While some folks talk about humane disposal of wild horses, the advocates deliver, referring to the practice as humane management or in-the-wild management.
Those are codewords for mass sterilization with PZP.
The challenger to the Salt River management contract discusses her experiences trapping wild horses in the Apache-Sitgreaves forest in this 65-minute podcast.
Funds from the Forest Service are not unlimited so she receives financial support from “conservation groups” to carry out her work.
If AZDA wants rapid decline in the size of the Salt River herd, she’d be a good option.
Snippet from statute: It is the policy of Congress that wild free-roaming horses and burros shall be protected from capture, branding, harassment, or death
Snippet from manual: To protect wild horses and burros from unauthorized capture, branding, harassment or death
The figures above are based on the daily reports.
The death rate is 0.5%.
The capture total includes 317 stallions, 352 mares and 189 foals. A mule caught on Day 7 is not included in the total.
Youngsters represented 22.0% of the animals gathered.
Of the adults, 47.4% were male and 52.6% were female.
The location of the trap site is not known.
The name of the contractor was not given.
The shipping destination was not disclosed.
There are no plans to treat any of the mares with fertility control pesticides and return them to the range.
The HMA is subject to permitted grazing. Resources liberated to date:
Forage: 10,296 AUMs per year
Water: 8,580 gallons per day
The map shows the Rock Springs HMAs before the RMP amendments, which were halted by an appeals court ruling on July 15. Click to enlarge.
The unspoken word in news circles, apparently, is if you’re doing a story about wild horses, go to the Bureau of Livestock Multiplication and the Campaign Against America’s Wild Horses for comments.
Even Google—an appendage of the Democrat Party—is in on it.
Exhibit #1, a report by KRNV News on the Lahontan Management Plan, featuring the genetic diversity narrative and overpopulation narrative.
The first interview is with Tracy Wilson, defeatist, pesticide pusher and overseer of the largest attempted wild horse eradication in Nevada, who argues that the AML is too small to support genetic diversity and should be at least 150.
Unfortunately, herd size is poor indicator of genetic viability. Breeding population is more important. An AML of 500 would be too small if you’re poisoning the mares with PZP, the raison d’être of CAAWH.
Next, the camera turns to Holley Kline of the BLM who says there are far more wild horses than the land can support, which is misleading.
There are more wild horses than allowed by plan and they’re robbing forage from high net worth individuals who receive generous government benefits with no means testing.
Exhibit #2, a report by KLAS News on FY26 appropriations affecting wild horses, featuring the fertility control narrative.
Suzanne Roy, Wilson’s boss, said the BLM should “make humane management—not removals—the foundation of its program,” implying that fertility control is not removal, even though wild horse numbers go down as the advocates pummel the mares with pesticide-laced darts.
Snippet from statute: It is the policy of Congress that wild free-roaming horses and burros shall be protected from capture, branding, harassment, or death
Snippet from manual: To protect wild horses and burros from unauthorized capture, branding, harassment or death
The figures above are based on the daily reports.
A mare was found dead in a trailer on Day 6. Another mare died in a trailer on Day 7 and a foal died in the trap, lifting the death rate is 0.6%.
The capture total includes 216 stallions, 277 mares and 148 foals. A mule was caught on Day 7, not included in the total.
Youngsters represented 23.1% of the animals gathered.
Of the adults, 43.8% were male and 56.2% were female.
The location of the trap site is not known.
The name of the contractor was not given.
The shipping destination was not disclosed.
There are no plans to treat any of the mares with fertility control pesticides and return them to the range.
The HMA is subject to permitted grazing. Resources liberated to date:
The news release says the incident will occur in the northern half of the HMA, an area known as Big Sand Springs Valley, but the ArcGIS Viewer puts it in the south.
The driver is lack of food and water.
The capture and removal goals are 100 each.
Horses will be drawn into the traps with bait.
Operations will not be open to public observation.
Animals identified for removal will be taken to the off-range corrals in Fallon.
There are no plans to treat any of the mares with fertility control pesticides and return them to the range.
The announcement did not indicate if the active AUMs would be reduced in the Duckwater Allotment, which overlaps most of the HMA.
In the nonmotorized category, the Salt River Wild Horse Darting Group and the Campaign Against America’s Wild Horses take the prize for their mass sterilization programs at the Salt River and Virginia Range, affecting over 3,500 wild horses.
So, for now, those who accuse the federal government of the largest attempted eradication of wild horses are guilty of it themselves.
Snippet from statute: It is the policy of Congress that wild free-roaming horses and burros shall be protected from capture, branding, harassment, or death
Snippet from manual: To protect wild horses and burros from unauthorized capture, branding, harassment or death
The figures above are based on the daily reports.
The death rate is 0.2%.
The capture total includes 146 stallions, 176 mares and 87 foals.
Youngsters represented 21.3% of the animals gathered.
Of the adults, 45.3% were male and 54.7% were female.
The location of the trap site is not known.
The name of the contractor was not given.
The shipping destination was not disclosed.
There are no plans to treat any of the mares with fertility control pesticides and return them to the range.
The HMA is subject to permitted grazing. Resources liberated to date:
Forage: 4,908 AUMs per year
Water: 4,090 gallons per day
The map shows the Rock Springs HMAs before the RMP amendments, which were halted by an appeals court ruling on July 15. Click to enlarge.
Snippet from statute: It is the policy of Congress that wild free-roaming horses and burros shall be protected from capture, branding, harassment, or death
Snippet from manual: To protect wild horses and burros from unauthorized capture, branding, harassment or death
The figures above are based on the daily reports.
A burro died of old age on Day 36, lifting the death rate to 0.5%.
The capture total includes 395 jacks, 353 jennies and 63 foals. The sidebar at the gather page says 397/351/63.
Youngsters represented 7.8% of the animals gathered.
Of the adults, 52.8% were male and 47.2% were female.
The location of the trap site is not known.
The name of the contractor was not provided.
No jennies were treated with PZP since the last report, leaving the total at 78.
The July 1 schedule indicates the designated pesticide was GonaCon Equine.
The Complex is subject to permitted grazing. Resources liberated to date:
Forage: 4,866 AUMs per year
Water: 4,055 gallons per day
These numbers will go down if burros are returned to the range.
Snippet from statute: It is the policy of Congress that wild free-roaming horses and burros shall be protected from capture, branding, harassment, or death
Snippet from manual: To protect wild horses and burros from unauthorized capture, branding, harassment or death
The figures above are based on the daily reports.
A stallion was dispatched on Day 2 for blindness in one eye, putting the death rate at 0.5%.
The capture total includes 65 stallions, 82 mares and 38 foals.
Youngsters represented 20.5% of the animals gathered.
Of the adults, 44.2% were male and 55.8% were female.
The location of the trap site is not known.
The name of the contractor was not given.
There are no plans to treat any of the mares with fertility control pesticides and return them to the range.
The HMA is subject to permitted grazing. Resources liberated to date:
