So says the writer of an August 14 letter to The Salt Lake Tribune.
More horses have been seen near the dried-up pond because they don’t have the strength to make it to the next water source.
To her credit, she did not call for greater use of pesticides to solve the problem, as most advocates do, some of whom landed 24 Virginia Range mustangs in the Carson City prison last week in their failed attempt to rescue them from a construction site.
We still don’t know if the pond was on public or private land, if it was dug by livestock operators, and how it is filled.
Western Horse Watchers Association 
I’ve been following this herd for two decades. It’s a pond on public land in the Muddy Creek HMA. I’ve witnessed the rancher siphoning water from it in the past and trucking it down the road to his cows. The horses rely on this water to get them through the summer. This isn’t the first time there has been a water crisis there. A couple years ago, advocates hauled water anyway and BLM took their water tanks and took them to court. And while gates are supposed to be opened when the cattle leave (or someone closes them) in the late spring, they never are. I found a stallion dead in the cattle guard and his entire band dead up the fence line because they were locked away from that pond. They’re an evil bunch. And they’re lying when they keep saying they’ve been going out there and there are no other horses in the area of the pond. We actually are boots on the ground and we can see with our own eyes what’s going on.