That was one of the concerns expressed by residents at the December 6 meeting with the Nevada Department of Agriculture.

But NDA Director J.J. Goicoechea told KTVN News in this report that the fence will steer the horses deeper into the range where there are plenty of resources and they will do better for themselves.

If that’s true, why did he hire the Campaign Against America’s Wild Horses to get rid of them with pesticide-laced darts?

RELATED: Pesticides, Not Fences, Greatest Threat to Virginia Range Herd.

Call a press conference.

Ask the High Priestess of Pesticides and her acolyte in Nevada to join you at the podium, one on your right and one on your left.

Announce that you’ve decided to get rid of the herd with PZP.

A sigh of relief will go up from their followers.

Tell the press you need assistance from NGOs.

Let your guests step forward to pledge their support.

Tell the public you want healthy horses on healthy rangelands.

Tell the ranchers (privately) that the herd will implode in five years as the birth rate sinks irreversibly below the death rate.

Point to Assateague Island as an example of what can be achieved if they would just be patient.

Water may soon be harder to find, thanks to the NDA fencing project, but foals will be even harder, thanks to the advocates.

How many of the protesters in this report by KRNV News are field workers with the Campaign Against America’s Wild Horses or supporters thereof?

They claim to be protecting the horses but they’re getting rid of as many as possible with pesticide-laced darts, a process known as mass sterilization.

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It’s not evident in this report by KOLO News.

Although they heard comments in opposition to the Washoe Lake fencing project, they are unlikely to change course.

After all, the man at the top is a public-lands rancher.

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 when the Virginia Range is carrying ten.

RELATED: NDA Posts Public Comments About Washoe Lake Fence.

The biggest threat to those animals comes from the bureaucracy charged with protecting them according to a December 7 opinion piece in Townhall.

WARNING: The article has been tainted with links to the Campaign Against America’s Wild Horses and the Property and Environment Research Center.

The approach seems reasonable.  If you’re trying to reduce government waste, go after the programs that aren’t fulfilling their mandates.

But you can’t limit your analysis to things on the surface.  The Wild Horse and Burro Program is a grazing program ancillary.

This is where conservatives will go all wobbly.

You don’t expect us to take those ranchers off the public lands?

Yeah we do.  They’re a shining example of government dependence and redistribution of wealth.

Confine them to their base properties in a year-round off season and let them pay the going rate to feed their animals.

The problem is not the bureaucracy charged with protecting the horses and burros, it’s the special interests that have co-opted the bureaucracy charged with protecting them.

They have invaded the agency the same way cancer invades cells.

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Forget about Napa and Sonoma.  The best time to visit those wineries was in the 70s.

Same for the Bay Area.

Instead, drop by a nearby Walmart and try to buy socks and underwear without calling an attendant.  You can’t, they’re behind glass doors.

Go to a Home Depot and see how many items are in locked cages.

Try to buy a gas trimmer or chainsaw.  You can’t, they’re banned.  Still available in Reno, a few hours to the east.

Check out the prices at Safeway.

While at Walmart and Home Depot, you might not notice the fastest shrinking demographic in the state—white folks.

This is what happens when you put liberals in charge.

Homes in established neighborhoods are well above $1 million.  For real sticker shock, try North Bay or South Bay.

And the traffic.  You are free to move about the area from 10:00 AM to 2:00 PM.

On the bright side, Davis is only a few miles to the west—if you can get past the Yolo Causeway.

It’s home to the Campaign Against America’s Wild Horses, a leader in nonmotorized removal and fierce opponent of principal use.

Unfortunately, their 2022 Form 990, the most recent posted by the IRS, only gives a PO Box, not a street address.

Maybe they’ll have an open house or similar function.  It’s a great opportunity to build rapport with the bureaucrats and ranchers while maintaining the illusion of support for America’s wild horses.

RELATED: Next WHBAB Meeting Set for Early January.

UPDATE: The Douglas County Assessor gives the address as 216 F St #131.  Refer to APN 1322-00-002-067, one of the parcels in the land trust.

The advocates use your donations to buy pesticides.

They want to replace motorized removal with mass sterilization, abnormal sex ratios and faulty immune systems.

They oppose principal use, management at the minimum feasible level and nature’s way.

They care most about their standing with the bureaucrats and ranchers.

Why are you still giving them money?

Withholding your financial support is easy, sensible and costs nothing.

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The meeting runs from December 12 to 13 and is open to the public.

An agenda was not provided.

The group supports three tenets of rangeland management.

The legislature expects it to make recommendations on humane, non-lethal alternatives for horses taken off range but most of the resources are devoted to helping the advocates buy pesticides and apply them on the range.

Nominated by whom?  Ranchers?

Higher level positions require Senate confirmation but WHB Director may be a simple appointment?

You know a guy’s bad for wild horses when he has the backing of Elko County, a partner with the BLM in killing Mustang Monument.

RELATED: SHOCKER: Elko County Endorses Wild Horse Fire Brigade.

They want to replace motorized removal with mass sterilization, abnormal sex ratios and faulty immune systems.

They oppose principal use, management at the minimum feasible level and nature’s way.

Withholding your financial support is easy, sensible and costs nothing.

RELATED: Starting a Nonprofit That Actually Helps Wild Horses.

Pay no attention to their matching gifts and other gimmicks.

They’re using your donations to buy pesticides.

This is the time of year for giving so give them the boot.

RELATED: Reminder: December 3 Is Defund the Advocates Day.

Traffic from Facebook and Twitter accounted for 1.6% of the total during the month, down considerably from the same period two years ago and reaching a new low.

WordPress does not report results for Instagram.

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.

RELATED: Hypocrisy of Advocates on Full Display at Salt River.

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.

RELATED: Foal-Free Friday, Crime and Punishment Edition.

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.

RELATED: NDA Schedules Fourth Quarter Board of Agriculture Meeting.

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.

RELATED: Next WHBAB Meeting Set for Early January.

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?

RELATED: Washoe Lake Fencing Not a New Idea?

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.

RELATED: Buffalo Hills Roundup Ends Early.

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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