Western Horse Watchers Association
Exposing the Hypocrisy, Lies and Incompetence of the Wild Horse Advocates
Opinion
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Like the Buffalo Hills EA, the citation for GonaCon Equine is out of date: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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The Campaign Against America’s Wild Horses, a leader in nonmotorized removal and staunch opponent of principal use, reported today that 91 mares received 93 doses of PZP during the month, 13 given as primers and 80 as boosters.
Over the life of the program, which began in 2019, the advocates have pummeled 2,064 mares with 9,860 doses of the pesticide, for an average of 4.8 doses per mare.
The epicenter of the program is in and around the Tahoe Reno Industrial Center, listed as USA Parkway in the page 3 chart.
Since the beginning of the year, 161 foals have been born and 54 died.
The current population is thought to be 3,501 with 299 horses listed as missing, compared to 3,515 with 302 horses listed as missing in August.
The population was 3,548 with 311 listed as missing in July and 3,521 with 302 listed as missing in June.
The Year 6 agreement with NDA has not been posted to the darting resources page.
The Year 5 summary has not been posted to the monthly reports page.
A goal for October is to maximize booster treatments so the herd will continue to shrink and to complete the training of newly certified darters.
Not discussed in the September update:
The report will be submitted to the Nevada Department of Agriculture.
RELATED: Virginia Range Darting Update for August 2024.
Don’t write letters to news outlets that put your material behind paywalls.
The Virginia Range mustangs find you guilty of gross incompetence for sending 24 members of their herd to the Carson City prison in early August.
RELATED: Advocates Bungle Sunny Hills Rescue, 24 Horses Lose Freedom.
If homes were burning because of faulty circuit breakers, they’d build more fire stations.
That’s according to an October 6 letter to INFORUM.
They and their offspring are the 15 horses to be removed from the park later this month.
Although the proposed livestock plan was terminated in April, the Park Service appears to be pursuing Alternative C, a nonreproducing herd that dies off.
The incident has been swept under the rug with 59 unaccounted-for horses.
No updates since September 18.
RELATED: Hold Your Horses: Little Book Cliffs Roundup Not Complete.
Tell the advocates you’ve decided to get rid of the herd with PZP.
They’ll be eating out of your hand.
Not only will they drop their opposition but they may offer to do it for free.
RELATED: City Council to TRNP: Drop the Pesticides and Roundup.
A bale of alfalfa/grass mix sold for $29 earlier this week, 20 bales minimum, down from $30 in August and $36 a year ago.
“That’s great news, I’m voting for Harris.”
It’s still up 53% from 2021, when the price was $19.
“I’m voting for Trump.”
RELATED: Price of Hay Eases Slightly?
She’s their Digital Director according to her profile.
She should write a tell-all about her former boss.
The title could be “Pesticides and Monsters: One Woman’s Mission to Eradicate America’s Wild Horses.”
RELATED: Grace Kuhn Leaves CAAWH?
Three reasons why you should avoid them. They oppose:
Cut them off. They’re not going to reform themselves.
They like the status quo and their cozy relationship with the bureaucrats and ranchers.
RELATED: Let Giving Tuesday Become Defund the Advocates Day.
Remember how liberals criticized the Bush administration in 2005 for its response to Katrina? News reports of families stranded on rooftops, a dead person in a wheelchair at the Superdome, etc.
How are they responding today?
Traffic from Facebook and Twitter accounted for 8.8% of the total during the month, down considerably from the same period two years ago.
Did you know that the new PLC president is a public-lands rancher?
You didn’t hear that from the advocates.
The aim of socialist media is to get you to vote for liberals.
RELATED: Socialist Media Update for August 2024.
You can’t poison their water holes per 18 USC 3 §47, a common practice before 1959.
Today, the advocates poison the mares with Zonastat-H, a restricted-use pesticide that tricks their immune systems into attacking their ovaries.
The ranchers are also involved, but they prefer GonaCon Equine.
Their methods may differ but their goal is the same: Ranching superiority in the lawful homes of wild horses.
RELATED: If You Want to Help the Ranchers Give Money to the Advocates.
It’s not about healthy horses on healthy rangelands as suggested in the September 26 blog post, it’s about ranching superiority in the lawful homes of wild horses, sometimes referred to as achieving and maintaining AMLs.
The advocates stopped playing for the home team years ago. Today, they support the effort through their darting programs (first part of schedule).
Ranchers perform the task in Oregon.
In herds where field-darting is not practical, the BLM will capture the animals, provide the treatment and return them to the range. These incidents have been marked “CTR.”
The column did not indicate how much forage had been assigned to livestock in the areas targeted for removal, which would allow you to decide by calculation if they’re really overpopulated.
FY25 begins on October 1.
RELATED: FY25 Roundup Schedule Issued.
The advocates say that wild horse adopters should not receive cash incentives because they turn the process into a money-making venture, with some animals ending up in slaughter.
Similarly, the advocates should not be given financial support because it fuels their obsession with pesticides, primarily PZP.
Instead, they should be given vouchers for treatment at Betty Ford clinics or similar institutions, where they can be deprogrammed and educated in basic math, rational thought and intellectual integrity.
RELATED: Foal-Free Friday, Gaslighting Your Supporters Edition.
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