The advocates have until the end of the year to take the herd from 274 to 243 according to a story by KPHO News.

That would require a death rate of nearly 12%.

274 × (1 – .12) = 241

Although the death rate is increasing along with the average age of the herd (because few if any new foals are hitting the ground), it’s not enough to achieve the goal.

The first step would be to mend fences with Jackie Hughes and bring her into the fold.

Then develop a plan for capture, removal and placement into private care, just like the roundups they’ve always condemned.

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Imagine the possibilities as the advocates turn to motorized removal—a practice they publicly opposed—to reach the population target:

• Sharp increase in donations from hunters and ranchers
• Praise from farm bureaus and stock grower’s associations
• Endorsements from rural communities and public lands councils
• Cooperative agreements with former nemeses
• Support from legacy contractors

The move may inspire other advocacy groups to come out of the closet.

The Salt River Wild Horse Darting Group is a forward base for the Campaign Against America’s Wild Horses.

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Was this post written by a woman who sees the world not as it is but the way she thinks it should be?

Or maybe she reached her conclusion after watching herds where mares can’t be mares and the natural order has been disrupted by massive human involvement?

Stallions run the show.

Get over it.

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The article about the Black Mountain WHT included a section about Return to Normal (Before WHB Act), a signatory to the “Path Forward,” and the sanctuaries it operates.

In the space of a few paragraphs, fertility control is mentioned five times.

RTF ringleader Neda DeMayo said the horses live as they’re designed to live—except for one minor detail.

She’s been pummeling the mares with a “non-hormonal, reversible birth control vaccine,” referred to on these pages as an ovary-killing pesticide, since 1999.

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Today we recognize the role of women in the race to eliminate America’s wild horses.

They use your donations to buy pesticides so they can drive the numbers down in favor of livestock.

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Pay no attention to the advocates and their sob stories about loss of freedom.

They, and their mass sterilization programs, are a far greater threat to wild horses than the legacy contractors and their low-flying helicopters.

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What advocate isn’t striving to become a certified applicator of restricted-use pesticides?

You could have ordered the latest edition of the National Pesticide Applicator Certification Manual and given it to her on the big day.

Instead, you decided to watch the big game and now it’s too late.

The advocacy groups need more dupes to advance their anti-horse agenda.

PREVIOUS: Foal-Free Friday, S-Word Edition.

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Federal land management agencies are supposed to serve the people and protect the environment according to an article in today’s edition of This Is Reno.

But the Trump administration has gutted them and directed them to only work on projects that help oil and gas companies, ranchers and mining companies.

Which has the greatest impact on wild horses and burros?

Drilling and mining affect anywhere from a few acres to a few thousand acres while public lands ranching devours entire HMAs and beyond.

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The advocates won’t say it.

The bureaucrats tiptoe around it.

The politicians throw money at it.

What are they trying to accomplish?

The BLM page concerning range and herd health, which applies to the wild horse and burro program not the grazing program, says PZP is only effective for approximately one year, unless four or more shots are given over time.

What do you suppose they mean by that?

PREVIOUS: Foal-Free Friday, Wicked Women of the West Edition.

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If the BLM hears too many complaints about the situation they may order a nuisance roundup.

The 80-acre parcel serving as a laydown yard for Project Greenlink is surrounded by public lands identified for cattle, not wild horses and burros.

A solution might be for the contractor to build a sturdier fence while letting the water run onto public lands as it does now so the animals can continue to drink.

Any talk about new trenches or pipes or tanks on public lands would likely trigger a NEPA review and months or years of delay before anything happens in the field.

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That’s what Forest Service personnel said according to a story by KPHO News.

Why are they offering a reward for information on the deaths of trespass livestock?

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The loss of nine free-roaming horses in the Apache-Sitgreaves National Forest is just another day at the office for the advocates.

At the Salt River, they’ve taken the herd from 450 to 280.

The largest attempted eradication of wild horses is not being carried out by the BLM in Wyoming but by the advocates at the Virginia Range.

The number of horses lost is not known because they scrubbed their darting resources page and the monthly reports posted thereto.  The final result could go as high as 3,000.

New programs are springing up wherever they can convince the bureaucrats that they have a better way.

They are enemies of America’s wild horses and don’t deserve a penny of your support.

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The Prognosticator of Punxsutawney said earlier today that winter’s not going anywhere according to a report by CBS News.

Neither are the lies about wild horse behavior, carrying capacity of public lands and the reversibility of PZP.

You can bring an early spring by giving the advocates the boot.

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They are the pesticide pushers, enemies of America’s wild horses and servants of the public-lands ranchers.

They couldn’t convert an AML to AUMs if their lives depended on it, much less compute a forage allocation for livestock in an area identified for wild horses.

But they know how much adjuvant to add to the PZP and how long to mix them.

Resolve now to cut them off.

PREVIOUS: Foal-Free Friday, Turncoats and Sellouts Edition.

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The bill would increase the number of horse-drawn carriages in densely populated areas to help fight global warming.

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Not mentioned in the report are the allotments where the horses roam and the priorities attached thereto.

Comments from a representative of the Campaign Against America’s Wild Horses were not included, a deviation from established practice.

To his credit, the writer did not try to sell mass sterilization as wild horse conservation.

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Of course not!

The opponents of motorized removal want to pummel the mares with pesticide-laced darts, which inevitably leads to permanent infertility and herd collapse.

The bureaucrats in Colorado are leading the way in this regard, with close support from the big-name advocacy groups.

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The buyer was Ensign Group of Salt Lake City according to a January 16 report by Cowboy State Daily.

The price was not disclosed.

The Stewart Creek Unit clashes with three HMAs.

The total preference, a little over 90,000 AUMs, is equivalent to 7,500 wild horses.

Taxpayers will receive $121,500 per year for the resource at the current grazing fee, while they spend $6 per day per head, or $16.4 million per year, to care for 7,500 wild horses in off-range holding.

Nobody in the private sector would do that.

But a government agency co-opted by a special interest would, especially when it’s aided and abetted by a cadre of frauds who claim to be voices for the horses.

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The herd reduction program will continue for at least two more months according to a report by the Payson Roundup.

The ringleader of the Salt River Wild Horse Darting Group, a forward base for the Campaign Against America’s Wild Horses, told her followers that “the only thing that’s certain is that the future for the Salt River Horses is extremely uncertain.”

This is nonsense.  The herd has no future because SRWHDG ruined the mares with PZP.

The long-term effects of the pesticide were known from the beginning by everyone involved but swept under the rug to win public assent.

A new contract, if one is needed, would provide for documentation and mopping up as the herd fades to extinction.

A secondary task would be to bring the liars and frauds to justice.

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Posting a new link due to changes in the NEPA register.

Try your luck!

Previously the search yielded four results but now it gives three.

You’re looking for a project that flips the preference to horses.

Given the attitudes and beliefs of the permit holder, the odds of winning are very low.

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