Benefits of centralized government.

She may be interested in wild horse preservation, but how closely is she aligned to her party’s goal of more government control, more taxes, more regulations, more illegal immigration, more sexual perversion, more abortion, more contraception, more sterilization?

There are many ways we can help our wild ones but voting for liberals is not one of them.

On 04-07-18, a trailer carrying illegal aliens separated from a pickup truck and crashed on I-8 near Campo, CA, according to this report in The San Diego Union-Tribune.

Raw video posted at OnSceneTV.  The story leaves some unanswered questions though.

Did the driver have to use carrots to get them in the trailer?

Did anybody at the border check their Coggins?

Were they secured with trailer ties?

Wild horses and burros can be found on public lands not because of their role in the ecosystem, not because they’re an endangered species, but for their historical value.

That some lands were set aside in 1971 principally for WHB seems to have been overlooked by the central planners.  (The map at the bottom of this page shows just how far their tentacles reach.  Could this explain why there is growing demand for livestock grazing on HMAs?  The supply of land—for sale to ranching interests or anybody else—is too small?)

What characteristics come to mind when you think of the American West?

• Homesteading
• Farming
• Travel by horse
• Villainy
• Frontier justice
• Unspoiled beauty
• Open space
• Wilderness

What values did the settlers bring with them?

• Liberty
• Private property
• Self-reliance (including self-defense)
• Modesty
• Privacy
• Free speech
• Religion
• Marriage
• Family
• Belief in God

What if you have individuals in government who hate these ideas, who believe they’ve been poisoning the minds of the people for hundreds of years?

Consider the experience of the Chinese from the mid 1960s to mid 1970s, during the Cultural Revolution.  For communism to take root, the nation would have to break all ties with the past:

• Traditional social practices such as weddings and funerals were suppressed
• Books were burned and art objects were smashed
• Temples and churches were closed and put to secular use
• Customary ways of dress were eliminated
• Visual evidences of old things were destroyed

Old ideas, old culture, old customs, old habits.

You can’t have the people thinking about their heritage and birthright when you have a fundamental transformation to accomplish.

Millennial job interview.

No, it’s not the number of lives denied last year on the Virginia Range due to PZP, that figure is higher.

It’s the stocking rate in acres per horse for the Virginia Range.  The scaled reciprocal, horses per thousand acres, is 9.4.

As noted on 03/26/18, these figures differ appreciably from those used by the BLM.

For example, read this post dated 03/02/18 at Straight from the Horse’s Heart.  Stocking rates for some of the HMAs in Nevada are discussed, along with those for livestock.

The stocking rate for the Triple B Complex is 0.4 horses per thousand acres (just 4.4% of that for the VR), yet there was a large gather at the HMA earlier this year.

Protect the Harvest says the stocking rate for the Virginia Range should be 640 acres per horse, or about 1.5 horses per thousand acres.

Why would they even care?  The Virginia Range is mostly private land and the potential for grazing is limited.

If word gets out that the carrying capacity of the range might be greater than stated in the official story line, AMLs could quadruple overnight, and the plan for replacing horses with cattle on public lands would be dealt a major setback.

H/T PNWHA for the link on wild horse overpopulation.

Best way to stop a bad guy on a bike?  Good guy on a horse.  Refer to this story by the NBC affiliate in Medford OR.

The incident happened in June 2016.  The story leaves a few unanswered questions, such as the immigration status of the perp (take a guess) and if the technique could be leveraged for greater security of the border.

According to the Mission Statement of Protect The Harvest, you have a right to hunt, fish, farm, eat meat, and own pets.

Sorry guys, you do not.  Please read The Bill of No Rights.

What do you call a system where the products of one man’s industry are taken away and given to someone else?

Slavery.  Communism.  Liberalism.

You do not have a right to anything that must be produced, such as food, clothing, shelter, land, water, transportation, goods and services.  You do not have a claim on the fruits of another man’s labor.

You say you’re thankful for the American way of life but you do not understand it.

Moreover, you do little if anything to defend it and preserve it.

What is your plan to get liberals out of office, repeal Obamacare and secure the damn border?

Do you think it’s the WH advocates who want to confiscate your guns?  How’s that hunting trip going to work when you can’t buy ammo?

You—and the crybabies you represent—mislead the American people and attack their cherished symbols of freedom, ruggedness and self-reliance.

Shame on you PTH.  Shame on you.