The general form of an AML is x to 2x, which is based on a doubling of the population every four to five years.

The Rule of 72 gives a growth rate of 14 to 18 percent per year.

Not at Pryor Mountain.

The new management plan set the AML at x to 1.1x, implying a growth rate of 2.3% per year.  (The Rule of 72 applies to doubling of populations, not 10% increases.)

The artificially low growth rate will be achieved with sustained fertility control, a dead end for wild horses.

Modeling by your faithful public servants indicates that the herd can maintain sufficient genetic diversity under the new plan, according to a report by the Lovell Chronicle.

Some observers, such as the director of operations at the Pryor Mountain Wild Mustang Center, worry that the result could be an older herd with fewer foals, a polite way of saying it’s on the way to extinction with no possibility of recovery.

The advocates, obsessed with fertility control and permanent herd reduction, are happy to sit back and watch it happen.

RELATED: Coalition Asks Court to Stop Pryor Roundup.

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If you wanted to raise money for your rescue, and show the public that you care about wild horses, would you partner with the Campaign Against America’s Wild Horses?

Barbara Phillips did.

The founder of Saving Gracie Equine Healing Foundation joined forces with Patricia Miller, executive director of CAAWH, for a weekend fundraiser according to a story by The Park Record.

Miller said the wild horse issue in the United States boils down to population control.

Forget about habitat loss, lopsided forage allocations and manipulation by ranching interests.

It’s now evident that Miller is Suzanne Roy’s ideological progeny and that the nonprofit is headed down the same destructive path as it did under Roy’s leadership.

Meet the new boss, same as the old boss.

RELATED: Dirty Jobs: Taking CAAWH from Collapse to Strength.

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The plaintiffs requested a temporary restraining order and preliminary injunction according to a story by the Billings Gazette.

A hearing is set for October 19 in U.S. District Court.

The incident is on the schedule with a start date of October 1 but no activity has been reported.

Recent changes to the management plan have set the herd up for extermination.

The new AML implies heavy use of fertility control, with the inevitable result of permanent infertility, loss of genetic diversity and herd collapse.

AMLs should allow a doubling of the populations every four to five years, with removals as needed.

A minimum population of 50 breeding animals (total of 150 to 200) is required.

The advocates, on a mission to destroy the breeding populations, are the greatest threat to long-term viability of America’s wild horses.

PREVIOUS: Pryor Roundup Announced.

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Here are today’s headlines in Bing for wild horses:

The original news release is #4 in the list.

Overpopulation means more horses than allowed by plan, not more horses than the land can support.

Your faithful public servants typically assign 80% of the authorized forage to privately owned livestock, so the population targets for wild horses are low relative to the available resources.

Telling the truth—that they’re getting rid of the horses to help the ranchers, who pay almost nothing for the forage they consume and the services rendered on their behalf by the government—might shift public opinion.

Protection is a codeword for wild horse removal, by long-term use of ovary-killing pesticides (preferred by the advocates) or by motorized equipment (preferred by hunters, ranchers and bureaucrats).

The difference is recovery: Helicopters don’t sterilize mares, destroy breeding populations and eliminate genetic mixing.

Are you surprised that the advocates favor the greater of two evils?

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The pre-gather population was almost 700 and the roundup removed 500, leaving around 200 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 create a genetic bottleneck with no possibility of recovery?

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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Would you be surprised if a manufacturer of antiparasitics sounds the alarm about a threat to the nation’s beef supply when a solution is in the final stages of development?

Consider a September 15 guest column in the Mesa Valleys Progress, submitted in response to a previous column about wild horses in Nevada and written by one of the participants in the secretive Wild Horse and Burro Roundtable.

Addressing Nevada’s wild horse population requires scientifically defensible population objectives, honest examination of livestock forage allocations, sustained fertility control, protection of genetically viable herds, and replacement of routine helicopter roundups with humane, on-range management strategies.

On-range management is a codeword for fertility control, the subject of the roundtable.

The technique interferes with genetic mixing, the source of genetic diversity.

Sustained fertility control is continual application of PZP, an ovary-killing pesticide that gradually creates genetic bottlenecks with no possibility of recovery.

The Salt River is one example.  The only way to save the herd is to bring in mares from other areas.

Why didn’t the writer address these issues?

• Managing HMAs principally for wild horses
• Restoring HAs and managing them principally for wild horses
• Purging the bureaucracies of ranchers and ranching sympathizers
• Zeroing out allotments and converting them to wild horse preserves
• Purchasing base properties and converting the preference to wild horses

It’s unlikely that he would have taken a different approach if his NGO was not involved in the roundtable.

They are already predisposed to the idea, evident in the mass sterilization program on the Virginia Range, the largest attempted eradication of wild horses in Nevada.

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Now is not the time to throw in with the advocates and their ruinous darting programs.

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Dangling $30 million for fertility control in front of wild horse advocates, as was done earlier this week at the Wild Horse and Burro Roundtable, is like parading cases of whiskey in front of alcoholics.

Don’t be surprised if they come out in favor of helicopter roundups, the cornerstone of catch-treat-release.

Fertility control is a dead end for wild horses, resulting in permanent infertility, loss of genetic diversity and herd collapse.

PREVIOUS: Foal-Free Friday, PGS Edition.

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A BLM representative told Western Horse Watchers in an email message that the roundtable was a one-time, closed listening session to gather diverse perspectives on humane, sustainable wild horse management.

It’s not clear if the big tent included any opponents to fertility control or permitted grazing.

Recall the comments by Celeste Carlisle of Return to Freedom, one of the nonprofits participating in the roundtable, about who to invite to such meetings:

“You definitely have fringe groups that do have valid concerns and bring a lot to the table but by them being at the table there’s no advancement in the discussion.”

Video queued up to the mark, just hit Go.

PREVIOUS: Ever Hear of the National Wild Horse and Burro Roundtable?

UPDATE: The BLM rep said in a subsequent email that the meeting was not open to the public.

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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.

PREVIOUS: Fifteenmile Roundup Ends.

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Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain.

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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.

PREVIOUS: Foal-Free-Friday, Down for the Count Edition.

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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.

RELATED: Science Not Always Benevolent.

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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.

PREVIOUS: Foal-Free Friday, Surviving the Bottleneck Edition.

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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.

PREVIOUS: Confusion Roundup Over.

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They’re proposing Khan, Thunder and Hobbs according to a story by ABC15 News.

Western Horse Watchers suggests

• Defiance – Because he defied the advocates and their mass sterilization program
• Pesty – Because they tried to prevent his existence with fertility control pesticides
• Omega – Because the last thing the advocates want to see at the Salt River is a foal

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.

RELATED: Governor Suspends Salt River Wild Horse Removals.

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