He was hit in the knee by a ricochet bullet from nearby target shooting according to a story by The Record-Courier.

The report did not give the name of the allotment where the incident occurred.

The loss takes a little pressure off the darting program and liberates 12 AUMs per year for other mandated uses of public lands.

The Pine Nut advocacy group is a forward base of the Campaign Against America’s Wild Horses.

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This is Bobby Khan’s opponent in Nevada’s first congressional district race.

Sounds like the advocates.

Are you surprised that they would focus on the wrong things?

RELATED: Khan Panders to Ranchers, Paints Them as Victims Not Villains.

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The announcement yesterday of four bait-trap roundups starting on March 15* provides an excellent opportunity for the advocates, now tasked with motorized removal of the Salt River horses, to witness operations in a neighboring state and get some pointers for their own program.

Unfortunately, the incidents are not open to public observation.

Maybe the BLM can make an exception for these challengers to the legacy contractors.

Don’t worry, they’re still obsessed with pesticides and nonmotorized removal.

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

*Antelope & Triple B, Caliente, Pancake, Spring Mountains.

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You can’t take them literally.

Mass sterilization and motorized removal do not constitute protection.

They’re developing a model for ranching superiority in the lawful homes of wild horses, applicable everywhere.

Why are you still giving them money?

RELATED: Salt River Advocates to Become Full-Service Contractor?

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When the decision was announced in 2022, the Public Lands Council hit the ceiling.

The BLM agreed to change the livestock type and season of use on several allotments in response to a request from American Prairie to graze bison instead of cattle.

The nonprofit obtained preference by purchasing base properties tied to the allotments.

Now, bowing to pressure from ranching interests, the agency has flip-flopped on the issue, reversing the original decision and hanging American Prairie out to dry.

In a news release, American Priarie pointed to the state of Montana, North and South Phillips Grazing Districts and the Montana Stockgrowers Association as challengers in the case.

The BLM’s position, according to a story by the Daily Montanan, is that it can only issue permits to applicants who will graze the public lands for purposes of production.

In the new decision, posted to the original project in ePlanning, the agency states that animals to be grazed are used for their meat, milk, fiber or other products.

Animals treated as wild or intended to be released into the wild are not eligible for a grazing permit.

If that’s true, will the BLM target Wild Horse Refuge next?  The nonprofit flipped the grazing preference to wild horses on the former Rio Ro Mo allotments.

What about the Virginia side of Assateague Island, where the salt water cowboys graze ponies on public lands managed by FWS?

If American Prairie charged an admission fee to visit their preserve, the bison would be producing an income for their owners as cattle and sheep do for the ranchers.

Case dismissed.

RELATED: State Tries to Block American Prairie Grazing Decision.

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We’re not talking about driving for Amazon or DoorDash.

We’re talking about getting your certification so you can beat the horse populations down in favor of livestock.

That’s what passes for protection in the wild horse world.

PREVIOUS: Foal-Free Friday, Oxymorons and Redundancies Edition.

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Things must really be hopping in Davis.

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Observers were unable to determine the condition of an injured horse according to an opinion piece in the Reno Gazette Journal.

But should you criticize the agency for lack of transparency when you’re guilty of that yourself?

The column was written by the Nevada State Director for the Campaign Against America’s Wild Horses, a leader in mass sterilization and servant of the public lands ranchers, who scrubbed the Virginia Range Darting Resources page from its website, and the monthly reports posted thereto, leaving the public in the dark about the largest attempted eradication of wild horses in the state.

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The announcement, dated February 18, was published to its news site yesterday.

To wit, the new management plan balances the population with available resources while maintaining genetic integrity, which is nonsense, not when the advocates have ruined the mares with PZP.

Horses removed from their habitat can only go to sanctuaries approved by AZDA.

RELATED: Salt River Advocates Win New Contract with AZDA.

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The bill was introduced yesterday and referred to the House Finance Committee.

Not much room to fit an image of a wretch with darting rifle.

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Up to $20 million was available for partnerships with private landowners to provide sanctuaries for wild horses according to a notice from 2011.

The announcement does not explain the BLM’s expectations but a program that helps interested groups (not the advocates) acquire or control private properties attached to public lands would serve a useful purpose today.

The advocates would only be interested in a program that helps them buy pesticides so they can beat the horse populations down in favor of livestock.

If a proposed sanctuary doesn’t include public lands and doesn’t displace livestock therefrom, it’s not worthy of your support.

RELATED: Starting a Nonprofit That Actually Helps Wild Horses.

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They’re not putting out hay to draw wild horses away from populated areas, they’re putting out propaganda to distract you from the truth.

Such as the mass sterilization program on the Virginia Range.

Getting rid of nine times ninety-nine would be a lowball estimate.

How about the equivalent of nine Antelope-Moriah roundups?

Not because the land can’t support that many but because the bureaucrats said so.

Why don’t they write about that?

RELATED: Advocates Surpass Shooters in Race to Eliminate Wild Horses.

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These two words don’t belong together: Honest advocate.

Why doesn’t Moonfire have any other colts to play with?

Will his mom be among the first to go?

Nobody says “evil demons.”  It’s redundant.

Likewise for the advocates.

PREVIOUS: Foal-Free Friday, Crossing the Line Edition.

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Look at their capabilities:

• Mass sterilization – Active
• Bait-trap removal – Developing
• Helicopter roundups – Future
• Placement into private care – Active

The opponents of motorized removal have become its reluctant practitioners.

How long before the mask comes off and reluctance transitions to enthusiasm?

RELATED: Salt River Motorized Removal to Begin This Summer?

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There are no foals in this video by KPNX News.

To date, the advocates have

• Ruined the mares with PZP
• Driven the breeding population to zero
• Sacrificed long-term viability to their pesticide ideology

Now, they’ll venture into an area dominated by the legacy contractors, capturing 25 wild horses per year and placing them into private care.

Who said PZP wasn’t a gateway drug?

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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.

RELATED: How Might the World React to the New Salt River Contract?

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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.

RELATED: Salt River Advocates Win New Contract with AZDA.

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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.

RELATED: Forest Service Abandoning Black Mountain WHT?

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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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