On the Salt River with markstorto.

Must be a bachelor band, that’s why there’s no youngsters.

If the NDA allowed you back on the Virginia Range in 2019 and you pounded the mares with pesticide-laced darts through 2023, how long have you been poisoning the herd?

Elapsed time = Final year – Initial year + 1 = 2023 – 2019 + 1 = 5 years

How long does it take to sterilize a mare?

Five years.

Aren’t you concerned about the long-term viability of the herd?

We have a better way to get rid of wild horses.  There’s no need to spend tens of millions of dollars every year on roundups and off-range holding.  The bureaucrats and ranchers just need to be patient.

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The Campaign Against America’s Wild Horses said in a news flash last week that it is providing logistical, financial and darting support for the fertility control program in Nevada’s Pine Nut Mountains, “further proving the feasibility of this approach to keeping wild horses wild and in balance with their environment.”

In balance with their environment?

Sounds like they’re reading from the BLM playbook.

That means shrinking the herds so they fit into the tiny resource boxes the bureaucrats have given them, with most of their food and water going to the public-lands ranchers.

They’re still referring to PZP as a fertility control vaccine, not an ovary-killing pesticide.

As for the Land Conservancy Project, are they going to turn it into a pig farm with laboratory to produce more poison?  Maybe call it Billings Unit 2.

With 3,300 acres, there’s plenty of room for a PZP darting school complete with free-roaming horses for target practice.

Who would support these efforts, besides its uninformed and misinformed base?

• Hunters
• Ranchers
• Farm bureaus
• Public lands councils
• Stockgrowers associations
• Cattlemen’s groups
• Colleges and universities
• Societies for rangeland management
• Agribusiness

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The roundup is set to begin on December 28, which is Thursday.

No rain in the forecast with temperatures reaching the low 50s.

Rain is predicted on the other side of the Sierra but will not reach this area, apparently.

The Complex is south of Winnemucca and the off-range corrals are to the north.

The privately owned corrals can accommodate 4,000 horses on 100 acres, equivalent to 4,000 cow/calf pairs on 100 acres, proving there is no need for ranchers to be anywhere near public lands.

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Adjectives for equine pests.

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The incident will start on or about December 28 according to today’s news release.

The capture and removal goals are identical, 2,875 each.

No animals will be treated with fertility control and none will be released, at least not intentionally.

A helicopter will push the horses into the traps and operations will be open to public observation.

Horses not dispatched in the field will be taken to the privately owned corrals in Paradise Valley.

Gather stats and daily reports will be posted to this page.

The National Data Viewer shows the six original HAs and three remaining HMAs.

The Complex is managed primarily for animal agriculture as discussed in this video.

The roundup supports three tenets of rangeland management.

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Zonastat-H may be applied only to female horses and burros capable of doing environmental damage, as specified on the label.

Application to control animals that interfere or could interfere with animal agriculture, or pose safety hazards to motorists, constitutes unlawful use of the pesticide and should be investigated by law enforcement.

Administering two doses of GonacCon Equine less than 90 days apart also constitutes unlawful use of the pesticide and should be investigated by law enforcement.

Application of these products without the proper PPE also constitutes unlawful use.

This applies to the bureaucrats, ranchers and advocates who authorize or carry out such uses on public or private lands.

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The horses removed this summer have returned, at least some of them, but they are now in private care, according to a story dated December 21 by the Pahrump Valley Times.

The status of the burros was not given.

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The incident concluded on December 14 with 1,605 horses captured, 1,392 shipped, 190 released and 23 dead, yielding a net removal of 1,415.

The capture and removal goals were 1,594 and 1,381.

The daily reports indicate 1,394 horses shipped.  The discrepancy may be related to two domestic horses caught on November 23.

There were no unaccounted-for animals according to figures in the sidebar.

The capture total included 658 stallions, 737 mares and 210 foals.

Youngsters represented 13.1% of the animals gathered, consistent with a herd growth rate of seven to eight percent per year.

Of the adults, 47.2% were male and 52.8% were female, providing no evidence of an abnormal sex ratio.

Eighty-one mares were returned to the HMA after receiving two doses of GonaCon Equine just 30 days apart, constituting unlawful use of the pesticide.

They were accompanied by 109 stallions.

To date, an announcement marking the end of the roundup has not appeared at the BLM news site.

The HMA is subject to permitted grazing.

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The capture and removal goals are 1,000 and 960 according to the latest schedule.

A helicopter will push the burros into the traps and operations will be open to limited public observation.

The news release did not include a link to the gather stats and daily reports.

Animals identified for removal will be taken to the off-range corrals in Florence.

Jennies involved in the Platero Project will receive another dose of PZP and be returned to the area near the capture site.

The HMA contains the old mining town of Oatman, known for its furry panhandlers, and is subject to permitted grazing.

Application of PZP to control animals that interfere with animal agriculture, or pose safety hazards to motorists, constitutes unlawful use of the pesticide.

The National Data Viewer shows habitat loss and grazing allotments.  Click on image to open in new tab.

The 2022 roundup took nearly 1,100 animals off the range.

The incident supports three tenets of rangeland management.

If your savings account earns 6% per year, how long before your money doubles?

According to the Rule, 72 ÷ 6 = 12 years.

If you want your money to double in eight years, what interest rate is needed?

Same calculation, 72 ÷ 8 = 9% per year.

If a wild horse herd is growing at a rate of 12% per year, how long before it doubles?

Six years.

If it doubles every eight years, what is the growth rate?

Nine percent per year.

The formula doesn’t care if you’re counting horses or dollars.

The growth rate for horses is not the same as the birth rate.

The birth rate will be five to six percentage points higher to account for deaths.

For a herd to grow at a rate of 12% per year, a birth rate of seventeen to eighteen percent per year will be needed.

What happens when the birth rate is zero or nearly so, because the advocates poisoned the mares with pesticide-laced darts?

The herd shrinks, as is the case at the Salt River and Virginia Range.

In the Spring Mountains National Recreation Area with Sheri Lind.

She no longer appears in the list of staff.

That would explain the recent solicitation for Communications Director.

Did she finally come to her senses or join another ranching advocacy group?

Despite the loss, the list is large and growing, which explains why they need more of your financial support.

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