Western Horse Watchers Association
Exposing the Hypocrisy, Lies and Incompetence of the Wild Horse Advocates
The meeting convenes at 1:00 PM local time, according to the announcement.
No agenda has been posted.
Minutes from the May meeting indicate a herd size of 99 but do not give a breakdown of males and females.
The population was 106 a year ago.
Meg Puckett, herd manager and PZP darter, was appointed to the Board.
The advocates have their own vocabulary to conceal the truth about themselves and their anti-horse / pro-ranching agenda.
Zonastat-H is a vaccine not a pesticide.
Their targets aren’t pests, they’re cherished/beloved/innocent/treasured wild horses.
They’re protecting them from removal by getting rid of them with PZP.
They don’t cater to the bureaucrats and ranchers, they manage the numbers to fit what’s available to the horses.
Overdosed mares are self-boosting, not sterile.
Herds don’t die off, they age out.
Sex ratios aren’t abnormal, mares live longer.
Families consist of barren mares and confused stallions.
They don’t disrupt the natural order, they reinforce it.
They want to be greeted with respect in the marketplace and they expect your unwavering financial support.
Give them a thumbs up on socialist media.
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The project has received 1,241 comments as of this evening.
The numbers change minute-by-minute.
A petition at Change dot org equates bait trap removal to killing wild horses by running them to death, a process that will greatly reduce the population in the national park.
Don’t worry though, advocates with Friends of a Legacy are already on the job.
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The event starts at 9:00 AM local time at the BLM state office in Reno, according to a news release on EIN.
Organizers will likely focus on mistreatment of captured animals, not the reasons for removal from their lawful homes, guaranteeing the problems will continue.
The incident began on July 9. Results through August 2:
The figures above are based on the daily reports, not the totals posted by the BLM.
The number of horses captured is 1,350 and the number shipped is 1,253 according to the figures in the sidebar.
The death rate is 1.3%.
A stallion was released (or escaped) on Day 24, followed by two more on Day 25, but no details were given.
The capture total includes 523 stallions, 612 mares and 209 foals.
Youngsters represented 15.6% of the animals gathered.
Of the adults, 46.1% were male and 53.9% were female.
A 16% birth rate corresponds to a growth rate of 11% per year, a bit less than the 20% growth rate used by land managers to predict herd sizes and management actions.
Body condition scores on Days 24 and 25 ranged from 3 to 4.
The location of the trap site was not disclosed.
The HMAs and surrounding lands are subject to permitted grazing.
*According to advocates.
Day 25 ended with 71 unaccounted-for animals.
Other statistics:
Overpopulation means more horses than allowed by plan, not necessarily more horses than the land can support.
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The incident started on July 20. Results through August 1:
No horses were captured on Days 12 and 13, leaving the total at 16.
All have been shipped.
Eight burros were caught on Day 12 followed by one on Day 13, bringing the total 86.
Sixty-six have been shipped, no change from Day 11.
No deaths were reported and no animals have been returned to the range.
Youngsters represented 5.8% of the burros gathered.
Of the adults, 46.9% were male and 53.1% were female.
At the end of Day 13, there were 20 unaccounted-for burros.
The location of the trap site was not disclosed.
The capture and removal goals are identical, 25 wild horses and 100 wild burros.
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No more posts going around on Facebook?
Couldn’t care less!
The advocates have their little fiefdoms and Potemkin Villages online, where they try to separate you from your money, but hopefully those sites are crumbling as well-meaning donors realize they’re liars and frauds.
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GonaCon Equine has been applied to wild horses in the park but what are the long-term effects?
Most wild horse advocates condemn the product but praise Zonastat-H, an ovary-killing pesticide known as the Montana Solution.
The incident began on July 9. Results through July 31:
The figures above are based on the daily reports, not the totals posted by the BLM.
Data quality is poor. Accuracy went south on Days 16 and 17.
The number of horses captured is 1,207 and the number shipped is 1,128 according to the figures in the sidebar.
A colt was put down on Day 22 due to torticollis (wry neck).
A mare was euthanized on Day 23 due to a broken neck.
The death rate is 1.4%.
The capture total includes 469 stallions, 549 mares and 183 foals.
Youngsters represented 15.2% of the animals gathered.
Of the adults, 46.1% were male and 53.9% were female.
A 15% birth rate corresponds to a growth rate of 10% per year, a bit less than the 20% growth rate used by land managers to predict herd sizes and management actions.
Body condition scores on Days 22 and 23 ranged from 3 to 4.
The location of the trap site was not disclosed.
The HMAs and surrounding lands are subject to permitted grazing.
*According to advocates.
Day 23 ended with 56 unaccounted-for animals.
Other statistics:
Overpopulation means more horses than allowed by plan, not necessarily more horses than the land can support.
The incident started on July 20. Results through July 30:
No horses were captured on Days 9 through 11, leaving the total at 16.
All have been shipped.
Five burros were caught on Day 9, followed by six on Day 10 and three on Day 11, bringing the total 77.
Sixty-six have been shipped.
No deaths were reported and no animals have been returned to the range.
Youngsters represented 5.2% of the burros gathered.
Of the adults, 47.9% were male and 52.1% were female.
At the end of Day 11, there were eleven unaccounted-for burros.
The location of the trap site was not disclosed.
The capture and removal goals are identical, 25 wild horses and 100 wild burros.
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What happens when you argue about symptoms and the best way to treat them?
The illness continues or gets worse.
That’s what you’ll find in an article about the Antelope roundup by The Hill.
Apparently, the writer wasn’t interested in looking upstream in the management process to understand why roundups occur.
An advocate with WHE offered an explanation:
Habitat fragmentation and habitat loss is the main driver of problems for all wildlife, wild horses included.
OK. Why is their habitat shrinking? What’s causing the fragmentation?
Like the author, the advocates and their supporters have no interest or no ability to distinguish between cause and effect.
Their “solutions” don’t cure the disease, they make the patient feel more comfortable.
It’s like adding inspectors at the end of a production line to cull out defective items.
The practice can only prolong the problem because it does not fix the causes.
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At the Pryor Mountain WHR with Our Crazy RV Life.
The incident began on July 9. Results through July 29:
The figures above are based on the daily reports, not the totals posted by the BLM.
Data quality is poor. Accuracy went south on Days 16 and 17.
The number of horses captured is 1,025 and the number shipped is 846 according to the figures in the sidebar.
A second helicopter was pressed into service on Day 19, possibly from the Antelope South roundup, now complete.
A stallion was put down on Day 16 because of a hernia.
Another stallion was put down on Day 17 because of blindness in one eye.
A colt was put down on Day 20 due to a physical defect of unspecified type.
A stallion was put down on Day 21 because of blindness in one eye and a filly was dispatched because of a sarcoid tumor, both non-life-threatening conditions. A filly was euthanized for physical defects on both front legs but no details were given.
The death rate is 1.5%.
The capture total includes 395 stallions, 470 mares and 154 foals.
Youngsters represented 15.1% of the animals gathered.
Of the adults, 45.7% were male and 54.3% were female.
A 15% birth rate corresponds to a growth rate of 10% per year, much less than the 20% growth rate used by land managers to predict herd sizes and management actions.
Body condition scores on Days 16 to 21 ranged from 3 to 4.
The location of the trap site was not disclosed.
The HMAs and surrounding lands are subject to permitted grazing.
*According to advocates.
Day 21 ended with 158 unaccounted-for animals.
Other statistics:
Overpopulation means more horses than allowed by plan, not necessarily more horses than the land can support.
RELATED: Antelope Roundup North, Day 15.
The defeatists at Return to Freedom, signatory to the ill-advised “Path Forward,” applauded Senate lawmakers last week for directing the BLM to implement thoughtful management that would slow (not stop) the growth of wild herds, keeping them on their home ranges rather than relying on the costly and traumatic capture, removal and warehousing of wild horses and burros.
This, of course, means pummeling the mares with ovary-killing pesticides. It’s not a question of proper implementation as suggested in the announcement. The stuff is poison and those who promote it are frauds.
The group works with lawmakers on both sides of the aisle to demand the immediate scaling up of safe, proven and humane fertility control for wild horses and burros, according to a news release dated July 29.
Like the Campaign Against America’s Wild Horses, its affiliates, offshoots and supporters, Return to Normal (Before WHB Act) is always eager to beat down wild horse populations so ranchers can access most of their food.
The bureaucrats refer to this as achieving and maintaining AMLs, which are small relative to the available resources.
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The Beatty Town Advisory Board has drafted a letter to the BLM seeking the removal of some of the burros that inhabit the area, according to a story dated July 28 by the Pahrump Valley Times.
The town lies within the Bullfrog HMA.
A 2019 roundup, not mentioned in the report, took 690 animals off the range, on top of 404 in 2018.
The HMA intersects one allotment.
The Allotment Master Report puts it in the Improve category, with 1,926 active AUMs on 269,764 public acres.
The permittee is the Nature Conservancy of Southern Nevada.
The Authorization Use Report shows the livestock type is cattle, and, with pasture rotation, the grazing season is twelve months per year.
Both reports suggest that grazing in the HMA is not allowed.
The first step in restoring public lands and wildlife in the state is to stop scapegoating wild horses and start addressing the root cause of the problem, which is reining in the excesses of the cattle and sheep industries, according to a column dated July 28 in CounterPunch.
Western Horse Watchers says let the ranchers do whatever they want on their own land.
Confine them to their (multi-million dollar) base properties in a year-round off season and let them pay the going rate to feed their animals.
No more sucking on the sugar teat.
The incident started on July 20. Results through July 27:
No horses were captured on Days 6 through 8, leaving the total at 16.
All have been shipped.
Five burros were taken on Day 6, followed by 11 on Day 8, bringing the total 63.
Forty-seven have been shipped.
No deaths were reported and no animals were returned to the range.
The location of the trap site was not disclosed.
The capture and removal goals are identical, 25 wild horses and 100 wild burros.
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The first leg of the journey was on July 26, documented in a video by WTKR News.
The return trip is set for today, minus most of the youngsters.
Perfect topic for Foal-Free Friday.
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The project description says overuse by wild horses has resulted in the almost complete loss of riparian vegetation and the compaction of soils at three springs in the northern part of the HMA, but the CX indicates two.
The exclosures will either be steel pipe attached to posts pounded into the ground or steel buck and rail sitting on the surface.
Little Nettles Spring is on the eastern edge of the Eldorado Canyon Allotment and Rose Spring is in the Clifton Allotment.
The National Data Viewer shows the arrangement. Click on image to open in new tab.
The Allotment Master Report shows no grazing authorizations and no active AUMs.
The CX was signed on June 7 but was not published until July 24.
There were no opportunities for public involvement.
