Are There Any Wild Burros in Utah?

You might see a few of them on the Muddy Creek and Sinbad HMAs, both of which are managed for horses and burros. I-70 passes through both areas, in a part of the state known as the San Rafael Swell.

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The Muddy Creek HMA covers 208,810 acres and has an AML of 125, for a target population density of 0.6 animals per thousand acres. Sinbad contains 285,518 acres and has an AML of 125 (horses and burros) for a target density of 0.4 animals per thousand acres.

In the map above, Muddy Creek appears to be at least 50% larger than Sinbad, so the numbers are wrong or the HMA boundaries were drawn incorrectly. The Sinbad HA includes two parcels, one of which is adjacent to the Muddy Creek HMA. The map may show the combined area of the Muddy Creek HMA and western portion of the Sinbad HA?

Range Creek Gather Ended

BLM announced today that it had concluded the removal of wild horses from lands outside the Range Creek HMA in east-central Utah. The news release indicated that 92 horses had been gathered but did not indicate if they were on lands falling within the Range Creek HA and if any livestock were present on those lands.

One horse died in the operation but circumstances of the loss were not given.

Captured horses were taken to a contract facility in Axtell, Utah, where they will be evaluated and prepared for adoption.

BLM Bringing WHB to Cheyenne Frontier Days

Wild horses and burros will be offered for adoption in Cheyenne, WY on 07/27/18, according to a BLM news release posted yesterday. The ten-day celebration of western heritage begins on 07/20/18 and features a rodeo, concerts, parades, western art show, carnival and museum.

Trainers with experience in gentling mustangs will provide demonstrations each day at 10 AM and 4 PM.

Personnel from Heroes and Horses will be available July 23 – 26 to explain how horses can help veterans suffering from PTSD.

WHB posters will be available at the BLM booth.

Opponents of Fish Springs Roundup Protest in Reno

Wild horse enthusiasts met yesterday at the BLM office in Reno, NV, to protest the removal of 50 animals from the Fish Springs area near Gardnerville, according to a report dated 07/17/18 in Nevada Appeal.

The BLM argues there are too many horses in and around the Pine Nut Mountains HMA, which covers 104,316 acres in western Nevada. Current population is 775 horses with an AML of 179.

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The target population density is 1.7 animals per thousand acres and the actual population density is 7.4 animals per thousand acres. These figures do not include the lands of the Pine Nut Mountains HA, which the horses inhabit, that would make the densities LOWER.

Meanwhile, a few miles north, on the Virginia Range, the population density is running at ten animals per thousand acres.

Look at the photos here, here and here from June, 2018. Do you see any denuded lands or emaciated animals?

Condemned by the Church

Voris on socialism. Commentary begins at 0:38.

Home Is Where the Horse Is

Indeed.

Vendor Advisory for 2018 Burning Man

Sellers of goods and services at this year’s Burning Man are warned that only permitted and approved vendors will be allowed to conduct business at the event. Refer to this BLM news release posted today.

Anyone engaged in commercial activity without a permit will be removed.

The festival opens 08/26/18 in the temporary metropolis of Black Rock City, northeast of Gerlach, NV, on a dry lake bed called ‘the playa.’

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Anyone planning to offer tours into the hills to see the wild horses and burros that surround the place is expected to comply as well.

RELATED: Burn More.

Off the Reservation

Wild burros on the Arizona side of Lake Mead. Refugees from Black Mountain HMA?

BLM Bringing Wild Horses and Burros to Annville, PA

The adoption event will be held July 20 – 21 at the Shale Knoll Arena on Sherks Church Road, according to a BLM news release dated 06/25/18.

A trainer with experience in gentling mustangs will be on site demonstrating both days.

Availability of wild horse and burro posters not known.

Mustangs Don’t Need These

Nail them to a wall or put them above the entrance to your barn, open end up so the good luck won’t spill out!

Always On the Move

Tail end of a band heading down one of the trails on the Virginia Range 07/13/18.

Mustang Monday

On Heber WHT.

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Now you know why these horses are no longer self-reliant.

Let’s Cut the Crap

Roles of the two major political parties in America, 2018.

Democrat: Drive us toward communism
Republican: Make sure we don’t turn back

The Democrat Party consists mostly of liberals and the Republican Party has a large and growing number of liberals. They’re moving further to the left. Conservatives are a shrinking minority.

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Remember, these people did not force their way into office. They were put there by the voters, some of whom are your friends, family members and co-workers.

The problem is not liberalism, the problem is liberals.

“…contraception in all forms is a grave sin against the 6th Commandment, and is at the very root of almost every problem in the post-Christian, post-modern West today. In fact, it could be argued and argued well that the West officially became the POST-CHRISTIAN West when it first began to ratify contraception.”

Now we can have a meaningful conversation on the enemies of our wild ones.

RELATED: Stepping Stones.

H/T WRSA for the photo, Barnhardt for the quote.

He Had White Horses

From Emerson, Lake & Palmer.

New Plate Captures the Struggle of America’s Wild Horses

The new specialty plate for the Virginia Range mustangs features an image of ‘Ghost,’ a stallion that roams the hills near Hidden Valley, east of Reno, NV.

It symbolizes the ruggedness of wild horses and their uphill battle against those who want them removed from western rangelands.

The plate will be available to drivers across the state and a collector’s version will be offered to individuals outside of Nevada.

The Virginia Range is ‘ground zero’ in the wild horse preservation movement, launched in 1950 by Velma Johnston.

BLM Skips Public Meeting on Pine Nut Roundup

Roughly 300 people attended a meeting at the Fish Springs Fire Department on 07/12/18 to protest the removal of wild horses from the Pine Nut Mountain Herd Area east of Gardnerville, NV, which could begin next week. BLM representatives were not among their number. See the report posted today in The Record-Courier.

BLM Ends Goshute Roundup

Bait-trapping concluded on 07/12/18, with 135 horses removed from lands outside the Goshute HMA, according to a BLM news release dated 07/13/18. The report did not indicate if livestock were present on lands where the horses were grazing.

One of the captured animals was put down because of blindness.

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