Western Horse Watchers Association
Exposing the Hypocrisy, Lies and Incompetence of the Wild Horse Advocates
Opinion
1. Read the ISPMB report about the long-term effects of PZP, starting on page 30.
2. Recognize that the advocates are friends of the ranchers and enemies of the horses.
3. Tell them you want your money back.
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If so, the Campaign Against America’s Wild Horses and the Salt River Wild Horse Darting Group, its partner in Arizona, should respond to the ASNF RFI.
The Park Service has been using low-stress techniques at Mesa Verde and the Forest Service probably knows about it, but would they accept humane disposal, sometimes referred to as wild horse conservation, as a legitimate method?
It’s a chance for the advocates to break into the big leagues and prove their worthiness to the hunters and ranchers.
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Their video begins with a remark about competition for resources on public lands, followed by an image of a hydrocarbon processing plant, not hundreds of cattle strewn across an area identified for wild horses.
Their news release says “At the center of protecting these iconic animals is RTF – a national nonprofit organization dedicated to preserving the freedom, welfare, and future of America’s wild horses and burros through humane, science-based solutions,” a reference to fertility control and its disastrous consequences.
They are phonies, eager to do the will of the hunters and ranchers, and don’t deserve a penny of your support.
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Q. How many mares will it sterilize?
A. None, the advocates are doing that.
Q. Will it drive the breeding population to zero?
A. No, the advocates are doing that.
Q. Will it compromise genetic diversity?
A. No, the advocates are doing that.
Q. Will it skew the sex ratio in favor of females?
A. No, the advocates are doing that.
Q. Will it inflict injuries and infections?
A. No, the advocates are doing that.
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The advocates could get rid of more wild horses if they had more money.
Why not advertise in publications and websites that promote hunting and ranching?
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The event runs from 10 AM to 1 PM on June 13 according to an announcement in the Cody Enterprise.
BLM expert Tricia Hatle will talk about wild horses and herd dynamics but will probably avoid the sterilization program (initially sold as a fertility control program) inflicted on the herd by your hosts.
The picnic will take place at the FOAL educational kiosk 28 miles east of Cody on US Hwy 14/16/20.
If the advocates were honest, they’d change their name to Friends of the Ranchers.
Protection, preservation and conservation are codewords for long-term use of fertility control pesticides, with the inevitable result of permanent infertility and herd collapse.
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They will meet at Washoe Lake, across from the bird watch area, on June 13 according to an announcement in Carson Now.
Organizers are urging the Nevada Department of Agriculture and the Bureau of Land Management to pause the project and engage with the public to discuss humane, practical alternatives that protect both public safety and the long-term welfare of the horses—a likely reference to the mass sterilization program, which has already inflicted more harm than a fence ever could.
Are you surprised that the advocates would push for the greater of two evils?
They are phonies, leaders of the blind, and don’t deserve a penny of your support.
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They could get rid of more wild horses if they had more money.
Why aren’t the donations pouring in?
Their would-be suitors and chief beneficiaries, the hunters and ranchers, still think of them as disciples of Velma, a role they abandoned years ago.
What’s the best way to change perceptions without sacrificing their current supporters?
A morally depraved public supports the use of contraceptives, which are more harmful in the long run, but won’t tolerate the “cruel and costly” roundups.
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The House engrossed version of SB1199 says in section 5 that the act is an emergency measure that is necessary to preserve the public peace, health or safety and is operative immediately as provided by law.
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Motorized removal provides quick but temporary relief from the pests.
Nonmotorized removal provides lasting results but requires patience.
Shooting, practiced by rogue elements in the population while your faithful public servants look the other way, provides the best of both worlds.
Quick results, permanent relief.
Protection, conservation and preservation are codewords for long-term use of fertility control pesticides, with the inevitable result of permanent infertility and herd collapse.
If you’re a hunter or rancher, know that the advocates are on your side and are more than deserving of your financial support.
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The meeting begins at 9:00 AM Pacific time on June 11.
The notice includes a link for online access.
Public comments will be taken after the call to order.
Hopefully questions will be raised about the Virginia Range fencing project and its effect on the horses.
The animal industry report, not yet posted to the meetings page, may offer a vague update on the mass sterilization program.
Your host visited the area on June 4 and saw no wild horses at the higher elevations, in sharp contrast to the period before 2019 when the NDA allowed the pesticide pushers back on the range.
The following video is from June 2018.
Western Horse Watchers believes the advocates are underreporting (lying about) the reduction in herd size and the long-term effects of the program.
If you’re a hunter or rancher and want to support an uncharitable organization opposed to wild horses, look no farther than the advocates.
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The event was held on a weekday, according to the BLM news release, when many people are at work.
Good thing, because income taxes keep the scam going.
Wild horses come off the range and go into feedlots.
Livestock come out of the feedlots and go on the range.
The government spends about $6 per day to care for a horse in a feedlot while it collects a little over 5¢ per day for a cow-calf pair on the range, losing about $5.95 per day per horse in captivity.
The facility currently houses over 1,200 horses according to a report by KIVI News, racking up a deficit of $2.6 million per year.
If the Trump administration is s serious about reducing government spending, why hasn’t it killed the grazing program or at least asked Congress to cancel it?
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Five individuals were charged with malicious injury to property and ordered to pay $5,000 each to permittees affected by loss of water according to a BLM news release.
The incident occurred in August 2023.
Interesting how cases involving injury to ranchers are solved while those involving injury to wild horses are not.
The name of the allotment and a link to the NEPA review for the range improvements were not given.
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If you’re a hunter or rancher, you’re giving as much as you can to the advocates.
If you care about wild horses, you’re not giving them a penny.
They are phonies, leaders of the blind, irrelevant.
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The agency signed a MOU with the Boone and Crockett Club to improve access to public lands for hunting, angling and wildlife conservation according to a May 27 news release.
The nonprofit will work with 14 other groups to identify opportunities and solutions.
The club issued a statement on April 2 calling for the essential use of roundups and expanded sale opportunities to protect Western rangelands and native wildlife from wild horse and burro overpopulation.
“When on-range populations exceed the land’s carrying capacity, they don’t just compete with native wildlife like elk, mule deer, and pronghorn; they fundamentally alter the landscape.”
That remark reflects a complete misunderstanding of the way federal agencies manage the resources on public lands or a deliberate attempt to mislead the public.
Consider this example from the Warm Springs HMA in Oregon. Who’s stripping away most of the forage—by design?
The AML tells you almost nothing about resource availability, carrying capacity and management priorities in the HMA.
Wild horse advocates would likely oppose the club’s demands but would see its concerns as an opportunity to sell more pesticides.
The announcement did not indicate if the club had a similar agreement with the BLM.
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The Salt River advocates have thrown their support behind SB1199, a bill that would place a moratorium on wild horse removals while researchers conduct a genetic viability study to determine how many animals are needed for a healthy breeding population.
As if the herd was still viable.
To give your assent, you must disavow all knowledge of their actions, especially the fertility control program that has morphed into a mass sterilization program because it has outlived the window of reversibility.
There’s still time to act!
If the legislature formed a truth commission, here’s what they’d find:
The advocates want you to think they’re the good guys.
They shouldn’t be allowed anywhere near wild horses.
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The new executive director, who replaced Roy last year on November 1, discusses her plans for salvaging the nonprofit (which is still held in high regard by most advocates).
At 10:40 she mentions a seven-page document with individuals whose material they would not post to socialist media.
At 20:35 she says “We need to be focused on who is the real problem” but omits the cattlemen and sheepherders from her list of culprits.
How are you supposed to win the battle when you won’t even acknowledge the enemy?
The Stockdale Paradox comes to mind:
You must never confuse faith that you will prevail in the end—which you can never afford to lose—with the discipline to confront the most brutal facts of your current reality, whatever they might be.
Filmed at the SOWH Conference in Park City.
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The advocates want you to think they’re the good guys.
In reality, they’re inflicting one injury after another in their reckless attempt to shrink the population with PZP.
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His mom likely has a faulty immune system, raising questions about current methods.
You’ve added motorized removal to your repertoire, why not add GonaCon to eliminate these mistakes?
End the charade about preservation and admit that you’re trying to eradicate the herd.
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The BLM has not yet identified an immunocontraceptive method that has been proven to reliably and humanely sterilize wild mares according to the Silver King EA, published earlier this week (page 136 in the pdf).
An oocyte growth factor vaccine is currently under testing for its ability to cause long-term infertility or, potentially, sterility.
As for the approved methods, “Mares that received 5 or more doses of ZonaStat-H vaccine have been shown to have reduced ovarian function, and to be effectively infertile for life (Nuñez et al. 2017), and it is conceivable that the contraceptive effects of repeated treatment with GonaCon-Equine may last longer than a mare’s lifespan, depending on the mare’s age at treatment and the number of doses received (Baker et al. 2018, 2023).”
Researchers at Purdue are working on a formulation that does the job with one shot.
The advocates, evil beyond imagination, are not waiting for scientific breakthroughs.
They’re demonstrating the feasibility of mass sterilization at the Salt River, Virginia Range and elsewhere.
The pesticides do not kill horses, as stated on page 15 of the EA, they kill herds, much to the delight of the ranchers and their political allies.
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