The attack on the herd is sinister because it’s being carried by those who claim to voices for the horses.
The Center for Biological Diversity never demanded that the mares be sterilized.
The Forest Service never laid the idea on the table.
It came from the advocates, disguised as “humane management.”
For seven years they’ve pummeled the mares with pesticide-laced darts, not to slow population growth but to reverse it, with the inevitable result of permanent infertility.
And, as usual, the perps are women.
These people are phonies and don’t deserve a penny of your support.
You’d think the advocates would have special funds devoted to the purchase of base properties, so wild horses could be placed on public lands at the expense of privately owned livestock.
Instead, they use your donations to buy pesticides, so they can beat the horse populations down in favor of livestock.
They are frauds and don’t deserve a penny of your support.
Stocking rate would be 27.3 wild horses per thousand BLM acres
Beulah Belle
98,357 total acres
23,146 deeded
7,962 state
67,248 BLM
2.9 BLM acres per deeded acre
19,810 AUMs
Equivalent to 1,651 wild horses
Stocking rate would be 24.6 wild horses per thousand BLM acres
Stewart Creek
569,053 total acres
22,470 deeded
8,999 state
537,584 BLM
23.9 BLM acres per deeded acre
23,734 AUMs
Equivalent to 1,978 wild horses
Stocking rate would be 3.7 wild horses per thousand BLM acres
Wooden Rifle
68,606 total acres
14,537 deeded
6,797 state
47,272 BLM
3.3 BLM acres per deeded acre
8,991 AUMs
Equivalent to 749 wild horses
Stocking rate would be 15.8 wild horses per thousand BLM acres
Your faithful public servants claim that public lands in the western U.S. can only support one wild horse per thousand BLM acres.
Stewart Creek, the unit with the best land ratio but lowest stocking rate, overlaps three of the five HMAs in the Red Desert Complex. Not disclosed by the agent.
If the operation was repurposed as a refuge, it would support 7,500 wild horses, saving taxpayers an estimated $13.7 million per year and paying for itself in six years.
The project would likely face stiff opposition from ranchers, farm bureaus and stock grower’s associations.
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.
The Campaign Against America’s Wild Horses, a leader in mass sterilization and fierce opponent of principal use, has been ordered to stop the Cedar Mountain darting program according to an October 30 news flash distributed by Lucky Three Ranch.
Further, the grant that funds the effort has not been renewed.
The advocates are now begging for donations to keep the destruction going.
There haven’t been any roundups in the HMA since the program began because the advocates are working with a permittee to poison the mares with PZP, a restricted-use pesticide that tricks their immune systems into attacking their ovaries.
Snake River Land & Cattle covers 38,899 total acres, including 5,675 deeded acres and 33,224 BLM acres according to the agent’s listing.
The map puts the deeded acreage inside the Douglas-Sawmill Allotment, a few miles south of the Sand Wash Basin HMA.
The ranch lies within a game management unit so not only will you get pushback from ranchers in trying to flip the preference to horses but from hunters as well.
The allotment master report shows one pasture, so it may operate as a general use area shared by three permittees.
Livestock owned by the other two would remain.
The active AUMs are probably wrong and may be off by a factor of ten.
One of the bullet points in the listing says the ranch receives 743 AUMs, equivalent to 62 wild horses.
The land ratio is good, almost six public acres per deeded acre.
But the allotment overlaps the Douglas Mountain HA according to the ArcGIS viewer, so the ranch meets two out of four requirements for a refuge.
You don’t have to spend millions of dollars on a base property to get wild horses back on these public lands. You just need to rid the bureaucracy of ranchers and ranching sympathizers and overturn the planning process that zeroed out the HMA.
Don’t expect any help from the advocates. They want the ranchers to win.
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