Western Horse Watchers Association
Exposing the Hypocrisy, Lies and Incompetence of the Wild Horse Advocates
Opinion
Obsessed with pesticides and HMAPs, they protect the ranchers not wild horses.
Holding conferences in Reno or anywhere else will not produce the required knowledge.
They are the old guard, leaders of the blind, and don’t deserve a penny of your support.
Where would you get ideas for your business model?
Forget about the advocates. They’re obsessed with pesticides and HMAPs. They want the ranchers to win.
Sanctuaries help the bureaucrats move wild horses off the range. They represent victory for the ranchers and failure for the horses.
Adoption and training free-up space in the off-range corrals so more wild horses can be removed from their lawful homes. Another dead end.
Mustang Monument provides a few hints.
The project would end permitted grazing on the Spruce Allotment. This is good, put it on the list of desired characteristics.
The land ratio is excellent, 14,000 deeded acres provide access to over 500,000 public acres. Another item for the list.
Three HMAs were threatened. Spruce-Pequop would probably be lost. Unacceptable.
The new herd would consist of 900 nonreproducing animals. Unacceptable if you’re trying to preserve the bloodlines for future generations.
American Prairie purchases base properties tied to public lands to achieve their conservation goals, a technique they call “leverage.”
The aim of the new nonprofit would be to displace privately owned cattle and sheep from America’s public lands by acquiring deeded acreage associated therewith and flipping the grazing preference to wild horses (or burros).
Highly leveraged properties, with land ratios of ten or more public acres for every private acre, are most desirable.
They should not overlap areas identified for wild horses and burros.
With the ranchers out of the picture, other techniques, such as the reintroduction of predators and self-managing herds, can be considered to promote genetic diversity while keeping the breeding populations in balance with their environment.
Traffic from Facebook and Twitter accounted for 2.3% of the total during the month, down considerably from the same period two years ago.
Except for a small blip on October 25, there was no traffic from Facebook after October 11.
Did you know the Triple B Complex can support 4,500 wild horses?
You didn’t hear that from the advocates.
Instead of defending the horses they defend the ranchers.
The aim of socialist media is to get you to vote for liberals.
RELATED: Socialist Media Update for September 2024.
Despite the growing number of sterilized mares and high rate of predation, foals are easier to find on the Virginia Range than principled advocates.
How can you start a nonprofit and attract a large following yet be so lacking in integrity?
RELATED: Foal-Free Friday, Unsolved Mysteries Edition.
The discussion of PZP and Gonacon begins at the bottom of page 146 in the Draft EA.
References to the EPA registrations appear on page 147:
In 2012 Zonastat-H (PZP) was a restricted-use pesticide.
It’s true today and explains why the advocates spend three days at the Billings School of PZP Darting and Public Deception.
The EA reiterates the policy on page 148: In keeping with the EPA registration for ZonaStat-H (EPA 2012; reg. no. 6833-1), certification through the Science and Conservation Center in Billings Montana is required to apply that vaccine to equids.
In 2013 GonaCon was an RUP. There should be a similar remark about certification on page 148 or 149 but it’s not there.
The 30-day interval between doses on page 151 is consistent with the 2013 registration.
The RUP designation and certification requirement were dropped in 2017.
Like the Kiger-Riddle EA, the BLM appears to be crafting a plan based on an à la carte reading of the EPA registrations.
The advocates will likely dispute the claim on page 145 that contraception alone does not remove excess horses from an HMA’s population, as they are proving otherwise at the Salt River and Virginia Range.
Whose side are they on?
What charitable purpose do they serve?
Why are you still giving them money?
When wild horse populations are within AML, other wildlife thrive, according to a BLM article about the 2024 roundup.
In the case of Sand Wash Basin, you cannot have more than 362 wild horses in the HMA or the land will degrade, but you can have livestock equivalent to 1,402 wild horses in the same area.
Curiously, those animals escaped the writer’s attention.
The permanent bait trap and ever-present footprints of the PZP darters are constant reminders that the horses are not a priority in their lawful home.
RELATED: Sand Wash Roundup Ends Early.
Call a press conference.
Announce that you’ve decided to get rid of the herd with PZP.
A sigh of relief will go up from the advocates.
In a few days, letters and emails will arrive offering to dart the mares for free.
After five years they will be sterile and with no new foals hitting the ground, the herd will vanish.
The advocates, led by the Campaign Against America’s Wild Horses, will point to the Salt River and Virginia Range as examples of what can be done.
You just need to be patient and let them show their true colors.
RELATED: Triple B Roundup Announced.
The Wind River roundup took about 7,600 wild horses off the reservation in 2023 and 2024.
Their disposition, not discussed in a report by WyoFile, is unknown. The writer said they were “trucked away.” Probably to Mexico or Canada.
An aerial survey in late 2022 found 5,500 animals on one million acres.
A biologist with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service put the estimate at 9,000 or more, for a stocking rate of nine wild horses per thousand acres.
That is what they were trying to eradicate: An outlier that defied the carrying capacity narrative, namely, that western rangelands can only support one wild horse per thousand acres (27,000 animals on 27 million acres).
The Virginia Range in Nevada, another counterexample, had a stocking rate of at least ten wild horses per thousand acres before the advocates got involved.
The Campaign Against America’s Wild Horses, a leader in mass sterilization and staunch opponent of principal use, was tasked with erasing that evidence.
The author did not indicate who paid for the roundup and if the decision to get rid of the horses had been influenced by outside interests such as hunting and ranching.
The advocates know that long-term use of PZP leads to sterility and if no new foals are hitting the ground the herds will vanish.
The ranchers couldn’t have asked for a better ally.
Beware of the wild horse advocates.
File Under: Charlatans.
Would that it were.
Res ipsa loquitur.
Both had been slowing down and in declining body condition for the last several months according to an October 16 story by The Outer Banks Voice.
Can you imagine if the advocates were allowed to euthanize wild horses on public lands in the American west?
The herds would disappear faster than you can dial 9-1-1.
Go back and read the recommendations published in September by Save Our Wild Horses, an affiliate of Wild Horse Education.
Item 1: Initiate HMAPs promptly, with at least two started per district by year-end, as mandated by 43 CFR 4710.1 with a deadline of 1-year for completion. Enforce strict adherence to HMAP requirements to maintain ethical, humane, and legal standards in wild horse management practices.
For the Antelope and Triple B Complexes, this means
Speaking about their conference in Reno and the ideas flowing therefrom, the president and founder of Wild Horse Education said in a news release “We were also able to dispel the long standing myth that advocates are ill-educated on the subject and, hopefully, our words will be taken into thoughtful consideration.”
You betcha.
Even the casual observer now realizes that they want the ranchers to win.
If you’re a normal American, yesterday was Columbus Day.
If you’re a liberal, it was Indigenous Peoples Day.
The Campaign Against America’s Wild Horses has bought into the propaganda and no better place to show it than on socialist media.
Is Suzanne Roy, executive director of the nonprofit and staunch opponent of principal use, management at the minimum feasible level and nature’s way, ashamed to be white?
Is she an apologist for white European migration and the good it wrought?
Why not go all Rachel Dolezal and comport yourself as a person of color, not necessarily female?
Better yet, start another nonprofit that actually serves a charitable purpose and leaves wild horses alone.
RELATED: What Charitable Purpose Do the Advocates Serve?
Here are some of the headlines on Drudge. The link about roundups pointed to a story on Mediaite.
There may be a few acute injuries and deaths as the traitors are taken into custody but nobody will be dispatched for pre-existing conditions, such as being America-hating liberals who supported our enemies and tried to destroy everything that’s right and good in this country. We have a justice system for that.
Due to their popularity, horses captured in these roundups had a very high adoption rate, 100% in some cases.
For this reason the BLM did not apply population suppression in the HMAs, such as fertility control pesticides, sex ratio skewing and castration of stallions.
You won’t find any remarks about that at the HMA pages [Kiger | Riddle] but you can still see them at the 2015 gather page:
That has changed in the new plan, issued in July.
The Decision Record authorized Alternative A, the Proposed Action, discussed in Section 2.2 of the Final EA.
The option, titled “Remove Excess Wild Horses and Implement Intensive Fertility Control Management over a Ten-Year Period,” includes the use of Zonastat-H and GonaCon Equine—a practice that’s been avoided for many years.
More troubling, however, are the inconsistencies in the discussion of these pesticides, starting at the bottom of page 149 in the EA (156 in the pdf).
Like the Buffalo Hills EA, the citation for GonaCon Equine is out of date:
“The EPA required product label associated with the registration for ZonaStat-H is cited in the EA as EPA (2012). That label states that ‘For maximum efficacy, ZonaStat-H is administered as an initial priming dose followed by a booster dose at least two weeks later.’ 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 registration was amended in 2015 and 2017.
In 2013 (and 2015) GonaCon was a restricted-use pesticide. In 2017, that designation was dropped.
In 2013 the shortest interval between treatments was 30 days. In 2017, the EPA increased it to 90 days.
Zonastat-H is still a restricted-use pesticide, meaning it’s not available for retail sale and you must be certified to apply it. That’s why the advocates spend three days at the Billings School of PZP Darting and Public Deception.
The EA acknowledges the certification requirement on page 158 of the pdf: “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.”
But there is no such statement for GonaCon Equine, which should be there if they’re referring to the 2013 (or 2015) registrations!
The absence of that remark suggests they’re following the 2017 amendment but violating the 90-day interval between treatments.
Apparently, they want the 30-day interval of the old registrations and the certification-free policy of the new registration.
You can’t have it both ways!
These errors invalidate the EA in this writer’s opinion and the court should halt the roundups as the coalition requested.
RELATED: Coalition Tries to Block Kiger, Riddle Mountain Roundups.
The plaintiffs, consisting of the Oregon Wild Horse Organization, Central Oregon Wild Horse Coalition and Western Watersheds Project, argue that the BLM must demonstrate that wild horse removals will restore an ecological balance on public lands but failed to do so, according to an October 11 report by Capital Press.
The claim will likely not hold water once the court realizes that achieving a thriving ecological balance means ranchers accessing most of the food in the lawful homes of wild horses, a result the agency seeks consistently across ten western states.
The advocates, defeated a long time ago, underscore the philosophy with their darting programs.
The final planning documents covering the roundups were copied to the project folder on July 22 and they are on the October 7 schedule.
The wild horse and burro program is a grazing program ancillary, protecting ranchers by minimizing the pests and enforcing resource allocations already on the books.
Other such functions include predator control (mostly at the state level), wildfire recovery, sagebrush restoration and pinyon/juniper eradication.
RELATED: Pest Control Plan for Kiger and Riddle Mountain HMAs Stalled?
They do not allocate resources.
They cannot change resource allocations.
They fortify resource allocations already on the books.
But the advocates can feel good about themselves, thinking they’ve done something useful for wild horses, as business continues as usual on America’s public lands.
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