Front Range Equine Rescue and two wild horse photographers have joined forces with Return to Normal (Before WHB Act), signatory to the anti-horse/pro-livestock “Path Forward,” to stop the changes announced on May 9, according to a news release dated May 17 on PRN.

Their announcement claims that the White Mountain HMA will be managed as non-reproducing herd, an option that was dropped in the final plan.  Refer to the bullet list in Section 4.0 of the ROD.

The court will likely uphold BLM’s decision.

Actions like these keep their base fired up and the donations rolling in, while achieving nothing useful for wild horses.

They are free to spend their money as they please, within reason, but you don’t have to be part of it.

RELATED: Coalition Files Suit to Block Rock Springs RMP Amendments.

Suzanne Roy, executive director of the Campaign Against America’s Wild Horses, a leader in the wild horse removal industry, tries to tell the Committee about her cherished wild horses but is cut off for exceeding her time limit.

If this is the caliber at the top, can you imagine what’s going on in the trenches?

She’s toast.

RELATED: Assembly Committee Hears SB90.

The advocates point to conflicts between wild horses and drillers, miners and loggers, but if they were true, county commissioners would have cited them in their resolution.

Instead, they pointed to conflicts between wild horses and livestock, noting that some BLM grazing allotments have gone unused because of over-grazing by wild horses, that fences and crops of county ranches have been damaged by wild horses, and that a decline in the county’s agricultural output can be attributed to the horses.

There’s nothing new under the sun!

The advocates are united with the bureaucrats and ranchers in their belief that wild horses are pests, evident in their May 16 testimony before the Assembly Committee on Government Affairs regarding SB90.

They have their own vocabulary to conceal the truth about their ruinous darting programs, for which they’re always seeking your financial support.

They claim to be voices for the horses, yet they’re trying to get rid of them with a restricted-use pesticide.

Back in the day, we called this “mixed messaging.”

As a result, many in the legislature must be wondering why they’re being asked to designate a pest as the official state horse of Nevada.

RELATED: Assembly Committee Hears SB90.

Acquisition of 3,314 private acres will give the new owner access to food and water in 333,399 public acres, a resource multiplier of 100!

This is how American Prairie is putting together a vast wildlife reserve in Montana.

A plan for rewilding captured horses in this manner would likely be met with considerable resistance from the bureaucrats and ranchers, as experienced by Madeliene Pickens fifteen years ago.

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The bill will provide funding to support the poisoning of mares with a restricted-use pesticide, which the Campaign Against America’s Wild Horses describes in a recent news flash as “sustaining wild horse populations through robust fertility control and habitat stewardship programs.”

The project is not an outgrowth of public opposition to cruel and costly helicopter roundups, as indicated in the announcement, but is driven by a belief that areas identified for wild horses should be managed primarily for cattle and sheep.

Thus, it is an offshoot of the contemptible “Path Forward” and CAAWH, a leader in the wild horse removal industry, is one of its greatest supporters.

RELATED: Legislature Approves Colorado Wild Horse Project.

The Draft EA was copied to the project folder today, along with related documents.

Comments will be accepted through June 13.

Three HMAs in western Idaho are affected.  All are subject to permitted grazing.

The Proposed Action, discussed in Section 2.2 of the EA, features

• Roundups
• Fertility control treatments
• Selective removals
• Introduction of animals from other HMAs

Today’s news release said the BLM is required to manage wild horse herds at the appropriate management levels that were established through the analysis of monitoring data and water and forage availability on a sustainable basis.

This is nonsense.

AMLs represent the number of horses allowed by plan, not the number of horses the land can support.

How can they represent carrying capacities when livestock receive three to six AUMs for every AUM assigned to the horses?

There is nothing in the WHB Act that says AMLs must be small relative to the available resources, but they are, so ranchers can access most of the food and water in the lawful homes of wild horses.

The fourth component of the new plan is clearly a nod to the public-lands ranchers, as if the other three weren’t, that boosts genetic diversity while keeping herd sizes small.

In the future you won’t be able to adopt a Hardtrigger horse, only a horse captured in the Hardtrigger HMA—a mutt, Heinz 57.

As for the fertility control treatments, restricted-use pesticides such as Zonastat-H and GonaCon Equine are not approved for control of pests that interfere with animal agriculture, so that component is dead on arrival.

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The idea of achieving and maintaining AMLs, the goal of the ill-advised “Path Forward,” is to minimize pests that interfere with animal agriculture, even in areas where grazing does not occur, such as Pryor Mountain, Spring Creek Basin and Little Book Cliffs.

Animal agriculture occurs in adjacent allotments, where the horses might wander in search of greener pastures.

The leading methods of pest control are forcible removal by helicopters, voluntary separation from their lawful homes by baited traps and population growth suppression with restricted-use pesticides.

The advocates claim that helicopter roundups are cruel and costly and want the resource allocations—that greatly favor the ranchers—enforced by poisoning the mares.

Thus, the wild horse and burro program operates as a pest control program for the grazing program, in defiance of the original statute.

All of the changes since 1971, including the introduction of AMLs, were intended to benefit the public-lands ranchers, not the drillers, miners, hunters and loggers as the advocates would have you believe.

The closure of two HMAs in Wyoming and the downsizing of a third, to appease the Rock Springs Grazing Association, is just the latest chapter in the long-running story.

RELATED: Rock Springs RMP Amendments Cleared for Implementation.

Hunters, trappers and ranchers want wild horses eradicated from public lands, according to a news flash earlier this week by the Campaign Against America’s Wild Horses, but they are not actually getting rid of any wild horses, at least not by an approved method.

CAAWH is, along with its affiliates, offshoots and supporters, in numbers that rival the largest of roundups.

In a story dated May 11 about the case against the Rock Springs RMP Amendments, Suzanne Roy, monster-in-charge of CAAWH, told Cowboy State Daily that it’s not about saving the environment, it’s about getting rid of wild horses in favor of cattle grazing, exactly what her field workers are doing across the American west.

Around here, that qualifies as hypocrisy and fraud.

Why are you still giving her money?

RELATED: Coalition Files Suit to Block Rock Springs RMP Amendments.

Like all good liberals, the advocates believe that reproduction is a problem, a defect of nature, to be controlled in some cases with abortion, contraception and sterilization.

The United States can’t support so many people, especially of white European descent, but it can sustain an unlimited number of criminal invaders of color.

The advocates project these beliefs onto wild horses, suppressing their numbers to a point where genetic viability is threatened, so millions of privately owned nonnative animals can reproduce and graze at large in their lawful homes.

The origin of this safe, proven and reversible technology is the Billings School of PZP Darting and Public Deception, featured in the following video by the Campaign Against America’s Wild Horses.

How to tell if the advocates are poisoning the mares in your favorite herd?

Look for injuries and adverse reactions in the target zone, evident at 0:15 in a video from the Salt River.

The advocates rely on predators to take care of any youngsters that defy their humane management programs.

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