Some like Zonastat, others like Gonacon, but all agree that wild horses should be removed from their lawful homes with ovary-killing pesticides, not motorized equipment, even if motorized equipment is needed to apply the poisons!
Obsessed with pesticides? Ranching sympathizer? Wanna be like the Campaign Against America’s Wild Horses, Piceance Mustangs and High Desert Strategies?
Then you need to apply for a grant and the September 28 webinar will show you how.
The incident will begin on or about September 25, according to a BLM news release.
The agency will gather approximately 122 wild horses, remove approximately 24 excess animals and treat up to 49 mares with GonaCon Equine, a fertility control pesticide.
Those mares will be returned to the area with up to 49 stallions.
The event, billed as catch-treat-release in the August 28 schedule, will be open to public observation.
The current population is thought to be 152, not including this year’s foal crop.
The HMA covers 161,678 total acres in central Nevada, including 157,838 public acres, and is subject to permitted grazing.
The stocking rate allowed by plan is 1.1 wild horses per thousand public acres, in line with the target rate across all HMAs of one wild horse per thousand acres.
Would an article published by Utah State University, home of the FREES Network, be kind to the horses or the ranchers?
Students under the tutelage of Eric Thacker can recite the overpopulation narrative in their sleep, portraying the public-lands ranchers as victims, but, like the wild horse advocates, couldn’t convert an AML to AUMs if their lives depended on it, much less compute a forage allocation for livestock in an area set aside for wild horses.
What is an HMA? It’s an allotment with horses on it according to Ty Berg, husband of Anna Fallini Berg, operators of Twin Springs Ranch in southern Nevada and the only permittees on the massive Reveille Allotment.
And, yes, they are legally obligated to let the horses run wild on land their family has worked for over 150 years because the Reveille Allotment contains the Reveille HA, an area identified in 1971 for wild horses, which contains the Reveille HMA, the remnant where horses are still allowed. Refer to this post for a discussion of the arrangement, including a map.
The image at 1:21 in the following video tells you why there are few natural predators in the area.
Regarding the current wild horse population across the American west, discussed at 2:34, there are three times more horses than allowed by plan, not three times more than the land can support. The image at 1:36 explains why this is true.
AMLs are small relative to the available resources because the bureaucrats have assigned most of the forage to the ranchers.
The consensus of the Love Triangle, an informal coalition united not by methodology but by contempt for wild horses, described as “all sides” by the reporter at 5:34, is fertility control.
The video shows unlawful use of PZP by volunteers with the Campaign Against America’s Wild Horses, a leader in nonmotorized removal, at 5:44.
As of today, the link still points to the August 28 schedule, which aligns with three goals of rangeland management:
Pest control
Resource enforcement
Rancher protection
The upper section corresponds to nonmotorized removals, dominated by the wild horse advocates and their bogus nonprofits, some made to order.
The lower sections correspond to motorized removals, the domain of BLM staff and their contractors. (Animals captured with baited traps are hauled off with trucks.)
The revelation last week that High Desert Strategies is a collaboration between the BLM and ranchers indicates the Love Triangle is not only alive and well but gaining strength.
Like the advocates, HDS refers to the product as an immunocontraceptive vaccine.
They describe their work as protecting, preserving and nurturing wild horses, which is nonsense.
They’re protecting their own financial interests with money confiscated from American wage earners!
The closest they come to acknowledging their professions is to say “Healthy rangelands are not only important to wild horse survival but also a wide variety of wildlife and many other resource users.”
They are the other resource users.
The September 8 article by the Malheur Enterprise named Rachel Amick, a rancher from Harper, as one of the volunteers.
The Operator Information Report at RAS ties the Amicks to two grazing authorizations, 3602198 and 3603120.
The Allotment Information Report ties both authorizations to Allotment #4, which contains the Hog Creek HMA, where they receive 1,757 AUMs per year.
That resource is equivalent to 146 wild horses!
Who do you suppose is stalking the Hog Creek mares when she should be looking after her own animals on her own (multi-million dollar?) base property?
A new project has been opened in ePlanning with a proposed roundup of approximately 100 wild horses outside the HMA on private lands in the Wyoming checkerboard.
As of today, only a map has been copied to the documents folder.
What’s the difference between a sterilant and a pesticide that produces long-term infertility?
As for the roundup, an advocate with the Idaho Wild Horse Alliance praised the BLM for a good job, according to a story dated September 13 by KIVI News, another indication that the Love Triangle is functioning normally.
Use of PZP to control wild horse populations that interfere with animal agriculture is not consistent with instructions on the label and is therefore unlawful.
Photos posted by SWAT show several examples of advocates mixing and applying the product without the proper PPE, more violations of federal law.
The proposed supplementary rule, which addresses public conduct, safety concerns involving exploding targets, flammable devices and target shooting, the possession or use of alcohol and the burning of wood pallets, among other things, would apply to all public lands in Wyoming, according to a notice appearing today in the Federal Register.
The last two provisions involve wild horses. Accordingly,
15. You must not intentionally engage in any activity within any distance that disturbs, displaces, or otherwise interferes with the free unimpeded movement of wild horses.
16. You must not feed, water, or touch any wild horse.
Would #15 include the filming wild herds with drones, chasing them with manned aerial equipment or poisoning the mares with pesticide-laced darts?
The rule would not apply to federal, state, local and military employees or contractors acting within the scope of their official duties.
Up to 38 mares will be treated with GonaCon Equine, a fertility control pesticide, and be returned to the area with up to 40 stallions, according to today’s news release.
The capture total included 74 stallions, 93 mares and 62 foals.
Youngsters represented 27.1% of the horses gathered.
Of the adults, 44.3% were male and 55.7% were female.
The death rate was 0.4%.
Three HMAs were affected, all subject to permitted grazing.
Three HMAs, known as the Three Rivers Complex, are affected.
Alternative A, the Proposed Action, features gathers and removals of excess burros, application of fertility control pesticides and sex ratio skewing in favor of males over a ten-year period. Refer to Section 2.1 in the EA.
The plan aligns with three goals of rangeland management:
Pest control
Resource enforcement
Rancher protection
As noted in Section 1.5, the project will not set or adjust AMLs nor adjust authorized AUMs for livestock within the HMAs.
The current population is thought to be around 2,300 animals, almost 4X AML, according to today’s news release.
Western Horse Watchers Association 