If the Save Our Wild Horses conference was even halfway sincere, and this is not known, most wild horse advocates would stay away because they are frauds.

They would be attracted, however, to a Save Our Poor Ranchers conference, because that’s what they do.  Actions speak louder than words.

The event would give them an opportunity to stop pretending that they care about wild horses, let their hair down, and schmooze with the bureaucrats and ranchers, whose approval they seek at all costs.

With more evidence coming out of Assateague Island, soon to be followed by the Salt River and Virginia Range, they can prove that they do indeed have a better way to get rid of wild horses.

Forced to live in multi-million-dollar base properties, if they live on site at all (some are investors or corporate owners), the ranchers receive only 80% of the authorized forage in the lawful homes of wild horses.

For this they pay pennies on the dollar compared to market rates.

The bureaucracies keep predators in check, repair wildfire damage and provide funding for range improvements.

They remove wild horses and cram them into off-range corrals, also at taxpayer expense, while the ranchers pocket the profits.

It’s government dependency and redistribution of wealth, no getting around it.

The advocates, desperate for a seat at the table, have a plan that will fix the problem once and for all.

The ranchers can realize their dream of 100%.  They just need to be patient.

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A few years ago the advocates pointed to the herd as a model of wild horse management.

Now that the Park Service has released another report indicating that it’s still shrinking, eight years after the darting program was shut off, they know nothing about it.

Their safe, proven and reversible vaccine turned out to be an ovary-killing pesticide that plunged the herd into irreversible decline.

It’s great news for the advocates and should convince their allies that nonmotorized removal is more effective in the long run than motorized removal.

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The bureaucrats, ranchers and advocates want you to think there’s not enough food and water for wild horses on America’s public lands, thereby justifying their removal.

It’s all bullcrap, as discussed earlier this week for public lands in Wyoming and a few weeks ago for Nevada.

The off-range corrals, adoptions and long-term pastures are part of the ruse.

Resource availability is already known.  There’s no need for scientific studies.

Most of the forage has been assigned to the public-lands ranchers and this can be quantified with the reports at RAS.

With those numbers in hand, you can estimate the True AMLs, compare them to the current AMLs and show others how the horses are getting the short end of the stick.

If you did this for every HA, HMA and WHT, you’d find that all of the off-range corrals and long-term pastures could be emptied several times over by confining the ranchers to their base properties, at great savings to American taxpayers.

The decrease in grazing fees would be trivial.

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We know from Assateague Island the fate of every wild horse herd where the advocates are involved, especially those identified for population reductions.

At the Salt River, the advocates need a zero percent birth rate and six percent death rate for ten consecutive years to achieve the goal.

The mares will be ruined after five years, setting the stage for collapse.

On the Virginia Range, the advocates need similar conditions for 30 years.

They can walk away after five years and let the herd implode.

This is the insidiousness of nonmotorized removal, attrition by pesticides.

Irreversible decline after the tipping point is reached.

The advocates won’t tell you the truth about PZP any more than they’ll talk about Assateague Island, an area they once praised as a paragon of wild horse management.

Don’t be confused if they refer to themselves as conservationists, influencers or experts.

They are phonies, allies of the ranchers, leaders of the blind.

RELATED: Latest Census Shows Assateague Herd Imploding.

It’s not at the wild horse page, which, as of today, still shows the report for 2023.

It does not appear on the Assateague news page.

It was buried among thousands of articles by NPS.

Go to the search page, type in Assateague and hit “Go.”

Then set the “Sort by” field to “Recently Updated.”

The report says the population is close to the goal range of 80-100 individuals, which is not true.

The herd has passed through the target range and continues to decline because too many mares have been ruined by the ovary-killing pesticide PZP, which the advocates peddle as a safe, proven and reversible vaccine.

They are the old guard, leaders of the blind, irrelevant.

RELATED: Latest Census Shows Assateague Herd Imploding.

If they cover the report by the Park Service about the condition of the herd on Assateague Island, they’re legit.

If they ignore it, they’re frauds.

RELATED: Latest Census Shows Assateague Herd Imploding.

Because most of their food has been assigned to the public-lands ranchers, not because the advocates haven’t implemented enough darting programs.

WITHOUT DARTING PROGRAMS

• Goal: Ranching superiority in the lawful homes of wild horses
• Forage allocations: 20% to horses, 80% to livestock
• Result: For every wild horse allowed on public lands, four have been consigned to off-range holding
• Who foots the bill: Taxpayers

WITH DARTING PROGRAMS

• Goal: Ranching superiority in the lawful homes of wild horses
• Forage allocations: 20% to horses, 80% to livestock
• Result: For every wild horse allowed on public lands, four have been consigned to off-range holding
• Who foots the bill: Taxpayers

Darting programs change the method of removal, with the added benefit that the herds don’t bounce back.

Thus, the advocates do a better job of achieving the long-term goal than the helicopter pilots and wranglers.

Absolutely!  This is the year they push the herd over the cliff.

The Campaign Against America’s Wild horses said in its March update that a goal for April is to renew the cooperative agreement with NDA to continue reducing the wild horse population on the Virginia Range.

As the effort moves into its sixth year, many of the mares are at risk of sterility.

This is the point of no return, the time when the herd begins to shrink, irreversibly.

RELATED: Virginia Range Darting Update for March 2024.

Like the advocates, the bureaucrats use deceptive language to mislead the public about their true intentions and loyalties.

In 1971, Congress declared that wild horses and burros were to be protected from capture, branding, harassment and death.

Areas where they were found were to be managed principally for them.

Today, the wild horse and burro program operates as a grazing program ancillary, supporting three tenets of rangeland management.

This process is sold to the American people as

• Achieving and maintaining AMLs,
• Healthy horses on healthy rangelands, and
• Restoring a thriving ecological balance and multiple-use relationship,

Meaning that livestock operators receive most of the authorized forage in the lawful homes of wild horses.

But inverting the priorities is not enough.

Congress is unlikely to repeal in the statute so the bureaucrats have opted for long-term nullification through the planning process, one HMA at a time.

The Caliente Complex is a perfect example.

The advocates condone the effort through their darting programs.

RELATED: Codewords for Nonmotorized Removal (of Wild Horses).

Your host is not a villain, he tells you about the villains.

• Western Horse Watchers is not pursuing a hidden agenda, the advocates are

• Western Horse Watchers is not poisoning the mares with ovary-killing pesticides, the advocates are
• Western Horse Watchers is not selling eradication as conservation, the advocates are

• Western Horse Watchers is not driving the breeding populations into the single digits, the advocates are
• Western Horse Watchers is not skewing the sex ratios in favor of females, the advocates are
• Western Horse Watchers is not inflicting injuries and infections, the advocates are

• Western Horse Watchers is not praying for the older horses to die, the advocates are
• Western Horse Watchers is not blowing smoke up your butt about HMAPs, the advocates are
• Western Horse Watchers is not telling you that PZP is reversible, the advocates are
• Western Horse Watchers is not promoting the overpopulation narrative, the advocates are
• Western Horse Watchers is not trying to hide the mismanagement of resources in areas identified for wild horses, the advocates are

• Western Horse Watchers is not desperate for a seat at the table, the advocates are
• Western Horse Watchers is not fighting for ranching superiority in the lawful homes of wild horses, sometimes referred to as achieving and maintaining AMLs, the advocates are

Why don’t you hear about this?  It’s illegal for the government to stifle free speech so today’s messengers are silenced by its big-tech minions.

RELATED: Foal-Free Friday, Arithmetic for Advocates Edition.

The Campaign Against America’s Wild Horses, a leader in nonsurgical sterilization, reported today that 165 mares received 165 doses of PZP during the month, 31 given as a primer and 134 as a booster.

Over the life of the program, which began in 2019, the advocates have pumped 8,927 doses of the pesticide into 2,007 mares.

Eleven foals have been born year-to-date.  One died of unspecified causes.

The current population is thought to be 3,480 with 353 horses listed as missing, compared to 3,444 with 338 horses listed as missing in February.

The population was 3,465 with 342 horses listed as missing in January and 3,471 with 336 listed as missing in December.

The goal for April: “Continue to maximize booster treatments to mares across the Virginia Range as we move through spring breeding season to prevent pregnancies, and continuing to allow for humane population decrease.”

Not discussed in the report:

• 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

PZP tricks the immune system into attacking the ovaries, resulting in sterility after five years of treatment.

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

RELATED: Virginia Range Darting Update for February 2024.

It’s a demonstration project intended to convince the bureaucrats and ranchers that the advocates can be as ruthless as the helicopter pilots and wranglers, with the added advantage that the herd won’t bounce back.

Problem solved.

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Traffic from Facebook and Twitter accounted for 2.2% of the total during the month, down considerably from the same period two years ago.

Western Horse Watchers offers much for the advocates to dislike, especially the truth, plus commentary from a conservative viewpoint.

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The advocates will do it for free.

With the Assateague and Currituck herds imploding because of too many nonviable mares, a fact they will never acknowledge, the advocates can point to their darting programs at the Salt River and Virginia Range as examples of mass sterilization supported by the public.

Except they won’t call it that.  They’ll say it’s in-the-wild management.

Some observers claim that the FY24 budget cut will push the agency toward permanent solutions such as surgical sterilization.

RELATED: Mass Sterilization OK if Done with PZP.

Undoubtedly, the decision will keep their base fired up and the donations rolling in, a top priority for nonprofits, but areas identified for wild horses will still be managed primarily for livestock.

BEFORE HMAPs

• Management goal: Ranching superiority
• Forage allocations: 20% to horses, 80% to livestock
• Result: For every wild horse allowed on public lands, four have been consigned to off-range holding
• Who foots the bill: Taxpayers

AFTER HMAPs

• Management goal: Ranching superiority
• Forage allocations: 20% to horses, 80% to livestock
• Result: For every wild horse allowed on public lands, four have been consigned to off-range holding
• Who foots the bill: Taxpayers

Conclusion: HMAPs don’t make the needed changes, they maintain the status quo.

As for the burden on taxpayers, the advocates have an answer for that too.

RELATED: Court Sends Pancake EA Back to BLM for Further Analysis.

“Public lands in the western U.S. can only support one wild horse or burro per thousand acres (27,000 animals on 27 million acres).”

Pure fiction, but the advocates have swallowed it hook, line and sinker.

File under: Allotments.

Instead of explaining the lopsided forage allocations that favor the ranchers and drive the roundups, the Campaign Against America’s Wild Horses, a leader in nonmotorized removal, agreed in a statement today that wild horse numbers should be reduced, but they should come down with ovary-killing pesticides, not helicopters.

That’s according to a story by KLAS News.

We know from their March 8 testimony in Las Vegas that they’ve bought into the overpopulation narrative and want to help the wild horse detractors.

Overpopulation means more horses than allowed by plan, not necessarily more horses than the land can support.

The bureaucrats and ranchers claim that public lands in the western U.S. can only support one wild horse per thousand acres (27,000 animals on 27 million acres), which is a fairy tale.

For every horse allowed on the range, three to six have been consigned to off-range holding because of permitted grazing, not because of inadequate fertility control.

RELATED: BLM Releases 2024 Wild Horse and Burro Population Dataset.

UPDATE: A March 26 news release by Return to Normal (Before WHB Act) says the same thing: Get rid of them with pesticides, not helicopters.  The ranchers couldn’t have asked for better allies.

When you see headlines like this:

The first link, from this morning’s edition of Drudge, pointed to a story by CNBC.

RELATED: Wild Horse Advocacy in One Word.

The advocates are constantly shifting their vocabulary to keep you in the dark.

Like the bureaucrats, their goal never changes: Ranching superiority in the lawful homes of wild horses, sometimes referred to as achieving and maintaining AMLs.

To fulfill this purpose, they set up PZP darting programs and recruit dummies like you to carry them out.

Euphemisms for the process include:

• In-the-wild management
• On-range management
• Humane management

They all mean the same thing: Sterilizing the mares with ovary-killing pesticides, leading to the destruction of entire herds in just five years.

RELATED: Understanding Advocatespeak.