The agency states at its sales page that it does not sell or send any wild horses or burros to slaughter.
The FAQs indicate that the Bill of Sale includes language requiring purchasers to certify they will not knowingly, recklessly, or negligently sell or transfer a horse or burro purchased from the BLM to any individual or organization that intends to process the animal, or its remains, into commercial products, or to facilitate such processing.
Titles are not issued.
The agency does not track the animals after they are sold.
They are private property and no longer eligible for federal oversight or protection.
If an animal is found in a kill pen or otherwise demonstrated to have been sold to slaughter, the agency will assess whether the purchaser violated federal law and refer the matter to Law Enforcement.
At least in theory.
Sadly, nobody’s looking upstream in the management process and asking why the animals were removed from their lawful homes.
Nobody’s asking if there are other options for keeping them on the public lands.
Fertility control, a darling of the advocates, is a dead end, eventually leading to permanent infertility, loss of genetic diversity and herd collapse.
One thing is clear: Nothing will improve until the bureaucracies have been purged of ranchers and ranching sympathizers, top to bottom.
Advocates with Friends of the Salt River Wild Horses say over 70 requests for a meeting have gone unanswered according to a story by Arizona Free News.
The first roundup, to be effected by the Salt River Wild Horse Darting Group, begins in September.
Almost certainly, mares with faulty immune systems, who defy the mass sterilization program and bring great embarrassment to the advocates, will be a top priority.
The report said the population goal of 120 could pose long-term genetic concerns but was silent about the darting program that has sterilized the mares, destroyed the breeding population and halted genetic mixing.
Elusive or nonexistent?
How much longer will the ruse continue?
Six months ago the herd numbered 274. Now it’s 269.
The only way to stop the decline is to bring in mares from other areas and confine the advocates to their base properties.
Your job is to sell mass sterilization as wild horse conservation and paper over a lack of substance at the nonprofit.
Your role model.
The position is 100% remote and pays $70K to $90K per year.
The Campaign Against America’s Wild Horses, a leader in nonmotorized removal, holds the title of largest attempted eradication of wild horses in Nevada for its Virginia Range darting program.
Good grief, the news release says the plan will alleviate wild horse suffering from overpopulation, but nothing about rancher angst as they try to reclaim their food from the government dependents.
The person who wrote the announcement should be fired for misleading the public.
The Decision Record authorizes Alternative A, outlined in section 2.1 of the Final EA.
Implement the revised HMAP
Achieve low AML as soon a s possible
Apply fertility control strategies as detailed in HMAP
The documents were uploaded to the project folder in ePlanning.
The statute declared that the horses are not stray livestock, according to an opinion piece in the Arizona Capitol Times, and it prohibited anyone from harassing, capturing or euthanizing them without written authorization, and only for humane purposes.
But it didn’t protect them from mass sterilization and those who would sacrifice the herd to prove their nutty ideas and win the approval of its detractors.
The debate about removal should include humane management, a codeword for long-term use of PZP, with the inevitable result of permanent infertility and herd collapse.
In a surprise move, they’re calling for an end to motorized removal and greater use of humane alternatives according to a July 29 article by Nevada Current.
Who saw that coming?
Nina Jackel, founder of Lady Groupthinker, said “It’s time for Congress to protect these horses from merciless helicopter roundups and mandate compassionate fertility control instead.”
Not really.
The advocates have nothing to offer America’s wild horses.
In most cases, the herds bounce back after a roundup.
With humane management, a codeword for long-term use of immunocontraceptives, the changes are permanent: The mares will be sterilized, the breeding population will be destroyed and genetic mixing will be stopped.
Pay no attention to the advocates. They are wolves in sheep’s clothing and don’t deserve a penny of your support.
Long-term use of PZP at the Salt River, under the guise of humane population reduction, has produced the following results:
The mares have been ruined, except for those with faulty immune systems
The breeding population has been destroyed
There is no genetic mixing
Curiously, some advocates are still calling for scientific study of herd size and genetic health, evident in a July 29 commentary in the Arizona Capitol Times.
How would the research save the herd from total collapse?
Why haven’t Van der Salm, the Salt River ringleader, and Roy, the disgraced former leader of the Campaign Against America’s Wild Horses, been held to account?
The average of the herd is increasing, along with the death rate, because no new foals are hitting the ground.
It’s not nature’s way, it’s a better way according to the advocates.
The Salt River advocates portray themselves as voices for the horses but they were hired to get rid of them.
How much of their support comes from hunters and ranchers?
The Salt River Wild Horse Darting Group is a forward base of the Campaign Against America’s Wild Horses, a leader in mass sterilization.
Conservation, protection and preservation are codewords for long-term use of fertility control, with the inevitable result of permanent infertility and herd collapse.
That’s what you’re seeing at the Salt River (and Virginia Range).
The writer of a column in the Arizona Capitol Times argues that decisions affecting public resources, such as wild horses, should be supported by transparent data and sound science, not by consensus or a show of hands.
The piece contains misleading information about herd size and genetic health while ignoring facts about long-term use of PZP. That information is in the ISPMB report, starting on page 30.
Not really, only the science that doesn’t incriminate us.
Here’s the money quote:
Through fertility control and natural attrition, the population has fallen from approximately 450 horses five years ago to about 271 today — a reduction of more than 40% without mass removals.
Except the time frame is closer to eight years. A reduction of that magnitude would require a death rate of about 10% per year, twice the normal rate.
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