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Exposing the Hypocrisy, Lies and Incompetence of the Wild Horse Advocates
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Did you know the Rock Springs HMAs would be well above AML even if all the horses were removed?
The advocates are silent about these things.
They want the ranchers to win.
Keep that in mind on December 3.
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There’s a special class of stupidity in the electorate and it’s occupied by the wild horse advocates.
Consider this Google search result for the Salt River Wild Horse Darting Group:
If you’re a normal person, family is synonymous with husband, wife and their children.
Not so for liberals. Family corresponds to just about any arrangement, such as two filthy sodomites and their dogs or couples who are aborting/contracepting/sterilizing themselves out of existence.
The advocates project this twisted view onto wild horses.
Humane management is a euphemism for snuffing out new life with ovary-killing pesticides.
Thus, there are no families, only animals that have banded together in a last-ditch effort to survive.
Horses die, and with few if any new foals hitting the ground, the herd will vanish.
Only a lunatic would equate mass sterilization with protection and preservation.
Keep this in mind on December 3.
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Parents, if you have a horse-crazy kid, keep a close eye on her to make sure she’s not being groomed by the advocates to become one of their supporters—or worse, one of their ambassadors or field workers.
This includes strict control of her mobile phone or other device, blocking access to socialist media, where she’ll be indoctrinated into their twisted way of thinking.
If you have a friend or family member who has been assimilated into their cult, or nearly so, the only way out may be an extended stay at a Betty Ford clinic or similar institution, where she can be deprogrammed, cured of her obsession with pesticides and educated in intellectual honesty. Immediate intervention required.
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The fence on the west side, seen in this video, appears to be in good condition.
The Virginia Range is in the background.
Repairs and new construction may occur on the other side of the lake, separating the valley from the hills and putting an end to scenes like this.
The loudest protests will come from those who are sterilizing the mares with pesticide-laced darts, the results of which are evident in the film.
They want you to think they’re the good guys. Keep that in mind on December 3.
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Two members are returning from previous terms and one person is new according to a BLM news release.
All three are anti-horse.
The announcement said the Board consists of nine individuals representing a diverse range of stakeholders and interests, and that have been true in the past, but today it’s dominated by ranching interests and chaired by a pesticide pusher.
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You have to trust BLM data to support it, according to a November 25 report by Wyoming Public Media.
Livestock were factored in, just not directly.
When horse numbers get too high, they impact sage grouse.
If that’s true, the flocks should have been wiped out 100 years ago when there were two million wild horses roaming freely on western rangelands, a bit more than the 27,000 currently allowed by plan.
The analyst used GPS to monitor 1,000 sage grouse in central and southern Wyoming.
How exactly did he do that and what was the effect on the birds? Horses tracked by GPS wear collars or tail tags.
When is a herd at 3X AML a threat to rangeland health? When it’s accompanied by livestock equivalent to 4X AML, typical in areas identified for wild horses. Forage supply can’t keep up with demand.
If you remove the livestock, 3X AML is not a problem.
Who commissioned the study?
Who paid for it?
The ranchers and their allies are always looking for ways to bludgeon wild horses and prop up their failed industry.
Because the herd defies the carrying capacity narrative.
You can’t be telling the American people that public lands in the western U.S. can only support one wild horse per thousand acres (27,000 animals on 27 million acres) when the Virginia Range is carrying ten.
Advocates with the Campaign Against America’s Wild Horses are trying to erase the outlier with the approval of the Nevada Department of Agriculture—the same agency pushing for the fences.
If areas identified for wild horses were managed principally for them, as specified in the original statute, there’d be no reason to cram 70,000 wild animals into government feedlots at taxpayer expense.
BLM allotments in ten western states support livestock equivalent to seven wild horses per thousand acres, another indication that the bureaucrats, ranchers and advocates aren’t telling you the truth.
Messrs. Burgum, Musk and Ramaswamy, are you listening?
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The gather page indicates that boosters will be given after 30 days.
This corresponds to neither of the options in the response to comments of the DNA.
As of today, the EPA has not published an update to the pesticide label, so the 90-day interval holds.
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UPDATE: The BLM news release reiterates the 30-day interval.
She currently serves as the president and CEO of America First Policy Institute according to a story posted today by The Hill.
The article did not indicate if she believes that farmers and ranchers should be self-reliant as our forefathers intended, not sucking on the government teat.
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No new subcommittee as in the House, only a caucus, according to a November 22 story by The Hill.
Even when liberals are out of power, their agenda moves ahead because of the unelected bureaucracy—a target of DOGE.
The Energizer Bunny won’t stop until you pull the batteries out.
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From page 49 in the Draft EA (page 50 in the pdf): “GonaCon-Equine is approved for use by authorized federal, state, tribal, public, and private personnel, for application to wild and feral equids in the United States (EPA, 2013; 2015).”
An updated registration was issued in 2017.
On page 178 in the pdf: “The EPA-required product label associated with the registration for GonaCon-Equine is cited in the EA as EPA (2013). That label states that ‘If longer contraceptive effect is desired, a second vaccination may be given 30 or more days after the first injection or during the following year with no known adverse health effects to the vaccinated animal.’”
The 2017 amendment extended the interval to 90 days.
Page 179 mentions the certification requirement for PZP: “In keeping with the EPA registration for ZonaStat-H (EPA, 2012; reg. no. 86833-1), certification through the Science and Conservation Center in Billings Montana is required to apply that vaccine to equids.”
The 2017 update dropped the certification requirement for GonaCon-Equine.
But it should be there if they’re following the 2013 or 2015 registrations. A search of the document for “certification” yielded only one result, the remark about PZP above.
Today is last day to comment on the project.
“PZP only costs $30 per dose and we can destroy entire herds in just five years as we have done at the Salt River, Virginia Range and elsewhere. Please give us a chance.”
They are phonies, allies of the ranchers, and don’t deserve your financial support.
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The House Oversight and Accountability Committee is expected to approve a Delivering on Government Efficiency (DOGE) Subcommittee when it meets in January to ratify its rules according to a November 22 report by The Hill.
The new subcommittee will support the Oversight and Accountability Committee’s mission to root out waste, fraud and abuse in the federal government.
Public-lands ranching is one example.
For every AUM assigned to livestock in areas identified for wild horses, the BLM collects $1.35 in grazing fees while it spends $150 to care for the horse displaced thereby.
Messrs. Burgum, Musk and Ramaswamy, are you listening?
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Shooting wild horses and burros is a matter for law enforcement. The cases are usually not solved but at least they’re investigated.
What about these actions?
Welcome to Gonacongate. Unlike the shootings, there’s lots of evidence in these cases.
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If the volunteers and contractors applying two doses of GonaCon Equine to wild or captured mares are not certified according to EPA standards, they, and the agency overseeing the work, are following the 2017 registration.
If they are certified or they’re applying the doses 30 days apart, they’re following the 2013 or 2015 registrations.
As of today, the product is not an RUP, persons applying it need not be certified and the minimum interval between treatments is 90 days.
Mares in these herds were likely subject to the 30-day window, contrary to federal law:
If the field office overseeing the work did not require the persons applying the pesticide to be certified applicators, then they were following the 2017 registration and should have known about the 90-day window.
HMAs subject to field darting, such as Hog Creek, Cold Springs, Sand Springs and Coyote Lake/Alvord-Tule Springs in Oregon, Piceance-East Douglas in Colorado, and Onaqui Mountain and Range Creek in Utah should also be investigated.
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Do you think you can get an accurate picture of the situation on public lands in the western U.S. from an agent that facilitates and profits from real estate transactions involving ranchers and ranching sympathizers?
If so, you’ll want to read the latest installment of “Wild Horse Tales,” starting at the bottom of page seven in the November edition of Horse Tales.
The writer, a PZP darter and close supporter of the Campaign Against America’s Wild Horses, calls for a New Path Forward that prioritizes the well-being of the animals while balancing the needs of ranchers, wildlife, and the public lands that belong to all of us.
It’s a shameless attempt to promote their pest control services and supplant helicopter roundups with mass sterilization.
The original Path Forward, a 2019 plan for ranching superiority in the lawful homes of wild horses, offered ideas for achieving and maintaining AMLs.
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Appendix I asserts on page one that the WHB Act provides for contraception and sterilization in §1333 section 3.b.1. The reference probably should be §1333(b)(1), which states that “…appropriate management levels should be achieved by the removal or destruction of excess animals, or other options (such as sterilization, or natural controls on population levels).”
A search of the statute for “contraception” and “fertility control” yielded no results, so the discussion of population suppression—the subject of the appendix—starts with a faulty premise. (The warrant for pesticide application may have been fabricated by the bureaucrats as a federal regulation or they classified them as sterilants.)
On page two, under the heading of Fertility Control Vaccines, “Fertility control vaccines (also known as (immunocontraceptives) meet BLM requirements for safety to mares and the environment (EPA 2009a, 2012).”
The first citation refers to GonaCon Equine and the second is for Zonastat-H.
On page three, “In keeping with the EPA registration for ZonaStat-H (EPA 2012; reg. no. 86833-1), certification through the Science and Conservation Center in Billings Montana is required to apply that vaccine to equids.” Because Zonastat-H (PZP) was, and still is, a restricted-use pesticide.
That statement was prefaced with a remark about advisories on the product label which are actually requirements and if not followed constitute unlawful use of the pesticide.
Also on page 3, “GonaCon (which is produced under the trade name GonaCon-Equine for use in feral horses and burros) is approved for use by authorized federal, state, tribal, public and private personnel, for application to freeranging wild horse and burro herds in the United States (EPA 2013, 2015).”
Now they’re referring to the 2013 and 2015 registrations, according to which ConaCon was an RUP. There should be a similar statement about applicator certification but it’s not there.
Near the bottom of page three, “GonaCon-Equine contraceptive vaccine is an EPA-approved pesticide (EPA, 2009a) that is relatively inexpensive, meets BLM requirements for safety to mares and the environment, and is produced in a USDA-APHIS laboratory.”
Back to 2009. They’re all over the map!
The appendix is silent about the 2017 registration, which dropped the RUP designation and increased the minimum interval between treatments from 30 days to 90 days.
Reports from roundups suggest the BLM’s GonaCon protocol is based on an à la carte reading of the registrations: The 30-day window of the old ones and the certification-free policy of the new one, which, of course, is unacceptable.
The agency indicated in the Buffalo Hills DNA that it had asked the EPA to reduce the interval to seven days, which may indicate it was aware of the new registration but ignored the parts it didn’t like.
A report by Fox News puts the breakdown as follows:
One of these groups is known for its obsession with pesticides, opposition to principal use and a bogus land trust where livestock are welcomed but horses are not.
Do you know which one?
Located at the southwest corner of the Virginia Range, the barrier will increase public safety and protect wild horses from harmful human interactions according to a report by KOLO News but the advocates say it will separate them from a key water source.
Details about the project have been kept under wraps.
NDA shared a map with the reporter and the advocates but not with the public.
Western Horse Watchers was unable to find an announcement at the NDA news page.
The article said the plan will be discussed on December 6, probably at the next regular meeting of the Nevada Board of Agriculture, but as of today no agenda has been posted.
The third quarter meeting was cancelled.
The dispute over the fence marks the latest chapter in the lover’s quarrel between NDA and the Campaign Against America’s Wild Horses, the NGO “hired” by NDA to sterilize the Virginia Range mares.
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Musk and Ramaswamy will review the top 1% of applicants according to a November 17 story in The Hill.
Consider one AUM, the amount of forage necessary to keep one wild horse or one cow/calf pair on the range for one month.
If the bureaucrats assign it to a rancher, he’ll pay $1.35 to the government while it spends $150 to care for the horse displaced thereby. This is current practice.
If the bureaucrats assign it to a horse, the government saves $150 in holding costs while forfeiting $1.35 in grazing fees.
You don’t need a high IQ to realize that best option is the latter, to be achieved by confining the ranchers to their base properties in a year-round off season.
The advocates, not known for superior intelligence, claim that the problem can be solved by shooting the mares with pesticide-laced darts.
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