It’s true according KREX News in Grand Junction, CO.  Another benefit is that horses not suited to life in the wild are eliminated.  See this report dated 03/20/19.

Where did they get this information?  From the nutjobs at Friends of the Mustangs (who helped the BLM set the traps last fall ahead of the Little Bookcliffs gather)?

Wild horse roundups increase the likelihood of inbreeding due to the reduced size of the herds and horses unfit for life in the wild die off.

RELATED: Stupid Horses Won’t Take the Bait at Little Bookcliffs.

Public-lands ranchers in Modoc County, CA are optimistic about the future, according to a story posted today by Tri-State Livestock News, now that 932 wild horses have been removed from the Devil’s Garden Plateau WHT.

The Forest Service is working with local permit holders to allow cattle back onto the range sometime this year.  Another roundup is planned for the fall.

Wild horses and burros are being pushed off public lands—territory set aside for them—so their food can be given to privately owned cattle and sheep.

Yet you still have a bunch of idiots running around with their PZP dart guns trying to convince everyone else that WHB are overpopulated on western rangelands.

RELATED: Devil’s Garden Horses Get Short End of Stick, Wild Horse Overpopulation?

BLM announced today that sixteen inmate-trained horses will be auctioned March 30 at the Northern Nevada Correctional Center.  They were gathered from HMAs in Nevada.

Refer to the news release for directions to the facility.  Mobil phones, cameras, recording devices and tobacco are prohibited.

The adoption catalog has descriptions of the horses and BLM’s adoption requirements.

A story posted this morning by the Santa Fe Reporter says that Mustang Camp, a training facility in Milan, NM, has agreed to take fifty of the horses from the Placitas Wild Horse Preserve at San Felipe Pueblo.

Approximately 25 horses from the sanctuary still need a new home.

As for the horses still roaming freely in the hills around Placitas, they may soon become the subject of a new fertility control program, according to the report.

RELATED: Placitas Wild Horse Preserve Needs New Home.

Someone has been putting out hay for the horses at Big Summit WHT, according to a report posted yesterday by KTVZ News in Bend, OR, creating a safety hazard near a road in the Ochoco National Forest.

The Forest Service said visitors should not feed or touch wild horses, which can change their behavior and eventually lead to their removal from public lands.

RELATED: Horse Befriended by Campers Removed from Big Summit WHT.

The Lobos Family searches for the Banker Horses in early September, 2018, just before the arrival of Florence.

RELATED: Florence Reaches Outer Banks.

Video posted 03/17/19 by Backyard and Adventures Beyond.  These horses eat wild guava according to the comments.

Steve Hostetler filmed this video at Sand Wash Basin HMA in September of last year.

He said the youngster coming in on the left at 1:12 was over at a water hole harassing older stallions.  Check out his bi-colored tail…pretty!

On the Virginia Range.

Refer to this news release and infographic, published 03/15/19.  The federal plan for managing the habitat is now coordinated more closely with state plans for conserving the species, according to the announcement.

The protective measures apply to nearly 60 million acres of sagebrush steppe in eleven western states.

One thing you can be sure of: The plan will never result in larger AMLs and more wild horses on western rangelands.

A report posted 03/14/19 by 13 News Now in Norfolk, VA says a disease that infected some of the wild horses on Assateague Island last year is the subject of research aimed at preventing it.  The chances of surviving the infection are low if not treated early.

No new cases of the disease, known as pythiosis, have been reported in 2019 according to the report.

RELATED: ‘Swamp Cancer’ Claims More Chincoteague Ponies.

A covered arena at The Serenity Ranch in Bozeman collapsed on March 2 but nobody was hurt, according to a report posted yesterday by KTVQ in Billings.

The facility helps women veterans cope with PTSD and related issues.  It also rescues mistreated and wild horses.

Adoption events will occur this month in Arkansas, Arizona, Texas, Colorado, California and Nevada.  Refer to the BLM adoption schedule for details.

What will be the results for the horses involved?  How many will end up at livestock auctions or kill pens?

It’s not about finding good homes for the horses, it’s about pushing more them off the range so their food can be sold to public-lands ranchers.

RELATED: Adoption Incentives Start Today.

A group of wild horse ‘advocates’ will be at the Nevada state capital today, urging the governor to resume a ‘humane fertility control program’ for the Virginia Range mustangs, according to a report posted this morning by FOX-11 in Reno.

Members of the darting team will be on hand to demonstrate fertility control equipment and techniques.  It’s not about reducing population growth but reducing the number of horses on the Virginia Range.  How many of them are aborting, contracepting, and sterilizing in their own lives?

A darting program sponsored by the American Wild Horse Campaign was terminated by the Nevada Department of Agriculture in October 2017.

The Virginia Range, with a population density exceeding ten horses per thousand acres, contradicts statements made by the BLM and ranchers that western rangelands are overpopulated and subject to damage when wild horse populations surpass AMLs, which are usually set at one horse per thousand acres.

That’s why you have to push back against these people.