The herd consists of 300 head, maybe a bit more, but you can count the breeding population on one hand thanks to the advocates.

RELATED: Breeding Population More Important Than Herd Size.

A motion to pass carried 7-0 in the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee on February 7.

Refer to video of the discussion and vote.

The resolution asks Congress to establish federal protections for the wild horse herd at Theodore Roosevelt National Park.

If it agreed, would it impose the multiple-use mandate, which the bureaucrats interpret as four to six cow-calf pairs for every wild horse?

RELATED: Committee Rejects SB 2331.

Next to their love of wild horses, the advocates lie most about fertility control, selling mass sterilization as wild horse conservation.

In this snippet from her testimony on February 7 regarding SB 2331, Castle McLaughlin speculates about the management philosophy at TRNP.

She’s talking about the Park Service but her remarks apply to the advocacy groups, especially the Campaign Against America’s Wild Horses and its affiliates.

In this snippet from his testimony on February 7 regarding SB 2331, Eric Molvar explains that the breeding population is a function of herd size minus the number of mares that have been treated with fertility control.

Section 4.4.6.3 of the WHB Management Handbook calls for a herd size of 150 to 200 animals to achieve a breeding population of at least 50 but does not mention the fertility control deduction.

The advocates won’t talk about this because they’re driving the breeding populations to zero in their quest to prove that mass sterilization is a practical alternative to motorized removal.

RELATED: What’s the Minimum Herd Size for Genetic Viability?

Scene from 2001: A Space Odyssey.

The ranch operates as a refuge for wild horses rescued from the park.

Thought to be descendants of Sitting Bull’s ponies, they have historical significance.

The herd you see today was put there by the Park Service as an exhibit.

There is too much fuss about the current herd and not enough interest in preserving the original bloodlines.

North Dakota lawmakers should consider this issue as they refine the bill.

RELATED: SB 2331 Testimony List Growing.

There’s only one foal in the following report about SB 2331 by KX News, a sign of long-term problems for the herd.

The advocates claim that a 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.

Those are codewords for mass sterilization.  The science is flawed, it’s not humane and collaboration is really collusion among those who want the horses gone.

RELATED: Foal-Free Friday, Bringing Them Up on Charges Edition.

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.”

RELATED: CAAWH Mobilizing Drones in Favor of SB 2331?

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.

RELATED: SB 2331 Hearing This Week.

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.

RELATED: Don’t Be Fooled by SB 2331.

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?

RELATED: No Change to Federal Grazing Fees in 2025.

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.

RELATED: New Year, Same State.

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?

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.

RELATED: Notably Absent from Wild Horse Summit.

A keyword search of the conference home page yielded these results:

• AUM – 0 occurrences
• AML – 0
• Allotment – 0
• Permit – 0
• Base property – 0
• Livestock – 8
• Forage – 0
• Grazing – 6
• Public lands councils – 0
• Farm bureaus – 0
• Stockgrowers associations – 0
• Resource allocations – 0
• Principal use – 0
• RMPs – 0
• Rangelands – 1
• Equivalent horses and stocking rates for allotments – 0
• Rangeland Administration System – 0
• Allotment Master Report – 0
• National Data Viewer – 0

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?

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.

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

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.

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