This column has always been dedicated to the wild horse advocates, who are wrong about everything, especially the importance of reproduction to herd survival.

How can you start a nonprofit and attract a large following yet be so out of touch?

As a gentle reminder of their errors, add comments to their socialist media pages about the consequences of their darting programs, such as abnormal sex ratios, injuries and infections, increasing death rates and loss of genetic diversity.

Links to anything on Western Horse Watchers would be most unwelcome.

It won’t change their minds but it might dissuade others from joining their movement.

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The product may break the cycle of mother bears teaching their cubs to break into houses according to a report by the Tahoe Daily Tribune.

In keeping with established practice, the article refers to it as a vaccine, not a pesticide.

It’s not clear if the writer consulted with the wild horse advocates, who use it to stop mares from teaching their foals to survive in the desert.

The story pointed to MOUs with departments of agriculture in Arizona and Nevada, a reference to the mass sterilization programs at the Salt River and Virginia Range, showing that partnerships with state agencies are possible.

Curiously, a representative of the Billings School of PZP Darting and Public Deception said the advocates weren’t trying to decrease the population of black bears, just prevent them from teaching their cubs to break in.

There is a problem with their plan, however: PZP is not approved for use on bears.

A 2017 labeling amendment expanded its scope to white-tailed deer and other cervids but not to ursids.

So not only will the advocates at Lake Tahoe need to get certified at Billings, but they’ll also need to convince the EPA that the pesticide is suitable for bears.

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A. Build a coalition against motorized removal.

B. Offer mass sterilization as a humane alternative.  Call it wild horse conservation.

C. Tacitly support the overpopulation narrative and removal of excess animals.

D. Don’t talk about shrinking herds, abnormal sex ratios, increasing death rates, loss of genetic diversity and who you’re really trying to protect.

E. Recognize your donors and volunteers for saving thousands of wild horses.

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It’s not the cranky toilet.

It’s not the long journey to the moon, which took twice as long as the Apollo missions.

It’s the prevalence of women at NASA, especially in the control room.

If you want to see how screwed up things can get, look at the wild horse world, which is dominated by women.

That’s what happens when you supplant logic and reason with emotion.

Long live the patriarchy!

RELATED: Women Ruin Everything.

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The mauling of a wild burro in southern California could represent a new way of getting rid of free-roaming equines.

If it works on jacks and jennies it will work on fillies and colts.

The advocates won’t support it because it’s inhumane and, more importantly, might loosen their grip on nonmotorized removal.

Western Horse Watchers has not seen any endorsements of the project.

PREVIOUS: Foal-Free Friday, Mission Impossible Edition.

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Video from yesterday’s rally at the state capitol, organized by Friends of the Salt River Wild Horses.

Who’s sterilizing the mares?  The Salt River Wild Horse Darting Group, a forward base of the Campaign Against America’s Wild Horses.

Who’s gearing up for motorized removal?  SRWHDG.

Who’s been lying about their intentions and loyalties?  SRWHDG.

Does FSRWH have anything better to offer?

You have Friends of the Mustangs in Colorado and Friends of a Legacy in Wyoming and they are enemies of the horses.

RELATED: Advocates Protest Salt River Wild Horse Removal.

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The news releases are almost identical:

• BLM
• Forest Service

The memorandum of understanding, signed by both agencies, will strengthen coordination, cut bureaucratic red tape and deliver immediate, tangible support for America’s farmers and ranchers who rely on public lands.

The vacant allotment finder may be one of the first achievements of the partnership.

“By working closely with American ranchers, we are enhancing communication, investing in innovation, and modernizing our approach to land management practices,” according to Secretary Burgum, “to deliver real results for the people who feed and sustain this country.”

Yep, if it wasn’t for them we’d all be vegans.

The aim of the grazing program is to ensure that high-net-worth individuals receive generous government benefits, often at the expense of America’s wild horses and burros, with no means testing and no expiration dates.

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Yesterday the Agendas & Minutes page contained links to documents from three special meetings.

Today, it has links for March 12 only, minus the minutes.

Minutes from the September 18 special meeting put the herd size at 112 but did not indicate the number of males and females.

The number of self-boosting mares was not provided.  (Refer to the AdvocateSpeak decoder if you don’t know what that means.)

The size of the breeding population was not provided.

The effect on genetic diversity was not discussed.

Healthy mares were not darted in 2025 due to questions about the long-term effects of PZP according to comments under Action 1K (bottom of page 12 in the pdf).

In an attempt to thwart a better understanding of how the pesticide works, protocols are in place to send the uterus—not the ovaries—of any deceased mares to researchers at the Science and Conservation Center for analysis (manufacturers of PZP).

RELATED: Currituck Wild Horse Advisory Board Meets Today.

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The herd area is not suitable for wild horses but the allotment that contains most of it supports livestock equivalent to 962 wild horses.

The equivalent stocking rate in the allotment is 6.9 wild horses per thousand public acres, almost seven times higher than the rate that avoids rangeland degradation (one wild horse per thousand acres according to your faithful public servants).

If the bureaucrats and advocates held a lying contest, who would win?

RELATED: Can Public Lands Be Suitable and Not Suitable for Wild Horses?

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The project started with the donation of a ten-acre parcel according to a story by The Journal of Cortez, CO.

It’s not a base property and doesn’t have grazing privileges on public lands.

The facility reflects a shift in the group’s priorities, from keeping wild horses on public lands to ownership of displaced animals and placing them into private care.

The ranchers couldn’t be happier.

Western Horse Watchers refers to the trend as the downward spiral in wild horse advocacy, characterized by acceptance of methods that were previously eschewed.

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

RELATED: Mesa Verde Roundup Continues.

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Not according to the law of contradiction.

1. Law of Identity: A = A, A is A.

2. Law of excluded middle: A ∪ A^c = S, everything is A or not A.

3. Law of contradiction: A ∩ A^c = ∅, nothing is A and not A.

Unfortunately, those are rules of thought.  The material world need not conform.

Consider the West Douglas Herd Area in Colorado.

A BLM spokesman said it’s not suitable for wild horses according to an article about the new roundup schedule by The Colorado Sun.

A wildfire destroyed most of their food.

But the HA lies mostly within the Twin Buttes allotment, with a small portion in East Douglas Creek, and the allotment master report for Twin Buttes shows only nine percent of the authorized AUMs in the suspended column.

The active AUMs would support 962 wild horses.

Can a fire burn some of the forage and most of the forage?

Can the land be fit for wild horses and not fit for wild horses?

The bureaucrats would have you believe that.  They’re as nutty as the advocates.

RELATED: BLM Defies Colorado Wild Horse Working Group?

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They’re not companies.

They don’t invest in real estate.

They’re rangeland eugenicists in training.

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

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Proponents of eugenics claimed they were trying to improve genetic quality while critics said they were trying to preserve the position of dominant groups in the population.

A disproportionate number of those identified for sterilization were African American, Asian American and Native American women according to an article by Wikipedia.

The idea was to diminish those who were seen as unfit for society—the poor, the disabled, the mentally ill and persons of color.

The movement may have fallen out of favor but some practices, such as sterilization, have spread to America’s public lands.

We need to cleanse the range of certain undesirable elements that rob forage from livestock and return little if any economic benefit.

What you may not realize is that today’s eugenicists, like their predecessors, have a hidden agenda.

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The hearing is set for April 6.

The bill would create a Colorado wild horse license plate, fees and compulsory donations notwithstanding.

The tags should feature an image of an advocate shooting a darting rifle, reflecting the state’s commitment to barren mares, shrinking herds, increasing death rates, abnormal sex ratios and loss of genetic diversity.

RELATED: Colorado to Offer Wild Horse License Plate?

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This year it’s called the National Wild Horse & Burro Conference, a successor to the Save Our Wild Horses Conference.

The field trip on Day 2 leads to the Onaqui Mountain HMA, where the advocates have added GonaCon to their darting repertoire, a practice they previously opposed, to beat the horse population down in favor of livestock.

Just another example of the downward spiral of wild horse advocacy.

Day 4 features presentations about rescues, sanctuaries, innovative programs and real pathways to getting horses into homes—exactly what the ranchers want.

Not to be discussed is the model employed by American Prairie and the Wild Horse Refuge: Owning or controlling private property tied to public lands and flipping the preference to horses.

The topic is of critical importance as the BLM has awakened to a new understanding of the meaning of livestock, a move prompted by ranching interests to discourage, if not preclude, the conversion of grazing allotments to wild animal preserves.

RELATED: Reminder About Sanctuaries.

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The last roundup schedule of FY25 showed 16 darting programs, nine employing PZP, six using GonaCon and one based on both.

In the new schedule for FY26, the program at Little Book Cliffs has shifted to the mix, bring the total in that category to two.

It’s a small change that reflects desperation of the advocates to remain relevant, keep their seat at the table and prove that fertility control is the preferred alternative to motorized removal.

Even if they resort to methods they previously opposed.

The move follows shifting attitudes in Arizona, where the advocates will supplement their mass sterilization program with motorized removal to hasten the decline of the Salt River herd, starting this summer.

PREVIOUS: Foal-Free Friday, Social Engineering Edition.

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The reality is the remnant staff at the Campaign Against America’s Wild Horses is still composed of defeatists, pesticide pushers and ranching sympathizers.

Let the reformation continue.

RELATED: Housecleaning at CAAWH?

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They’re horrified to see growth and genetic vigor.

They want the land managed primarily for livestock.

They have nothing to offer America’s wild horses.

RELATED: BLM Releases 2026 Population Estimates.

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Here’s an archive view of the staff last May.  Scroll down to “Our Team.”

Here’s the current roster.

These individuals are no longer on the list:

• Abbey Benesh, Law and Policy Manager
• Amelia Perrin, Sr. Communications Manager
• Maddi Mincey, Virginia Range Fertility Control Coordinator
• Olivia Lester, Legal Affairs Research Associate
• Scott Wilson, Director of Strategy and Awareness
• Steve Paige, Field Representative
• Suzanne Roy, Executive Director
• Tandin Chapman, Utah Conservation Operations Manager

In recent years, Roy transformed the nonprofit into a ranching advocacy group, with heavy reliance on pesticides to achieve the government’s population goals, while the board looked the other way.

Her bogus land trust is in an area where livestock are welcomed but horses are not.

The title of largest attempted eradication of wild horses belongs to her for the mass sterilization program on the Virginia Range.

A sigh of relief must have gone up at her departure.

Western Horse Watchers does not know who’s currently driving the bus and if the reduction-in-force is part of a restructuring and rededication to its original mission.

RELATED: CAAWH Seeks Operations & Executive Support Manager?

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Key responsibilities include managing the executive director’s calendar, inbox triage, meeting preparation, follow-ups and travel logistics according to an undated job posting on Indeed.

Does that mean the executive director is suffering from mental illness or is in a state of cognitive decline?

The Campaign Against America’s Wild Horses and its partner organizations lead the nation in mass sterilization and undying service to the public lands ranchers.

Stay barren!

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