Advocates Take Left-Wing Lunacy to New Heights

There’s a special class of stupidity in the electorate and it’s occupied by the wild horse advocates.

Consider this Google search result for the Salt River Wild Horse Darting Group:

SRWHMG Importance of Family 11-30-24

If you’re a normal person, family is synonymous with husband, wife and their children.

Not so for liberals. Family corresponds to just about any arrangement, such as two filthy sodomites and their dogs or couples who are aborting/contracepting/sterilizing themselves out of existence.

The advocates project this twisted view onto wild horses.

Humane management is a euphemism for snuffing out new life with ovary-killing pesticides.

Thus, there are no families, only animals that have banded together in a last-ditch effort to survive.

Horses die, and with few if any new foals hitting the ground, the herd will vanish.

Only a lunatic would equate mass sterilization with protection and preservation.

Keep this in mind on December 3.

Triple B Roundup, Day 27

The incident started on November 2. Results through November 28:

Scope: Triple B Complex
Target: Wild horses
AML: 889
Pre-gather population: 3,335
True AML: 4,551
Type: Planned
Method: Helicopter
Category: Cruel and costly (according to advocates)
Better way: Sterilize mares with PZP (according to advocates)
Capture goal: 2,255
Removal goal: 2,155
Captured: 1,953, up from 1,829 on Day 25
Shipped: 1,754, no change from Day 25
Released: 20, no change from Day 25
Deaths: 23, no change from Day 25
Average daily take: 72.3
Unaccounted-for animals: 156
Snippet from statute: It is the policy of Congress that wild free-roaming horses and burros shall be protected from capture, branding, harassment, or death
Snippet from manual: To protect wild horses and burros from unauthorized capture, branding, harassment or death

The figures above are based on the daily reports.

The sidebar says 1,757 shipped. If that figure was used, there would be 153 unaccounted-for horses.

The death rate is 1.2%.

The capture total includes 726 stallions, 773 mares and 454 foals.

Youngsters represented 23.2% of the animals gathered, consistent with a herd growth rate of 18% per year.

Of the adults, 48.4% were male and 51.6% were female, no indication of an abnormal sex ratio.

Body condition scores were not given.

The location of the trap site was not disclosed.

The name of the contractor was not provided.

Three HMAs are affected.

Twelve mares have been treated with GonaCon Equine. The plan calls for up to 50 to receive the pesticide and be returned to the range with up to 50 stallions.

The roundup supports three tenets of rangeland management.

Resources liberated to date:

Forage: 23,196 AUMs per year
Water: 19,330 gallons per day

The Complex supports livestock equivalent to 3,730 wild horses, so it’s always at 4.2X AML or more.

RELATED: Triple B Roundup, Day 25.

Foal-Free Friday, Raising Them Right Edition

Parents, if you have a horse-crazy kid, keep a close eye on her to make sure she’s not being groomed by the advocates to become one of their supporters—or worse, one of their ambassadors or field workers.

This includes strict control of her mobile phone or other device, blocking access to socialist media, where she’ll be indoctrinated into their twisted way of thinking.

Use PZP 11-21-24

If you have a friend or family member who has been assimilated into their cult, or nearly so, the only way out may be an extended stay at a Betty Ford clinic or similar institution, where she can be deprogrammed, cured of her obsession with pesticides and educated in intellectual honesty. Immediate intervention required.

Students Learn About Darting 10-26-22

New Fence to Isolate Washoe Lake from Virginia Range?

The fence on the west side, seen in this video, appears to be in good condition.

The Virginia Range is in the background.

Repairs and new construction may occur on the other side of the lake, separating the valley from the hills and putting an end to scenes like this.

The loudest protests will come from those who are sterilizing the mares with pesticide-laced darts, the results of which are evident in the film.

They want you to think they’re the good guys. Keep that in mind on December 3.

Triple B Roundup, Day 25

The incident started on November 2. Results through November 26:

Scope: Triple B Complex
Target: Wild horses
AML: 889
Pre-gather population: 3,335
True AML: 4,551
Type: Planned
Method: Helicopter
Category: Cruel and costly (according to advocates)
Better way: Sterilize mares with PZP (according to advocates)
Capture goal: 2,255
Removal goal: 2,155
Captured: 1,829, up from 1,785 on Day 23
Shipped: 1,754, up from 1,586 on Day 23
Released: 20, no change from Day 23
Deaths: 23, up from 18 on Day 23
Average daily take: 73.2
Unaccounted-for animals: 32
Snippet from statute: It is the policy of Congress that wild free-roaming horses and burros shall be protected from capture, branding, harassment, or death
Snippet from manual: To protect wild horses and burros from unauthorized capture, branding, harassment or death

The figures above are based on the daily reports.

Helicopters did not fly on Day 25 due to bad weather.

The sidebar says 1,757 shipped.

Four mares were dispatched on Day 24 due to poor body condition. Another mare died on Day 25 after breaking her neck, lifting the death rate to 1.3%.

The capture total includes 695 stallions, 718 mares and 416 foals.

Youngsters represented 22.7% of the animals gathered, consistent with a herd growth rate of 17% per year.

Of the adults, 49.2% were male and 50.8% were female, no indication of an abnormal sex ratio.

Body condition scores were not given.

The location of the trap site was not disclosed.

The name of the contractor was not provided.

Three HMAs are affected.

Twelve mares have been treated with GonaCon Equine. The plan calls for up to 50 to receive the pesticide and be returned to the range with up to 50 stallions.

The roundup supports three tenets of rangeland management.

Resources liberated to date:

Forage: 21,708 AUMs per year
Water: 18,090 gallons per day

The Complex supports livestock equivalent to 3,730 wild horses, so it’s always at 4.2X AML or more.

RELATED: Triple B Roundup, Day 23.

NDA Schedules Fourth Quarter Board of Agriculture Meeting

The meeting will be held in Las Vegas on December 6.

It will be livestreamed on Zoom according to the notice and video conferences will be available in Sparks and Elko.

The Washoe Lake fencing project was not called out as a line item in the agenda but will probably be included in the Animal Industry discussion.

As of today, no reports have been posted to the meeting page.

Wild Horse Effect on Rangelands Confounded with Livestock

Consider five HMAs in Wyoming covered by a 2021 EA for management actions therein:

Rock Springs AML Calcs 07-07-24

If all of the horses were removed from Adobe Town, livestock equivalent to 2,688 wild horses would remain, putting the HMA at 3.4X AML. Not good for wildlife.

If all of the horses were removed from Great Divide Basin, livestock equivalent to 2,993 wild horses would remain, putting the HMA at 5.0X AML. Bad for rangeland health.

If Salt Wells Creek was depopulated of horses, livestock equivalent to 4,963 wild horses would remain, putting the HMA at 13.6X AML. A disaster by any standard.

If White Mountain was relieved of equines, livestock equivalent to 1,589 would remain, putting the HMA at 5.3X AML. Unacceptable.

If Little Colorado was subject to a 100% roundup, livestock equivalent to 3,750 wild horses would remain, putting the HMA at 37.5X AML. Immediate action required.

Curiously, nobody’s complaining. The horses are gone and that’s all that matters.

Devil’s Garden Roundup, Day 28

The incident started on October 28. Results through November 24:

Location: Devil’s Garden Plateau WHT
AML: 402
Pre-gather population: Between 651 and 998
Target: Horses
Type: Planned
Method: Helicopter and bait
Goals: Capture 500, remove 500
Category: Cruel and costly (according to advocates)
Better way: Sterilize mares with PZP (according to advocates)
Captured: 301, up from 128 on Day 10
Shipped: Unknown
Released: Unknown
Deaths: 3
Average daily take: 10.8
Unaccounted-for animals: Unknown

The Forest Service added daily reports to the gather page starting on November 1 but results for October 28 – 31 are missing.

The death rate is 1%.

The capture total since November 1 includes 80 stallions, 99 mares and 40 foals, for a total of 219.

That means 82 horses were taken during the first four days which is hard to believe for an operation that’s been averaging ten per day.

The location of the trap site was not disclosed.

More information may be available on socialist media.

Body conditions scores have been averaging 4 to 5, an indication that the horses are not starving and the herd has not exceeded the ability of the land to sustain it.

The roundup will achieve a thriving ecological balance and multiple-use relationship on public lands, codewords for ranching superiority in the lawful home of wild horses.

Thriving Ecological Balance-3

BLM, Forest Service Fill Three WHBAB Vacancies

Two members are returning from previous terms and one person is new according to a BLM news release.

All three are anti-horse.

The announcement said the Board consists of nine individuals representing a diverse range of stakeholders and interests, and that have been true in the past, but today it’s dominated by ranching interests and chaired by a pesticide pusher.

AML-1

Sage Grouse Study Implicates Wild Horses?

You have to trust BLM data to support it, according to a November 25 report by Wyoming Public Media.

Livestock were factored in, just not directly.

When horse numbers get too high, they impact sage grouse.

If that’s true, the flocks should have been wiped out 100 years ago when there were two million wild horses roaming freely on western rangelands, a bit more than the 27,000 currently allowed by plan.

The analyst used GPS to monitor 1,000 sage grouse in central and southern Wyoming.

How exactly did he do that and what was the effect on the birds? Horses tracked by GPS wear collars or tail tags.

When is a herd at 3X AML a threat to rangeland health? When it’s accompanied by livestock equivalent to 4X AML, typical in areas identified for wild horses. Forage supply can’t keep up with demand.

If you remove the livestock, 3X AML is not a problem.

Who commissioned the study?

Who paid for it?

The ranchers and their allies are always looking for ways to bludgeon wild horses and prop up their failed industry.

Next WHBAB Meeting Set for Early January

An unpublished announcement will appear in the Federal Register tomorrow.

The meeting runs from January 7 to 9 in Sacramento.

Days 1 and 2 include a public comment session.

The third day is devoted to a tour of the Rio Cosumnes Correctional Center.

The meeting is open to the public and will be livestreamed.

The agenda does not include a session on the unlawful use of pesticides, a growing problem in areas identified for wild horses.

The Wild Horse and Burro Advisory Board supports three tenets of rangeland management.

UPDATE: The announcement has been published.

Triple B Roundup, Day 23

The incident started on November 2. Results through November 24:

Scope: Triple B Complex
Target: Wild horses
AML: 889
Pre-gather population: 3,335
True AML: 4,551
Type: Planned
Method: Helicopter
Category: Cruel and costly (according to advocates)
Better way: Sterilize mares with PZP (according to advocates)
Capture goal: 2,255
Removal goal: 2,155
Captured: 1,785, up from 1,679 on Day 21
Shipped: 1,586, up from 1,459 on Day 21
Released: 20, no change from Day 21
Deaths: 18, up from 17 on Day 21
Average daily take: 77.6
Unaccounted-for animals: 161
Snippet from statute: It is the policy of Congress that wild free-roaming horses and burros shall be protected from capture, branding, harassment, or death
Snippet from manual: To protect wild horses and burros from unauthorized capture, branding, harassment or death

The figures above are based on the daily reports.

The sidebar says 1,589 shipped.

A mare was put down on Day 23 for poor body condition.

The death rate is 1.0%.

The capture total includes 680 stallions, 700 mares and 405 foals.

Youngsters represented 22.7% of the animals gathered, consistent with a herd growth rate of 17% per year.

Of the adults, 49.3% were male and 50.7% were female, no indication of an abnormal sex ratio.

Body condition scores were not given.

The location of the trap site was not disclosed.

The name of the contractor was not provided.

Three HMAs are affected.

Twelve mares have been treated with GonaCon Equine. The plan calls for up to 50 to receive the pesticide and be returned to the range with up to 50 stallions.

The roundup supports three tenets of rangeland management.

Resources liberated to date:

Forage: 21,180 AUMs per year
Water: 17,650 gallons per day

RELATED: Triple B Roundup, Day 21.

Mustang Monday

In Mingo County, WV with River Fishing with Frank.

Why Separate the Virginia Range Mustangs from Washoe Lake?

Because the herd defies the carrying capacity narrative.

You can’t be telling the American people that public lands in the western U.S. can only support one wild horse per thousand acres (27,000 animals on 27 million acres) when the Virginia Range is carrying ten.

Advocates with the Campaign Against America’s Wild Horses are trying to erase the outlier with the approval of the Nevada Department of Agriculture—the same agency pushing for the fences.

If areas identified for wild horses were managed principally for them, as specified in the original statute, there’d be no reason to cram 70,000 wild animals into government feedlots at taxpayer expense.

BLM allotments in ten western states support livestock equivalent to seven wild horses per thousand acres, another indication that the bureaucrats, ranchers and advocates aren’t telling you the truth.

Messrs. Burgum, Musk and Ramaswamy, are you listening?

Working Together for a Horse-Free Future 12-21-22

BLM Not Following GonaCon Treatment Plan at Buffalo Hills

The gather page indicates that boosters will be given after 30 days.

Buffalo Hills Treatment Plan 11-24-24

This corresponds to neither of the options in the response to comments of the DNA.

GonaCon Comment Buffalo Hills DNA 11-08-24

As of today, the EPA has not published an update to the pesticide label, so the 90-day interval holds.

UPDATE: The BLM news release reiterates the 30-day interval.

Buffalo Hills Treatment Interval 11-25-24

Buffalo Hills Roundup Ends Early

The incident concluded today with 138 horses captured, 32 shipped, 50 released and four dead.

Thirty-three burros were caught and shipped.

There were 52 unaccounted-for horses.

The capture goals were 235 horses and 33 burros.

Fifty-seven mares were treated GonaCon Equine and five were released.

The sidebar indicates that the remainder, representing the unaccounted-for animals, will receive a booster after 30 days, making the HMA another GonaCon crime scene.

The minimum interval is 90 days according to the pesticide label.

The death rate was 2.9%.

Youngsters represented 12.3% of the horses captured.

Of the adults, 43.8% were male and 56.2% were female.

The roundup liberated 1,254 AUMs per year and 1,045 gallons of water per day but these numbers will go down when the treated mares are released.

UPDATE: The BLM news release reiterates the 30-day interval.

Trump Nominates Rollins for Department of Agriculture

She currently serves as the president and CEO of America First Policy Institute according to a story posted today by The Hill.

The article did not indicate if she believes that farmers and ranchers should be self-reliant as our forefathers intended, not sucking on the government teat.

Washoe Lake Fencing Not a New Idea?

The Animal Industry Report for the third quarter Board of Agriculture meeting indicates on page three, under Livestock Identification, that

NDA has entered into a contract with a vendor for reconstruction of BLM fences and construction of new fences pending the completion of the NEPA study, in the Virginia Range Area
All funding is sourced from the NDA Feral Horse Management Project
John Axtell has taken over as project manager

Axtell’s predecessor may have been Jim Wheeler, who was hired for a 15-month term on a USDA grant.

Wheeler noted last year that many wild horses have moved into Washoe Lake State Park, in part because the state hasn’t maintained the fencing.

As for the third quarter meeting, it was cancelled.

A fourth quarter meeting has not been scheduled.

Triple B Roundup, Day 21

The incident started on November 2. Results through November 22:

Scope: Triple B Complex
Target: Wild horses
AML: 889
Pre-gather population: 3,335
True AML: 4,551
Type: Planned
Method: Helicopter
Category: Cruel and costly (according to advocates)
Better way: Sterilize mares with PZP (according to advocates)
Capture goal: 2,255
Removal goal: 2,155
Captured: 1,679, up from 1,431 on Day 19
Shipped: 1,459, up from 1,324 on Day 19
Released: 20, no change from Day 19
Deaths: 17, up from 15 on Day 19
Average daily take: 80.0
Unaccounted-for animals: 183
Snippet from statute: It is the policy of Congress that wild free-roaming horses and burros shall be protected from capture, branding, harassment, or death
Snippet from manual: To protect wild horses and burros from unauthorized capture, branding, harassment or death

The figures above are based on the daily reports.

The sidebar says 1,462 shipped.

A stallion was put down on Day 21 for a wry nose and a foal died during transportation.

The death rate is 1.0%.

The capture total includes 646 stallions, 652 mares and 381 foals.

Youngsters represented 22.7% of the animals gathered, consistent with a herd growth rate of 17% per year.

Of the adults, 49.8% were male and 50.2% were female, no indication of an abnormal sex ratio.

Body condition scores were not given.

The location of the trap site was not disclosed.

The name of the contractor was not provided.

Three HMAs are affected.

Twelve mares have been treated with GonaCon Equine. The plan calls for up to 50 to receive the pesticide and be returned to the range with up to 50 stallions.

The roundup supports three tenets of rangeland management.

Resources liberated to date: