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Western Horse Watchers believes no action is necessary.

Those who organize these appeals are often among the most gullible and least informed about wild horses and burros.

If you’re thinking about HMAPs, you’re right, but there are other ways the advocates tell you they want the ranchers to win.

Forage allocations for wild horses and livestock are specified in resource management plans, sometimes referred to as land-use plans.

The plans are usually enforced by motorized removal.

If horses are consuming 40% of the authorized forage when the plan gives them 20%, a roundup is ordered to protect the ranchers.

The advocates don’t like roundups but concur with the idea of resource enforcement.

Fertility control is a better way of ensuring the ranchers receive 80% of the authorized forage in the lawful homes of wild horses, as specified in the RMPs.

There are no low-flying helicopters and no roping of fatigued animals.

In its extreme form there are no horses—exactly what the ranchers want.

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As usual, the news release does not include a map of the project area or link to the NEPA analysis.

Permit holders, among others, were urged to be aware of treatment operations.

Ironically, the agency that routinely ignored the 2017 labeling amendment for GonaCon Equine, which extended the interval between primer and booster from 30 days to 90 days, said in the announcement that “Strict adherence to the pesticide label restrictions and instructions is followed as required by law.”

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Imagine having a net worth of several million dollars and being eligible for food stamps.

That’s permitted grazing.

The ranchers pay almost nothing for the forage they consume and the services rendered on their behalf by the government.

And it’s a lifestyle, not temporary public assistance.

What did they know and when did they know it?

You cannot use the Montana Solution to reduce a herd from 450 to 200 without sterilizing the mares.

You need a diploma from the Billings School of PZP Darting to apply it.

To claim ignorance implies gross negligence of the instructors.

Will the guilty parties please step forward?

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He’s one of the greatest proponents of the herd according to a story posted yesterday by the Powell Tribune.

The 2025 population dataset put the size at 149 and he’s already darted 45, which may be close to 100% of the breeding-age mares.  Any left for the advocates?

His efforts are not mentioned at their darting page.

The HMA is a curated horse exhibit.  There’s nothing natural about it.

• Sterilized mares
• Tiny breeding population
• Lack of genetic diversity
• Abnormal sex ratio
• Massive human involvement
• Habitat fragmented by allotments
• Selection for faulty immune systems

All of this to prop up a failed industry, referred to in the article as the folks with stock.

An article by The Colorado Sun points to a long-term challenge in the management of the state’s wild horses: Many of the advocates are growing older and there is not much interest among young people in taking over.

Given that wild horse management generally equates to beating the numbers down with ovary-killing pesticides, that’s a good thing.

Don’t let the door smack you on the way out.

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Simone Netherlands of the Salt River Wild Horse Darting Group and Suzanne Roy of the Campaign Against America’s Wild Horses should be ordered to appear before the Board—if there is one—and put under oath to discuss the condition of the herd.

• Trend chart showing changes in herd size
• Doses of PZP applied each year
• Mares treated each year
• Average doses per mare each year
• Mares at risk of sterility
• Current ratio of females to males
• Mares not responding to treatments
• Trend chart showing annual death rates
• Changes in foal survival rates
• Horses removed from habitat
• Annual costs of program

The meeting would be open to the public.

Those responding to the RFP are entitled to know how much damage has been done by the advocates before taking responsibility for the herd.

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The article begins with a faulty assumption.

The title should say “How should Utah fix the mismanagement of resources in the lawful homes of wild horses and burros?” not “How should Utah rein in the wild horse and burro problem?”

The writer noted that wild horse and burro numbers in the state far exceed appropriate management levels and that animals are straying outside of federal management areas.

So what?  AMLs don’t indicate carrying capacities.

Those sounding the alarm are usually involved with animal agriculture.

Putting more wild horses in private sanctuaries, identified as a possible solution, is exactly what they want.

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

Those who sound the alarm about wild horses and burros are often among their worst enemies.

Take for example the Campaign Against America’s Wild Horses, a leader in humane disposal and faithful servant of the bureaucrats and ranchers.

Who’s the greater threat to wild horses, a President whose budget will be tempered by Congress or a nonprofit that’s wiping out herds with mass sterilization?

Do these people not understand that the Campaign Against America’s Wild Horses, a leader in nonmotorized removal and servant of the public-lands ranchers, is sterilizing the Virginia Range mares with PZP, a restricted-use pesticide that tricks the immune system into attacking their ovaries?

How stupid do you have to be to support an organization like that?

File under: Charlatans.

Application of fertility control pesticides beyond the sterilization threshold.

Next to the Virginia Range, it’s the biggest market for their pest control services.

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Maybe to break up their PRIDE parade or something.

How many synonyms for mass sterilization can you find in this Google search result?

Hint: There’s more than two and less than four.

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Jackie Hughes is co-leader of the Wild Horse Transition Team, one of the groups vying for the new management contract.

Consider the possibility that both parties are unsavory.

Western Horse Watchers does not read or link to anything on socialist media.

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Legend ties them to shipwrecks and new world explorers but no one really knows how they got there according to a story by the Daily Press.

They’ve survived under harsh conditions for 500 years but today they face a threat nobody imagined: The advocates and their ovary-killing pesticides.

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Imagine submitting a proposal to manage the herd at 150 head and instead of seeing it grow, you’re watching it shrink, irreversibly.

Everyone’s looking at you with suspicion.

But you had nothing to do with it.

The problem was created by your predecessor, the Salt River Wild Horse Darting Group and its overlords at the Campaign Against America’s Wild Horses.

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The advocates lure you in with remarks about helicopter roundups then ask you to give them money so they can eradicate the herds with pesticides.

File Under: Charlatans.

“Let the mustang be in charge.”

Can you think of a better way to set him up for failure and put yourself at risk of injury?

The full video runs nearly two hours.

Some equestrians are as nutty as the wild horse advocates.