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Author: Western Horse Watchers
The Nation’s Champion of Wild Horse Eradication
Do not be fooled by the Campaign Against America’s Wild Horses.
It is not a philanthropic organization.
It serves no charitable purpose.
It is a coven of pesticide pushers and ranching sympathizers whose mission is to sell mass sterilization as wild horse conservation.
If you don’t believe that, watch the videos from the January WHBAB meeting:
The search result above might be the result of payments to Google.
The arrangement could include censorship of dissenting voices, a necessary step when you’re trying to convince the American people that you have all the answers when in fact your methods are known for barren mares, abnormal sex ratios, faulty immune systems and irreversible decline.
RELATED: New Year, Same Lies.
Frank Kuntz Preparing to Pass the Nokota Torch?
He’d like to reunite them with native peoples according to this report by KX News and until that happens, his daughter will continue the mission.
Thought to be descendants of Sitting Bull’s ponies, they represent the original wild horses of Theodore Roosevelt National Park.
The horses you see today, the subject of much clamor, were put there by the Park Service as an exhibit.
RELATED: Frank Kuntz Running Out of Time to Care for Nokota Horses.
Foal-Free Friday, Indulging Their Obsession Edition
What advocate wouldn’t drool at the sight of a G2 X-Caliber darting rifle?
These weapons help ranchers prosper in the lawful homes of wild horses.
RELATED: Foal-Free Friday, Pesticides on Parade Edition.
Cecile “Clump of Cells” Richards Suffers Major Loss of Viability
Can you imagine standing for your particular judgment with her record?
She was as anti-life as the wild horse advocates.
Yet all things are possible with God.
Devil’s Garden Roundup Resumes
The gather page shows 17 horses trapped since January 18, bringing the total to 358.
Like the Advocates, WHBAB Wants the Ranchers to Win
Three out of four recommendations from the January meeting concern AMLs and fertility control.
Public comments on Day 1 may have influenced the outcome.
There are no voices for wild horses on the committee.
RELATED: Next WHBAB Meeting Set for Early January.
Buffalo Hills Update
The roundup concluded on November 23 with 138 horses captured, 32 shipped, 50 released and four dead.
Thirty-three burros were caught and shipped.
On the final day, 57 mares were treated with GonaCon Equine and five were released.
The gather page indicates that one of the mares in temporary holding died of colic on December 6, bringing the death count to five.
The page also indicates that the survivors were treated and released on December 23, which does not match the agency’s response to a public comment in the DNA.
Western Horse Watchers has been unable to find a registration update at the EPA web site, so the 30-day interval is probably not valid and the HMA has become the latest GonaCon crime scene.
RELATED: BLM Not Following GonaCon Treatment Plan at Buffalo Hills.
Who Will Benefit from Beaty Butte Water Improvements?
Wild horses and livestock congregate at Lick Spring in the Beaty Butte Allotment, resulting in compacted soil and reduced native vegetation.
The BLM developed a solution with input from the Beaty Butte Grazing Association.
The Proposed Action, discussed in Section 2.2 of the EA, would run an underground water line eastward from the spring, which is on private land, to two new troughs.
Map 1 in Appendix E shows the arrangement.
The map gives the township, range and sections, so the project area can be found in the NDV by turning on the PLSS layer.
The EA did not indicate if the animals would still be able to access the spring and who would monitor the system when livestock are not present.
The comment period ends today.
The EA was copied to the project folder in ePlanning with an unsigned FONSI.
The HMA lies within the allotment and includes the spring.
New Year, Same State
While the new president works on the next state of the union address, Western Horse Watchers offers the following assessment of the wild horse world:
It’s not the poor advocates pushing back against the bureaucrats and ranchers, it’s the bureaucrats, ranchers and advocates trying to get rid of the horses.
Once you understand that, everything else makes sense.
RELATED: New Year, Same Lies.
BLM Kills Job Posting for Carson City WHB Specialist
The application period had been extended but now it says JOB CANCELLED, perhaps an early indication that federal government is under new management with a focus on cost cutting.
RELATED: BLM Seeks WHB Specialist.
NPS Seeks Volunteers for Cape Lookout Pony Patrol
The successful candidates will raise visitor awareness and compliance with rules for interacting with wild horses at Shackleford Banks and Rachel Carson Reserve according to a January 21 news release.
Last year volunteers conducted 254 patrols and contacted over 3,800 visitors.
You must be at least 18 years old and able to walk in an environment consisting of sandy terrain, extreme sun, heat, humidity, wind and bugs.
Murderer’s Creek Roundup, Day 53
The incident started on November 29. Results through January 20:
- Scope: Murderer’s Creek HMA, WHT
- Target: Wild horses
- AML: 140
- Pre-gather population: 650
- True AML: TBD
- Type: Emergency
- Method: Bait
- Capture goal: 350 – 400
- Removal goal: 350 – 400
- Captured: 285, up from 239 on Day 45
- Shipped: 274, up from 206 on Day 45
- Released: None
- Deaths: 5, up from 4 on Day 45
- Average daily take: 5.3
- Unaccounted-for animals: 45
- 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 died of a head injury on Day 49. The death rate is 1.8%.
The capture total includes 96 stallions, 118 mares and 71 foals. The gather page says 95/119/71.
Youngsters represented 24.9% 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, 44.9% were male and 55.1% 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 45.
When Should You Support a Wild Horse Refuge?
You don’t necessarily have to look at the inner workings of the project.
You can make a first-pass assessment by finding out what others say about it.
For example, if the advocates like it, you probably should avoid it.
If Elko County likes it, stay away.
If the Public Lands Council condemns it or the Coalition for Healthy Nevada Lands opposes it, you might want to dig a little deeper.
The Colorado Wild Horse Working Group announced in its Year One Report that it was looking at options for a wild horse refuge so that might be a case to watch.
RELATED: Colorado Wild Horse Working Group Releases Year One Report.
Mustang Monday
In the Spring Mountains with Clint Cobra.
If Wild Horses Had Principal Use of the Hammond Allotments
They’ve been idle for ten years, more or less, and they’re no longer in RAS.
But the BLM just released a Draft EIS for public review and the previous forage allocations are discussed in Section 1.1. Table 1-1 gives the public acres.
- Hammond – 473 active AUMs, 11,048 public acres
- Mud Creek – 590 active AUMs, 8.206 public acres
- Hardie Summer – 408 active AUMs, 6,006 public acres
- Hammond FFR – 32 active AUMs, 1,159 public acres
A 2023 land health assessment determined that the available forage in Hammond is north of 1,700 but that finding has been ignored.
No forage has been assigned to wild horses in these parcels.
How many could live there?
The allotments offer a combined 1,503 active AUMs on 26,419 public acres, equivalent to 125 wild horses, or 4.7 animals per thousand public acres.
Why is this important?
Your faithful public servants claim that public lands in the western U.S. can only support one wild horse per thousand acres (27,000 animals on 27 million acres).
The advocates give their assent through their darting programs. Like the ranchers, they want you to think that the herds must stay within AML if they are to survive.
If the allotments were merged into an HMA, the AML would be 26 and 99 horses would be consigned to off-range holding because of permitted grazing.
BLM allotments in Oregon support livestock equivalent to 87,934 wild horses on 13,130,302 public acres, or 6.7 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.
RELATED: The Allotments Tell the Story: They’re Lying, All of Them.
CAAWH Goes Dark on Virginia Range Darting Program
Both the darting resources page and monthly reports page have been scrubbed.
They were so proud of it at the WHBAB meeting.
These charlatans want more transparency from the federal government but they don’t want you looking over their shoulder as they wipe out one of the largest wild horse herds in the American west.
Foal-Free Friday, Pesticides on Parade Edition
The fertility control fanatics took an early lead in public comments at the January 7 WHBAB meeting, as Suzanne Roy of the Campaign Against America’s Wild Horses set the tone with her declaration of loyalty to the public-lands ranchers.
In this video, her subordinates prove that the nonprofit is obsessed with pesticides, wants to replace motorized removal with mass sterilization, and is positioning itself to become the go-to contractor for wild horse “management.”
They are turncoats, sellouts, and don’t deserve a penny of your support.
RELATED: Foal-Free Friday, Speed of Light Edition.
Devil’s Garden Roundup Resumes Next Week?
The incident will continue on January 21 according to a report by Sierra Daily News.
The last update by the Forest Service put the capture total at 341.
RELATED: Devil’s Garden Roundup Over?
How Does Wild Horse Refuge Rate as a Wild Horse Refuge?
The former Rio Ro Mo Ranch covers over 18,000 deeded acres, has grazing preference on approximately 3,500 public acres and does not overlap any areas identified for wild horses.
Thus, it meets requirements 1, 2 and 4 but not 3.
The land ratio is too low.
You want more leverage, more value for your investment, more livestock pushed off the public lands.
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