Western Horse Watchers Association
Exposing the Hypocrisy, Lies and Incompetence of the Wild Horse Advocates
An administrative order issued by the Arizona Department of Agriculture says on page 3 that a six to seven year old deceased stallion displaying symptoms had been sampled and results were pending.
RELATED: Virus Detected in Salt River Herd.
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The news release does not indicate if it was associated in any way with the advocates and their mass sterilization program.
The alert runs from December 6 to March 6.
The closure order prohibits riding, hitching, tethering or hobbling a horse or other saddle or pack animal in the Described Area.
The map indicates the Described Area to be most if not all of the designated habitat.
The wild horse habitat overlaps the Goldfield and Sunflower Allotments in the Tonto National Forest.
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Ater WWII, bald eagles were nearly wiped out in the U.S. by widespread use of DDT.
In a process known as bioaccumulation, the pesticide weakened the shells of their eggs, turning reproductive success into reproductive failure.
The advocates use pesticides to cause reproductive failure in wild horses, selling the practice as humane conservation.
What would you say about women who hiked into the wilderness and climbed to the mountaintops to smash the eggs of bald eagles?
PREVIOUS: Foal-Free Friday, Envy and Jealousy Edition.
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Humane conservation means mass sterilization—beating the horse populations down with ovary-killing pesticides so ranchers can have most of their food.
What would be an example of a principled advocate?
Those words don’t even belong together.
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Wait ten years, when the mass sterilization program has run its course.
The aging remnant will signify a return to the fast-disappearing days of the original WHB Act, thanks to the advocates.
RELATED: What’s Harder to Find Than a Salt River Foal?
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It’s like RAS only for wild horses and burros.
Adopters can now find basic information about the history of their animals according to the news release.
The system will give you their vaccination status and other health information if you supply the freeze mark or microchip number.
It will not tell you how many AUMs were liberated by their removal or the names of the permittees benefitting therefrom.
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Today you can help wild horses by doing nothing.
Give your credit card a rest.
Why would you support defeatists, pesticide pushers and ranching sympathizers?
They deserve your ire not your money.
PREVIOUS: On the Eve of Defund the Advocates Day.
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They protect ranchers, not wild horses.
They’re sterilizing the mares and calling it preservation.
They’re driving genetic diversity into the ground and calling it conservation.
They’re demanding new management plans that reinforce old policies and practices while calling it protection.
They want you to think the herds will vanish without their involvement when in reality they’re disappearing because of their involvement.
Let this year be different. Give them the boot, along with their pesticides and HMAPs, on Giving Tuesday.
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The turncoats at the Campaign Against America’s Wild Horses think you’re malleable, dumber than a bag of hammers, and can be easily persuaded to finance their mass sterilization programs.
The indigenous peoples who might be affected by wild horse migration into their communities come in two varieties: Ranchers who graze BLM allotments and ranchers who graze Forest Service allotments.
The ArcGIS Viewer shows the arrangement. Click on image to enlarge.
RELATED: BLM Issues Montgomery Pass Final Planning Documents.
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At the Onaqui Mountain HMA with Debbie ODell.
Why are there so few foals?
What is the size of the breeding population?
Is genetic diversity trending up or down?
What about the death rate?
Why are you still giving money to the advocates?
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The advocates are telling you in this Google search result about the mass sterilization program at the Salt River.
How do you know?
Hint: Codewords for Nonmotorized Removal (of Wild Horses).
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They want you to think that genetic diversity correlates with herd size, which is not true when the mares have been ruined, or are in the process of being ruined, with PZP.
Kick them to the curb on December 2.
PREVIOUS: Three Days Until Defund the Advocates Day.
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The morons are those who lap this stuff up without question.
The malice comes from those who post it, trying to give the impression that all is well while sweeping the mass sterilization program under the rug.
They deserve your contempt not your money.
RELATED: What’s Harder to Find Than a Salt River Foal?
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They’re selling mass sterilization as wild horse conservation.
They want you to think that drillers and miners are the greatest threats to wild horses.
They want privately owned cattle and sheep to have most of the food and water in the lawful homes of wild horses.
Send them packing on December 2.
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An ad in the November edition of Horse Tales puts the value of forage in a rented pasture at $125 per AUM, assuming a horse can survive without supplemental feed.
Why pay the going rate when you can graze the public lands for $1.35 per AUM?
The grazing fee, which does not give the American people a fair price for the use of their public lands, is set by a formula in the Public Rangelands Improvement Act.
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The Stewart Creek HMA lies within the Stewart Creek Allotment with a little room to spare in the northeast corner.
Size
Animals allowed by plan
Resource loading
The HMA would be well over 3X AML with no wild horses.
Livestock exert 3.8 times more grazing pressure than horses.
If the land can only support 1.1 wild horses per thousand acres but routinely carries the equivalent of 5.3 wild horses per thousand acres, then rangeland degradation must be a goal, not a defect of permitted grazing.
Another possibility is that the land can support more wild horses than the bureaucrats admit.
The advocates won’t talk about it because it undermines the rationale for their darting programs.
RELATED: Resource Management in the Beaty Butte Allotment.
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How many wild horse advocates are depressed because they can’t participate in the mass sterilization programs at the Salt River and Virginia Range?
How many field workers would reject their assistance because they want all the glory for themselves?
PREVIOUS: Foal-Free Friday, Uh-Oh Edition.
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The allotment, about 30 miles southeast of Roswell, sustains cattle and horses in a 12-month grazing season according to the authorization use report. (The figures in the report are not correct. Twenty horses would require 240 AUMs per year not 127.)
The allotment master report puts it in the Improve category, suggesting that your stewards of the public lands are not taking their responsibilities seriously.
The permittee receives 15,106 active AUMs on 126,373 public acres, equivalent to 1,259 wild horses or ten wild horses per thousand public acres.
Your faithful public servants claim that public lands in the western U.S. can only support one wild horse per thousand acres (25,600 animals on 25.6 million acres according to the last page of the 2025 population dataset).
The advocates ratify and reinforce the narrative with their darting programs.
If the allotment was an HMA, the AML would be 126 and 1,133 wild horses would be consigned to off-range holding because of permitted grazing.
The area would be held to a small fraction of carrying capacity to accommodate large numbers of livestock, placed there by high-net-worth individuals who pay almost nothing for the resources they consume and the services rendered on their behalf by the government.
BLM allotments in New Mexico support livestock equivalent to 153,225 wild horses on 12,234,818 public acres, or 12.5 wild horses per thousand public acres.
Wild horses can be placed on public lands not identified for their use by acquiring base properties associated with grazing allotments and flipping the preference to horses.
RELATED: The Allotments Tell the Story: They’re Lying, All of Them.
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An advocate who condemns the mass sterilization program.
They’re all cut from the same cloth and they all drank the same Kool-Aid.
Put them out to pasture on December 2.
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He was taken to their farm after they determined he was a threat to humans according to a report by WRAL News.
The article said he was becoming too reliant on people giving him food.
It’s not clear if he was a bachelor or band leader.
RELATED: Advocates Dispatch, Eulogize Currituck Stallion.
UPDATE: For some background on Topnotch, the subject of this post, go to Action 1D on page 9 of the minutes of the May 15 Wild Horse Advisory Board meeting.
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