Western Horse Watchers Association
Exposing the Hypocrisy, Lies and Incompetence of the Wild Horse Advocates
Opinion
Protection and humane management are codewords for continual application of fertility control pesticides, with the inevitable result of permanent infertility and herd collapse.
Don’t give them a penny.
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The incident was basically a 100% roundup with selective return, leaving around 100 hand-picked wild horses to repopulate the area.
Q. Did the helicopter sterilize any mares?
A. No, fertility control programs do that.
Q. Was the breeding population destroyed?
A. No, fertility control programs do that.
Q. Did the roundup stop genetic mixing?
A. No, fertility control programs do that.
Q. Did the incident attract women?
A. No, fertility control programs do that.
Q. Did the contractor impose an irreversible genetic bottleneck?
A. No, fertility control programs do that.
Q. Why do the advocates favor extinction over recovery?
A. They want the ranchers to win.
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Genetic diversity comes from genetic mixing and genetic mixing comes from breeding.
Anything that interferes with breeding puts long-term viability at risk.
Methods, which fall under the general heading of population growth suppression, include fertility control, sex ratio skewing and surgical sterilization.
Are you surprised that the advocates prefer methods that are more harmful to wild horses than motorized removal?
Helicopters don’t sterilize mares. They don’t destroy breeding populations and they don’t stop genetic mixing.
They do create genetic bottlenecks but recovery is possible.
Not so for the advocates.
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The advocates want to impose genetic bottlenecks on wild horse herds from which there is no escape.
Science-based population management is a codeword for perpetual application of PZP, which means they won’t remain on the range.
Interesting how they contradict themselves.
They are pesticide salesmen, not conservationists.
Their goal is extermination, not preservation.
They have nothing in common with Velma.
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The report says there are an estimated 85,466 wild horses and burros on BLM lands, more than triple the level the range can support, a common misconception about AMLs.
A more accurate statement would say triple the number allowed by plan.
Many HMAs would be well above AML if you removed all the wild horses because of privately owned livestock.
That part is usually overlooked or swept under the rug.
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Compensatory reproduction is a natural response to a genetic bottleneck created by a roundup.
The advocates think it’s a defect of nature, evident in their comments on the Stone Cabin management plan.
Their solution is fertility control, a method that slows or prevents recovery of genetic health.
Other techniques include sex ratio skewing and surgical sterilization.
The advocates want the horse populations beaten down with no possibility of recovery, while claiming the government is managing the herds to extinction.
They are phonies, leaders of the blind, and don’t deserve a penny of your support.
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The advocates have created a genetic bottleneck from which there is no escape.
The bottleneck event was a PZP darting program that took the herd from 450 to 270 over a period of eight years, well beyond the range of reversibility.
A helicopter could achieve the same results in eight days, but the changes would not be permanent.
Would you approve $325,000 for a genetic study if you knew the mares had been sterilized, the breeding population had been destroyed and genetic mixing had been stopped?
The money would be better spent investigating those responsible for the destruction and their acolytes, who tried—and still try—to cover it up.
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The pre-gather population was not given but likely above 400 and 308 wild horses were removed, leaving around 100 to repopulate the area.
Q. Did the helicopters sterilize any mares?
A. No, fertility control programs do that.
Q. Was the breeding population destroyed?
A. No, fertility control programs do that.
Q. Did the roundup stop genetic mixing?
A. No, fertility control programs do that.
Q. Did the incident attract women?
A. No, fertility control programs do that.
Q. Did the contractor push the herd off the genetic cliff?
A. No, fertility control programs do that.
Q. Why do the advocates strongly support fertility control?
A. They want the ranchers to win.
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They’re proposing Khan, Thunder and Hobbs according to a story by ABC15 News.
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The report did not indicate if his mom had a faulty immune system and if she was in the first group of 25 to be removed.
If the foal was female, a good choice would be Ruthie, for ruthless pursuit of permanent infertility by the advocates.
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That’s the allegation in an August 20 news release by Skydog Sanctuary, which appeared on the same day as a report by The New York Times.
Drudge had a link to the unlocked article but you still had to sign in to read it.
Sale of “excess animals” was not allowed in the original Act but was authorized in the Burns Amendment.
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.
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Would you say that the Wuhan virus, sometimes referred to as Covid-19, was good for mankind?
It was developed by science.
How about the atomic bomb?
The advocates want you to think that fertility control is good for wild horses because it’s based on science.
It’s no better for horses than DES was for pregnant women.
Pay no attention to the advocates. They are enemies of America’s wild horses.
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What will happen when the American people find out that the advocates are working for the benefit of hunters and ranchers, not wild horses?
That they’ve been lying about the safety of PZP and its long-term effects, such as permanent infertility, loss of genetic diversity and herd collapse?
Will there be no accountability, no investigations of the corruption and influence of special interests?
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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.
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.
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Your job is to sell mass sterilization as wild horse conservation and paper over a lack of substance at the nonprofit.
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.
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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.
The documents were uploaded to the project folder in ePlanning.
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It was attributed to Lady Groupthinker in the July 29 article by Nevada Current.
It’s time for Congress to protect these horses from merciless helicopter roundups and mandate compassionate fertility control instead.
The advocates are all cut from the same cloth and drank the same Kool-Aid.
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The term refers to an elusive object or goal of great significance according to the explanation at Wikipedia.
It’s a report titled “How Fertility Control Improves Genetic Diversity.”
Unobtanium might be more accurate.
That term originally referred to materials that don’t exist according to the definition at Wikipedia.
The report, if found, would save the advocates from total embarrassment and defeat.
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