Western Horse Watchers Association
Exposing the Hypocrisy, Lies and Incompetence of the Wild Horse Advocates
The incident started yesterday as planned with 329 horses captured, none shipped, none released and one dead.
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The ranch covers 44,311 total acres, including 9,006 deeded acres, according to the listing.
The nearest towns are Slater, Craig and Steamboat Springs, Colorado.
Most of the public acreage is in the Roaring Fork and Stewardship allotments of the Routt National Forest.
One is in Colorado and the other is in Wyoming.
The ranch also has preference on three BLM allotments.
Overall, the land ratio is good, 3.8 public acres per deeded acre.
The ranch does not overlap areas identified for wild horses.
Management as a wild horse preserve might be difficult because the allotments are not contiguous and multiple government agencies are involved.
Allotment conversion is not illegal, but your faithful public servants are trying to make it so—at least on BLM lands— by changing the Part 4100 grazing regulations.
You can comment against the proposal through July 13.
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Exhibit A:
They’re obsessed with pesticides.
They’re as ruthless as the helicopter pilots and wranglers.
They hate foals.
They hate families.
They hate nature’s way.
The Salt River Wild Horse Darting Group is a forward base of the Campaign Against America’s Wild Horses in Arizona.
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A July 10 press release by the Campaign Against America’s Wild Horses says the incident is expected to become the largest wild horse removal effort in Nevada history, which is not true.
The mass sterilization program on the Virginia Range, targeting over 3,000 wild horses, is the largest removal effort in the state, and it’s inflicted by the writers of the news release.
As usual, the charlatans call for effective management strategies grounded in science, transparency and humane stewardship, codewords for long-term use of PZP, with the inevitable result of permanent infertility and herd collapse.
One of their dupes, who stars in the Yellowstone spinoff Marshals, said “This isn’t about population control.”
Yes it is.
They are pesticide salesmen, not conservationists, and don’t deserve a penny of your support.
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The successor to the Wild Horse Working Group, disbanded in 2025, will meet online according to the news release.
No agenda was provided.
Creation of a wild horse preserve, suggested by the original group, will be impossible on public lands if the grazing rule update goes through.
Why aren’t the advocates talking about that?
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Princesses might be more accurate.
The advocates want you to think they’re the good guys.
If you’re a hunter or rancher, they are the good guys.
The rest of us know them as phonies, enemies of the horses, not worthy of our support.
Beware of the wild horse advocates. They’re not who they say they are.
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Today a U.S. District Judge granted a preliminary injunction barring federal agencies from classifying the horses as unauthorized livestock and preventing them from capturing and removing them according to a report by Courthouse News Service.
The order applies to all horses in the Apache-Sitgreaves National Forests not just the Heber WHT.
Last month ASNF solicited input on low-stress removal of up to 2,000 wild horses.
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Families were roaming the sage, foals were discovering the world and mares were carrying the next generation.
Oh the humanity!
Do you know who wrote this crap?
The Campaign Against America’s Wild Horses, a leader in nonmotorized removal and instigator of the largest attempted eradication of wild horses in Nevada.
They hate foals.
They’re sterilizing the mares with PZP.
The only problem they have with Montgomery Pass is that the horses are being removed with helicopters not ovary-killing pesticides.
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The incident started yesterday as planned according to the Inyo wild horse page, with 219 animals captured and no deaths.
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Yesterday judges in Sacramento denied two requests to halt the incident according to a report by Courthouse News Service.
Another judge granted a request to halt the removal of wild horses at Carter Reservoir, Buckhorn and Coppersmith, scheduled to begin on September 1.
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The incident will begin on or about July 20 according to the news release.
The capture and removal goals are 700 each.
The current population is thought to be 809.
A helicopter will push the horses into the traps.
Operations will not be open to public observation with the exception of those escorted by BLM staff.
Animals not put down in the field will be taken to the off-range corrals in Palomino Valley.
There are no plans to treat any of the mares with fertility control pesticides and return them to the range.
The roundup supports three tenets of rangeland management.
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Another project has been created in ePlanning and two documents have been uploaded.
The Decision Record says the agency is closing public lands within five miles of active trapping locations and temporary holding facilities to all public entry for the duration of the incident.
Only operations personnel and any public observers who are escorted by BLM staff will be allowed in the closure area.
A map on the last page shows the project area but does not indicate trap locations.
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A preliminary environmental assessment was copied to the project folder yesterday, with comments due by August 5 according to the news release.
A scoping report was included for reference.
Alternative B, the Proposed Action, calls for
The HMAP is discussed in Appendix C.
The HMA overlaps ten allotments, with percentages given in Table 3-2 of the EA.
Map 3 shows the arrangement.
The allotment master report at RAS provides acreage, management status and active AUMs (Price FO | Richfield FO).
Approximately 64% of the public acres are in the Improve category.
Livestock receive an estimated 9,031 AUMs per year inside the HMA, compared to 1,500 AUMs per year for the horses.
The HMA supports livestock equivalent to 753 wild horses, accounting for 1.3% of the animals in off-range holding.
The current population is thought to be 255, well within the estimated carrying capacity of 125 + 753 = 878.
If all horses were removed the HMA would still be at 6X AML.
Your faithful public servants claim that rangeland health will suffer if the population exceeds 1X AML.
Reducing livestock was one of the options eliminated from detailed analysis in the EA.
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The incident will begin on or about July 10 according to the news release.
The capture and removal goals are 2,000 each.
Burros that have migrated into the Complex will also be taken into custody.
A helicopter will push the animals into the traps.
Operations will be open to public observation on a limited basis, which contradicts a closure notice issued today.
Animals not put down at the temporary holding pens will be taken to the off-range corrals at Palomino Valley and the privately owned facility known as Indian Lakes.
There are no plans to treat any of the mares with fertility control pesticides and return them to the range.
The Complex is subject to permitted grazing.
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A new project has been created in ePlanning and three documents have been uploaded.
Only essential personnel will be allowed within five miles of active trapping locations according to the Decision Record.
There are no exceptions for observers escorted by BLM staff.
A map at the end of the Categorical Exclusion shows the gather area but does not indicate trap sites.
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At Grayson Highlands State Park with Crystal Clear Life.
Warning to advocates: Contains images of foals.
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If it was, your faithful public servants would not be trying to insert “production-oriented livestock” into the Part 4100 regulations, restricting grazing permits to operations that produce meat, milk or fiber.
They are, in effect, trying to make wild animal preserves illegal, even though the concept has been demonstrated in Montana, Nevada and Colorado.
Did you know the Campaign Against America’s Wild Horses, though its LLC in Nevada, holds 75% of the active AUMs in the Buckeye Allotment?
Refer to the Allotment Master and Authorization Use reports for details.
Why hasn’t the nonprofit converted its preference to wild horses, establishing the Pine Nut Wild Horse Preserve? There would finally be winners of the Buckeye Lottery.
Approval of the grazing rule update would give it the perfect excuse to continue running cattle on the allotment, much to the delight of its allies, the public-lands ranchers.
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The Public Lands Council supports them.
The ranching advocacy group stated in a May 12 news release that the reforms were a clear signal of BLM’s commitment to restoring effective multiple-use management, which is not true.
The update would reduce the uses of public lands identified for grazing, limiting them to production-oriented livestock.
There would be no opportunities for conversion of allotments to wild animal preserves, a practice that has already been demonstrated in Montana, Nevada and Colorado.
If multiple use was really the goal, the rules would not only accommodate allotment repurposing but encourage it, at great savings to American taxpayers.
You can comment on the proposed changes at the Federal Register.
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The doctrine of multiple use will apply to allotments in areas identified for wild horses and burros, as it does now.
Livestock will be authorized in those areas and will be entitled to most of the resources.
The doctrine will not apply to allotments outside those areas.
Owning or leasing base properties and petitioning the government for changes in livestock types and seasons of use, will no longer be recognized as a method for establishing wild animal preserves on public lands.
You can comment against the proposal at the Federal Register through July 13.
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The Utu Utu Gwaitu Paiute Tribe of the Benton Paiute Reservation brought the case earlier this week according to a story by Native News Online.
The complaint alleges that the defendants, which include the BLM and Forest Service, did not complete the legally required government-to-government consultation, identifying sacred sites and cultural resources within the operation’s footprint, or assessing the impact of helicopter operations on Benton Paiute land.
The plaintiffs asked the court to vacate and set aside the 2025 Decision Record and halt the removal of wild horses from the project area, among other things.
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