Author: Western Horse Watchers

Would Snowville Make a Good Wild Horse Preserve?

The allotment, at the north end of the Great Salt Lake, offers 7,707 active AUMs on 71,308 public acres, equivalent to 642 wild horses or nine wild horses per thousand public acres.

The allotment master report puts it in the Maintain category.

Your faithful public servants claim that public lands in the western U.S. can only support one wild horse per thousand acres, so it seems like a good deal.

But there are ten authorizations tied to the allotment, which means you may have to acquire ten base properties to secure all of the active AUMs.

Probably not a good idea.

RELATED: Key Indicators for New Wild Horse Preserves.

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Population Trends at Spring Creek Basin HMA

The herd grew by six between 2021 and 2024 according to data in the 2025 update to the Colorado Wild Horse Eradication Plan.

There were no new foals.

The mare population increased by five.

The number of treatable mares decreased by nine, accounting for just one third of the mares in 2024.

What’s the status of the other 29?  Ruined by the advocates?

The breeding population does not meet the requirements of 4.4.6.3 in H-4700-1 and the outlook for genetic diversity is poor.

This is what the advocates are doing to your free-roaming horses with the blessing of your faithful public servants.

RELATED: Colorado Wild Horse Working Group Updates Eradication Plan.

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BLM Captures Three Pryor Mountain Horses

They went off the reservation and displayed aggressive behavior toward domestic horses on private property according to the news release.

The CX indicates they were corralled by the landowner, who submitted a written request to the BLM to remove them.

The agency retrieved the horses and took them to corrals at Britton Springs. 

The paperwork and NEPA review may have been completed after the fact.

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Colorado Wild Horse Working Group Updates Eradication Plan

What happens when you put ranchers and ranching sympathizers in a room and ask them what to do about wild horses?

You get another set of recommendations that will destroy them.

The executive summary argues that strategic darting must be the cornerstone of sustainable wild horse management, and that the group expects the Colorado BLM to champion the method, along with other findings, conveying them forcefully to the national office.

These are the same lunatics who put a couple of sodomites in the governor’s mansion.

A keyword search of the document yielded these results:

  • Adoption – 125 occurrences
  • Darting – 53
  • Fertility control – 10
  • Immunocontraceptive – 7
  • Treatable mares – 7
  • Cattle – 2
  • Sheep – 0
  • AUM – 0
  • Allotment – 0
  • Permit – 0
  • Rancher – 0
  • Pesticide – 0
  • Reversible – 0
  • Sterility – 0
  • Sterilization – 0
  • Breeding population – 0
  • Genetic diversity – 1
  • Principal use – 0
  • Management at the minimum feasible level – 0
  • Nature’s way – 0

The group claims on page 33 that large tracts of private land, suitable for wild horse preserves, are scarce, which is nonsense.

There are hundreds of such parcels in the state, known as base properties, that could be repurposed for wild horses, with the added benefit that they have grazing preference on public lands—and therefore provide the best value to taxpayers and/or donors.

But the idea was not supported by some members, who were concerned about removing land from agricultural production.

And that’s the point of the entire exercise: To charter a group that would do what’s best for the ranchers, not the horses.

RELATED: Colorado Wild Horse Working Group Releases Year One Report.

Dedicated conservationist or wretch with darting rifle?  Breeding, not mass sterilization, assures long-term viability.

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BLM Updates Facilities Report for FY26

As of November 21, there were 60,283 wild horses and 3,750 wild burros in off-range holding, liberating 745,896 AUMs per year for “other mandated uses” of public lands.

The advocates will point to the report, and costs associated therewith, as justification for their mass sterilization programs.

The populations at Axtell and Wheatland increased after the inmate training program at Cañon City was cancelled.

Allotments managed by the BLM carry livestock equivalent to one million wild horses.

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S2262 to Change the Way We Comment on NEPA Projects?

The bill would limit public comments to citizens of the United States and establish a process to deter attempts at public involvement by artificial intelligence.

The measure received a favorable review on December 17 by the Senate Energy & Natural Resources Committee and now joins S1377 on the chamber floor.

RELATED: S1377 Passes Out of Committee on Voice Vote.

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Foal-Free Friday, Good News, Bad News Edition

Duplicity rules the day in the wild horse world.

Publicly, the advocates celebrate the birth of filly or colt but privately they hold the animal in contempt because he’s an embarrassment in the face of their allies, a blot on their mass sterilization program and an impediment to their herd reduction goal.

Likewise, they want you to think they’re saddened by the death of a stallion or mare but privately they couldn’t be happier because it moves them a step closer to the goal.

They don’t care about the horses.  They care about pesticides and putting the legacy contractors out of business.

They deserve your ire, not your support.

PREVIOUS: Foal-Free Friday, Magic Numbers Edition.

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Lake Pleasant EA Out for Review

The environmental assessment looks at the effects of a proposed update to the Herd Management Area Plan and a new AML, according to the news release.

Other actions include removal of excess animals and implementation of fertility control.

The Proposed Action is discussed in section 2.2.

The pesticides of choice are GonaCon-Equine, ZonaStat-H and PZP-22.

The new AML, discussed in Appendix C, ranges from 140 to 250.

The current AML is 166 to 208.

The EA was copied to the project folder with other supporting documents.

The deadline to submit comments is January 21.

The HMA is managed for wild burros.

RELATED: BLM Updating Lake Pleasant Pest Control Plan?

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The Progeny of Kings

Rehoboam, son of Solomon, son of David, fathered 28 sons and 60 daughters according to 2 Chronicles 11:21.

Elsewhere, but not at the Salt River or Virginia Range, a herd of wild horses produced 28 colts and 60 fillies.

Do those results look like they came from a random process centered at 50% males / 50% females?

The expected range of variation is given by this formula, where p-bar = .5 and n = 88.

The calculated limits are .34 and .66.

The observed proportion of colts, .318, falls outside this range along with the observed proportion of fillies, .681.

Therefore, the results don’t look like they came from a random process centered at 50% males / 50% females.

Although Rehoboam was in the Messianic Line (see Matthew chapter 1), he did not do what was pleasing to the Lord and was responsible for the division of Israel into the Northern and Southern kingdoms.

Abnormal sex ratios, such as 28 stallions and 60 mares, are common in herds treated with PZP.

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Velma Would Be Horrified by Today’s Advocates

They’re phonies.

They’re obsessed with pesticides.

They protect ranchers, not wild horses.

They reject foundational principles such as management at the minimum feasible level and principal use.

They want you to think that the herds will vanish without they’re involvement when in reality the herds are vanishing because of their involvement.

Why are you still giving them money?

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TRNP South Unit Surrounded by Grazing Allotments

The park is in the Little Missouri National Grassland, a territory of the Dakota Prairie Grasslands, according to the map.

The horses live in the South Unit.

Now you know why the Campaign Against America’s Wild Horses, a leader in mass sterilization and servant of the public-lands ranchers, was eager to establish a beachhead in the area, which it did through Chasing Horses Wild Horse Advocates.

The Annual Operating Instructions for the allotments may provide data on forage availability, to assess the proposed stocking rate in the South Unit.

Unfortunately, the Forest Service did not post them to the Rangeland and Grazing page.

RELATED: How to Fix S1377.

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