Author: Western Horse Watchers

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.

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Lake Pleasant EA Out for Review

The environmental assessment looks at the effects of a proposed update to the Herd Management Area Plan and a new AML, according to the news release.

Other actions include removal of excess animals and implementation of fertility control.

The Proposed Action is discussed in section 2.2.

The pesticides of choice are GonaCon-Equine, ZonaStat-H and PZP-22.

The new AML, discussed in Appendix C, ranges from 140 to 250.

The current AML is 166 to 208.

The EA was copied to the project folder with other supporting documents.

The deadline to submit comments is January 21.

The HMA is managed for wild burros.

RELATED: BLM Updating Lake Pleasant Pest Control Plan?

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The Progeny of Kings

Rehoboam, son of Solomon, son of David, fathered 28 sons and 60 daughters according to 2 Chronicles 11:21.

Elsewhere, but not at the Salt River or Virginia Range, a herd of wild horses produced 28 colts and 60 fillies.

Do those results look like they came from a random process centered at 50% males / 50% females?

The expected range of variation is given by this formula, where p-bar = .5 and n = 88.

The calculated limits are .34 and .66.

The observed proportion of colts, .318, falls outside this range along with the observed proportion of fillies, .681.

Therefore, the results don’t look like they came from a random process centered at 50% males / 50% females.

Although Rehoboam was in the Messianic Line (see Matthew chapter 1), he did not do what was pleasing to the Lord and was responsible for the division of Israel into the Northern and Southern kingdoms.

Abnormal sex ratios, such as 28 stallions and 60 mares, are common in herds treated with PZP.

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Velma Would Be Horrified by Today’s Advocates

They’re phonies.

They’re obsessed with pesticides.

They protect ranchers, not wild horses.

They reject foundational principles such as management at the minimum feasible level and principal use.

They want you to think that the herds will vanish without they’re involvement when in reality the herds are vanishing because of their involvement.

Why are you still giving them money?

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TRNP South Unit Surrounded by Grazing Allotments

The park is in the Little Missouri National Grassland, a territory of the Dakota Prairie Grasslands, according to the map.

The horses live in the South Unit.

Now you know why the Campaign Against America’s Wild Horses, a leader in mass sterilization and servant of the public-lands ranchers, was eager to establish a beachhead in the area, which it did through Chasing Horses Wild Horse Advocates.

The Annual Operating Instructions for the allotments may provide data on forage availability, to assess the proposed stocking rate in the South Unit.

Unfortunately, the Forest Service did not post them to the Rangeland and Grazing page.

RELATED: How to Fix S1377.

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How to Fix S1377

Paragraph 5(b)(1) should direct the Secretary of the Interior to maintain a genetically diverse herd in the South Unit with a population of at least 150 horses untouched by fertility control pesticides.

Breeding, not mass sterilization, assures genetic diversity.

What about a provision for returning the original wild horses to the park?

The South Unit covers 46,158 acres according to park statistics.

The proposed stocking rate would be 3.2 wild horses per thousand acres.

Has anybody looked at forage supply to see if that’s feasible?

The land would need to produce 3.2 × 12 × 2 = 76.8 AUMs per year per thousand acres to support the herd, at 50% utilization (safety factor of two).

RELATED: TRNP Wild Horse Protection Act Cannot Achieve Stated Goals.

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TRNP Wild Horse Protection Act Cannot Achieve Stated Goals

Instead of prohibiting advocate involvement, the bill requires it.

Paragraph 5(b)(1) directs the Secretary of the Interior to maintain a genetically diverse herd in the South Unit of Theodore Roosevelt National Park with a population of at least 150 wild horses.

Paragraph 5(b)(2)(B) requires cost-effective management of the herd while ensuring that natural resources not adversely impacted.

Those are codewords for a fertility control program—that could be provided by the advocates at no cost to the Park Service.

Was that language suggested by Christine Kman, who has allowed the tentacles of the Campaign Against America’s Wild Horses to reach into her nonprofit?

Where are the safeguards that prevent it from morphing into a mass sterilization program?

In their zeal to spread the gospel of immunocontraceptives and win the approval of the bureaucrats and ranchers, the advocates will drive the breeding population into the single digits and the goal of genetic diversity will lost forever.

RELATED: Who’s Advising Hoeven on TRNP Wild Horses?

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Foal-Free Friday, Magic Numbers Edition

The breeding population in a wild horse herd should consist of at least 50 animals to maintain genetic diversity according to section 4.4.6.3 in H-4700-1.

This can be accomplished in populations ranging from 150 to 200 animals or more.

The advocates are telling their political allies that genetic diversity will be satisfactory if the herd contains at least 150 animals, evident in S1377.

This is a subtle but critical deviation from the recommendation.

The guideline applies to reproducing populations.

The advocates think reproduction is a defect of nature, to be cured with fertility control pesticides.

Breeding, not mass sterilization, assures genetic diversity, which disappears as they ruin the mares with their phony vaccines.

A herd of 500 would not be large enough.

Stay away from the advocates, they’re not who they say they are.

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Who’s Advising Hoeven on TRNP Wild Horses?

A minimum herd size of 150 wild horses, as specified in S1377, will not assure genetic diversity if the mares have been ruined or are in the process of being ruined by fertility control pesticides.

In a December 7 news flash distributed by Lucky Three Ranch, the Campaign Against America’s Wild Horses refers to Chasing Horses Wild Horse Advocates as a partner.

That is an albatross, the kiss of death for the nonprofit.

It means Kman is an acolyte of Roy, the queen of equine pesticides, and they’re probably drafting a proposal to destroy the breeding population with PZP.

Don’t give them a penny.

RELATED: Senate Subcommittee Hears Testimony on S1377.

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Senate Subcommittee Hears Testimony on S1377

Mike Caldwell, Associate Director of Park Planning, Facilities and Lands for the National Park Service, appeared before the National Park Subcommittee on December 9 to answer questions about the Theodore Roosevelt Wild Horse Protection Act.

His responses indicated support for the bill.

Was the dialogue scripted?

Not mentioned in the discussion were the original wild horses of TRNP, thought to be descendants of Sitting Bull’s ponies, and if they would be returned to the park.

RELATED: Legislation to Protect TRNP Wild Horses Introduced in Senate.

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Virus or No Virus, Salt River Herd Is Toast

You cannot use PZP to take a herd from 450 to 280 without sterilizing the mares.

If the death rate was 6% per year, typical for wild horses, you’d need eight years of nonstop darting.

If any foals were born the death rate would need to be higher.

If the death rate was 8% per year, unusual for wild horses, you could do it in six years.

Sterility sets in after five years.

Given that the program has been active for six years, maybe closer to seven, the death rate must be at the higher end of the range.

Are they spiking their darts with some other toxin?

It’s not about the horses.  It’s about pesticides and convincing the bureaucrats and ranchers that the helicopters can be grounded in favor of mass sterilization.

RELATED: Salt River Herd Cannot Recover from a Deadly Disease.

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Salt River Herd Cannot Recover from a Deadly Disease

Because the advocates have ruined the mares with PZP.

They may even view the loss of a few dozen horses favorably, as it would move them closer to their population reduction goal.

The advocates, along with their overlords at the Campaign Against America’s Wild Horses, are far more interested in demonstrating that mass sterilization is a practical alternative to motorized removal than actually protecting the herd.

RELATED: Salt River Stallion First Victim of Virus?

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