Opinion
Q. What do you call women who seek nonmotorized removal when the land can support five to ten times more wild horses than the government admits?
A. Advocates.
Q. What do you call men who demand motorized removal when the land can support five to ten times more wild horses than the government admits?
A. Ranchers.
Q. What do you call government workers who bring these groups together to push their anti-horse agenda?
A. Bureaucrats.
Welcome to the Love Triangle on America’s public lands.
We know you’re frauds.
We know you’re obsessed with pesticides.
We know you’re in cahoots with the bureaucrats and ranchers.
We know you want the ranchers to win.
Stop taking money from well-meaning individuals who actually care about the horses.
Publish your donor lists.
Stop referring to cherished wild horses when you mean pests.
Stop saying mares living longer when you mean abnormal sex ratios.
Cut the “Stay Wild” crap when you mean “Stay Barren.”
Stop complaining about genetic diversity and inadequate herd sizes when you’re driving the breeding populations into the single digits.
Stop saying in-the-wild management when you mean nonmotorized removal.
Stop calling them vaccines when you know they’re pesticides.
Stop calling them reversible when you know they destroy ovaries.
Stop saying conservation when you mean eradication.
Stop saying protection when you mean sterilization.
Stop saying preservation when you seek total herd collapse.
Stop talking about families as you snuff out new life.
Stop looking to their future while you’re praying for the older horses to die.
Stop talking about keeping them in balance with their environment when most of their food has been given to the ranchers.
Today, you’re celebrating sterility, not fertility.
You give death an unfair advantage over life, and your allies appreciate what you do.
Happy No-Mothers Day.
File under: Charlatans.
PZP doesn’t reduce herd sizes, death does.
It’s an unintended consequence of motorized removal but a vital part of nonmotorized removal.
The advocates give death an unfair advantage over life.
They are imbeciles, leaders of the blind, irrelevant.
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Name one thing the advocates are doing to achieve the vision for wild horses and burros intended by Velma and the 92nd Congress in the original WHB Act.
1. ______________________________________________________
Instead of carrying on her legacy, they carry water for the bureaucrats and ranchers.
They are phonies, leaders of the blind, irrelevant.
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It’s not what you think it is.
It’s an opportunity to join hands with the advocates as they pray for the older horses to die, an essential part of the Montana Solution.
Although the average age of a herd increases, along with the death rate (because no new foals are hitting the ground), the process is slow compared to motorized removal—a flaw in the eyes of the bureaucrats and ranchers.
A workaround would be to add other toxins to the darts, not just to hasten equine demise, but to convince their allies that they can be as ruthless as the helicopter pilots and wranglers.
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The BLM’s April 18 news release said it would appear in the Federal Register in the coming days, but a search of that site for “Conservation and Landscape Health,” the subject of the unofficial prepublication version, yields no new results.
A search of Regulations dot gov for the same term also yields no new results.
The rule would put conservation on equal footing with other multiple uses of public lands, an attempt to amend FLPMA while bypassing the people’s representatives.
The principal or major uses of public lands are limited to domestic livestock grazing, fish and wildlife development and utilization, mineral exploration and production, rights-of-way, outdoor recreation and timber production according to the statute.
You know the rule is bad for the country and good for our enemies because it was promulgated by liberals.
In a similar way, you know an idea is bad for wild horses if the advocates promote it.
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The current population is 326 and the AML is 178 according to the 2024 HA/HMA Report.
Of course they should go, if you’re an advocate. The HMA is overpopulated.
Best way to being the numbers down is nonmotorized removal, also known as humane management or in-the-wild management.
Mind not required.
Consider these data from a 2018 EA for population management in the HMA (page 17 in the pdf).
The forage allocation for horses tells you the AML was 2,424 ÷ 12 = 202, which is consistent with the HMA page but not the HA/HMA Report.
The forage allocation for livestock tells you the HMA supports cattle equivalent to 19,392 ÷ 12 = 1,616 wild horses, so the True AML is 202 + 1,616 = 1,818 which far exceeds the current population.
The horses can stay.
Mind required, plus a sincere desire to help wild horses.
The advocates have neither.
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Let’s see, the WHB Act no longer affords the protections sought by Velma, roughly half of their land is managed principally for livestock and the other half is managed primarily for livestock, and you don’t know what to do?
An organizer of the Save Our Wild Horses conference told KRNV News in a story dated May 2 “We don’t know if [the horses] should be rounded up at all, but we also don’t know can we improve the range conditions and leave the horses on the range where it doesn’t cost the taxpayers any money? Right now, we’re doing these expensive roundups, putting horses in holding where we’re keeping them.”
A schoolboy could figure this out but we’re not dealing with schoolboys.
If forage demand exceeds forage supply, you have a problem.
Once you understand that AMLs correspond to a small portion of the total authorized forage, and that most of the resource has been assigned to privately owned livestock, you’ll realize that public lands in the western U.S. can support many more horses than the bureaucrats and ranchers admit and that overpopulation is a myth.
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At one point it topped $100,000 but as of today stands at $36,000 according to a BLM update.
Remarks by those pledging the funds are especially troubling: The Humane Society of the United States, the PZP registrant who looks the other way as the Campaign Against America’s Wild Horses, another sponsor, uses the pesticide to wipe out entire herds.
When will these charlatans be brought to justice?
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The Campaign Against America’s Wild Horses, an appendage of the BLM and leader in mass sterilization, reported today that 201 mares received 205 doses of PZP during the month, 61 given as a primer and 144 as a booster.
Over the life of the program, which began in 2019, the advocates have pumped 9,140 doses of the pesticide into 2,027 mares, for an average of 4.5 doses per mare.
Sixty-four foals have been born year-to-date. Four died of unspecified causes.
The current population is thought to be 3,519 with 370 horses listed as missing, compared to 3,480 with 353 horses listed as missing in March.
The population was 3,444 with 338 horses listed as missing in February and 3,465 with 342 horses listed as missing in January.
The agreement with NDA expired on April 30 but the report indicates the following goal for May: “Continue to maximize booster treatments to mares across the Virginia Range as we move through the rest of spring breeding season to prevent pregnancies, and continuing to allow for humane population decrease.”
Not discussed:
PZP is a restricted-use pesticide that tricks the immune system into attacking the ovaries, resulting in sterility after five years of treatment.
The report will be submitted to the Nevada Department of Agriculture.
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Traffic from Facebook and Twitter accounted for 1.8% of the total during the month, down considerably from the same period two years ago.
The bureaucrats, ranchers and advocates don’t want a free and fair debate.
If you won’t go along with their off-the-range philosophy, you are silenced.
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A new colt is the third foal born in 2024 according to a report by OBX Today.
Why is this important?
The advocates have been poisoning the mares with PZP, a restricted-use pesticide that tricks the immune system into attacking their ovaries.
The size of the breeding population and the number of viable mares is not known.
Curiously, the story ends with a remark about protecting and preserving this critically endangered herd.
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The privately owned facility experienced an 11% mortality rate in 2023 according to a report dated April 29 by KLAS News.
Information for the story was supplied by the Campaign Against America’s Wild Horses, a leader in nonmotorized removal.
The concluding remark about the dark realities of the BLM’s roundup and removal program does not arise from a genuine concern for wild horses.
Rather, it reflects their frustration in taking market share from the legacy contractors to expand their pesticide business.
As for the horses, better if they weren’t even born.
Alternative C, a fully contracepted herd that dies off, is no longer on the table but it could still become a reality. Here’s how.
The herd needs to be reduced from 200 to 60 or less according to the story by AP News.
Motorized removal will draw the same negative reaction as the original plan.
The advocates have had some success in convincing the public that attrition by pesticides is better than attrition by helicopters, and nobody talks about getting rid of wild horses more than they do, so let’s see what would happen if the Park Service turned to them for advice.
The initial population is 200 and the goal is 60.
Assume a six percent death rate and zero percent birth rate.
Let x = number of years to achieve goal by nonmotorized removal.
The advocates will need almost 20 years to achieve the goal.
Actually, they only need five years. The mares will be sterile after that and the herd will implode, just like Assateague Island.
The assumption of a constant death rate is probably not valid.
With no new foals hitting the ground, the average age of the herd will increase, along with the death rate, so the goal could be achieved sooner than expected.
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Advocates with the Salt River Wild Horse Darting Group, an affiliate of the Campaign Against America’s Wild Horses, are supposed to be getting rid of them.
This little guy probably has a weakened immune system as discussed on Friday.
If a predator doesn’t get him, disease will, which is great news for the advocates.
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The event runs from 8 AM to 5 PM at the Nugget Casino Resort in Sparks, NV, according to yesterday’s announcement.
BLM staff will provide guidance on land status, locating and mapping new claims, and transfers of interest, among other things.
Personnel with the State of Nevada will be available to answer questions and will provide information on filing with counties.
The National Data Viewer has an option for mining claims in the layer list but you have to zoom in to enable it.
The following image shows claims and herd areas around Caliente, NV.
The Public Land Survey System, another option in the list, helps you identify their size and location.
The advocates would have you believe that drilling and mining are the greatest threat to wild horses, as they eradicate the herds with ovary-killing pesticides.
They are masters of misdirection and subterfuge.
One by one they’re coming out of the closet.
This time it’s In Defense of Animals, commenting on yesterday’s announcement that wild horses can stay in TRNP:
“PZP is the darting method that should be used for wild horse sterilization, not GonaCon.”
For years the advocates have been telling you it’s a safe, proven and reversible vaccine.
Now they admit it’s a sterilant.
They are enemies of the horses, leaders of the blind, irrelevant.
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That’s according to a story published by The Daily Telegraph for its subscribers but available on MSN without restrictions.
We want to be equal with men → We don’t need men → We are men
Real men don’t want to be around them.
Where do you find these wretches in the wild horse world?
Can you think of anyone better qualified to destroy families and disrupt the natural order than women who have been brainwashed out of marriage and distaff pursuits?
The bad news is that Alternative C, a fully contracepted herd that dies off, is not going to happen.
For now, they’ll have to be content with their sterilization programs at the Salt River, Virginia Range and elsewhere.
The good news is that the herd still needs to be whittled down to an appropriate level, and that could be accomplished with ovary-killing pesticides instead of helicopters.
Public lands in the western U.S. managed by the BLM currently support livestock equivalent to one million wild horses on 145 million acres, as determined previously.
If you scale that down to 42 million acres, public lands identified for wild horses and burros in 1971, you get 290,000 wild horses.
The current population is 59,000 wild horses and 15,000 wild burros, equivalent to 66,500 wild horses, well below the carrying capacity of their land.
The population target is 27,000, the number of animals allowed by plan.
The advocates are doing everything they can to help the bureaucrats and ranchers achieve this goal.
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