Many of the advisors in the Trump administration were rats.

They’re still rats, intent on sabotaging a second administration or advancing an agenda that’s not compatible with conservative principles, so it’s understandable that his supporters would want to screen them out now along with their nefarious ideas.

That’s the goal of Project 2025: To have the right people in the right place with the right ideas, starting on Day 1.

Chapter 16 in the policy agenda covers the Department of the Interior.

It was written by William Perry Pendley, a controversial figure from the first administration and a defender of government dependency and redistribution of wealth, ideas championed by the Left.

On page 9 of the pdf he describes wild horses and burros as western icons.

On page 10 they’re tough issues.

A few paragraphs later they’re an existential threat.

On page 12: “For decades, Congress watched as these herds overwhelmed the land’s ability to sustain them, crowded out indigenous plant and other animal species, threatened the survival of species listed under the Endangered Species Act, invaded private and permitted public land, disturbed private property rights, and turned the sod into concrete.”

“There are 95,000 wild horses and burros roaming nearly 32 million acres in the West—triple what scientists and land management experts say the range can support.  These animals face starvation and death from lack of forage and water.”

“This is not a new issue—it is not just a western issue—it is an American issue.”

Nonsense.  It’s an issue for a special interest, a select group that profits from cheap feed on government lands.

Wild horses and burros interfere with the process.

“Congress must enact laws permitting the BLM to dispose humanely of these animals.”

Are these the views of the project organizers?

Why do they allow this thinly veiled attempt to push leftist ideals?

Pendley was one of the rats and should not be allowed anywhere near a second Trump administration.

As for the public-lands ranchers, they’ve spent years trying to portray themselves as symbols of freedom, ruggedness and self-reliance.

That image needs to be demolished along with their influence at DOI.

In general, they represent victory for the ranchers and failure for the horses, which explains why the advocates like them.

But there’s one way to turn the outcome around: When they’re on public lands, in repurposed grazing allotments.

The American Prairie decision established a precedent and roadmap.

Thus it is true that wild horses can have principal use of Fourth of July (or any other allotment) as discussed last week.

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The Campaign Against America’s Wild Horses, a leader in nonmotorized removal, reported today that 178 mares received 183 doses of PZP during the month, 41 given as a primer and 142 as a booster.

Over the life of the program, which began in 2019, the advocates have pumped 9,514 doses of the pesticide into 2,046 mares, for an average of 4.7 doses per mare.

Since the beginning of the year, 132 foals have been born and 24 died.

The current population is thought to be 3,521, with 302 horses listed as missing, compared to 3,502 with 310 horses listed as missing in May.

The population was 3,519 with 370 listed as missing in April and 3,480 with 353 listed as missing in March.

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 July is to maximize booster treatments, shrink the herd (and pray for the older horses to die).

Another goal is to hold a darter certification class in Stagecoach, NV.

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 herd on the Maryland side of Assateague Island, where the same pesticide was applied, is still shrinking eight years after the darting program was shut off.

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

RELATED: Virginia Range Darting Update for May 2024.

It’s a good example of government dependency and redistribution of wealth, hallmarks of socialism, which explains why Democrats support it.

That’s what they want for all Americans, not just the large and growing underclass.

Curiously, many Republicans like the idea as well.

Give them the boot in November, not for wild-eyed liberals but for solid conservatives.

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.

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.

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.

The site was omitted from Google searches for “wild horse” and “wild horses” for most of June, but it’s back today.

Who gave the order?

The Love Triangle hates competition, much less dissent.

RELATED: They Fear Western Horse Watchers Most.

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.

Apparently, at least according to the headlines on Drudge.

Your host was not among the 47.9M viewers.

Most wild horse advocates are Biden voters, disciples of climate change, LGBT and all manner of communist subversion.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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?

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.

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.