Month: December 2025

Tiny Warner Valley Allotment Getting Smaller?

The news release indicates the BLM conveyed 929 public acres to the Washington County Water Conservancy District in exchange for 89 private acres designated as critical habitat for the Mojave desert tortoise.

Figure 3.4 in the Final EA shows the arrangement.  The BLM parcel has a purple border and the private parcel is red.

Four allotments were affected by the project but the smallest was hit the hardest.

Table 3.3 in the Final EA gives the acreage and active AUMs.

Warner Valley, consisting of 834 public acres, will lose 700 acres and 119 of 124 active AUMs according to section 3.5.5.1.

It’s not clear what will happen to the Warner remnant.

The EA did not consider the loss in value of the base property tied to the allotment due to a near total loss of grazing preference.

The allotment master report puts Warner Valley in the Custodial category, condition unknown.

Before the exchange, the allotment supported livestock equivalent to 12.4 wild horses per thousand public acres.

Your faithful public servants claim that public lands in the western U.S. can only support one wild horse per thousand acres.

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Out with the Old Lies, in with the New?

Not really.  The advocates will continue to push for mass sterilization in lieu of motorized removal, but they’ll call it wild horse conservation.

Their top priority—to separate you from your money—will not change.

They’ll post an endless stream of syrupy messages on socialist media to achieve it.

They’ll use your donations to buy pesticides so they can beat the horse populations down in favor of livestock.

They’ll say it’s necessary because of habitat loss.

Wherever they’re involved, you’ll find

  • Barren mares
  • Confused stallions
  • Shrinking herds
  • Injuries and infections
  • Abnormal sex ratios
  • Increasing death rates
  • Tiny breeding populations
  • Loss of genetic diversity
  • Acclimation to people

As the damage accrues, they’ll tell you the herds are living wild and free as nature intends.

They are phonies, leaders of the blind, and don’t deserve a penny of your support.

RELATED: New Year, Same Lies.

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Standards for RUP Applicators Don’t Go Far Enough

The EPA specifies a minimum age for applying restricted-use pesticides but not a minimum height.

Breeding, not mass sterilization, assures long-term viability.

You should be tall enough to control your darting rifle, not the other way around.

There are no limitations on personalities or preferences and the profession is now dominated by wretches.

PZP (Zonastat-H) can be found on page 33 of the RUP list.

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Estimating the Black Canyon Active AUMs

The 2024 AOIs show five pastures, each carrying 60 cow-calf pairs for approximately one month.

Therefore, the authorized forage should be around 5 × 60 × 1 = 300 AUMs per year, equivalent to 25 wild horses.

The allotment overlaps the Heber WHT.

AOIs for the ASNF can be found at its Rangeland and Grazing page.

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Scoping Begins for Montana Allotment Merger

The project would combine the Blair and Stange allotments into the Little Joe allotment.

The ArcGIS Viewer shows the outline for Little Joe but not Blair and Stange.

Blair offers 61 active AUMs on 246 public acres according to the allotment master report, equivalent to 20.7 wild horses per thousand public acres.

Stange offers 360 active AUMs on 1,285 public acres, equivalent to 23.3 wild horses per thousand public acres.

Your faithful public servants claim that public lands in the western U.S. can only support one wild horse per thousand acres.

If resources on the deeded acreage were added to the mix, Little Joe would support livestock equivalent to 127 wild horses on 5,358 total acres, or 23.7 wild horses per thousand acres.

The deadline for submitting comments is January 5.

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Would Y Ranch Make a Good Wild Horse Preserve?

The allotment, due for permit renewal, offers 4,317 active AUMs on 26,099 public acres, equivalent to 360 wild horses or 13.8 wild horses per thousand public acres.

The grazing season is 12 months according to Table 1 of the CX.

The allotment master report puts it in the Improve category.

Your faithful public servants claim that public lands in the western U.S. can only support one wild horse per thousand acres, so it seems like a good deal.

There is one authorization tied to the allotment, so you’d only need to acquire or control one base property to secure all of the active AUMs.

The allotment includes 9,963 state acres, offering an additional 1,778 AUMs, but there is no assurance the resource would transfer to you—the new permittee.

The 1,960 private acres may correspond to some or all of the base property.

Proceed with caution.

RELATED: Key Indicators for New Wild Horse Preserves.

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Foal-Free Friday, Wave of the Future Edition

This year’s update to the Colorado Wild Horse Eradication Plan provides the clearest indication yet of what the advocates think about wild horses and who they’re really trying to protect.

Strategic Darting as the Cornerstone of Wild Horse Management

Who will turn this vision into reality?  The largest consumers of abortion, contraception and sterilization in the nation.

As they destroy the herds, they’ll tell you they’re living wild and free as nature intends.

Lying is good for business.

PREVIOUS: Foal-Free Friday, Good News, Bad News Edition.

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Living as Nature Planned?

The advocates have discovered that lying is the best way to keep their coffers filled.

Sorry, but barren mares, confused stallions, shrinking herds, injuries and infections, abnormal sex ratios, increasing death rates, tiny breeding populations, loss of genetic diversity and acclimation to people do not qualify as living as nature intended.

RELATED: Virus or No Virus, Salt River Herd Is Toast.

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Would Snowville Make a Good Wild Horse Preserve?

The allotment, at the north end of the Great Salt Lake, offers 7,707 active AUMs on 71,308 public acres, equivalent to 642 wild horses or nine wild horses per thousand public acres.

The allotment master report puts it in the Maintain category.

Your faithful public servants claim that public lands in the western U.S. can only support one wild horse per thousand acres, so it seems like a good deal.

But there are ten authorizations tied to the allotment, which means you may have to acquire ten base properties to secure all of the active AUMs.

Probably not a good idea.

RELATED: Key Indicators for New Wild Horse Preserves.

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Population Trends at Spring Creek Basin HMA

The herd grew by six between 2021 and 2024 according to data in the 2025 update to the Colorado Wild Horse Eradication Plan.

There were no new foals.

The mare population increased by five.

The number of treatable mares decreased by nine, accounting for just one third of the mares in 2024.

What’s the status of the other 29?  Ruined by the advocates?

The breeding population does not meet the requirements of 4.4.6.3 in H-4700-1 and the outlook for genetic diversity is poor.

This is what the advocates are doing to your free-roaming horses with the blessing of your faithful public servants.

RELATED: Colorado Wild Horse Working Group Updates Eradication Plan.

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BLM Captures Three Pryor Mountain Horses

They went off the reservation and displayed aggressive behavior toward domestic horses on private property according to the news release.

The CX indicates they were corralled by the landowner, who submitted a written request to the BLM to remove them.

The agency retrieved the horses and took them to corrals at Britton Springs. 

The paperwork and NEPA review may have been completed after the fact.

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Colorado Wild Horse Working Group Updates Eradication Plan

What happens when you put ranchers and ranching sympathizers in a room and ask them what to do about wild horses?

You get another set of recommendations that will destroy them.

The executive summary argues that strategic darting must be the cornerstone of sustainable wild horse management, and that the group expects the Colorado BLM to champion the method, along with other findings, conveying them forcefully to the national office.

These are the same lunatics who put a couple of sodomites in the governor’s mansion.

A keyword search of the document yielded these results:

  • Adoption – 125 occurrences
  • Darting – 53
  • Fertility control – 10
  • Immunocontraceptive – 7
  • Treatable mares – 7
  • Cattle – 2
  • Sheep – 0
  • AUM – 0
  • Allotment – 0
  • Permit – 0
  • Rancher – 0
  • Pesticide – 0
  • Reversible – 0
  • Sterility – 0
  • Sterilization – 0
  • Breeding population – 0
  • Genetic diversity – 1
  • Principal use – 0
  • Management at the minimum feasible level – 0
  • Nature’s way – 0

The group claims on page 33 that large tracts of private land, suitable for wild horse preserves, are scarce, which is nonsense.

There are hundreds of such parcels in the state, known as base properties, that could be repurposed for wild horses, with the added benefit that they have grazing preference on public lands—and therefore provide the best value to taxpayers and/or donors.

But the idea was not supported by some members, who were concerned about removing land from agricultural production.

And that’s the point of the entire exercise: To charter a group that would do what’s best for the ranchers, not the horses.

RELATED: Colorado Wild Horse Working Group Releases Year One Report.

Dedicated conservationist or wretch with darting rifle?  Breeding, not mass sterilization, assures long-term viability.

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BLM Updates Facilities Report for FY26

As of November 21, there were 60,283 wild horses and 3,750 wild burros in off-range holding, liberating 745,896 AUMs per year for “other mandated uses” of public lands.

The advocates will point to the report, and costs associated therewith, as justification for their mass sterilization programs.

The populations at Axtell and Wheatland increased after the inmate training program at Cañon City was cancelled.

Allotments managed by the BLM carry livestock equivalent to one million wild horses.

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S2262 to Change the Way We Comment on NEPA Projects?

The bill would limit public comments to citizens of the United States and establish a process to deter attempts at public involvement by artificial intelligence.

The measure received a favorable review on December 17 by the Senate Energy & Natural Resources Committee and now joins S1377 on the chamber floor.

RELATED: S1377 Passes Out of Committee on Voice Vote.

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Foal-Free Friday, Good News, Bad News Edition

Duplicity rules the day in the wild horse world.

Publicly, the advocates celebrate the birth of filly or colt but privately they hold the animal in contempt because he’s an embarrassment in the face of their allies, a blot on their mass sterilization program and an impediment to their herd reduction goal.

Likewise, they want you to think they’re saddened by the death of a stallion or mare but privately they couldn’t be happier because it moves them a step closer to the goal.

They don’t care about the horses.  They care about pesticides and putting the legacy contractors out of business.

They deserve your ire, not your support.

PREVIOUS: Foal-Free Friday, Magic Numbers Edition.

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