Western Horse Watchers Association
Exposing the Hypocrisy, Lies and Incompetence of the Wild Horse Advocates
One document has been copied to the project folder.
A forthcoming environmental assessment will evaluate the wild horse gentling and adoption partnership between BLM Wyoming and the Wyoming Department of Corrections as well as other alternatives, according to today’s news release.
Comments will be accepted through October 23.
He assumed the role at the end of the 56th Annual Meeting according to a September 20 news release.
As a role model for the industry, his allotments meet or exceed standards for rangeland health. Right?
The Operator Information and Allotment Information reports at RAS tied him to these authorizations and allotments, all in the Royal Gorge Field Office.
The Allotment Master Report provides management status, acreage and active AUMs.
The operation is on the small side, putting the new president in the figurehead category.
All of the public acres are in the Improve category, which should be an embarrassment to PLC.
The parcels support livestock equivalent to 70 wild horses, with an average stocking rate of 4.8 animals per thousand public acres.
The bureaucrats and ranchers tell us that public lands in the western U.S. can only support one wild horse per thousand acres (27,000 animals on 27 million acres), which should bring more embarrassment.
The advocates, defeated a long time ago and now in their camp, bolster the narrative with their darting programs.
In eastern Kentucky with sxs rides.
In 1970, Led Zepplin released the Immigrant Song.
Fast forward to 2024.
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The Allotment Master Report provides both.
In this example from the Blue Wing Allotment in Nevada, C-Punch Ranch receives 14,058 active AUMs but the permitted use is 25,864.
Which one represents the forage allocation for livestock?
Sometimes the BLM moves AUMs into the suspended column because of fires, drought, solar arrays, mines, etc.
Those AUMs can shift back to active use when conditions improve or after the useful life of the project.
The relationship between these variables is:
Active AUMs = Permitted Use – Suspended AUMs
or
Permitted Use = Active AUMs + Suspended AUMs
Western Horse Watchers uses active AUMs when comparing forage allocations for wild horses and livestock.
Anything to dispute in this audio segment from KLCC Radio in Eugene, OR?
Project 2025 talks about getting rid of wild horses.
The advocates are actually doing it.
The greatest threat is public-lands ranching, which the advocates support.
Do not be deceived.
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A management evaluation has been copied to the project folder for public review.
Comments will be accepted through October 18.
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UPDATE: The BLM announced the project one week into the comment period. The evaluation indicates on page 9 that there is no livestock grazing inside the HMA.
The Rangeland Stewardship Award in the permittee category went to Fitzgerald Ranch of Plush, OR according to a BLM news release dated September 17.
The Operator Information Report at RAS tied the ranch to authorizations 3600601 and 3601273.
The Allotment Information Report linked the authorizations to these allotments:
The Allotment Master Report provides management status, public acres and active AUMs.
Approximately 92% of the public acres are in the Improve category, suggesting that our stewards of the public lands are not taking their responsibilities seriously.
The allotments support livestock equivalent to 1,427 wild horses on 298,288 public acres, or 4.8 wild horses per thousand public acres.
The bureaucrats and ranchers tell us that public lands in the western U.S. can only support one wild horse per thousand public acres (27,000 animals on 27 million acres).
The award was presented at the annual meeting of the Public Lands Council.
So says one of their leaders in today’s news release on PRN.
Judge for yourself.
They’ve published a list of recommendations for the BLM covering ethical and effective wild horse and burro management.
It was developed at the SOWH Conference in Reno where there was no condemnation of the Virginia Range mass sterilization program, despite its proximity to the hotel-casino.
The page includes a form that will add your name to the signatories.
Western Horse Watchers offers the following suggestions as a starting point for meaningful discussion.
A guiding principle in the SOWH recommendations is that they could be implemented without any changes to policy and law.
The cover letter was not addressed to anyone in the Department of Agriculture, which is responsible for wild horses and burros on Forest Service lands.
The Army base is now Fort Johnson, not Fort Polk, according to a story by The Advocate of Baton Rouge, LA.
The number of horses remaining in the forest is unknown.
An advocacy group filed suit claiming the Army’s plan to eliminate the horses violates the National Environmental Policy Act and the National Historic Preservation Act but the courts ruled in favor of the military, who views the herd as trespass livestock.
Although the group rescued around 100 animals, they have separated the males from the females, suggesting there are no plans to preserve the resource.
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The Campaign Against America’s Wild Horses oversees an innovative fertility control program on the Virginia Range according to an August 31 news flash distributed by Lucky Three Ranch.
It’s designed preserve the wild horse herd.
The advocates shoot the females with pesticide-laced darts.
After five years of treatment they become sterile.
The program is now in its sixth year.
The mares enjoy a well-deserved break from the demands of nursing and pregnancy, allowing them to maintain strong health and a steady weight.
The fillies, also targeted, thrive without the strain of early pregnancy, giving them the time they need to grow strong and healthy.
As the older horses die.
Does it make sense now?
Thank God for the wild horse advocates.
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Yesterday’s news release says it’s over although some horses are still being sorted to determine which ones will receive fertility treatments, moved to different areas of the HMA or taken to a holding facility.
The gather page indicates 59 unaccounted-for animals.
A report by The Colorado Sun indicates that a mare, 24 years old and underweight—but with foal—was dispatched on Day 8 after she broke her leg.
The foal went to a local ranch.
The roundup is not over until the disposition of every captured animal is known.
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Won’t you chip in so they can buy more PZP?
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The system is down again. None of the wild horse and burro pages, including ePlanning and the National Data Viewer, are responding.
Suppose you adopt a mom-baby pair at one of the BLM off-range corrals, captured earlier this year in a wild horse roundup.
How much does the on-range population change?
What is the change in resource loading?
How many public acres were conserved?
Zip, zero and zilch, respectively.
So why would the writer of an opinion piece in today’s edition of The Nevada Independent peddle wild horse adoptions as conservation?
Because they free-up space in the corrals, allowing more horses to be taken off the range, conserving resources for the public-lands ranchers.
The author forgot to mention them.
“The equines generally inhabit rugged, remote, arid landscapes where they compete with mule deer, pronghorn, sage-grouse and other wildlife for water and forage.”
There aren’t many predators in those areas because they have been minimized in the name of animal agriculture.
Public lands in Nevada can’t support 38,000 wild horses and burros but they can support livestock equivalent to 173,000 wild horses.
The Property and Environment Research Center advocates for market solutions to conservation so let’s put labels on range-fed beef saying it was produced on public lands at the expense of America’s wild horses and let consumers pick the winners and losers.
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The Decision Record authorizes Alternative A, the Proposed Action, described in Section 2.1 of the Final EA.
Management actions include forcible removal, sex ratio adjustment and fertility control over a ten-year period.
A roundup appears on the FY25 schedule with a start date of May 1.
Three HMAs are affected.
Up to 100 jennies will be returned to the range after treatment with GonaCon Equine.
The Complex is subject to permitted grazing.
The DR and EA can be found in the project folder on ePlanning.
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The incident started on September 11. Results through September 17:
The figures above are based on the daily reports.
The helicopter was grounded on Day 7 due to weather, not because the capture goal had been reached.
Two horses were dispatched on Day 6 due to knee injuries, bringing the death rate to 1.5%.
The capture total includes 36 stallions, 78 mares and 20 foals.
Youngsters represented 14.9% of the animals gathered, consistent with a herd growth rate of nine to ten percent per year.
Of the adults, 31.6% were male and 68.4% were female, outside the expected range of variation from a random process centered at 50% males / 50% females.
Body condition scores were not given.
The location of the trap is not known.
Up to 20 mares will be treated with fertility control pesticides and be returned to the HMA with up to ten stallions.
The Draft EA for management actions in the HMA indicated on page 6 that the herd consisted of 203 horses, including 22 foals, as of September 2023. Of the 181 adults, 33% were male and 67% were female.
The Final EA states on page 6 that the population in July 2024 was 222, including 29 foals, and that the 193 adults consisted of 42% males and 58% females.
Abnormal sex ratios are common in herds treated with PZP, a restricted-use pesticide that tricks the immune system into attacking the ovaries.
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You’ve seen them stapled to telephone poles in residential areas. Missing dogs too.
But Trump forgot to mention horses, which are taken for their meat, as discussed in this post from February 2023.
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