Hypocrisy of Advocates on Full Display at Salt River

The ringleader of the Salt River Wild Horse Darting Group said in yesterday’s article about the CBD lawsuit “We believe that wild horses have a positive impact on their environment.”

If that’s true, why are you trying to get rid of them?

She also said the darts, which contain PZP, don’t make the mares infertile, yet she knows they won’t get pregnant after five years of treatment even if darting stops.

They’re not sterile, they’re “self-boosting.”

That’s what happened on the Maryland side of Assateague Island, an area the advocates pointed to as a model of wild horse management.

Now that the truth is out—that the herd is still shrinking eight years after the darting program was shut off—they have a bad case of amnesia.

So if the court rules in favor of the plaintiffs, the herd will remain with 50 animals.

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But if it sides with the defendants, there will be no herd at all because nobody’s trying to stop these charlatans from destroying it through mass sterilization.

The Salt River Wild Horse Darting Group receives support from the Campaign Against America’s Wild Horses, a leader in nonmotorized removal.

RELATED: CBD Cares More About Salt River Horses Than Advocates.

Socialist Media Update for June 2024

Traffic from Facebook and Twitter accounted for 4.1% of the total during the month, down considerably from the same period two years ago.

Did you know that livestock in the North Lander Complex receive seven times more forage than the horses and that an additional 4,080 horses could be on the range but are rotting instead in off-range holding because of permitted grazing?

You didn’t hear that from the advocates because it undermines the rationale for their ruinous darting programs.

Western Horse Watchers brings you the truth about wild horses, resource management and the Love Triangle on America’s public lands.

RELATED: Socialist Media Update for May 2024.

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One If by Helicopter, Two If by Pesticide

How can the North Lander Complex be overpopulated with 3,035 wild horses when the BLM authorizes livestock equivalent to 4,080 wild horses in the same area, on top of the 536 horses allowed by plan?

How can you give money to groups that say the roundups are cruel and costly but would, if given the chance, zero out the herds with ovary-killing pesticides?

RELATED: If Wild Horses Had Principal Use of North Lander Complex.

Salt River Advocates Suffering from Mental Illness?

The Salt River Wild Horse Darting Group, an ally of the Campaign Against America’s Wild Horses, has started a fundraiser to intervene in the second case filed by the Center for Biological Diversity against the Forest Service.

The description says “They have sued our Forest Service over NEPA and are asking the judge for a halt of the humane management programs.  This of course would spell the end of the Salt River wild horses as we know it.”

Halting the humane management program, sometimes referred to as mass sterilization with PZP, would be good for the herd, assuming the mares haven’t been completely ruined by the advocates.  It would spell the end of their reign of terror.

Further, “The humane management programs are what have kept the Salt River wild horses safe and healthy, and it has also reduced the foaling rate from 100 foals a year to just one or two per year (for the past 3 years).  So why would they attack these programs?  Because they want to see the Salt River wild horses removed down to 44 horses!”

Forty-four is greater than zero.  At least some horses will be left.  If the darting program is not stopped this year, the tipping point will be reached and the herd will slide into irreversible decline, with life unable to keep up with death, just like the Maryland side of Assateague Island.

As for legal action, the advocates should be the target of a criminal probe.

They’re using PZP to eradicate herds that are said to be overpopulated, pose safety hazards to motorists or interfere with animal agriculture, none of which are approved uses of the pesticide.

Note in the photo below the lack of PPE, another violation of the Directions for Use.

RELATED: CBD Brings Another Complaint Against Salt River Horses.

Students Learn About Darting 10-26-22

What If the Rock Springs HMAs Were Zeroed Out with Pesticides?

Would the advocates drop their lawsuits?

What if the pesticide of choice was PZP?

Would they offer to do it at no charge?

Consider the June 25 news release by the Animal Welfare Institute about the BLM’s wild horse eradication plan in southwestern Wyoming.

Removal of nearly 5,000 wild horses could start as early as October 1.

At the end of the announcement, AWI cites the Virginia Range fertility control program, where their coalition partner, the Campaign Against America’s Wild Horses, is wiping out a herd of roughly 3,500 with PZP sterilization.

They have no problem with that!

RELATED; Scoping Begins for Rock Springs Wild Horse Removal.

Pesticide Pushers 07-17-23

They Fear Western Horse Watchers Most

The Love Triangle has been rocked back on its heels, long overdue.

From the unlawful use of pesticides to the mismanagement of resources, your host has put these phonies under the microscope and they don’t like one bit.

They’re now circling the wagons to protect their beloved gravy train, hoping their big-tech minions will ride to the rescue.

America’s wild horses will not be safe until the public lands have been cleared of privately owned livestock and the statute has been restored to its original form.

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Observing Wild Horse Roundups Does Not Protect Wild Horses!

The new fundraiser could be titled “Greaves Carries Water for Leigh.”

The goal is $2,000, with a current balance of $260.

Presumably, the money will support observation of the North Lander roundup starting on or about July 1.

It will not break the cycle of wild horse removals in favor of privately owned livestock, motorized or nonmotorized.

It will not change the goal of ranching superiority in the lawful homes of wild horses, sometimes referred to as achieving and maintaining AMLs.

It will not alter the cozy relationship between the bureaucrats and ranchers, which the advocates accept and support.

It will not give principal use to the horses as Velma and the 92nd Congress intended in the original statute.

It will, however, keep their base fired up and the donations rolling in, while protecting and preserving the status quo.

RELATED: North Lander Roundup Pending.

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Currituck Herd Adds Another Foal, Exonerating Advocates?

Too early to say.

The PZP darting program was suspended in 2022 but was it soon enough to save the herd from irreversible decline?

The herd on the Maryland side of Assateague Island is still shrinking eight years after the darting program was shut off.

A story dated June 21 by OBX Today says the filly was born earlier this month but does not indicate how many foals have been born this year and how many horses have died.

If life is incredibly fragile for the horses, as stated in the article, why were the advocates trying to snuff it out?

PZP, a restricted-use pesticide, tricks the immune system into attacking the ovaries, resulting in sterility after five years of treatment.

RELATED: Currituck Advocates Send New Filly to Beach in the Sky.

Foal-Free Friday, Protecting the Gravy Train Edition

Can you imagine starting a nonprofit, and eventually raking in hundreds of thousands of dollars or even millions every year, while sidestepping the most important issue facing wild horses?

That’s what the advocates do.

Can you imagine inventing a fake problem to hide the real problem and supporting it with a bullshit storyline based on an undefined term in the statute?

That’s what the bureaucrats do.

Can you imagine trying to stay above the fray while reaping the benefits flowing therefrom?

That’s what the ranchers do.

Can you imagine silencing your critics to keep the situation out of the public eye and maintain the status quo?

That’s what their big-tech minions do.

Welcome to the Love Triangle on America’s public lands.

More poison for the horses means more forage for the ranchers, exactly what the bureaucrats ordered.

RELATED: Foal-Free Friday, Breaking with the Past Edition.

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Turmoil at Little Book Cliffs?

Lawmakers behind the Colorado Wild Horse Project are upset that the BLM is working on a plan to do what their legislation was designed to prevent, according to a story dated June 19 by The Grand Junction Daily Sentinel.

Predictably, the Campaign Against America’s Wild Horses, unable to come up with an original thought, called for greater use of PZP, a restricted-use pesticide that tricks the immune system into attacking the ovaries.

Although the agency is working on an Enviornmental Assessment for management actions in the HMA, the roundup was dropped from the schedule earlier this month.

RELATED: Colorado Wild Horse Project Helps Ranchers, Not Horses.

GonaCon Crime Ring in Oregon?

Last year the Bureau of Livestock Multiplication gave High Desert Strategies, sometimes referred to as Shaney and the Riflemen, $468,033 to expand their pest control efforts in the lawful homes of wild horses.

The HMAs appear in the first part of the latest schedule for nonmotorized removal.

The pests, of course, are the cherished wild horses.

Their homes lie within grazing allotments, the birthright of the ranchers.

The riflemen run livestock on said allotments.

The pesticide of choice is GonaCon Equine.

Like most darting programs, there is no accountability to the public.

We don’t know if they’re darting mares or stallions.  The product works on both.

We don’t know if they’re applying one dose or two.

We don’t know the interval between doses, which the EPA changed from a minimum of 30 days to 90 days in a 2017 labeling amendment.

We don’t know anything about genetic viability, the number of viable mares and the size of the breeding populations.

We don’t know about changes in death rates and herd demographics.

We don’t know if they’re using the proper PPE.

We don’t know their names.

We don’t know if they’re certified applicators.

The Directions for Use say “It is a violation of Federal law to use this product in a manner inconsistent with its labeling.”

We know the agency used the pesticide unlawfully at Red Rock, Reveille and Clan Alpine, so why shouldn’t the pattern carry over in Oregon?

GonaCon was used in other roundups over the past two years but it’s not clear from the daily reports if two doses were applied and the interval between them.

RELATED: BLM Awards $1 Million for Wild Horse Protection?

Adjectives for Pests 12-01-23

Advocate Defends Virginia Range Sterilization Program

There was no need to remove any wild horses.

The Nevada Department of Agriculture only needed to float the idea because they knew the advocates would fold like cheap suits and do the dirty work for them.

Speaking in favor of the effort is Tracy “You need to manage the numbers to fit what’s available for the horses” Wilson, defeatist, pesticide pusher and ranching sympathizer with the Campaign Against America’s Wild Horses, a leader in nonmotorized removal.

RELATED: How to Bring the Advocates to Their Knees.

Wild Horse Fire Brigade Takes “Path Forward” to New Level

You know an idea is bad for wild horses if the advocates support it.

Likewise, you know an idea is good for the ranchers if Elko County endorses it.

The Wild Horse Fire Brigade goes far beyond the “Path Forward,” a 2019 plan for ranching superiority in the lawful homes of wild horses, sometimes referred to as achieving and maintaining AMLs.

The AMLs would go to zero.  The ranchers would get everything.

What happened to the horses?

They were sent to remote wilderness areas not particularly suited to livestock grazing, to stop lightning, arsonists and campers from starting wildfires.

Problem solved.

RELATED: SHOCKER: Elko County Endorses Wild Horse Fire Brigade.

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Putting the Grazing Program on Par with the WHB Program

The BLM allows livestock equivalent to 1,023,481 wild horses on 145,895,940 public acres, or seven wild horses per thousand public acres, as discussed previously.

To bring the grazing program in line with the wild horse and burro program, which allows one such animal per thousand acres, the bureaucrats would need to relieve the ranchers of six out of seven AUMs, or approximately 86% of the forage apportioned thereto.

This would likely result in a major disruption of the gravy train.

A level playing field would mean that cause of poor rangeland health would be much more difficult to identify.

RELATED: Putting Wild Horses on Par with Privately Owned Livestock.

SHOCKER: Elko County Endorses Wild Horse Fire Brigade

The battlefield is America’s public lands, not urban neighborhoods as stated in a June 12 report by KOLO News.

The idea is to move wild horses from their lawful homes to remote wilderness areas not suited to livestock grazing, so ranchers can have all of their food.

That’s why the commissioners like it, along with the Nevada Lands Council.

A better way to alleviate the conflict is to confine the ranchers to their base properties in a year-round off season and let them pay the going rate to feed their animals.

No more gravy train, no more sucking on the government teat.

RELATED: Wild Horse Fire Brigade Serves Ranchers, Not Wild Horses.

KNPR Tours Winnemucca Corrals

The BLM representative is back with another tall tale about wild horses in this 5-minute audio segment: They’re built much differently than domestic horses, evident in the photo below.

The extra chromosome really makes a difference.

Instead of explaining how the conflict on public lands can be alleviated by clearing them of privately owned livestock, a spokesperson for the Campaign Against America’s Wild Horses argued in favor of nonmotorized removal, which helps the ranchers.

Better Way 10-25-23

If they had their way, there would be no more roundups and no need for off-range holding, because there would be no more horses, an intended consequence of mass sterilization with PZP, now in progress at the Salt River and Virginia Range.

They are phonies, leaders of the blind, irrelevant.

RELATED: Winnemucca Off-Range Corrals Open to Public Next Month.

Wild Horses Built Much Differently 06-12-24

Foal-Free Friday, Race to the Bottom Edition

The advocates, led by the Campaign Against America’s Wild Horses, are trying to prove that the Montana Solution is a viable alternative to motorized removal.

Behind the effort is a belief that there are too many wild horses on public lands in the Western U.S., that the bureaucrats are correct, and that the animals need to be removed from their lawful homes (in favor of privately owned livestock).

This view is held almost universally across their cohort.

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As stated previously, the AML of the wild horse and burro program would have to be increased from roughly 27,000 to nearly 189,000 to match the resource loading of the grazing program.

The land can support many more animals than the government admits, enough to empty all of the off-range corrals and long-term pastures several times over.

But the advocates are undeterred.

They continue to pummel the Salt River and Virginia Range mares with ovary-killing pesticides in the hope that the bureaucrats and ranchers will see the world their way.

Then they can spread the poison to other areas, at a complete loss of whatever credibility and legitimacy remain, along with the herds themselves.

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They are phonies, leaders of the blind, unworthy of your financial support.

RELATED: Foal-Free Friday, Point of No Return Edition.