How Many Wild Horses Can the Triple B Complex Support?

Table 12 in the Antelope-Triple B Management Evaluation identifies the allotments that overlap the Complex.

The Allotment Master Report at RAS gives management status, public acres and active AUMs by field office (Bristlecone | Wells).

Triple B Allotment Calcs 10-23-24

Approximately 90% of the allotment acreage is in the Improve category.

The allotments, which include territory outside the Complex, support livestock equivalent to 6,533 wild horses.

The forage assigned to livestock inside the Complex is estimated to be 44,758 AUMs per year, assuming it’s evenly distributed across the allotments.

That resource would support 3,730 wild horses, on top of the 821 allowed by plan, for a True AML of 4,551.

The pre-gather population is well within this range.

The BLM spends around $6.8 million per year to care for 3,730 wild horses in off-range holding so it can collect about $60,000 per year from the Triple B permittees.

Nobody in the private sector would do that.

BLM allotments in Nevada support livestock equivalent to 173,144 wild horses on 40,194,360 public acres.

RELATED: Triple B Roundup Announced.

Large-Scale Roundups Good for Wildlife?

The Wind River roundup took about 7,600 wild horses off the reservation in 2023 and 2024.

Their disposition, not discussed in a report by WyoFile, is unknown. The writer said they were “trucked away.” Probably to Mexico or Canada.

An aerial survey in late 2022 found 5,500 animals on one million acres.

A biologist with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service put the estimate at 9,000 or more, for a stocking rate of nine wild horses per thousand acres.

That is what they were trying to eradicate: An outlier that defied the carrying capacity narrative, namely, that western rangelands can only support one wild horse per thousand acres (27,000 animals on 27 million acres).

The Virginia Range in Nevada, another counterexample, had a stocking rate of at least ten wild horses per thousand acres before the advocates got involved.

The Campaign Against America’s Wild Horses, a leader in mass sterilization and staunch opponent of principal use, was tasked with erasing that evidence.

The author did not indicate who paid for the roundup and if the decision to get rid of the horses had been influenced by outside interests such as hunting and ranching.

TRNP Filly Put Down for Small Cut on Front Leg?

So says a report by KFYR News.

She was cleared to return to the park (after the roundup) but her condition got worse according to park officials.

Triple B Roundup Announced

The incident will begin on or about November 1 according to a BLM news release.

The capture and removal goals are 2,255 and 2,155, respectively.

The pre-gather population is thought to be 3,319.

The number of horses allowed by plan is 821.

The Complex includes the Maverick-Medicine HMA, Triple B HMA and a portion of the Antelope Valley HMA west of Highway 93.

A helicopter will push the horses into the trap and operations will be open to public observation.

Animals identified for removal will be taken to the off-range corrals at Palomino Valley and Indian Lakes in Fallon.

Up to 50 mares will be treated with GonaCon Equine, a fertility control pesticide, and returned with 50 stallions to the range.

The Complex is subject to permitted grazing.

Allotments are now indicated with brown borders in the National Data Viewer.

Those Who Boast About Wild Horse Conservation Are Phonies!

The advocates know that long-term use of PZP leads to sterility and if no new foals are hitting the ground the herds will vanish.

The ranchers couldn’t have asked for a better ally.

RTF Conservation 10-21-24

CAAWH Conservation 10-21-24

Beware of the wild horse advocates.

File Under: Charlatans.

Mustang Monday

In the Salt River with SmilinWithTheWorld.

More Headlines We’d Like to See on Drudge

Would that it were.

Unlawful Use of Pesticides 10-20-24

Park Service Microchips TRNP Wild Horses

The original plan was to use tracking collars according to a story by KFYR News, but the devices do not provide locations, they only identify animals.

The report did not indicate if the action was covered by an environmental assessment or other method by which public input was solicited and reviewed.

Headlines We’d Like to See on Drudge Report

Res ipsa loquitur.

Wheels Coming Off 10-19-24

Little Book Cliffs Mare Dies in Temporary Holding

She was one of two mares held for fertility treatment before being returned to the HMA.

A report by The Grand Junction Daily Sentinel said she spooked and hit her head on a pipe panel during feeding.

She received an initial dose of GonaCon Equine and the contractors were following the CAWP according to the story.

A second dose was to be given after 30 days, which would violate the 90-day interval of the 2017 labeling amendment.

The other mare was treated with PZP and returned to the range.

The BLM has not updated the figures at the gather page, which should indicate 140 horses captured, 98 shipped, 38 released and four dead, for a net removal of 102.

Foal-Free Friday, Miracles and Wonders Edition

The real estate agent, PZP evangelist and disciple of the Campaign Against America’s Wild Horses is back with the good news of nonmotorized removal in the October issue of Horse Tales. Go to “Wild Horse Tales” on page 7.

“All we see with PZP is mares who do not get in foal.”

It’s a miracle drug—for those who are willfully blind.

She and her fellow travelers don’t see the abnormal sex ratios.

They don’t see the onset of sterility.

They don’t see the injuries and injection site reactions.

VR Darting Injury 09-15-21

They’re blind to the tiny breeding populations and loss of genetic diversity.

And they damn sure don’t see the government-sanctioned livestock occupying the lawful homes of wild horses.

You cannot give sight to these people.

Blind Leading the Blind 10-17-24

They are phonies, allies of the bureaucrats and ranchers, and don’t deserve a penny of your financial support.

Advocates Monitor Currituck Stallion, Kill Currituck Mare

Both had been slowing down and in declining body condition for the last several months according to an October 16 story by The Outer Banks Voice.

Can you imagine if the advocates were allowed to euthanize wild horses on public lands in the American west?

The herds would disappear faster than you can dial 9-1-1.

Advocates Love Wild Horses 09-12-24

Little Book Cliffs Roundup Over

Figures for September 19 have been added to the gather page.

The previous update said it was complete with 59 unaccounted-for animals.

The final tally indicated 140 horses captured, 98 shipped, 37 released and three dead, with two unaccounted for.

The capture and removal goals were 140 and 120 respectively.

The death rate was 2.1%.

The average daily take was 15.6.

The capture total included 37 stallions, 82 mares and 21 foals.

Youngsters represented 15% of the animals gathered, consistent with a herd growth rate of 10% per year.

Of the adults, 31.1% were male and 68.9% were female, outside the expected range of variation from a random process centered at 50% males / 50% females.

Abnormal sex ratios are common in herds treated with Zonastat-H.

Two horses remain in holding for fertility treatments, to be returned to the HMA at an unspecified date.

Antelope-Triple B HMAP Proves Advocates Are Ill-Informed About Wild Horses

Go back and read the recommendations published in September by Save Our Wild Horses, an affiliate of Wild Horse Education.

Item 1: Initiate HMAPs promptly, with at least two started per district by year-end, as mandated by 43 CFR 4710.1 with a deadline of 1-year for completion. Enforce strict adherence to HMAP requirements to maintain ethical, humane, and legal standards in wild horse management practices.

For the Antelope and Triple B Complexes, this means

Forcible removal from their lawful homes
Application of fertility control pesticides
Adjustment of sex ratios in favor of males
Castration of stallions
Acceptance of forage allocations

Speaking about their conference in Reno and the ideas flowing therefrom, the president and founder of Wild Horse Education said in a news release “We were also able to dispel the long standing myth that advocates are ill-educated on the subject and, hopefully, our words will be taken into thoughtful consideration.”

You betcha.

Even the casual observer now realizes that they want the ranchers to win.

Sand Wash Roundup Ends Early

The incident concluded today with ten horses captured, ten shipped, none released and no deaths.

The capture and removal goals were 60 and 45 according to the latest schedule.

There were no unaccounted-for animals.

The capture total included three stallions, six mares and one foal.

The operation liberated 120 AUMs per year, a disappointment to the permittees.

Scoping Begins for Antelope-Triple B HMAP

Comments, due by November 14, can be mailed to the Bristlecone Field Office or emailed to the address in today’s news release.

A management evaluation report has been copied to the project folder in ePlanning.

The new plan will support the BLM’s mission to manage healthy wild horses on healthy public lands.

The HMAP would sanction the use of population growth suppression (fertility control pesticides), castration of stallions and sex ratio skewing according to a statement on page 23 of the report (24 in the pdf).

Gather operations would utilize helicopters and bait trapping were feasible.

A remark on page 19 tells you what the HMAP won’t do: “Livestock grazing is administered through the regulations at 43 C.F.R. Part 4100 and must be consistent with multiple use allocations set forth in RMPs. Changes to livestock grazing cannot be made with a wild horse management decision.”

This project is a wild horse management decision.

Advocates Aren’t Political?

If you’re a normal American, yesterday was Columbus Day.

If you’re a liberal, it was Indigenous Peoples Day.

The Campaign Against America’s Wild Horses has bought into the propaganda and no better place to show it than on socialist media.

Columbus Day at CAAWH 10-15-24

Is Suzanne Roy, executive director of the nonprofit and staunch opponent of principal use, management at the minimum feasible level and nature’s way, ashamed to be white?

Better Way 10-25-23

Is she an apologist for white European migration and the good it wrought?

Why not go all Rachel Dolezal and comport yourself as a person of color, not necessarily female?

Better yet, start another nonprofit that actually serves a charitable purpose and leaves wild horses alone.

Pesticide Pushers 07-17-23

TRNP Wild Horse Roundup in Progress

Roughly half of the herd has been captured according to a story by INFORUM.

The incident is not open to public observation.

The news release said updates would be posted on the park’s socialist media accounts.

They Should Fear the Executions, Not the Roundups

Here are some of the headlines on Drudge. The link about roundups pointed to a story on Mediaite.

Headlines on Drudge 10-14-24

There may be a few acute injuries and deaths as the traitors are taken into custody but nobody will be dispatched for pre-existing conditions, such as being America-hating liberals who supported our enemies and tried to destroy everything that’s right and good in this country. We have a justice system for that.

Twin Peaks Roundup Day 7 10-07-24