What Should You Tell Your Legislators About Wild Horses?

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.

Sand Wash Advocate 01-04-25

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.

RELATED: New Year, Same State.

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Don’t Be Fooled by SB 2331

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.

RELATED: North Dakota Legislature to Create TRNP Working Group?

Advocates are the Predators 11-30-21

Today Is the Nadir of the Wild Horse Summit

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.

RELATED: Notably Absent from Wild Horse Summit.

McKinney Fire 08-08-22

Notably Absent from Wild Horse Summit

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.

RELATED: Wild Horse Summit Starts Today?

Support the Advocates 09-22-24

Foal-Free Friday, Bringing Them Up on Charges Edition

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.

GonaCon Violation of Federal Law 08-05-23

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.

RELATED: Foal-Free Friday, Indulging Their Obsession Edition.

Calling it a Vaccine 05-01-23

Colorado Wild Horse Working Group Meets Next Week

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.

RELATED: Colorado Wild Horse Working Group Releases Year One Report.

Wild Horse and Burro Awareness Week or Off-the-Range Week?

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.

Working Together for a Horse-Free Future 12-21-22

The Nation’s Champion of Wild Horse Eradication

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.

Champion of Mass Sterilization 01-26-25

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.

RELATED: New Year, Same Lies.

Pesticide Pushers 07-17-23

New Year, Same State

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.

RELATED: New Year, Same Lies.

Working Together for a Horse-Free Future 12-21-22

When Should You Support a Wild Horse Refuge?

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.

Base Property Scorecard 01-02-25

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.

RELATED: Colorado Wild Horse Working Group Releases Year One Report.

CAAWH Goes Dark on Virginia Range Darting Program

Both the darting resources page and monthly reports page have been scrubbed.

They were so proud of it at the WHBAB meeting.

Better Way 10-25-23

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.

RELATED: Status of Virginia Range Sterilization Program?

How Does Wild Horse Refuge Rate as a Wild Horse Refuge?

The former Rio Ro Mo Ranch covers over 18,000 deeded acres, has grazing preference on approximately 3,500 public acres and does not overlap any areas identified for wild horses.

Thus, it meets requirements 1, 2 and 4 but not 3.

Wild Horse Refuge Scorecard 01-16-25The land ratio is too low.

You want more leverage, more value for your investment, more livestock pushed off the public lands.

FILE UNDER: Ranches.

New Documentary Looks at Wild Horse Roundups

The film’s title is “America’s War on Wild Horses and Burros,” according to a story by KOLO News.

There is a war, but it’s not being prosecuted on behalf of the American people.

The beneficiaries are hunters and ranchers.

The advocates are the foot soldiers, firing pesticide-laced darts at will.

Air support is provided by the legacy contractors.

Federal agencies coordinate the attacks, with input from state and local officials.

Animals not killed in battle will spend the rest of their lives in concentration camps.

Will any of this be reflected in the film?

The article did not provide a link to the trailer or director’s website.

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Salt River Advocates Can’t Get No Respect?

Poor babies.

They don’t deserve any credit.

They should not be paid.

They’re destroying the herd with ovary-killing pesticides.

The Other Mass Sterilization Program 01-13-25

The Salt River Wild Horse Darting Group is an affiliate of the Campaign Against America’s Wild Horses, a leader in nonmotorized removal, supporter of the Path Forward and fierce opponent of principal use.

RELATED: Salt River Darting Program by the Numbers.