Western Horse Watchers Association
Exposing the Hypocrisy, Lies and Incompetence of the Wild Horse Advocates
Opinion
There were 135 entries this afternoon, up from 81 yesterday, some of which contain bullet points from the CAAWH form letter.
The North Dakota lawmakers probably don’t understand what the advocates mean by “collaborative, humane, science-based conservation of the Theodore Roosevelt National Park wild horses.”
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As of this evening, the testimony list has 81 entries, mostly in favor of the bill.
One of the submittals is a form letter from the Campaign Against America’s Wild Horses, claiming that a wild horse working group would unite state officials, advocates, experts and interested parties to ensure collaborative, humane, science-based conservation of the Theodore Roosevelt National Park wild horses, prevent removals, and provide long-term oversight.
These do-gooders have no idea what they’re talking about. Those are codewords for nonmotorized removal—mass sterilization with pesticide-laced darts.
A working group would provide a forward base from which the advocates can wage war on the TRNP wild horses, as it has in Colorado.
You only need to look at Assateague Island to see how it will turn out.
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The Senate Committee on State and Local Government will consider the measure at 9 AM on February 7. The deadline to submit testimony is 8 AM.
The bill would create a TRNP working group.
The advocates see it as another opportunity to ruin the mares with PZP.
Don’t give them a penny.
They’re selling mass sterilization as wild horse conservation.
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Where can you get such a good deal on the cost of feed?
On public lands. That’s what the ranchers pay, equivalent to $1.35 per AUM.
Why is the government paying $150 or more per AUM to feed wild horses in off-range holding when it could reduce that cost by 99% by keeping them on the range?
Elon Musk, are you listening?
One option is suggest that the advocates are working very hard to save the horses from drillers, miners and loggers, but they need more support.
A more accurate assessment would be to explain that the horses have been cheated by the bureaucrats in favor of the ranchers with the cooperation of the advocates.
They receive a tiny fraction of the available resources in their lawful homes.
Forage allocations are enforced by motorized removal, usually carried out by the legacy contractors, and nonmotorized removal, the small but growing domain of the advocates.
This is why the off-range corrals are flooded with wild horses and why the costs of the WHB program are spiraling out of control.
The ranchers pay almost nothing for the resources they consume and the services rendered on their behalf by the government.
The advocates want you to think they’re the good guys.
They have nothing to offer America’s wild horses.
They are the old guard, leaders of the blind, irrelevant.
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The bill calls for a minimum herd size of 200, a number that will be determined by the Park Service, but the advocates will likely drive the breeding population into the single digits with their projectors and RDDs, as provided in Section 1.3.
This will ruin the mares, increase the risk of inbreeding and spell the long-term demise of the herd, a strategy already in use at the Salt River, Virginia Range and elsewhere.
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The forecast out of Gobbler’s Knob is six more weeks of winter according to a story by AP News.
Western Horse Watchers predicts an extended period of deception from the advocates, as they peddle chemical sterilization as wild horse conservation.
There will be no reform until you cut them off and they face financial insolvency.
A certified PZP darter will discuss the pros and cons of fertility control, as if the decision to ruin the mares must be carefully weighed before acting.
Two shills for the public-lands ranchers will explain their plan to move the horses from their lawful homes to remote wilderness areas to deter wildfires. The method by which the animals stop lightning is proprietary and not open to public observation.
Refer to the conference home page for dates and times.
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A keyword search of the conference home page yielded these results:
The organizers claim to be arming you with knowledge to effectively advocate but they are tiptoeing around the #1 problem for wild horses and not giving you a quantitative basis to make the case.
Worse, they have given airtime to the Wild Horse Fire Brigade, a nonprofit that’s openly hostile to wild horses, opposes the spirit and intent of the original statute, and has the backing of Elko County, a ranching advocacy group.
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The 12:30 PM session on Day 3 of the Wild Horse Summit deals with wild horses, federal agencies and violations of existing laws.
Western Horse Watchers does not know if the presentation will cover the unlawful use of PZP and GonaCon Equine by the agencies and NGOs.
PZP is usually applied to herds that are said to overpopulated, interfere with animal agriculture or pose safety hazards to motorists, none of which are approved uses of the pesticide.
Rules for PPE are often ignored, another example of failure to use the product as directed on the label.
Where two doses of GonaCon are applied, the mares usually receive them less than 90 days apart as specified on the label.
One person alleged at the January WHBAB meeting that the Forest Service was giving the pesticide to stallions.
These actions do not border on criminal, they are criminal.
The November 15 edition of Foal-Free Friday tells you how to report such incidents.
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Self-incrimination.
Western Horse Watchers has not been able to find a news release or agenda, only an occasional search result on socialist media.
The advocates have nothing to offer America’s wild horses.
They have been brought to their knees by the possibility of motorized removal, real or imagined.
UPDATE: Added video and link to conference.
The two-day event starts on February 6 according to an undated announcement by the Colorado Department of Agriculture.
No agenda was provided.
The legislature expects the group to recommend humane alternatives for wild horses taken off range in Colorado, the best of which is to place them back on public lands at the expense of privately owned livestock.
This can be accomplished through the acquisition of base properties tied to grazing allotments, then flipping the preference to horses.
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The festivities include a burro adoption blitz according to a BLM news release.
What we need is a Love Triangle Awareness Week, highlighting the coordinated effort to remove these animals from their lawful homes in favor of privately owned livestock.
The outreach component would focus on the treachery of the advocates, management practices that benefit the ranchers and alterations to the original statute that threaten the long-term viability of the herds.
Do not be fooled by the Campaign Against America’s Wild Horses.
It is not a philanthropic organization.
It serves no charitable purpose.
It is a coven of pesticide pushers and ranching sympathizers whose mission is to sell mass sterilization as wild horse conservation.
If you don’t believe that, watch the videos from the January WHBAB meeting:
The search result above might be the result of payments to Google.
The arrangement could include censorship of dissenting voices, a necessary step when you’re trying to convince the American people that you have all the answers when in fact your methods are known for barren mares, abnormal sex ratios, faulty immune systems and irreversible decline.
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Can you imagine standing for your particular judgment with her record?
She was as anti-life as the wild horse advocates.
Yet all things are possible with God.
Three out of four recommendations from the January meeting concern AMLs and fertility control.
Public comments on Day 1 may have influenced the outcome.
There are no voices for wild horses on the committee.
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While the new president works on the next state of the union address, Western Horse Watchers offers the following assessment of the wild horse world:
It’s not the poor advocates pushing back against the bureaucrats and ranchers, it’s the bureaucrats, ranchers and advocates trying to get rid of the horses.
Once you understand that, everything else makes sense.
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You don’t necessarily have to look at the inner workings of the project.
You can make a first-pass assessment by finding out what others say about it.
For example, if the advocates like it, you probably should avoid it.
If Elko County likes it, stay away.
If the Public Lands Council condemns it or the Coalition for Healthy Nevada Lands opposes it, you might want to dig a little deeper.
The Colorado Wild Horse Working Group announced in its Year One Report that it was looking at options for a wild horse refuge so that might be a case to watch.
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Both the darting resources page and monthly reports page have been scrubbed.
They were so proud of it at the WHBAB meeting.
These charlatans want more transparency from the federal government but they don’t want you looking over their shoulder as they wipe out one of the largest wild horse herds in the American west.
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