Synonyms for Wiping Out Herds with Ovary-Killing Pesticides

Here are the top three, in common use by the wild horse advocates:

Protection
Preservation
Conservation

How stupid do you have to be to believe these frauds?

Blue Wing HMAP Shows Advocates Ill-Informed About Wild Horses

Remember last year at the Save Our Wild Horses Conference when they were higher than a kite on HMAPs?

The first item in their recommendations was to create these plans for every HMA and enforce strict adherence to them.

Consider these features of the new plan for the Blue Wing Complex:

Removal of excess animals to low AML
Application of fertility control pesticides
Sterilizing up to one fourth of the herd
Skewing the sex ratio in favor of males

The underlying belief of those involved is that that the horses and burros are pests and that the land should be managed primarily for livestock.

The advocates, facing great embarrassment, will switch to another brand of snake oil rather than admit their errors.

It is not possible to overestimate the stupidity and naivety of the wild horse advocates, with the exception of those colluding with the bureaucrats and ranchers.

In those cases, it’s easy to underestimate the depths they will plumb to deceive their supporters and the population at large.

Nuisance Roundups Increase in Latest Schedule

Outside Chloride HMA, Four Mile and Bible Spring were added to the May 1 update.

The bottom-line totals are the same as in the April 1 edition.

Trump Administration Unveils Deportation Incentive Program

The government will pay $1,000 to illegal aliens that leave the country voluntarily according to a report by AP News.

The story did not indicate if the migrants would receive $500 when they crossed the border and $500 if they stayed out for a year.

The status of compliance inspections is unknown.

Unlike the Adoption Incentive Program, payments are made in lieu of capture and are not available to those who would take the detainees from the government and escort them to Canada or Mexico.

The program is an important step in keeping Democrats away from the levers of power.

EPA Cuts GonaCon Treatment Interval by 92%

The change was mentioned in a response to comments in the Buffalo Hills DNA.

The January 21 labeling amendment allows the second dose to be given in as little as seven days after the first.

The effect of the change on treated animals is not known.

Although the 2017 labeling amendment changed the interval to 90 days, the BLM continued to refer to the 2013 and 2015 registrations in planning documents issued after that date and gave two doses 30 days apart to mares captured in roundups, which constitutes unlawful use of the pesticide.

If that sounds like an allegation of wrongdoing, it is.

Blue Wing Preliminary Planning Documents Out for Review

The Preliminary Environmental Assessment has been copied to the project folder along with a cover letter.

Comments are due by June 4 according to the news release.

Alternative A, the Proposed Action, features

Implementation of a new HMAP
Removal of excess animals to low AML
Application of fertility control pesticides
Sterilizing up to one fourth of the herd
Skewing the sex ratio in favor of males
Development of a new water source

The proposed HMAP is discussed in Appendix XIII of the EA.

Section 2.4.2.2 refers to a 2025 labeling amendment for GonaCon Equine, which may have changed the interval between treatments from 90 days to seven, but Western Horse Watchers has not been able to find it at the EPA website.

UPDATE: The amendment changed the interval from 90 days to 7 days.

CAWP Too Far Downstream to Help Wild Horses

Look at the photos in this BLM blog post.

Is that what you want for America’s wild horses?

The Comprehensive Animal Welfare Program applies to horses that are off the range or nearly so.

In effect, it ensures that burn victims receive the best possible care instead of figuring out how to have fewer fires.

It guarantees the removals will continue because it does not address their causes.

The advocates believe the problems can be avoided by not having any horses or not having them in sufficient numbers to protect herd health and genetic viability.

Mustang Monday

At the southwest corner of the Virginia Range with Western Horse Watchers.

Washoe Lake Allotments

This photo, taken on May 2, helps you understand why the Virginia Range advocates are eager to beat the horse numbers down with ovary-killing pesticides.

The view is from the west side of the lake, looking east across the marsh to the Virginia Range.

The Jumbo Allotment is on the far side and Duck Hill borders it on the south.

The advocates want the ranchers to win but motorized removal is cruel and costly and somebody has to take care of the captured animals.

A better approach is to not have any horses at all, and mass sterilization is an effective way to achieve that.

The advocates can sterilize a mare for about $200 (six to seven doses of PZP).

The Allotment Master Report puts Duck Hill in the Improve category, does not meet one or more standards for rangeland heath, and Jumbo in Custodial, condition unknown.

If Wild Horses Had Principal Use of Horse Creek

The allotment, site of a spring exclosure project north of Winnemucca, NV, offers 3,600 active AUMs on 38,859 public acres according to the Allotment Master Report.

It’s in the Improve category, one or more standards for rangeland health not met.

The management plan assigns no forage to wild horses.

How many could live there?

The forage assigned to livestock is equivalent to 300 wild horses, or 7.7 per thousand public acres.

Why is this important?

Your faithful public servants claim that rangelands in the western U.S. can only support one wild horse per thousand acres (25,500 animals on 25.6 million acres).

The advocates, defeated a long time ago, prop up the fairy tale with their darting programs.

If the allotment was an HMA, the AML would be 39 and 261 wild horses would be consigned to off-range holding because of permitted grazing.

BLM allotments in Nevada support livestock equivalent to 173,144 wild horses on 40,194,360 public acres, or 4.3 wild horses per thousand public acres.

Wild horses can be placed on public lands not identified for their use by acquiring base properties associated with grazing allotments and flipping the preference to horses.

BLM Headquarters Moving Back to Grand Junction?

It will if the Local Opportunities, Conservation, and American Lands Act becomes law.

Foal-Free Friday, Morons and Oxymorons Edition

The Campaign Against America’s Wild Horses and New Life do not belong together in the same sentence, paragraph or article.

The morons are those who support these frauds.

Open Letter to Interior Secretary Doug Burgum

Dear Secretary Burgum,

Pay no attention to those who write letters about cost-effective, humane solutions to the Wild Horse and Burro Program.

They don’t know what they’re talking about.

They have been misled by groups that claim to represent the horses and burros but are actually allies of their enemies.

The problem is an unelected bureaucracy that ignores the intent of the original statute and puts ranching interests far above those of the horses and burros.

Not only are you responsible for that, but you can do something about it.