Western Horse Watchers Association
Exposing the Hypocrisy, Lies and Incompetence of the Wild Horse Advocates
Name one thing the advocates are doing to achieve the vision for wild horses and burros intended by Velma and the 92nd Congress in the original WHB Act.
1. ______________________________________________________
Instead of carrying on her legacy, they carry water for the bureaucrats and ranchers.
They are phonies, leaders of the blind, irrelevant.
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Maybe she was pushed out because she wouldn’t bear fruit. The story doesn’t say.
Maybe it wasn’t her fault. The story doesn’t say.
Maybe she regained fertility and was accepted into another band. The story doesn’t say.
We don’t know her age but this is her first foal and the fourth born to the herd in 2024.
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The incident started on April 29. Results through May 7:
The figures above are based on the daily reports.
Horses
The capture target has been reached.
The death rate is 1.8%.
The capture total includes 48 stallions, 46 mares and 19 foals. The sidebar at the gather page says 50 stallions.
Youngsters represented 16.8% of the animals gathered.
Of the adults, 51.1% were male and 48.9% were female.
Body condition scores were not given.
Burros
The death rate is 1.8%.
The capture total includes 22 jacks, 30 jennies and 3 foals.
Youngsters represented 5.5% of the animals gathered.
Of the adults, 42.3% were male and 57.7% were female.
General
The location of the trap site is not known.
The HMA is not subject to permitted grazing.
Up to ten mares will be treated with GonaCon Equine, a fertility control pesticide, and be returned to the range with up to ten stallions.
There are no such plans for the burros.
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A new project has been created in ePlanning and two files were copied to the documents folder.
There were no opportunities for public comment.
A map in the CX puts the target zone on the west side of the HMA.
The latest schedule does not show a roundup in FY24.
The Decision Memorandum on the last page of the CX indicates a capture goal of 250.
Removal would alleviate damage to private property and risks to public safety.
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It’s not what you think it is.
It’s an opportunity to join hands with the advocates as they pray for the older horses to die, an essential part of the Montana Solution.
Although the average age of a herd increases, along with the death rate (because no new foals are hitting the ground), the process is slow compared to motorized removal—a flaw in the eyes of the bureaucrats and ranchers.
A workaround would be to add other toxins to the darts, not just to hasten equine demise, but to convince their allies that they can be as ruthless as the helicopter pilots and wranglers.
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The incident started on May 1. Results through May 7:
The figures above are based on the daily reports.
The capture total includes 28 stallions, 10 mares and 5 foals.
Youngsters represented 11.6% of the animals gathered.
Of the adults, 73.7% were male and 26.3% were female.
Body condition scores were not given.
The location of the trap site is not known.
The HMA is subject to permitted grazing. Resources liberated to date:
Ten mares will be treated with GonaCon Equine, a fertility control pesticide, and be returned to the range according to the latest schedule.
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Story by FOX5 News in Las Vegas.
The petition has 1,260 signatures as of this morning.
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The May 16 meeting, which was to be held at the off-range farm in Grandy according to the minutes of the February 15 meeting, has been cancelled.
No explanation was given in the notice.
In other news, the herd of slightly over 100 has produced three foals this year as noted in a story dated May 7 by WAVY News.
The PZP darting program has been suspended since 2022 but the number of viable mares and the size of the breeding population are not known.
Previously, birth rates and breeding patterns were determined by the advocates, not the horses.
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The incident, set to begin on October 1 of last year, started on May 1 with nine horses captured, none shipped, none released and no deaths.
The incident started on April 29. Results through May 5:
The figures above are based on the daily reports.
Horses
The death rate is 1.8%.
The capture total includes 46 stallions, 45 mares and 18 foals.
Youngsters represented 16.5% of the animals gathered.
Of the adults, 50.5% were male and 49.5% were female.
Body condition scores were not given.
Burros
The death rate is 2.2%.
The capture total includes 19 jacks, 23 jennies and three foals.
Youngsters represented 6.7% of the animals gathered.
Of the adults, 45.2% were male and 54.8% were female.
General
The location of the trap site was not given.
The HMA is not subject to permitted grazing.
Up to ten mares will be treated with GonaCon Equine, a fertility control pesticide, and be returned to the range with up to ten stallions.
There are no such plans for the burros.
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He does not need any help and there are no plans to intervene, according to a report dated May 7 by OBX Today.
He’s around 30 years old and deserves the chance to die as naturally as he lived, without ever having human hands on him.
However, if the management team and veterinarian determine that he has reached the end of his life and needs to be humanely euthanized, they will step in immediately.
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That’s according to Tracy “You need to manage the numbers to fit what’s available for the horses” Wilson of the Campaign Against America’s Wild Horses in a story dated May 6 by KTVN News about fences and water for the Virginia Range mustangs.
The video shows a foal tangled in the wires.
This is nonsense.
She oversees the PZP darting program that has put many of the mares at risk of sterility.
That’s how nonmotorized removal works: You snuff out new life and pray for the older horses to die, especially when you’re trying to convince the bureaucrats and ranchers that it’s a viable alternative to motorized removal.
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Participants will be escorted by wagon according to today’s announcement.
Registration is required and tours are limited to 20 persons each.
The privately owned facility has a capacity of 7,600 animals and the population as of January 11 was 3,804 wild horses and one wild burro.
The corrals support three tenets of rangeland management.
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At Grayson Highlands State Park with Bonnie K Hunter.
WARNING: Images of foals! Will be disturbing to most wild horse advocates.
The incident started on April 29. Results through May 3:
The figures above are based on the daily reports.
Trapping shifted from horses to burros on Day 5.
Horses
Two stallions were dispatched on Day 3, bringing the death rate to 2.1%.
The capture total includes 44 stallions, 38 mares and 15 foals.
Youngsters represented 15.5% of the animals gathered.
Of the adults, 53.7% were male and 46.3% were female.
Body condition scores were not given.
Burros
A jack was found dead in an open trap on Day 5, putting the death rate at 2.5%.
The capture total includes 18 jacks, 21 jennies and one foal.
Youngsters represented 2.5% of the animals gathered.
Of the adults, 46.2% were male and 53.8% were female.
General
The location of the trap site was given.
The HMA is not subject to permitted grazing.
Up to ten mares will be treated with GonaCon Equine, a fertility control pesticide, and be returned to the range with up to ten stallions.
There are no such plans for the burros.
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The BLM’s April 18 news release said it would appear in the Federal Register in the coming days, but a search of that site for “Conservation and Landscape Health,” the subject of the unofficial prepublication version, yields no new results.
A search of Regulations dot gov for the same term also yields no new results.
The rule would put conservation on equal footing with other multiple uses of public lands, an attempt to amend FLPMA while bypassing the people’s representatives.
The principal or major uses of public lands are limited to domestic livestock grazing, fish and wildlife development and utilization, mineral exploration and production, rights-of-way, outdoor recreation and timber production according to the statute.
You know the rule is bad for the country and good for our enemies because it was promulgated by liberals.
In a similar way, you know an idea is bad for wild horses if the advocates promote it.
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The current population is 326 and the AML is 178 according to the 2024 HA/HMA Report.
Of course they should go, if you’re an advocate. The HMA is overpopulated.
Best way to being the numbers down is nonmotorized removal, also known as humane management or in-the-wild management.
Mind not required.
Consider these data from a 2018 EA for population management in the HMA (page 17 in the pdf).
The forage allocation for horses tells you the AML was 2,424 ÷ 12 = 202, which is consistent with the HMA page but not the HA/HMA Report.
The forage allocation for livestock tells you the HMA supports cattle equivalent to 19,392 ÷ 12 = 1,616 wild horses, so the True AML is 202 + 1,616 = 1,818 which far exceeds the current population.
The horses can stay.
Mind required, plus a sincere desire to help wild horses.
The advocates have neither.
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Let’s see, the WHB Act no longer affords the protections sought by Velma, roughly half of their land is managed principally for livestock and the other half is managed primarily for livestock, and you don’t know what to do?
An organizer of the Save Our Wild Horses conference told KRNV News in a story dated May 2 “We don’t know if [the horses] should be rounded up at all, but we also don’t know can we improve the range conditions and leave the horses on the range where it doesn’t cost the taxpayers any money? Right now, we’re doing these expensive roundups, putting horses in holding where we’re keeping them.”
A schoolboy could figure this out but we’re not dealing with schoolboys.
If forage demand exceeds forage supply, you have a problem.
Once you understand that AMLs correspond to a small portion of the total authorized forage, and that most of the resource has been assigned to privately owned livestock, you’ll realize that public lands in the western U.S. can support many more horses than the bureaucrats and ranchers admit and that overpopulation is a myth.
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At one point it topped $100,000 but as of today stands at $36,000 according to a BLM update.
Remarks by those pledging the funds are especially troubling: The Humane Society of the United States, the PZP registrant who looks the other way as the Campaign Against America’s Wild Horses, another sponsor, uses the pesticide to wipe out entire herds.
When will these charlatans be brought to justice?
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The signatory to the “Path Forward,” a 2019 plan for ranching superiority in the lawful homes of wild horses, has placed an undated job ad in High Country News for a wild horse population field coordinator and technician.
The successful candidate will report to Celeste Carlisle, RTF science advisor, chair of the Wild Horse and Burro Advisory Board and co-leader of the FREES Population Management Working Group.
In this role, you will work with RTF staff to identify wild equine herds in several herd management areas to determine tractability and appropriateness for current and future range projects.
You should be familiar with 4WD travel, firearms, hiking, camping, map reading, fixing flat tires and bringing survival gear into field, such as extra food and water, layers, batteries, flashlights, blankets or sleeping bags and first aid supplies.
In short, you’ll help RTF leadership transform the organization into a government contractor specializing in nonmotorized removal, just like the Campaign Against America’s Wild Horses.
Join the race to the bottom today!
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