Western Horse Watchers Association
Exposing the Hypocrisy, Lies and Incompetence of the Wild Horse Advocates
Conceived on the range but born in captivity, this colt turned two on 06/25/18. On the left is his sister, about a year older. She carries a freezemark, he does not. She is a mustang, he is not.
Mom appears in third photo, also a mustang. They are family.
The folks in Washington state sure do like to name things after wild horses, even though most of them were eradicated 50 years ago. Maybe the thought pricks their conscience.
A notable example is the Horse Heaven Hills. The hills survived but the horses did not.
A few months ago, you could learn about it in this post, but the video and article have been scrubbed. The following excerpt appeared at the end of the article.
The label on a bottle of cabernet produced in the area mentions the horses that once roamed the hills and drank from the river. Not the horses that died off ten thousand years ago. The horses that were rounded up and slaughtered in middle of the last century.
Another example is the Wild Horse Wind and Solar Facility, operated by Puget Sound Energy, near Ellensburg. It has 127 turbines on 10,800 acres, according to this Wikipedia entry.
Consumers in the area are probably paying twenty to thirty cents per kilowatt-hour for electricity because of boondoggles like this, when at today’s natural gas prices, they should be paying half of that. Traditional energy-conversion technologies are clean, dependable and affordable, but liberals reject them.
As for the wind farm, the only place you’ll see wild horses is the sign at the entrance.
Your new mustang will be afraid of you for weeks, maybe months. Don’t turn it into years by doing things like this. H/T Rick Gore.
“God is on our side.” Don’t you love these lectures on morality by whores, psychopaths, adulterers, fornicators, baby murderers, sodomites and idolaters? H/T The American Mirror.
On the Outer Banks of North Carolina (Corolla).
The chart below shows the population target for HMAs in Oregon as a function of HMA size.
The chart yields three conclusions:
Imagine a line starting at (0, 0) and extending diagonally to the right. The average size of HMAs less than 100,00 acres is about 50,000 acres. The average AML for that subgroup is roughly 85 animals. Therefore, line would pass through (50, 85).
Now let x = 500. The proportional AML should be ten times larger, y = 10 × 85 = 850, establishing another point at (500, 850). The three HMAs close to x = 500 have AMLs far less than 850.
This leads to the topic of population density (subject of next post in the series). If you’re expecting to find some of the smaller densities (animals per thousand acres) on the larger HMAs, you’d be right. That is the same pattern observed in Nevada.
RELATED: Oregon HMA Stats.
Wild Horses of the Washoe by Donald Cool.
Band stallions on the Virginia Range, 06/15/18. Always fighting off young upstart bachelors who try to steal their mares. You won’t see them pushed off their food by ‘lead mares.’ Sorry ladies.
Eventually, they’ll be overpowered by other stallions and will transition to more-or-less solitary lives in pasture.
BLM plans to remove 125 wild horses from the Goshute HMA beginning 06/25/18, due to public safety concerns and private land issues. Refer to this news release dated 06/22/18.
The method of capture will be bait traps. Horses not returned to the range will be transported to the Indian Lakes Off-Range Corrals in Fallon, NV.
The HMA lies in northeastern Nevada, near I-80 and the Utah border, and covers an area of 267,277 acres (418 square miles).
The population density at the upper end of the AML is 0.46 horses per thousand acres, almost nothing. Domestic livestock are present on the HMA, along with wildlife such as deer and antelope.
News report from KTVH (NBC affiliate) in Helena, MT. Bad horses aren’t born, they’re made.
RELATED: BLM Event in Missoula, MT to Feature WHB.
Trail ride into the Grand Canyon, south rim. H/T West Taylor.
Saddle-started horses for $300 to $500. Can’t beat that. H/T Friends of R3C.
More fallout from the drought in southwestern U.S. See this story dated 06/21/18 in AZ Family dot com (CBS affiliate in Phoenix).
UPDATE #1: See also this report, posted 06/22/18 on KJZZ 91.5 FM, Tempe, AZ.
UPDATE #2: And this report from FOX 10 in Phoenix, AZ, 06/22/18. Includes video.
UPDATE #3: Added video.
New band on the Virginia Range, 06/15/18. Looks like mom (on the left in first photo) has another one on the way.
Many of the so-called advocates, along with the wild horse haters, say this is wrong, it has to be stopped…that the horses are overpopulated and the land can’t sustain them.
Do you see any evidence of that in the photos that have rolled out this week?
Keep in mind that the Virginia Range has a population density of roughly ten horses per thousand acres, compared to a population density of one horse per thousand acres on your average HMA.
Two from Victoria Jackson.
Then.
Now.
Last set of photos from 06/15/18. These guys spent most of the afternoon near the pond but decided to move on to other pastures around 6:00 pm.
The pond is seasonal and will dry up in another month or so, typical for the Nevada high desert. The horses were not very interested in drinking from it, only saw one go in it.
Fifteen to twenty halter-trained mustangs, along with three to five saddle-started mustangs will be available for adoption at the Missoula County Fairgrounds June 22-23, 2018, according to a BLM news release dated 06/20/18. Fifty untouched horses and ten untouched burros will also be available.
Wild horse & burro posters will not be available at the event.
Flushing new system a few times to remove sediment. Water was a bit cloudy initially, but cleared up after four or five cycles (drain tanks until pressure hits 40 psi, pump comes on and refills tanks, repeat).
Some Virginia Range mustangs came by to check it out…and they liked it! Photos taken 06/15/18.
