Western Horse Watchers Association
Exposing the Hypocrisy, Lies and Incompetence of the Wild Horse Advocates
Opinion
He has everything he needs to grow up into a stallion who will one day produce foals of his own according to the herd manager and author of an article in OBX Today.
The statement is subject to the test of future experience.
The darting program has been shut off for two years but we still don’t know the number of viable mares and if genetic diversity has been compromised.
The announcement follows the death last week of a stallion who was struck by a vehicle.
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Story by KLAS News.
Another example of the pot calling the kettle black.
Let him who is not trying to poison the Virginia Range mares hurl the first allegation against the legacy contractors.
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No need to vet the farm bureaus, stockgrower’s associations and cattlemen’s groups.
The advocates want the horses off the range as much as the bureaucrats and ranchers.
They have a plan: To replace motorized removal with nonmotorized removal.
Forget about Velma, the 92nd Congress and principal use.
Today, they’re working alongside the legacy contractors to make sure the herds don’t bounce back.
Their long-term goal is to put the contractors out of business, or at least make them unnecessary in areas identified for wild horses, by spreading the serpent’s venom across the fruited plain.
Putting the horses out of business, a gradual process known as mass sterilization, never seems to enter the discussion.
He had been filmed a few days earlier vying for other stallion’s mares according to a report by OBX Today.
Sadly, there are other stallions in the herd that never produced any foals, thanks to the writer and her ruinous darting program, and with such a small, endangered population the ramifications of that will last for generations.
Like the imposters on “To Tell the Truth,” an early TV game show, the advocates draw your attention to themselves and away from the truth.
Unlike the celebrity panel, today’s followers don’t realize they’ve been duped.
The look on Polly Bergen’s face at 0:23 tells the story.
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Toss a coin 156 times (the number of adults captured in the roundup) and see if you can get 57 or fewer heads and 99 or more tails or vice versa.
Betcha can’t do it.
The coin approximates a simple random process centered at 50% heads / 50% tails.
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The full-time position pays $63,091 to $98,305 per year according to an undated job listing on Indeed.
The successful candidate will prepare and implement documents such as Gather Plans and Herd Area Management Plans, organize the gathering and removal of wild horses and burros, and provide technical direction for wild horse and burro inventories and monitoring, allotment evaluations and management plans, and environmental assessments and impact statements.
You may have to join a public-sector union whereby you will be strongly encouraged to vote for liberals.
The description does not indicate if pesticide pushers and ranching sympathizers are preferred, but that would definitely be a plus.
Tell them you decided to get rid of the horses with pesticides instead of helicopters.
They’ll walk off the picket line and offer to help.
Tell them you’d like to use PZP and they’ll offer to apply it for free, up to and including the point of no return, when most of the mares are sterile.
Beware of the wild horse advocates.
A report last week by The Arizona Republic said there were 311 horses in the herd.
The goal is 200, to be reached in ten years.
The darting program started in 2019 with support from the Campaign Against America’s Wild Horses. It has two key components: Pesticides and death.
The advocates will need another seven years finish the job, assuming a zero percent birth rate and six percent death rate.
They’re not on track to hit the target.
They need a way to increase the death rate.
They’ve already driven the birth rate to zero, or nearly so, and you can count the breeding population on one hand. Genetic diversity was overrated anyway.
With few if any new foals hitting the ground, the average age of the herd is increasing so deaths should follow suit.
Still, they need other options.
Nobody spends more man-hours trying to get rid of wild horses than the advocates.
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Yep, the bureaucrats put up signs designating a place for the demonstration according to a story dated July 22 by Cowboy State Daily.
You can speak freely here but not there. You can petition your government for redress of grievances in the parking lot but not at the picnic tables.
Look the photo at the beginning of the article. Are they protesting the removals or the method of removal?
If the BLM decided to get rid of the horses with PZP instead of helicopters, how many would discard their posters and offer to help?
Beware of the wild horse advocates.
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His supporters said the move was cruel and costly, arguing they had a better way (to get rid of him).
Your host reached out for comment but did not get an answer.
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They’re now claiming they can apply the pesticide as long as they want with no ill effects.
This, of course, is to give cover to their darting programs at the Salt River and Virginia Range, now in their sixth year, where they’re quietly trying to convince the bureaucrats and ranchers that mass sterilization is a practical alternative to helicopter roundups.
If you think they’re being dishonest, here are three steps you can take to cure your doubt and become one of their supporters:
1. Ignore Jay Kirkpatrick’s warning about long-term use. In a 2012 paper, he said “PZP is designed to bring about short-term infertility and is reversible, if not used beyond five consecutive years.”
2. Disavow the disaster on the Maryland side of Assateague Island, where the herd is still shrinking eight years after the darting program was shut off.
3. Ignore the experience of ISPMB, which demonstrated that Kirkpatrick was correct.
A common denominator in many darting programs is the Campaign Against America’s Wild Horses, a leader in nonmotorized removal.
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A Judas Horse, released at 0:10 in this undated video by KTVZ News, draws wild horses into the trap as a helicopter applies pressure from behind.
Not to be outdone, the advocates believe none of this is necessary and the best way to get rid of them is with ovary-killing pesticides.
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The advocates are trying to market themselves as competitors to the legacy contractors.
Their strategy is to sterilize as many mares as possible with PZP, sending the herds into irreversible decline.
To say they’re even remotely associated with Velma would be gross exaggeration of the truth.
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The roundup will likely be over but the advocates will meet at the Rock Springs Off-Range Corrals at 11 AM local time and march to the BLM office according to a story dated July 17 by KGWN News.
Would they stay home if the agency got rid of the horses with pesticides instead of helicopters? Maybe write thank you letters for conserving the herd?
If the pesticide of choice was PZP, would they band together and offer to apply it for free?
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It’s not in Wyoming, it’s in Nevada, and the plaintiff should be the defendant.
Yesterday, the Campaign Against America’s Wild Horses presented oral arguments in U.S. District Court against the Rock Springs RMP Amendments, according to a news flash distributed by Lucky Three Ranch.
The communiqué said the changes “represent the first time in the 53-year history of the Wild Free-Roaming Horses and Burros Act that the BLM has eliminated entire wild horse herds where sufficient habitat characteristics (i.e., forage, water, space, and cover) exist on public lands,” which is not true.
The agency has a long history of zeroing-out areas identified for wild horses and managing them principally for livestock. The Caliente, Blue Wing and East Pershing Complexes are three examples.
They don’t have enough forage, water, space and cover to sustain wild horses, supposedly, yet roundups are needed to keep the populations in check.
Moreover, the nonprofit, a leader in nonmotorized removal, claimed that, so far, it’s held off the largest wild horse eradication in the history of the Act, but needs your money to continue the fight.
Nonsense. The largest wild horse eradication in the American west is on the Virginia Range, where volunteers with CAAWH are sterilizing the mares with PZP, a restricted-use pesticide that tricks the immune system into attacking the ovaries.
The herd, now at risk of collapse, consists of approximately 3,500 horses, while Divide Basin and Salt Wells Creek contain 1,050 + 1,204 = 2,254 wild horses according to the 2024 population dataset.
Thus, CAAWH and its supporters are responsible for the greatest loss of America’s wild horses, not the BLM.
The judge should take this into consideration as he weighs the testimony of their attorneys.
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The broadcast premieres on PBS stations in New York, Philadelphia and Miami this month, followed by Los Angeles, Chicago and San Francisco in August according to today’s announcement.
Released in 2020, the documentary appeals to defeatists, pesticide pushers and ranching sympathizers, sometimes referred to as advocates, and a gullible public.
Subscribers to the overpopulation narrative will not go unsatisfied.
It’s probably an isolated case.
Donald Broom is a rancher and Moffatt County Commissioner according to his bio.
He manages Sombrero Ranches, “where he oversees the nation’s largest herd of broke horses, supplying riding stables, movie scenes and outfitters with ridable livestock.”
A search of the Operator Information Report at RAS linked Sombrero Ranches to authorization #0501087.
The Allotment Information Report tied the authorization to West Boone Draw and Thompson Basin, both in the Little Snake Field Office.
The National Data Viewer puts them on the west side of Sand Wash Basin.
The Allotment Master Report puts both in the Improve category.
The Authorization Use Report indicates that most of the AUMs go to domestic horses, with some to cattle.
Broom may not be the owner, but his personal fortune, and the profitability of his employer, may be inversely related to the number of wild horses in and around the HMA.
Thus, they’d want the herd minimized, which may be consistent with the aim of the committee but not the people of Colorado.
Western Horse Watchers does not know if the allotments were always permitted for horses or if Sombrero had to go through the planning process as American Prairie did for bison in Montana.
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Tell your U.S. representative (you have one) and senators (you have two) to
Tip for building wealth: Don’t give a penny to the advocates. They protect the ranchers, not the horses.
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