Western Horse Watchers Association
Exposing the Hypocrisy, Lies and Incompetence of the Wild Horse Advocates
Opinion
He could have sent the boy to a Betty Ford clinic or similar institution, where he would be deprogrammed, cured of his obsession with pesticides and educated in intellectual honesty, but this is faster and more effective.
Beware of the wild horse advocates.
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The plan was to convert the Spruce Allotment to a wild horse eco-sanctuary with a capacity of 900 animals.
The base property consisted of approximately 14,000 deeded acres with grazing preference on over 500,000 public acres.
The facility included public lands, would displace livestock therefrom and had a land ratio of roughly 36 public acres for every deeded acre.
The downside was that it overlapped three HMAs, resulting in the loss of up to three breeding populations, which is unacceptable.
The resort offered high-end guest accommodations, fine dining and other amenities, which are not necessary for a wild horse refuge.
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Image from the Year One Report by the Colorado Wild Horse Working Group.
A diploma from the Billings School of PZP Darting and Public Deception won’t protect you from criminal investigation.
Fortunately, those who would look into the matter want the horses gone as much as those pulling the trigger, so there’s not much to worry about.
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The program would allow individuals to donate up to $249 per year to support the protection and management of wild horses and burros on public lands according to the Off-Range Report for the January 7 WHBAB meeting.
The report does not acknowledge that the land can support many more animals than the government admits and that the wild horse and burro program has become a grazing program ancillary.
RELATED: WHBAB Meeting Materials Now Available.
The position was advertised in the fall and human resource actions are in progress according to the On-Range Report for the January 7 WHBAB meeting.
The opening was not announced at the BLM news site but may have been distributed on socialist media or sent directly to the advocacy groups.
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The 118th Congress has termed out and with it two bills that threatened wild horses.
Tell your elected representatives you want wild horses managed the way Velma and the 92nd Congress intended, not the way the advocates and their political allies envision.
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Western Horse Watchers is not on socialist media and never will be.
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The advocates never stop.
PZP is a restricted-use pesticide that tricks the immune system into attacking the ovaries, resulting in sterility after five years of treatment.
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Defund the advocates.
They are defeatists, pesticide pushers and ranching sympathizers.
Resolve now to cut them off.
RELATED: If You Want to Help the Ranchers Give Money to the Advocates.
In general, they represent victory for the ranchers and failure for the horses, which is why the advocates like them.
There is a special case, however, where they should be considered: The deeded acreage has preference on one or more grazing allotments.
These properties give you more value for your investment.
Each private acre should control three or more public acres.
They should not overlap areas identified for wild horses.
If they don’t displace livestock from public lands, they’re not worthy of your support.
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The APNs of her high-end parcels tell you they’re in Township 12, Range 21, Sections 4 and 5.
That puts them in the Buckeye Allotment.
The seller, who will pay her commission, holds most of the active AUMs therein.
You wouldn’t want the resource lost to the equine pests, right?
Please donate if you want this charade to continue.
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Let’s take a look at some of the higher-dollar listings in her inventory.
At a 3% commission, she will collect around $129,000 from the seller, who holds most of the active AUMs in the Buckeye Allotment.
Would that explain her involvement in the “strong birth control program?”
The Fish Springs herd roams in the Pine Nut Mountains HA, an area zeroed out for wild horses but not for livestock.
The bogus land trust operated by the Campaign Against America’s Wild Horses, with whom she affiliates, overlaps the Buckeye and Pine Nut Allotments, another area zeroed out for wild horses but not for livestock.
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The announcement does not indicate if it’s a new role or an existing one vacated by someone who finally came to her senses.
The successful candidate will
You need strong organizational and people skills, an ability to work outdoors in varying weather conditions and a bachelor’s degree.
Salary not specified.
You need not be aborting/contracepting/sterilizing in your own life but that would definitely be a plus.
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Most wild horse advocacy groups are run by women.
Most of their supporters are women.
The women on the inside are evil.
The women on the outside are stupid.
The women on the inside try to convince the women on the outside that they care about wild horses and that the outsiders should give the insiders more money.
See for example the running record of news flashes from the Campaign Against America’s Wild Horses published by Lucky Three Ranch.
The insiders use the funds to buy pesticides while telling the outsiders they should feel good about themselves for supporting a worthy cause.
The outsiders don’t realize they’ve been swindled and that the insiders are colluding with the bureaucrats and ranchers to get rid of the horses.
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An story by The Colorado Sun provided the link.
Recommendations start on page 8.
The membership list is on page 16.
Check out the management model on page 24.
The only thing missing is a feedback loop that tests for rancher satisfaction.
The article said the group has asked for better data from the federal government.
Of critical use would be the forage allocations for horses and livestock.
The group has discussed creating a state-run sanctuary, where the public could see horses that had been removed from the wild, but the topic has stalled in recent months due to the high cost of purchasing land.
If the search is limited to base properties—private acreage tied to grazing allotments on public lands—the group could get more value for its investment, a technique known as leverage.
Look for properties where the deeded acreage gives access to at least three times as much public acreage.
Then flip the preference to horses.
Like the forage allocations, ranchers and ranching sympathizers on the committee would probably oppose this line of pursuit.
That’s how you know it’s the right thing to do.
If you want to understand why there are so many wild horses in off-range holding, and why the government needs more corrals, more pastures and more adoptions, look no farther than the Little Colorado HMA.
It’s not in Colorado, but it explains why taxpayers are being asked to shoulder the growing costs of off-range management.
In general, the bureaucrats assign most of the forage in areas identified for wild horses to privately owned livestock.
At Little Colorado, the horses receive just 2.6% of the resource. Table 8 in the 2021 EA for management actions in the Wyoming checkerboard has the data.
To keep the pests in check and ensure the ranchers have principal use of the HMA, the BLM takes them off the range and crams them into public and private feedlots.
None of this is intended to reduce costs.
More animals can be removed if there are more places to places to hold them.
The goal is ranching superiority in the lawful homes of wild horses, sometimes referred to as achieving and maintaining AMLs.
At Little Colorado, the AML ranges from 69 to 100.
Horse #70 is excess, the beginning of overpopulation.
The HMA can’t support more than 100, but it can sustain livestock equivalent to 3,750.
This accounts for six percent of the horses in off-range holding!
If they really wanted to cut costs, they’d put the horses back on the range and confine the ranchers to their base properties in a year-round off season.
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The president of the nonprofit, a real estate agent, PZP darter and close supporter of the Campaign Against America’s Wild Horses, frequently writes about the Fish Springs herd in Horse Tales.
This month, her column begins on page four, wherein she mentions the “strong birth control program” that has reduced the reproduction rate by over 90% at no cost to the taxpayers. (This means the herd is vanishing, perhaps irreversibly, because most of the mares have been sterilized.)
Her listings appear on the back page.
Let’s take a look at her clientele.
The owner of these parcels holds most of the active AUMs in the Buckeye Allotment, an area where the horses roam, which means she’s protecting ranching interests, and her own financial interests, not wild horses.
Almost certainly everybody on the Board knows about this, which means they all should resign in disgrace.
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How much longer before the advocates join forces with the farm bureaus, stockgrower’s associations and cattlemen’s groups?
The Campaign Against America’s Wild Horses could become the Field Services Division of the Coalition for Healthy Nevada Lands, providing mass sterilization where it’s needed most.
Their flagship darting program on the Virginia Range proves they can be as ruthless as the helicopter pilots and wranglers.
Return to Freedom could align in a similar manner with the Public Lands Council.
Other groups have already demonstrated their mettle by demanding new management plans that ratify and reinforce policies and practices already on the books.
And who wouldn’t want an endorsement from Elko County?
A first step in coming out of the closet and signaling your interest in a partnership might be to support the Washoe Lake fencing project, which will hurt the older horses most by driving them into the higher elevations in search of water.
The impact on young horses will be negligible because their numbers are small, thanks to the advocates.
The tiny allotment offers 21 active AUMs on 274 public acres, according to the Allotment Master Report, equivalent to 6.4 wild horses per thousand public acres.
Equivalent stocking rate = 21 ÷ 12 ÷ (274 ÷ 1,000) ≅ 6.4
This is far more helpful than anything peddled by the advocates because it
The target stocking rate across all HMAs is one wild horse per thousand acres (27,000 animals on 27 million acres), far less than what the land can support.
A draft CX for grazing permit reauthorization has been copied to the project folder in ePlanning.
Comments are due by December 27.
The nearest HMA is Pokegama, about five miles to the northwest.
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As noted yesterday, if the allotments were a Complex (consisting of two or more HMAs), the AML would be 534 and 2,551 horses would be consigned to off-range holding because of permitted grazing.
The horses allowed by plan would receive 534 ÷ 3,085 × 100% = 17.3% of the authorized forage, with the balance going to livestock. A small amount would be reserved for wildlife, not considered in the analysis.
This is typical in areas managed for wild horses.
The low end of the AML would be 267.
Horse #268 would be excess, the beginning of overpopulation, even though the land can support him and many others.
Some advocates defend this philosophy with their HMAPs, guaranteeing that more and more wild horses will be crammed into government feedlots.
Others say the problem can be avoided by snuffing out new life with pesticide-laced darts.
Even the casual observer realizes they’re not playing for the home team.
