Western Horse Watchers Association
Exposing the Hypocrisy, Lies and Incompetence of the Wild Horse Advocates
The Senate Committee on State and Local Government will consider the measure at 9 AM on February 7. The deadline to submit testimony is 8 AM.
The bill would create a TRNP working group.
The advocates see it as another opportunity to ruin the mares with PZP.
Don’t give them a penny.
They’re selling mass sterilization as wild horse conservation.
RELATED: Don’t Be Fooled by SB 2331.
Where can you get such a good deal on the cost of feed?
On public lands. That’s what the ranchers pay, equivalent to $1.35 per AUM.
Why is the government paying $150 or more per AUM to feed wild horses in off-range holding when it could reduce that cost by 99% by keeping them on the range?
Elon Musk, are you listening?
One option is suggest that the advocates are working very hard to save the horses from drillers, miners and loggers, but they need more support.
A more accurate assessment would be to explain that the horses have been cheated by the bureaucrats in favor of the ranchers with the cooperation of the advocates.
They receive a tiny fraction of the available resources in their lawful homes.
Forage allocations are enforced by motorized removal, usually carried out by the legacy contractors, and nonmotorized removal, the small but growing domain of the advocates.
This is why the off-range corrals are flooded with wild horses and why the costs of the WHB program are spiraling out of control.
The ranchers pay almost nothing for the resources they consume and the services rendered on their behalf by the government.
The advocates want you to think they’re the good guys.
They have nothing to offer America’s wild horses.
They are the old guard, leaders of the blind, irrelevant.
RELATED: New Year, Same State.
The incident started on November 29. Results through February 2:
The figures above are based on the daily reports.
The low end of the capture goal has been reached.
The death rate is 1.4%.
The capture total includes 123 stallions, 143 mares and 84 foals. The gather page says 123/148/79.
Youngsters represented 24.0% of the animals gathered, consistent with a herd growth rate of 19% per year. The Rule of 72 says the herd size would double in 3.8 years.
Of the adults, 46.2% were male and 53.8% were female, no indication of an abnormal sex ratio in the population at large.
Body condition scores were not given.
The location of the trap site was not disclosed.
The name of the contractor was not provided.
There are no plans to treat any of the mares with fertility control pesticides and return them to the range.
No decisions have made regarding the long-term disposition of horses, which means they could be treated or altered in off range holding, including the stallions.
The status of livestock grazing in the burned area is not known.
RELATED: Murderer’s Creek Roundup, Day 60.
The December 12 schedule has been replaced by the January 28 edition.
At Little Book Cliffs with Tom Zimmerman.
The bill calls for a minimum herd size of 200, a number that will be determined by the Park Service, but the advocates will likely drive the breeding population into the single digits with their projectors and RDDs, as provided in Section 1.3.
This will ruin the mares, increase the risk of inbreeding and spell the long-term demise of the herd, a strategy already in use at the Salt River, Virginia Range and elsewhere.
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The group would work with NPS to provide recommendations for managing the wild horse population in Theodore Roosevelt National Park according to Section 1.2 of SB 2331.
The minimum herd size would be 200. The size of the breeding population, which is far more important, was not specified.
The committee would also promote the horses to benefit tourism and assist with educational outreach.
The story was covered by local news outlets but placed behind paywalls.
The measure may be patterned after SB23-275 which created the Colorado Wild Horse Working Group.
He was confirmed on Friday in a 79-18 vote according to a story by The Hill.
No word on the status of Brooke Rollins, Trump’s nominee for Agriculture.
The forecast out of Gobbler’s Knob is six more weeks of winter according to a story by AP News.
Western Horse Watchers predicts an extended period of deception from the advocates, as they peddle chemical sterilization as wild horse conservation.
There will be no reform until you cut them off and they face financial insolvency.
A certified PZP darter will discuss the pros and cons of fertility control, as if the decision to ruin the mares must be carefully weighed before acting.
Two shills for the public-lands ranchers will explain their plan to move the horses from their lawful homes to remote wilderness areas to deter wildfires. The method by which the animals stop lightning is proprietary and not open to public observation.
Refer to the conference home page for dates and times.
RELATED: Notably Absent from Wild Horse Summit.
A keyword search of the conference home page yielded these results:
The organizers claim to be arming you with knowledge to effectively advocate but they are tiptoeing around the #1 problem for wild horses and not giving you a quantitative basis to make the case.
Worse, they have given airtime to the Wild Horse Fire Brigade, a nonprofit that’s openly hostile to wild horses, opposes the spirit and intent of the original statute, and has the backing of Elko County, a ranching advocacy group.
RELATED: Wild Horse Summit Starts Today?
It’s the only commodity untouched by inflation, holding steady at $1.35 per AUM according to a BLM news release.
Hay would be selling for 27¢ per bale at this rate, not $30.
A project has been opened in ePlanning but no documents have been uploaded.
The HMA overlaps several grazing allotments 75 miles northwest of Winnemucca, NV.
The National Data Viewer shows the arrangement.
Nine months ago, HMAPs were all the rage at the Save Our Wild Horses conference.
Today, not so much. A search of the home page for the Wild Horse Summit, now in progress, yielded zero results for HMAP.
Once the advocates know that you know, they switch to another brand of snake oil.
The HMA is known for a 5.9% death rate in the 2021 roundup.
RELATED: HMAPs Must Comply with RMPs.
The 12:30 PM session on Day 3 of the Wild Horse Summit deals with wild horses, federal agencies and violations of existing laws.
Western Horse Watchers does not know if the presentation will cover the unlawful use of PZP and GonaCon Equine by the agencies and NGOs.
PZP is usually applied to herds that are said to overpopulated, interfere with animal agriculture or pose safety hazards to motorists, none of which are approved uses of the pesticide.
Rules for PPE are often ignored, another example of failure to use the product as directed on the label.
Where two doses of GonaCon are applied, the mares usually receive them less than 90 days apart as specified on the label.
One person alleged at the January WHBAB meeting that the Forest Service was giving the pesticide to stallions.
These actions do not border on criminal, they are criminal.
The November 15 edition of Foal-Free Friday tells you how to report such incidents.
RELATED: Foal-Free Friday, Indulging Their Obsession Edition.
Self-incrimination.
Western Horse Watchers has not been able to find a news release or agenda, only an occasional search result on socialist media.
The advocates have nothing to offer America’s wild horses.
They have been brought to their knees by the possibility of motorized removal, real or imagined.
UPDATE: Added video and link to conference.
The two-day event starts on February 6 according to an undated announcement by the Colorado Department of Agriculture.
No agenda was provided.
The legislature expects the group to recommend humane alternatives for wild horses taken off range in Colorado, the best of which is to place them back on public lands at the expense of privately owned livestock.
This can be accomplished through the acquisition of base properties tied to grazing allotments, then flipping the preference to horses.
RELATED: Colorado Wild Horse Working Group Releases Year One Report.
The festivities include a burro adoption blitz according to a BLM news release.
What we need is a Love Triangle Awareness Week, highlighting the coordinated effort to remove these animals from their lawful homes in favor of privately owned livestock.
The outreach component would focus on the treachery of the advocates, management practices that benefit the ranchers and alterations to the original statute that threaten the long-term viability of the herds.
The incident started on November 29. Results through January 27:
The figures above are based on the daily reports.
The death rate is 1.6%.
The capture total includes 107 stallions, 134 mares and 81 foals. The gather page says 107/139/76.
Youngsters represented 25.2% of the animals gathered, consistent with a herd growth rate of 20% per year. The Rule of 72 says the herd size would double in 3.6 years.
Of the adults, 44.4% were male and 55.6% were female, no indication of an abnormal sex ratio in the population at large.
Body condition scores were not given.
The location of the trap site was not disclosed.
The name of the contractor was not provided.
There are no plans to treat any of the mares with fertility control pesticides and return them to the range.
No decisions have made regarding the long-term disposition of horses, which means they could be treated or altered in off range holding, including the stallions.
The status of livestock grazing in the burned area is not known.
RELATED: Murderer’s Creek Roundup, Day 53.
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