Clifford Spring Exclosure Won’t Isolate Stone Cabin Horses

The aim of the project is to improve riparian habitat while continuing to provide water to free-roaming horses, wildlife and livestock.

Map 1 in the preliminary decision gives you the location but doesn’t tell you the HMA.

The last page gives the legal description as T. 3 N., R. 49 E., sec. 11, SW1/4SE1/4.

That means the southwest quarter of the southeast quadrant of Section 11 in Township 3 North, Range 49 East (Mount Diablo base and meridian). Probably a 40-acre parcel.

The PLSS layer in the ArcGIS viewer puts the spring in the Stone Cabin HMA, which lies mostly within the Stone Cabin Allotment.

The Proposed Action, discussed in the CX, would install 730 feet of metal fence around the spring, two gates, up to 360 feet of buried water lines, one in-ground tank equipped with a thermoriser and one tire trough located outside the exclosure.

Comments will be accepted through September 19.

Another Moreno Valley Burro Hit by Arrow

She was captured and taken to an equine hospital where most of the projectile was removed but another surgery is needed to retrieve the head according to a report by KTLA News.

A local sanctuary has offered a reward of $14,000 for information leading to an arrest and conviction of the person(s) responsible.

Curiously, there would be no charges if the advocates were hitting the jennies with pesticide-laced darts.

BLM Moves Rock Springs Roundups into Next Year

An attorney representing plaintiffs in a new lawsuit said they won’t happen before the summer of 2026 according to a report by Wyofile.

The case was brought by two advocacy groups and two women, all PZP adherents, who may have been offended by being described as “pro-horse groups and individuals.”

As of today, the agency has not released a roundup schedule for FY26.

Eighth Annual Devil’s Garden Roundup, Day 15

The incident started on August 27.

Figures for Day 12 indicate three stallions captured plus one mare but the total is 11.

The documented capture total through September 10 is 111, including 46 stallions, 54 mares and 11 foals.

Youngsters represented 9.9% of the sample.

Of the adults, 46% were male and 54% were female.

The average daily take is 7.4.

The death rate is 3.6%.

Body condition scores were not given.

The number of horses shipped is not known.

The operation supports three tenets of rangeland management.

Too Many Horses and Not Enough Land at Salt River?

So says one of the challengers vying for the management contract.

If that’s true then why not move them to one or more vacant allotments to the north?

Their current habitat is in the Goldfield Allotment and previously extended into the Sunflower Allotment.

Foal-Free Friday, Waiting for Godot Edition

When will the advocates explain how mass sterilization, the inevitable result of humane population reduction, preserves wild horses for future generations?

When will they stop lying about the reversibility of PZP?

CAAWH Returns to LA for Wild Horse Shakedown

This year’s event will be held at Gracias Madre in West Hollywood (sometimes referred to as the city of the sodomites), according to an announcement on Average Socialite.

The venue features Mexican food made from plant-based ingredients only, a must-have for liberals.

The online flyer shows a mare and foal, antithetical to the CAAWH mission.

Ticket options:

General admission – $250
VIP foal friend – $350
VIP meadow guardian – $450
VIP herd protector – $550

The general admission ticket gets you drinks and hors d’oeuvres.

The foal friend ticket pays for care of an orphaned foal. There aren’t supposed to be any foals.

The meadow guardian ticket funds the reseeding of one acre of scorched earth in their bogus land trust. The name of the affected allotment was not given.

The herd protector ticket buys 20 doses of PZP. In exchange, you get an 8×10 photo taken by the head darter in charge at Cedar Mountain, where the BLM pays them to ruin the mares.

The organizers say the event is dedicated to protecting America’s wild horses and burros, yet there are no remarks about stopping competition from livestock, fixing unfair resource allocations and restoring lost habitat.

Punishing the Victims

The September 9 commentary in Nevada Current reveals the duplicity and betrayal of the Campaign Against America’s Wild Horses.

The problem: America’s wild horses have faced competition from livestock, unfair resource allocation, and shrinking habitat for generations.

Their solution: Sterilize the mares, beat the horse numbers down with ovary-killing pesticides.

How does that stop the competition from livestock, fix the resource allocations and restore lost habitat?

It doesn’t. They don’t want any changes, other than more government spending on services they provide.

These people are phonies, allies of the bureaucrats and ranchers, and don’t deserve a penny of your support.

Currituck Herd Adds New Filly

She’s the ninth foal this year according to a report by WCTI News.

The status of the darting program is unknown.

Black is dominant, red is recessive.

You can have heterozygous black but not heterozygous red.

If that’s her mom, maybe she’s a liver chestnut.

Nevada’s Wild Horses One Bill Away from Mass Sterilization

The advocates, not known for charity or integrity, want Congress to spend more money on services they provide.

Western Horse Watchers recommends that you send letters about wild horses to news outlets that don’t put them behind paywalls.

Capitulation, Surrender, Defeat on the Virginia Range

If your opponent appears to be winning, should you rethink your strategy or continue on the same path?

Consider this commentary in today’s edition of Nevada Current, written by the State Director for the Campaign Against America’s Wild Horses.

The author identifies the problem, but instead of offering a solution, shows how to make it worse.

“America’s wild horses have faced competition from livestock, unfair resource allocation, and shrinking habitat for generations.”

Fair statement.

The answer?

Sterilize the mares.

Give the ranchers what they want.

While you’re at it, feed the public a steady diet of lies.

“The Virginia Range program uses an immunocontraceptive vaccine known as PZP (porcine zona pellucida). Administered by trained volunteers via remote darting, PZP prevents pregnancy in mares without harming hormone cycles or behaviors, and it’s reversible.”

PZP is a restricted-use pesticide that tricks the immune system into attacking the ovaries.

After five years of treatment, the mares can no longer bear fruit.

“The USA now has more wild horses in captivity than running free on the rangelands in the West.”

Why is that?

Refer to the problem statement at the beginning of your op-ed, about which you, and your army of nitwits, do nothing.

Mustang Monday

On the Mogollon Rim with TDWM Outdoors. Association with Heber WHT unknown.

Heber Objection Period Begins

The Forest Service copied the following documents to the project folder on August 29:

Final environmental assessment
Final territory management plan
Draft decision notice

Scroll down to the Project Summary, expand the Project Documents section and click on the AdminReview folder.

Only those who participated in the planning process are eligible to object.

The DN would authorize Alternative 2, the Proposed Action, discussed on page 18 of the EA (page 24 in the pdf) and beyond.

Horses currently occupy an area much larger than the 19,700-acre WHT so initial management actions will be directed at achieving AML within the designated space.

Active AUMs and acreages of surrounding allotments should be reviewed to determine if the proposed AML (104) and stocking rate (5.3 wild horses per thousand acres) are reasonable.

Surgical sterilization was dropped from the analysis.

Chemical sterilization, via PZP and GonaCon, is on the table.

Expanding the territory, increasing the AML and reducing livestock grazing didn’t make the cut.

The WHT lies within the Heber and Black Canyon Allotments. Figure 6 in the EA shows the overlapping pastures.

Eighth Annual Devil’s Garden Roundup, Day 10

The incident started on August 27.

The Forest Service has added deaths to the daily reports.

Shipping data are not provided.

Deceased animals are not included in the daily breakdowns. For example, two horses were put down for unspecified conditions on September 3 but you don’t know if they were stallions, mares or foals.

The daily totals should match the daily breakdowns.

The documented capture total is 68, including 28 stallions, 34 mares and six foals.

Youngsters represented 8.8% of the sample.

Of the adults, 45.2% were male and 54.8% were female.

The average daily take is 6.8.

The death rate, based on a capture total of 72, is 6.9%.

The operation supports three tenets of rangeland management.

BLM Issues Blue Wing Final Planning Documents

The Decision Record authorizes Alternative A, the Proposed Action, discussed in Section 2.4 of the Environmental Assessment.

It is the only option calling for a nonreproducing segment in the population, to be achieved by “minimally invasive sterilization” of mares and stallions.

Other features of the plan include:

Forcible removal of excess animals to low AML
Application of fertility control pesticides
Alteration of sex ratios to favor males
Development of a new a new water source
Monitoring of genetic diversity

Commenting in support of the plan was Return to Normal (Before WHB Act). Refer to item 2 in Appendix XVII of the EA.

The project is subject to a 30-day appeal period but that was not mentioned in the news release.

BLM Moving Ahead with Rock Springs Roundups?

Despite a July 15 appeals court ruling, the agency plans to proceed with permanent removal of wild horses from the Salt Wells Creek and Adobe Town Herd Areas, starting on or about October 13, according to a report by WyoFile.

Referring to them as herd areas, a sign of bureaucratic arrogance, implies validity of the RMP amendments.

The move was met with another lawsuit by Friends of Animals.

As of today, the BLM has not published a roundup schedule for FY26, which begins on October 1.

As for funding, Congress has not passed, and the President has not signed, a bill or bills for spending in FY26.

Foal-Free Friday, Casting Your Pearls to the Swine Edition

Do you give money to the wild horse advocates?

McDowell Commissioners to Hear Plan for Salt River Horses

The meeting begins tonight at 5 PM according to an article by the Scottsdale Progress.

Political Rally at Palomino Valley Off-Range Corrals?

The flyer says wild horses are a living symbol of America’s spirit of freedom, but career politicians and bureaucrats in Washington have sold them out to special interests.

What special interests?

If the speakers don’t talk about livestock, forage allocations and the way your public lands are managed, shake the dust from your sandals and leave.

The event starts at 10 AM on September 20 at the BLM adoption center.

The organizer, who served eight months in prison for wire fraud, is trying to unseat Dina Titus, a left-wing kook, co-founder of the Pesticide Caucus and close supporter of the Campaign Against America’s Wild Horses, from Nevada’s 1st congressional district.