Month: June 2024

Caliente Roundup, Day 50

The incident started on April 16.  Results through June 4:

  • Scope: Caliente Complex
  • Target: Horses
  • Type: Planned
  • Method: Bait
  • Goals: Gather 350, remove 350
  • Captured: 282, up from 252 on Day 43
  • Shipped: 270, up from 207 on Day 43
  • Released: None
  • Deaths: 9, no change from Day 43
  • Average daily take: 5.6
  • Unaccounted-for animals: 3

The figures above are based on the daily reports.

No activity was reported on Days 45, 46 and 49.

The death rate is 3.2%.

The capture total includes 118 stallions, 118 mares and 46 foals.

Youngsters represented 16.3% of the animals gathered, consistent with a herd growth rate of eleven percent per year.

Of the adults, 50% were male and 50% 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: 3,384 AUMs per year
  • Water: 2,820 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 43.

Caliente Complex with Allotments 03-28-24

Currituck Advocates Send New Filly to Beach in the Sky

The darting program may be on hold but that didn’t stop them from snuffing out new life.

She was rejected by her mom and found with another mare according to a report dated June 4 by The Virginian-Pilot.

The story did not indicate if the incident was related to the use of PZP to control birth rates and breeding patterns.

The herd of roughly 100 has produced eight foals this year, indicating a small breeding population, large number of nonviable mares and loss of genetic diversity.

Piute Mountain Emergency Roundup in Progress

The BLM announced today that bait trapping began on May 31.

Operations are not open to public observation.

The capture and removal goals were not given.

Animals identified for removal will be taken to the Ridgecrest off-range corrals.

The gather page indicates five burros captured to date.

The HA lies within the Lazy Daisy Allotment on the south side of I-40 east of Barstow, CA but before the Nevada state line.

The AML is zero.

The National Data Viewer and RAS are down.  The Western Watersheds map shows the arrangement.

UPDATE: Lazy Daisy offers 3,192 active AUMs on 284,533 public acres according to the Allotment Master Report.

Piute Mountain HA 06-04-24

Group Calls for Cancellation of North Lander Roundup

Equine Collaborative International issued two news released on EIN (June 3 | June 4) suggesting the incident is not warranted and that it be called off until fully investigated by an impartial agency.

The history and credibility of the group are unknown.

The National Data Viewer shows habitat loss and nearby towns.  Click on image to open in new tab.  Allotments omitted for clarity.

The roundup, which supports three tenets of rangeland management, begins on July 1 according to the latest schedule.

RELATED: How Many Wild Horses Can the North Lander Complex Support?

North Lander Complex 06-04-24

If Wild Horses Had Principal Use of Buzzard and Bar Eleven

The two allotments, located north of Rawlins, WY and east of the Green Mountain HMA, offer 22,832 active AUMs on 103,511 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 22,832 ÷ 12 = 1,903, 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 1,903 ÷ 103,511 × 1,000 = 18.4 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 ratify the narrative with their darting programs.

If the allotments were an HMA, the AML would be 103, and 1,903 – 103 = 1,800 horses would be consigned to off-range holding because of permitted grazing.

Curiously, the LDS Church holds all of the active AUMs on Bar Eleven.

BLM allotments in the state carry livestock equivalent to 158,425 wild horses on 17,312,214 public acres, or 9.2 wild horses per thousand public acres.

RELATED: The Allotments Tell the Story: They’re Lying, All of Them.

Buzzard and Bar Eleven Allotments 06-04-24

TIME Looks at Wild Horse Politics

The BLM has been captured by the cattlemen according to the June 3 report.

They look at the horses as pests, something to get rid of, and something that infringes on the ranchers.

So do the advocates and their political allies, not mentioned in the article.

They want to get rid of them with PZP, a restricted-use pesticide that tricks the immune system into destroying the ovaries.

Better Way 10-25-23

“Despite the mythologies of the West, herd management is done more by aircraft than lasso these days.  And it’s often handled by the same companies intent on making room for their own cattle to roam, a twisted insiders’ game that lets the giant mega-ranchers cash in not just on flying the helicopters that clear the area, but then again with pennies-on-the-dollar deals to allow private cattle and sheep to graze on public lands.”

“The money behind it seems like a loop between bureaucrats, ranchers, and their helicopter pilots in a closed system that nefariously protects cattle and sheep at the expense of horses.”

Nobody wants to pick a fight with the ranchers, especially in an election year.

They have strong sympathy among voters, which should be easy to change.

Public-lands ranching is government dependency and redistribution of wealth, hallmarks of socialism, which most Americans reject.

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

RELATED: How Much Private Land Do the Public-Lands Ranchers Control?

PSA 12-07-19

NDA Extends Virginia Range Mass Sterilization Program

The Animal Industry Report for the June 4 BOA meeting indicates on page two that the agency entered into a sixth-year non-exclusive cooperative agreement running from May 1, 2024 through April 30, 2025.

The Campaign Against America’s Wild Horses operates the search-and-destroy mission on their behalf.

Protect Wild Horses from Advocates 08-29-21

With a dwindling breeding population and growing number of nonviable mares, the tipping point is now within reach, where a decreasing birth rate cannot keep up with an increasing death rate, and the herd slides into irreversible decline like Assateague Island.

This is what the advocates bring to the table, a strategy that appeals only to hunters, ranchers, bureaucrats and their lunatic followers.

RELATED: Virginia Range Darting Program Now in Its Sixth Year?

Socialist Media Update for May 2024

Traffic from Facebook and Twitter accounted for 5.0% of the total during the month, down considerably from the same period two years ago.

Did you know the stocking rate of the grazing program is seven times higher than that of the wild horse and burro program?

To put the wild horse and burro program on par with the grazing program, you’d have to increase the AML from approximately 27,000 to nearly 189,000.

You didn’t hear that from the advocates.

Western Horse Watchers brings you the truth about wild horses, resource management and the Love Triangle on America’s public lands.

RELATED: Socialist Media Update for April 2024.

Traffic from Socialist Media May 2024 06-01-24