If Wild Horses Had Principal Use of Mustang

The BLM recently authorized the drilling of a water well in the allotment, which borders the Silver King HMA.

The news release gave few details about the project.

The allotment master report puts it in the Improve category, suggesting that your stewards of the public lands are not taking their responsibilities seriously.

Note that there are more AUMs in the suspended column than active.

The Mustang permittees receive 1,134 active AUMs on 23,877 public acres, equivalent to 95 wild horses or four 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 support the narrative with their darting programs.

If the allotment was an HMA, the AML would be 24 and 71 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 cattle or sheep, 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 Nevada support livestock equivalent to 173,144 wild horses on 40,194,360 public acres, or 4.3 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.

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Trump Nominates Pearce for BLM Director

A November 5 article by The Hill suggests that he’s not on board with the ruinous carbon-is-a-pollutant-men-can-be-women-and-water-flows-uphill agenda.

The choice must be confirmed by the Senate.

The BLM leadership page indicates that Bill Groffy currently serves as acting director.

The position of Division Chief for the Wild Horse and Burro Program is filled internally and not subject to Senate confirmation.

RELATED: Sgamma Nomination Withdrawn.

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Bullfrog Emergency Roundup?

Yesterday the BLM news site populated with announcements dating back to the second day of the partial government shutdown.

An October 6 news release indicated that bait-trap removal of 250 burros would begin on or about October 7.

The incident would not be open to public observation.

Captured animals would be taken to the Axtell off-range corrals.

As of today, there are no links for roundups in FY26 at the Nevada gather page.

The HMA surrounds the town of Beatty.

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Two Weeks Until Defund the Advocates Day

You can help wild horses on December 2 by doing nothing.

The advocates use your donations to buy pesticides so they can beat the horse numbers down in favor of livestock.

Would you be surprised if the fastest-growing segment in their base was bureaucrats and ranchers?

Resolve now to cut them off.

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Mustang Monday

At Spring Creek Basin HMA with Lynn Northrup.

References to “TJ” correspond to TJ Holmes, the head pesticide-pusher in charge who’s managing the herd to extinction.

The 2025 population dataset indicated 78 horses in the HMA, a bit short of the 150 to 200 animals needed for genetic diversity (refer to 4.4.6.3 in H-4700-1).

If you deduct the number of mares ruined by Holmes, the breeding population is likely in the single digits, completely inadequate for long-term viability.

That’s what the advocates bring to the table.

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Protecting the Tonto Ranchers

The people of Arizona made clear nine years ago that they wanted approximately 450 wild horses living in freedom at the Salt River.

Today, the population is somewhere around 280 thanks to the mass sterilization program inflicted on the herd by the Salt River Wild Horse Darting Group in cooperation with the Campaign Against America’s Wild Horses.

The best course of action would be to start a special fund to acquire a base property tied to one or more allotments in the Tonto National Forest, flip the preference to horses, and move the herd there.

But the advocates won’t do it because it might be taken as an affront by their allies and idols—the public-lands ranchers.

Get the truth about wild horses and the wild horse advocates at westernhorsewatchers.com.

WARNING: They’re Working Tirelessly to Deceive YOU

The Campaign Against America’s Wild Horses wants to replace motorized removal with mass sterilization. They use your donations to buy pesticides and equip their volunteers with the tools of application.

They are phonies, allies of the ranchers, and don’t deserve a penny of your support.

Get the truth about wild horses and the wild horse advocates at westernhorsewatchers.com.

From Tearing Families Apart to No Families at All

The advocates want to stop helicopter roundups by zeroing out the breeding populations with PZP.

Either way the ranchers win.

What’s most surprising is the number of ignorant women who support this.

New Life at Salt River?

His mom probably has a faulty immune system.

The advocates rely on predators to take out any foals that slip through their mass sterilization program.

When that happens they’ll put on a big show to make you think they’re saddened by the loss.

It’s all fake. They hate foals.

They’re far more interested in driving the numbers down with ovary-killing pesticides and winning the approval of the bureaucrats and ranchers.

Foal-Free Friday, Wailing and Gnashing of Teeth Edition

The government shutdown may be over but the BLM still doesn’t have a budget.

Temporary funding will expire on January 31.

That means the advocates have no assurance that the agency will devote more resources to their mass sterilization programs in lieu of motorized removal.

PREVIOUS: Foal-Free Friday, Reserves for Preserves Edition.

Government Reopens, Back to Business as Usual

The advocates will continue to lie about their fertility control pesticides.

The bureaucrats will lie about the carrying capacity of public lands.

The ranchers will lie about rangeland degradation.

Their big-tech minions will bury their critics.

RELATED: Government Shutdown Ends.

Government Shutdown Ends

The President signed of HR 5371 yesterday, according to a story by The Hill, after the House voted 222-209 in favor of the bill.

The measure provides temporary funding for most federal agencies through January 30.

Forage Availability in the Wyoming Checkerboard

Three allotments in Pathfinder’s Stewart Creek Unit offer a combined 2,288 active AUMs on 21,183 public acres, equivalent to 191 wild horses or nine wild horses per thousand public acres.

Refer to Bell Springs, Jawbone and Larson Knolls in the report for Stewart Creek allotments managed by the Rawlins Field Office.

The advocates, defeated a long time ago and now in the tank for the ranchers, bolster the narrative with their darting programs.

WYWHIP Carries Water for Pathfinder Ranches

If you plot the outline of the Stewart Creek Unit on a map of the allotments, you’ll find that it overlaps Turkey Track, Rawlins Draw, Whiskey Peak, Arapahoe Creek, Stewart Creek, Larson Knolls, Jawbone and Bell Springs.

Turkey Track, not labeled, is in the northeast corner. Click on image to enlarge.

STEWART CREEK GRAZING ASSOCIATION appears in a first-pass review of the allotment master reports at RAS.

The operator information report gives three authorizations for SCGA:

4900602 – JAWBONE, BELL SPRINGS, LARSON KNOLLS and STEWART CREEK (in the Rawlins Field Office)
4900388 – ARAPAHOE CREEK (Lander Field Office)
4900649 – RAWLINS DRAW, TURKEY TRACK, NORTH WILLOW CREEK, WHISKEY PEAK and COOPER CREEK (Lander Field Office)

Western Horse Watchers was unable to find North Willow Creek and Cooper Creek on the map but their namesakes are inside the blue boundary.

The allotment master report for Lander indicates that SCGA holds all of the active AUMs in Rawlins Draw, Turkey Track, North Willow Creek and Cooper Creek, suggesting that it’s a legal entity owned or controlled by Pathfinder Ranches.

SCGA holds all of the active AUMs in Bell Springs, Jawbone and Larson Knolls according to the report for Rawlins.

In the Stewart Creek Allotment, where the Wyoming Wild Horse Improvement Project poisons the mares with PZP, SCGA holds 60% of the active AUMs, suggesting that WYWHIP co-founder Christie Chapman cares far more about ranching interests, especially those of Pathfinder, than she does about wild horses.

Senate Amends, Approves FY26 Budget (Sort of)

Senators voted 60-40 Monday evening in favor of HR 5371, a bill that will end the partial government shutdown if accepted by the House and signed by the President.

The measure provides full-year funding for military construction, veterans’ affairs, the Department of Agriculture (which includes the Forest Service) and the legislative branch, according to a report by The Hill, and the rest of government (which includes the BLM) through January 30.

As of today, a FY26 roundup schedule has not been posted to BLM’s website, but one may appear before the ink is dry, as high-net-worth individuals, portrayed as victims by Bobby Khan, suffer from resource invasion in the lawful homes of wild horses.

How to Sell Mass Sterilization to the American People

Refer to this November 7 news flash written by Tracy “You need to manage the numbers to fit what’s available for the horses” Wilson, a defeatist, pesticide pusher and ranching sympathizer with the Campaign Against America’s Wild Horses.

Portray helicopter roundups as cruel and costly
Never admit that the range can support more horses than the government allows
Never suggest that overpopulation might not be true
Present ovary-killing pesticides as a humane alternative to motorized removal

Never acknowledge that public lands are managed primarily for livestock
Never admit that you’re in cahoots with the bureaucrats and ranchers
Never concede that your plan will eradicate the herds in 25 years

RELATED: What Makes the Advocates Evil?

Mustang Monday

At the southwest corner of the Virginia Range with Art.

The switchback in the distance is on the Duck Hill allotment.

The channel documents the mass sterilization program inflicted on the herd by the Campaign Against America’s Wild Horses and its army of nitwits.

Pathfinder’s Stewart Creek Unit Clashes with Red Desert Horses

The map supplied with the listing shows the ranch with a red border.

Deeded acreage, which secures grazing preference on public lands, is black.

If you plot the ranch outline on a map of the HMAs, you’ll find it overlaps all of Crooks Mountain and Stewart Creek, and most of Green Mountain.

A small portion extends into the checkerboard near Rawlins.

Click on image to enlarge.

Salt River Scandal?

The attack on the herd is sinister because it’s being carried by those who claim to voices for the horses.

The Center for Biological Diversity never demanded that the mares be sterilized.

The Forest Service never laid the idea on the table.

It came from the advocates, disguised as “humane management.”

For seven years they’ve pummeled the mares with pesticide-laced darts, not to slow population growth but to reverse it, with the inevitable result of permanent infertility.

And, as usual, the perps are women.

These people are phonies and don’t deserve a penny of your support.

Foal-Free Friday, Reserves for Preserves Edition

You’d think the advocates would have special funds devoted to the purchase of base properties, so wild horses could be placed on public lands at the expense of privately owned livestock.

Instead, they use your donations to buy pesticides, so they can beat the horse populations down in favor of livestock.

They are frauds and don’t deserve a penny of your support.