It’s the only commodity untouched by inflation, holding steady at $1.35 per AUM according to a BLM news release.
Hay would be selling for 27¢ per bale at this rate, not $30.
Month: January 2025
New HMAP for Jackson Mountains HMA?
A project has been opened in ePlanning but no documents have been uploaded.
The HMA overlaps several grazing allotments 75 miles northwest of Winnemucca, NV.
The National Data Viewer shows the arrangement.
Nine months ago, HMAPs were all the rage at the Save Our Wild Horses conference.
Today, not so much. A search of the home page for the Wild Horse Summit, now in progress, yielded zero results for HMAP.
Once the advocates know that you know, they switch to another brand of snake oil.
The HMA is known for a 5.9% death rate in the 2021 roundup.
RELATED: HMAPs Must Comply with RMPs.
Foal-Free Friday, Bringing Them Up on Charges Edition
The 12:30 PM session on Day 3 of the Wild Horse Summit deals with wild horses, federal agencies and violations of existing laws.
Western Horse Watchers does not know if the presentation will cover the unlawful use of PZP and GonaCon Equine by the agencies and NGOs.
PZP is usually applied to herds that are said to overpopulated, interfere with animal agriculture or pose safety hazards to motorists, none of which are approved uses of the pesticide.
Rules for PPE are often ignored, another example of failure to use the product as directed on the label.
Where two doses of GonaCon are applied, the mares usually receive them less than 90 days apart as specified on the label.
One person alleged at the January WHBAB meeting that the Forest Service was giving the pesticide to stallions.
These actions do not border on criminal, they are criminal.
The November 15 edition of Foal-Free Friday tells you how to report such incidents.
RELATED: Foal-Free Friday, Indulging Their Obsession Edition.
Why the Advocates Won’t Talk About Unlawful Use of Pesticides
Self-incrimination.
Wild Horse Summit Starts Today?
Western Horse Watchers has not been able to find a news release or agenda, only an occasional search result on socialist media.
The advocates have nothing to offer America’s wild horses.
They have been brought to their knees by the possibility of motorized removal, real or imagined.
UPDATE: Added video and link to conference.
Colorado Wild Horse Working Group Meets Next Week
The two-day event starts on February 6 according to an undated announcement by the Colorado Department of Agriculture.
No agenda was provided.
The legislature expects the group to recommend humane alternatives for wild horses taken off range in Colorado, the best of which is to place them back on public lands at the expense of privately owned livestock.
This can be accomplished through the acquisition of base properties tied to grazing allotments, then flipping the preference to horses.
RELATED: Colorado Wild Horse Working Group Releases Year One Report.
Wild Horse and Burro Awareness Week or Off-the-Range Week?
The festivities include a burro adoption blitz according to a BLM news release.
What we need is a Love Triangle Awareness Week, highlighting the coordinated effort to remove these animals from their lawful homes in favor of privately owned livestock.
The outreach component would focus on the treachery of the advocates, management practices that benefit the ranchers and alterations to the original statute that threaten the long-term viability of the herds.
Murderer’s Creek Roundup, Day 60
The incident started on November 29. Results through January 27:
- Scope: Murderer’s Creek HMA, WHT
- Target: Wild horses
- AML: 140
- Pre-gather population: 650
- True AML: TBD
- Type: Emergency
- Method: Bait
- Capture goal: 350 – 400
- Removal goal: 350 – 400
- Captured: 322, up from 285 on Day 53
- Shipped: 274, no change from Day 53
- Released: None
- Deaths: 5, no change from Day 53
- Average daily take: 5.4
- Unaccounted-for animals: 43
- 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 death rate is 1.6%.
The capture total includes 107 stallions, 134 mares and 81 foals. The gather page says 107/139/76.
Youngsters represented 25.2% of the animals gathered, consistent with a herd growth rate of 20% per year. The Rule of 72 says the herd size would double in 3.6 years.
Of the adults, 44.4% were male and 55.6% were female, no indication of an abnormal sex ratio in the population at large.
Body condition scores were not given.
The location of the trap site was not disclosed.
The name of the contractor was not provided.
There are no plans to treat any of the mares with fertility control pesticides and return them to the range.
No decisions have made regarding the long-term disposition of horses, which means they could be treated or altered in off range holding, including the stallions.
The status of livestock grazing in the burned area is not known.
RELATED: Murderer’s Creek Roundup, Day 53.
Mustang Monday
On Assateague Island with Assateague Memories.
The Nation’s Champion of Wild Horse Eradication
Do not be fooled by the Campaign Against America’s Wild Horses.
It is not a philanthropic organization.
It serves no charitable purpose.
It is a coven of pesticide pushers and ranching sympathizers whose mission is to sell mass sterilization as wild horse conservation.
If you don’t believe that, watch the videos from the January WHBAB meeting:
The search result above might be the result of payments to Google.
The arrangement could include censorship of dissenting voices, a necessary step when you’re trying to convince the American people that you have all the answers when in fact your methods are known for barren mares, abnormal sex ratios, faulty immune systems and irreversible decline.
RELATED: New Year, Same Lies.
Frank Kuntz Preparing to Pass the Nokota Torch?
He’d like to reunite them with native peoples according to this report by KX News and until that happens, his daughter will continue the mission.
Thought to be descendants of Sitting Bull’s ponies, they represent the original wild horses of Theodore Roosevelt National Park.
The horses you see today, the subject of much clamor, were put there by the Park Service as an exhibit.
RELATED: Frank Kuntz Running Out of Time to Care for Nokota Horses.
Foal-Free Friday, Indulging Their Obsession Edition
What advocate wouldn’t drool at the sight of a G2 X-Caliber darting rifle?
These weapons help ranchers prosper in the lawful homes of wild horses.
RELATED: Foal-Free Friday, Pesticides on Parade Edition.
Cecile “Clump of Cells” Richards Suffers Major Loss of Viability
Can you imagine standing for your particular judgment with her record?
She was as anti-life as the wild horse advocates.
Yet all things are possible with God.
Devil’s Garden Roundup Resumes
The gather page shows 17 horses trapped since January 18, bringing the total to 358.
Like the Advocates, WHBAB Wants the Ranchers to Win
Three out of four recommendations from the January meeting concern AMLs and fertility control.
Public comments on Day 1 may have influenced the outcome.
There are no voices for wild horses on the committee.
RELATED: Next WHBAB Meeting Set for Early January.
Buffalo Hills Update
The roundup concluded on November 23 with 138 horses captured, 32 shipped, 50 released and four dead.
Thirty-three burros were caught and shipped.
On the final day, 57 mares were treated with GonaCon Equine and five were released.
The gather page indicates that one of the mares in temporary holding died of colic on December 6, bringing the death count to five.
The page also indicates that the survivors were treated and released on December 23, which does not match the agency’s response to a public comment in the DNA.
Western Horse Watchers has been unable to find a registration update at the EPA web site, so the 30-day interval is probably not valid and the HMA has become the latest GonaCon crime scene.
RELATED: BLM Not Following GonaCon Treatment Plan at Buffalo Hills.
Who Will Benefit from Beaty Butte Water Improvements?
Wild horses and livestock congregate at Lick Spring in the Beaty Butte Allotment, resulting in compacted soil and reduced native vegetation.
The BLM developed a solution with input from the Beaty Butte Grazing Association.
The Proposed Action, discussed in Section 2.2 of the EA, would run an underground water line eastward from the spring, which is on private land, to two new troughs.
Map 1 in Appendix E shows the arrangement.
The map gives the township, range and sections, so the project area can be found in the NDV by turning on the PLSS layer.
The EA did not indicate if the animals would still be able to access the spring and who would monitor the system when livestock are not present.
The comment period ends today.
The EA was copied to the project folder in ePlanning with an unsigned FONSI.
The HMA lies within the allotment and includes the spring.
New Year, Same State
While the new president works on the next state of the union address, Western Horse Watchers offers the following assessment of the wild horse world:
It’s not the poor advocates pushing back against the bureaucrats and ranchers, it’s the bureaucrats, ranchers and advocates trying to get rid of the horses.
Once you understand that, everything else makes sense.
RELATED: New Year, Same Lies.
BLM Kills Job Posting for Carson City WHB Specialist
The application period had been extended but now it says JOB CANCELLED, perhaps an early indication that federal government is under new management with a focus on cost cutting.
RELATED: BLM Seeks WHB Specialist.
NPS Seeks Volunteers for Cape Lookout Pony Patrol
The successful candidates will raise visitor awareness and compliance with rules for interacting with wild horses at Shackleford Banks and Rachel Carson Reserve according to a January 21 news release.
Last year volunteers conducted 254 patrols and contacted over 3,800 visitors.
You must be at least 18 years old and able to walk in an environment consisting of sandy terrain, extreme sun, heat, humidity, wind and bugs.
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