It is if you’re the Campaign Against America’s Wild Horses, a leader in mass sterilization and instigator of the largest attempted eradication of wild horses in Nevada.
Participants in the one-time invitation-only pesticide roundtable are now preaching the gospel of never-ending fertility control.
A few days ago, Return to Normal (Before WHB Act), a signatory to the “Path Forward” and close supporter of the ranchers, reiterated its support for humane population reduction, a ploy to substitute chemical extermination for motorized removal.
The Campaign Against America’s Wild Horses, a leader in mass sterilization and another participant in the roundtable, has jumped on the bandwagon with a ridiculous piece in PJ Media about the BLM’s Wild Horse and Burro Program.
The writers pointed to the Callaghan roundup, noting that “Without on-range fertility management, herd populations will quickly recover, triggering another gather in just a few short years.”
That’s a good thing, an admission that helicopters, unlike fertility control, don’t cause irreparable harm.
They questioned why the agency relies on roundups instead of ovary-killing pesticides, which have “fiscal and moral advantages.”
Historically, the agency has opted for the lesser of two evils and we should be grateful for that.
That does not alleviate the need for other options, such as restoring lands now designated as HAs, purging the bureaucracies of ranchers and ranching sympathizers, and converting allotments to wild horse preserves as American Prairie has done for bison in Montana.
As for the advocates, they can be ignored. They are stuck in a mental prison of their own making and have nothing to offer America’s wild horses.
The diktat directs the BLM, FWS and BOR to identify lands that can be made available for livestock grazing according to the news release.
The BLM has 60 days to present a plan to eliminate its permit renewal backlog and 30 days to identify new lands for grazing.
The announcement did not indicate if aerial shooting of wild horses was an acceptable method for achieving the goals or if kissing rancher ass would sway the results of next week’s elections.
The advocates like to lecture us about roundups and loss of freedom but next week on November 3 they’ll vote for totalitarians (candidates with a D by their name) who would enslave us to an all-powerful centralized government.
They want the commies to win—another reason why you shouldn’t give them a penny.
Which of the following characteristics can you associate with this dedicated practitioner of sustained fertility control?
a. Permanent infertility.
b. Destruction of breeding populations.
c. Loss of genetic diversity.
d. Irreversible decline.
e. Victory for ranchers.
The correct answer, not listed, is all of the above.
Which of the characteristics can you associate with low flying helicopters?
If your faithful public servants have a statutory responsibility protect free-roaming horses, why is fertility control an accepted management strategy?
If the bureaucrats, ranchers and advocates held a lying contest, who would win?
Pay no attention to the advocates and their followers on socialist media who sell mass sterilization as wild horse conservation.
Did you know that the Pine Nut advocates, whose volunteers are poisoning the Pine Nut mares with PZP, receive material support from one of the permittees in the HMA?
That would be the Campaign Against America’s Wild Horses, whose LLC holds 75% of the active AUMs in the Buckeye Allotment.
A federal judge has denied a preliminary injunction that would block adoptions and fertility control treatments of wild horses captured last month in Idaho according to a report by Capital Press.
The plaintiffs couldn’t point to any concrete data, information or statistics regarding the injections that would warrant an order stopping them.
Seriously?
Who said the advocates aren’t ill-informed about wild horses?
The advocates will be sending their observers to Wyoming to document any mishaps and inflame public opinion about motorized removal.
They do this not because they care about the horses but because they’re pesticide salesmen and want the herds beaten down with no possibility of recovery.
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.
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.
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?
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.
Harder to find than an honest advocate.
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.
