Watch how quickly the focus shifts to free-roaming horses on public rangelands—just 20 seconds into the video. Would their story differ from that of horses in other areas?
In this film about science, did they use scientific methods to collect the data and present their findings?
Where in the North American fossil record do cattle and sheep appear? Are they working on a video for that?
This is not science, it is agenda-driven information intended to confuse or mislead, also known as propaganda.
Be very skeptical when you see statements such as “management of these animals informed by independent science,” which was added to the text of AJR-5 in California.
The year-long infection in her leg intensified after she was separated from her colt, removed from the wild and treated aggressively, according to a report by OBX Today.
The advocacy group coordinating the response solicited donations two weeks ago to help with the vet bills.
On the bright side, they did let her have a foal before she died.
The advocates won’t oppose it because it can accomplish automatically what they’ve been trying to achieve manually: Getting rid of wild horses with contraceptives.
Western Horse Watchers believes there are some aspects of the machine that its developers aren’t disclosing, such as what happens if studs come in for the bait or the mares continue to feed after they’ve been darted. How will they be repelled?
On the range, will the higher horses allow the lower horses to get near it?
Two years ago, when interviewed about the proposed move, a Colorado senator said “Washington is infested with special interests. You mean to tell me that BLM is insulated from that? They’re infested.”
Congress doesn’t write land-use plans and specify AMLs. How long do you think they’d last if the American people knew they assigned most of the resources in wild horse areas to privately owned livestock? That would be political suicide.
They may agree with it, but they let the bureaucrats do the dirty work.
Would you be upset if it was 2,250 cow/calf pairs for six months per year? What would you say if it was 1,800 cow/calf pairs for four months and 5,250 ewe/lamb pairs for six months? Would you feel better if it was 7,500 ewe/lamb pairs for nine months?
All three cases have the same resource loading, 13,500 AUMs per year.
The management plan allows 210 wild horses for twelve months, requiring 2,520 AUMs per year.
How do you make the comparisons simple? Look at the resource allocations.
Livestock numbers depend on livestock types and grazing seasons.
But the forage allocations tell you immediately that the HMA is managed primarily for livestock.
You can also compute the number of horses displaced from the HMA by livestock, the True AML, and, if you know the current population, the number of excess horses.
A story dated July 9 by Tri-State Livestock News describes the reaction of the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association to an executive order committing $500 million to expanding processing capacity in the beef industry.
The order was intended to promote competition in the American economy and directs the USDA to consider issuing new rules defining the “Product of the USA” label on beef so consumers have accurate, transparent information at the grocery store.
The term ‘rulemaking’ appears 21 times in the order.
In Sec. 5. (i) (ii), the Secretary of Agriculture shall consider initiating a rulemaking to define the conditions under which the labeling of meat products can bear voluntary statements indicating that the product is of United States origin, such as “Product of USA,” to ensure that consumers have accurate, transparent labels that enable them to choose products made in the United States.
The issue is not the labels. As an aside, do you think producers of range-fed beef would welcome labels like this?
RANGE FED
PRODUCED ON PUBLIC LANDS
Ensuring that consumers have accurate information is the last thing on their minds.
The concern is the rulemaking. The new rules will be created by the unelected bureaucracy, not your elected representatives.
They may be tied to a statute, or have the appearance of such, but you have no voice in the process.
So says the writer of a letter to HeraldNet of Everett, WA. “As a result of overgrazing and poor care of waterways in the past, public pressure has ensured the BLM carefully limit and regulate the range leases to cattle ranches.”
That means a herd of 77 could only produce 6 foals, a 7.8% birth rate, five years into the adaptive phase of the management program, also known as the PZP-free phase.
The advocates are half right: The darting program is effective but definitely but not safe.
The video is fine, for the most part, but the description in YouTube says the roundup should be supplanted with “scientific, proven methods of humane, on the range management,” a plug for the fertility control program.
How do (1) stalking the mares and shooting them with darts every year, (2) driving birth rates to zero, and (3) letting the herds die off qualify as humane or protection?
How can you defend that when most of their food has been shifted to privately owned livestock? How many horses have been cheated out of a spot on their home range by non-native, non-protected species?
The advocates are wrong and the Campaign Against America’s Wild Horses doesn’t deserve any of your hard-earned donations.
Western Horse Watchers Association 