Adobe Town HMAs in southern Wyoming.

Divide Basin and Salt Wells Creek will be zeroed out, reducing the number of HMAs from 177 to 175, and Adobe Town will be trimmed back, as illustrated in the map.

The scoping letter was placed in the project folder along with a press release.

Comments will be accepted through July 8.

Piute Mountain Roundup, Day 8

The incident started on May 31. Results through June 7:

Scope: Piute Mountain HA
Target: Burros
Type: Emergency
Method: Bait
Goals: Gather 50, remove 50
Captured: 20, up from 5 on Day 1
Shipped: 20, up from 5 on Day 1
Released: None
Deaths: None
Average daily take: 2.5
Unaccounted-for animals: None

The figures above are based on the daily reports, which do not include customary details for jacks, jennies and foals.

No activity was reported between May 31 and June 6.

The HA is not managed for wild burros but is subject to permitted grazing.

Forage liberated to date: 120 AUMs per year
Water liberated to date: 100 gallons per day

The roundup supports three tenets of rangeland management.

BLM Rep Channels Mark Twain in KNPR Interview

There are no voices for the horses in the 26-minute audio segment, only defeatists, pesticide pushers and ranching sympathizers.

There are, however, some tall tales you might find interesting, starting at 7:44.

Everybody should read the WHB Act (8:42). Even though it no longer affords the protections sought by Velma. Like the 2019 “Path Forward,” it’s a plan for ranching superiority in the lawful homes of wild horses.

You can’t compare livestock to horses, it not apples-to-apples (9:30). This is nonsense, an attempt to divert attention from the real problem. They are head-to-head competitors for the same resources.

There are 38,000 wild horses and burros on BLM lands in Nevada (10:20). The agency authorizes livestock equivalent to 173,144 wild horses in its allotments.

There are 3,000 to 6,000 wild horses on the Virginia Range (10:32). Why not shoot for the moon? Call it 3,000 to 30,000, with a stocking rate of up to 100 animals per thousand acres.

If a spring produces five gallons of water per hour that’s 24 gallons per day, enough to support 24 horses (12:07). This suggests they’re being taken off the range is not because of drought but because of innumeracy.

The Maverick-Medicine HMA hasn’t been grazed since the 1980s but they still have an allotment in that area with 300,000 AUMs (14:01). The National Data Viewer shows most of the acreage comes from seven allotments. Odgers, representing about 8% of the HMA, is the only one with no active AUMs. The others offer 13,336 AUMs per year, according to the Allotment Master Report.

The conflict between wild horses and livestock can be alleviated by restoring the WHB Act to its original form and giving them principal use of their land, but that never seems to enter the discussion, even when the advocates are involved.

Foal-Free Friday, Race to the Bottom Edition

The advocates, led by the Campaign Against America’s Wild Horses, are trying to prove that the Montana Solution is a viable alternative to motorized removal.

Behind the effort is a belief that there are too many wild horses on public lands in the Western U.S., that the bureaucrats are correct, and that the animals need to be removed from their lawful homes (in favor of privately owned livestock).

This view is held almost universally across their cohort.

We Want the Ranchers to Win 04-04-24

As stated previously, the AML of the wild horse and burro program would have to be increased from roughly 27,000 to nearly 189,000 to match the resource loading of the grazing program.

The land can support many more animals than the government admits, enough to empty all of the off-range corrals and long-term pastures several times over.

But the advocates are undeterred.

They continue to pummel the Salt River and Virginia Range mares with ovary-killing pesticides in the hope that the bureaucrats and ranchers will see the world their way.

Then they can spread the poison to other areas, at a complete loss of whatever credibility and legitimacy remain, along with the herds themselves.

CAAWH Membership Card Exposed 01-01-24

They are phonies, leaders of the blind, unworthy of your financial support.

When Will Virginia Range Advocates Hit Ten Thousand?

Yesterday’s report put the total at 9,332 doses of PZP given to 2,030 mares since 2019, consisting of 2,517 primers and 6,815 boosters.

The field workers apply about five doses per day, rain or shine, so the goal should be reached in (10,000 – 9,332) ÷ 5 = 134 days, or about 4.5 months.

The October report should be the winner.

The mares will have received five doses apiece, enough to send the herd into irreversible decline like Assateague Island.

This is how the advocates save wild horses.

Pesticide Pushers 07-17-23

Salt River Ringleader Lectures Floaters About Family Bands

What a fraud! There are no families because there are no foals, thanks to her and her and her band of merrymen.

The Salt River Wild Horse Darting Group is an affiliate of the Campaign Against America’s Wild Horses, a leader in nonmotorized removal.

Virginia Range Darting Update for May 2024

The Campaign Against America’s Wild Horses, a leader in nonmotorized removal, reported today that 189 mares received 192 doses of PZP during the month, 41 given as a primer and 151 as a booster.

Over the life of the program, which began in 2019, the advocates have pumped 9,332 doses of the pesticide into 2,030 mares, for an average of 4.6 doses per mare.

Since the beginning of the year, 119 foals have been born and 16 died.

The current population is thought to be 3,502, with 310 horses listed as missing, compared to 3,519 with 370 listed as missing in April.

The population was 3,480 with 353 horses listed as missing in March and 3,444 with 338 listed as missing in February.

The agreement with NDA was extended for a sixth year effective May 1 but it has not been posted to the darting resources page.

The goal for June is to shrink the herd by maximizing booster treatments to prevent pregnancies (and praying for the older horses to die).

Protecting Them From Removal 12-03-23

Not discussed:

Long-term population goal
Number of viable mares
Size of breeding population
Loss of genetic diversity
Changes in death rate and sex ratio
Unlawful use of pesticides

PZP tricks the immune system into destroying the ovaries.

After five years of treatment, the birth rate will no longer be able to keep up with the death rate and the herd will slide into irreversible decline.

The report will be submitted to the Nevada Department of Agriculture.

Adjectives for Pests 12-01-23