They’re very clever at concealing the truth from their supporters.

Beware of the wild horse advocates.

RELATED: If You Want to Help the Ranchers Give Money to the Advocates.

In its flagship darting program on the Virginia Range, the Campaign Against America’s Wild Horses is sterilizing the mares with PZP, a restricted-use pesticide that tricks their immune systems into attacking their ovaries.

As wild horse numbers go down, another species is moving in to fill the void.

Are you surprised by this?

The advocates talk about cherished/beloved/innocent/treasured/iconic/majestic wild horses but their actions tell you it’s the ranchers they love.

Why are you still giving them money?

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The August 25 guest column in the Las Vegas Sun reads like an advertisement for the Campaign Against America’s Wild Horses and its pest control services.

Did she write it or just sign it?

The underlying belief is that there are too many wild horses in the western U.S. and they need to be removed.  Humanely, of course.

The statement about abuse during the Blue Wing roundup is over the top.

CAAWH released the video not to help wild horses but to draw attention to itself and its ruinous darting programs.

Of interest to its opponents is the remark about the cost of fertility control, “$1,320 for five years of treatment compared to around $48,000 for life in long-term holding.”

Why did they say five years?  Why not for life?

Because the mares don’t recover after five years of treatment.  They’re sterile.

The advocates won’t admit it, preferring to say the mares are self-boosting, a result that can’t be achieved with helicopters and wranglers.

RELATED: If You Want to Help the Ranchers Give Money to the Advocates.

That’s according to BLM State Director Doug Vilsack.

He wants to make the state’s wild horse program an object of celebration, not by allowing the animals to flourish in their lawful homes, but by shooting the mares with pesticide-laced darts.

Once herd numbers have been stabilized at appropriate levels, “then I think it’s going to get fun because we can sit down and think about, you know, what else can we do now that we have sustainable populations, how can we work on tourism opportunities for people to come see these horses?  That would be a fantastic place to get to, to really be sitting down and thinking about how we can celebrate the wild horses and get beyond some of the controversy that we’ve seen when we do these gathers,” he told a reporter with The Grand Junction Daily Sentinel.

Only the ranchers, not mentioned in the August 25 article, will be celebrating.

A keyword search of the story yielded these results:

• Allotment – No occurrences
• Grazing – 0
• AUM – 0
• Forage – 0
• Livestock – 0
• Horse/horses – 42
• Fertility control/controls – 13
• AML – 5
• Adoption/adoptions – 2
• Sanctuaries – 1

No bias here, no attempt to hide the truth.

The writer and his employer are not shills for the public-lands ranchers.

The herds are managed exactly as Velma and the 92nd Congress intended.

The advocates, represented by the Campaign Against America’s Wild Horses and Wild Horse Connection, wanted you to think they were the good guys, victims, and the NDA and its wranglers were the bad guys for removing 24 Virginia Range mustangs from a construction site in Reno.

This is nonsense.  Both sides, working together since 2019 to exterminate the herd, knew what would happen if the rescue failed.

The advocacy groups rank among the lowest and sleaziest of the nonprofits.

RELATED: Advocates Protest Virginia Range Roundup in Carson City.

Here’s what you’ll see today if you type in “wild mustangs” and set the time interval to the past 24 hours:

Which one of these clauses best completes the sentence?

a.) Help the ranchers win

b.) Get rid of the horses with pesticides

c.) Convince the bureaucrats that mass sterilization is a practical alternative to motorized removal

d.) All of the above

e.) None of the above

The correct answer is D, All of the above.

Beware of the wild horse advocates.

The agency’s director indicates at 1:36 in this report that “Our cooperator [Wild Horse Connection] was aware that if they were unsuccessful in removing the horses the NDA would remove the horses.”

The advocates want you to think they were victims not villains, even though they’ve been trying to get rid of the horses since 2019.

Wild Horse Connection works hand-in-hand with the other cooperator, the Campaign Against America’s Wild Horses, to eradicate the Virginia Range herd.

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Almost certainly Andrew Jackson, and anyone living at the time, would reject today’s Democrat Party and its twisted ideology.

They want you think it wasn’t their fault, that they’re the good guys, always looking out for wild horses.

Nothing could be farther from the truth!

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So says the writer of an August 14 letter to The Salt Lake Tribune.

More horses have been seen near the dried-up pond because they don’t have the strength to make it to the next water source.

To her credit, she did not call for greater use of pesticides to solve the problem, as most advocates do, some of whom landed 24 Virginia Range mustangs in the Carson City prison last week in their failed attempt to rescue them from a construction site.

We still don’t know if the pond was on public or private land, if it was dug by livestock operators, and how it is filled.

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No horses were injured and none were killed, but the NDA did not use the only method approved by the advocates.

Refer to last week’s edition of Foal-Free Friday.

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Apparently, the bureaucrats have taken matters into their own hands, ignoring the will of the people.  (It’s not unprecedented, look at the southern border.)

According to the statute: It is the policy of Congress that wild free-roaming horses and burros shall be protected from capture, branding, harassment, or death.

According to the manual: To protect wild horses and burros from unauthorized capture, branding, harassment or death.

An example of unauthorized capture would be person who took a wild horse or burro off the public lands for his personal use or profit.

Unauthorized harassment might correspond to persons who threw rock at them or chased them with ATVs.

The Jakes Valley shootings would be an example of unauthorized death.

Refer to any roundup or darting program for examples of authorized capture, branding, harassment and death.

Authorized by the bureaucrats, that is, not the American people.

Do you think their rescuers, who have been trying to get rid of them since 2019, would make a good-faith effort to keep them on the range?

Really?

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The construction site is at the north end of Rio Wrangler Parkway in southeast Reno, on the western slope of the Virginia Range.

Of the 24 animals now at NNCC, the stallions will likely be gelded, the mares may already be ruined (by PZP), and the foals, if any, may have faulty immune systems.

Other than that, the advocates did a fine job caring for the horses.

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The event will begin with a brief presentation by the Colorado Wild Horse Working Group about its purpose and emerging recommendations regarding fertility control, adoption and other topics, followed by public feedback.

Registration is required.

The aim of the group is to protect hunting and ranching interests by curtailing wild horse numbers with pesticides, reducing the need for motorized removal.

Despite this, two of the four HMAs in the state will see roundups in the next few weeks.

The Campaign Against America’s Wild Horses, a leader in nonmotorized removal, reported today that 112 mares received 112 doses of PZP during the month, 17 given as primers and 95 as boosters.

Over the life of the program, which began in 2019, the advocates have pumped 9,626 doses of the pesticide into 2,049 mares, for an average of 4.7 doses per mare.

Since the beginning of the year, 143 foals have been born and 34 died.

The current population is thought to be 3,548, with 311 horses listed as missing, compared to 3,521 with 302 horses listed as missing in June.

The population was 3,502 with 310 horses listed as missing in May and 3,519 with 370 listed as missing in April.

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 August is to maximize booster treatments so the herd will continue to shrink and to train newly certified darters with experienced team members.

Not discussed:

• Long-term population goal
• Number of viable mares
• Size of breeding population
• Loss of genetic diversity
• Changes in death rate and sex ratio
• Unlawful use of pesticides

The report will be submitted to the Nevada Department of Agriculture.

RELATED: Virginia Range Darting Update for June 2024.

Beware of the wild horse advocates.  They are phonies, leaders of the blind, irrelevant.

RELATED: If You Want to Help the Ranchers Give Money to the Advocates.

As the Democrat Party becomes more radical, anti-God, anti-life and anti-family, so do the wild horse advocates.

It’s almost as if they’re joined at the hip.

In their transition to full-time pleaders for the public-lands ranchers, they’ve abandoned any pretense of caring for the horses and now peddle mass sterilization as a practical alternative to helicopter roundups.

Their demonstration projects at the Salt River and Virginia Range are not designed to slow population growth but to reverse it.

This can only be accomplished by extensive use of the pesticide, which will result in sterilization of the mares and irreversible decline of the herds.

If signed into law, the Wild Horse and Burro Protection Act of 2023 would ban helicopter roundups and increase demand for alternative methods because it does not change the resource allocations and management priorities that drive the removals.

The advocates would be waiting in the wings to spread the serpent’s venom across the fruited plain, with the ranchers coming out on top in the long run.

Imagine Congress passing a bill that puts your competitors out of business and gives you monopoly control of the industry.

That’s HR 3656.

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You can ask next time you’re in Patagonia AZ.

In the meantime you can read this review by the Patagonia Regional Times.