Western Horse Watchers Association
Exposing the Hypocrisy, Lies and Incompetence of the Wild Horse Advocates
Approximately 22,684 acres of public lands in Nye County have been put off limits for a twenty-year period from all forms of mineral entry, according to today’s news release.
The change was prompted by a request from NASA to minimize surface disturbance in the area, which is used for satellite calibration activities.
The nearby Sand Springs West and Pancake HMAs are not affected.
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With few exceptions, the advocates apply the chemical to keep the pests in check, so ranchers can access most of their food.
They are stupid beyond imagination, enemies of the horses!
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Here is a list of HMAs subject to the Montana Solution, according to the April 18 roundup schedule.
Ask the culprits for a copy of the DOA, or other such document, naming them as designated agents of the federal government.
Please leave a comment if you can fill in the unknowns.
PZP darting also occurs in these areas. Ask for documentation naming these groups as designated agents of state governments.
The EPA limited application of the pesticide to federal and state governments, among others, and their designated agents.
Some states may have additional requirements, such as licensing, to procure, possess, apply and dispose such chemicals.
The EPA limits the application of PZP to the DOI and its designated agents, state departments of agriculture and wildlife and their designated agents, federally recognized Indian tribes and their designated agents, Department of Defense and its designated agents, public and private wild horse sanctuaries and reserves, Humane Society of the United States designated agents, and the USDA and its designated agents.
Go to Section 5 in the pesticide fact sheet.
The advocates can get diplomas from the Billings School of PZP Darting and Public Deception but have you ever seen Delegations of Authority from the BLM or Forest Service naming them as their designated agents?
On the Virginia Range, the Nevada Department of Agriculture would grant the DOA.
What about the ponies on the barrier islands?
Ask for copies.
The advocates may be easier to contact than the bureaucrats.
The numbers are changing minute by minute, but as of this evening, the total was 2,577.
The Cloud Foundation has also issued an Action Alert, with a recommendation to be courteous, factual, and polite when commenting on the project.
Only four days left.
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The Senate Agriculture & Natural Resources Committee passed the bill on April 20 by a vote of 5 to 1, according to a report posted this morning by Colorado Politics.
The measure was referred to the Committee on Appropriations.
In an attempt to sell poison as medicine, Amendment L.002 changed “FERTILITY CONTROL METHODS” to “IMMUNOCONTRACEPTIVE FERTILITY CONTROL VACCINES.”
Why not say “RESTRICTED-USE PESTICIDES?”
The fertility control program would manage the herds through “humane, nonlethal and safe fertility control methods,” and would ban the use of lethal population management or surgical sterilization.
Chemical sterilization is OK, apparently.
How do you know that SB23-275 is bad for wild horses?
The advocates are for it.
An animal you’re trying to eradicate with a restricted-use pesticide.
Sometimes referred to as a beloved/innocent/treasured horse or burro.
Never let the public know your true intentions.
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Near the Truckee River with Capture Nevada.
The advocates think that by putting “humane” in front of terms like “management,” “fertility control,” “outcomes” and “alternatives to helicopters” you’ll think they’re a voice for wild horses.
Similarly, if they put “humanely” in front of “reducing the herd size,” you’ll agree with them that not only is getting rid of wild horses acceptable, it’s the right thing to do and you should be paying for it.
The ranchers couldn’t have asked for a better bunch of hucksters.
Although 215 trespass horses have been trapped and removed in the past year, the Forest Service hasn’t made a dent in the overall numbers, according to a report dated April 21 by the White Mountain Independent.
A spokesman said the Forest Service will likely have to enter into a long-term contract to keep the herd from rebounding.
What do you suppose that might involve?
Advocates with the Salt River Wild Horse Darting Group, an affiliate of the Campaign Against America’s Wild Horses, a leader in the wild horse removal industry, have already offered to get rid of the herd with a safe, proven and reversible fertility control program that sterilizes the mares in four to five years.
The contract would likely amount to a memorandum of understanding or zero-dollar purchase order.
Donors to these organizations would foot the bill, not taxpayers.
Ranchers in the area, the leading beneficiary of the effort, could pick up an easy tax deduction.
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Operations will be suspended for 45 days effective May 1, according to a story dated April 21 by Military.com.
The unit employs military working horses as escorts during funerals at Arlington National Cemetery.
Given their mission, you’d think they’d be treated like royalty, but they live in small lots covered with excrement, suffer from illness and are fed low-quality hay.
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The agency proposes to add seven active ingredients to its list of approved ingredients, according to a Draft EIS posted to ePlanning on March 10.
The new products are discussed in Section 2.2.
The project folder includes a scoping report, also released on March 10.
The comment period ends June 5. Online comments are not being accepted at this time.
No online public meetings have been scheduled as of today.
Invasive plants can develop resistance to herbicides over time, according to yesterday’s news release, so new active ingredients are developed to overcome such problems.
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The civil complaint, brought by the owner of a ranch that covers public and private parcels in the Wyoming checkerboard, follows criminal trespass charges that were dropped last year.
The ranch owner wants the judge to declare that the hunters trespassed, then leave it for a jury to determine later how much they should pay in damages, according to a story dated April 18 by WyoFile.
The hunters want the suit dismissed completely, arguing that the Unlawful Inclosures Act of 1885 prevents landowners from fencing others out of public lands or using threats and intimidation toward that end.
The case could establish precedent in claims involving access to 8.3 million acres of “corner-locked” public lands in the American West.
The plaintiff believes the corner-crossers devalued his ranch by $7.75 million, not by setting foot on his property, but by crossing its air space!
Damages could go as high as $9.4 million.
The story did not indicate if the plaintiff had sued any commercial airlines for flying over his property.
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The population estimate as of March 1 was 82,833, according to a BLM blog post dated April 21, only 499 more than the same time last year.
Permitted grazing, which occurs in most of the areas identified for wild horses and burros, was not mentioned.
Predators are few and far between according to the article, yet the advocates count on them to take out any foals that slip through their darting programs.
To achieve the goal of managing healthy wild horses and burros on healthy public lands, the bureaucrats beat down the herds with helicopters and the advocates snuff out new life with pesticides, so ranchers can access most of their food and water.
Not exactly what Velma and the 92nd Congress intended.
They’re a native keystone species vital to the health of our public lands, according to a news release on EIN, but we need to drive their numbers down with a restricted-use pesticide so ranchers can access most of their food and water.
Who promotes such legislation? The PZP darters and their allies. Totally self-serving.
If you want to help America’s wild horses, stay home.
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His generation tried to fix it, but the solution wasn’t acceptable to the public-lands ranchers, whom he now serves.
Although horses appear in the North American fossil record, he is silent about the predominant nonnative species on America’s public lands, privately owned cattle and sheep, to whom most of the food and water on said lands have been assigned by the bureaucrats, even in the lawful homes of wild horses.
That’s why the off-range corrals are flooded with “excess” animals.
As for predators, the advocates rely on them to take out any foals that slip through their darting programs.
What do you call a restricted-use pesticide that destroys the ovaries of mares in four to five years? A vaccine.
What do you call a mare whose ovaries have been destroyed by said pesticide, or nearly so? Self-boosting.
Next time a storm moves through your area, try this experiment.
Grab an umbrella and head out the door. Hold the umbrella at your side. Rain falls on your head.
Now, hold the umbrella over your head. Rain can’t reach your head.
Try it again. By your side, head gets wet. Above, head stays dry.
If you try it next month, you’ll get the same results.
Next year, same.
The effect of the umbrella is reversible.
This is not true for the Montana Solution.
The advocates have been telling you for years that PZP is a sperm blocker, an umbrella of sorts, that wears off after a few years when the treatments are stopped.
Unfortunately, if the umbrella has been in place for five years and you remove it, there will be no raindrops falling on your head.
PZP is not reversible, as the advocates claim. Rather, it is a sterilant.
Results from Assateague Island prove it.
In a similar manner, the advocates are destroying the herds on the Virginia Range, Salt River and the HMAs listed on the latest roundup schedule.
If they told you the truth about their darting programs, the injuries and infections, the increasing death rates, shrinking herds, abnormal sex ratios and sterilization of mares, you’d withdraw your financial support immediately.
So, they conceal their enmity with euphemisms like “safe, proven and reversible,” hoping you won’t catch on.
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NOTE: Examples of these lies, such as this one, can usually be found on the propaganda page of Lucky Three Ranch.
The Senate streamlined the bill, removing the reference to the Virginia Range darting program, among other things.
It’s now a simple declaration of the wild mustang as the state horse of Nevada.
Today, the Assembly considered it for the first time, according to the overview on NELIS, and referred it to the Committee on Government Affairs.
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A philanthropist who has supported many island organizations has offered a matching grant up to $100,000, according to the April 18 update. That means a $5 donation turns into $10, a $100 donation doubles to $200, etc.
The donation total now exceeds $350,000.
The museum has until April 30 to match the developer’s bid of $625,000.
Donations can be made online at this GoFundMe page.
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The plan for FY 2023 has expanded considerably, with new goals of 7,194 animals captured and 5,857 removed.
Previously, the schedule was dominated by fertility control programs.
This year there are 16 such programs, compared to 14 in 2022.
Eight incidents were classified as nuisance.
Sand Wash Basin is on the list again, along with Black Mountain and Calico.
Roundups ensure that ranchers receive their allocated share of the food and water in the lawful homes of wild horses and burros.
The advocates snuff out new life with their ruinous darting programs, prolonging the effect of the roundups.
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