Records at the Douglas County assessor’s office indicate the sale consisted of three transactions covering 21 APNs.

The project is dedicated to wild horse and burro habitat conservation according to a March 2 announcement distributed by Lucky Three Ranch.

Half of the parcels are designated for single family residences.

1. Document 2023-995176, Grant, Bargain, Sale Deed, $963,000.

• 1222-00-001-024, 120 acres, agricultural qualified
• 1222-00-001-026, 120 acres, agricultural qualified
• 1222-00-001-041, 80 acres, agricultural qualified
• 1222-00-001-045, 80 acres, agricultural qualified
• 1321-00-001-024, 80 acres, agricultural qualified
• 1321-00-002-013, 40 acres, agricultural qualified
• 1322-00-001-034, 237.18 acres, agricultural qualified
• Subtotal: 757.18 acres, average price $1,271.82 per acre

2. Document 2023-995160, Grant, Bargain, Sale Deed, $2,067,100.

• 1222-00-001-061, 118 acres, agricultural qualified
• 1322-00-002-005, 400 acres, agricultural qualified
• 1322-00-002-017, 40 acres, single family residential
• 1322-00-002-018, 40 acres, single family residential
• 1322-00-002-059, 40.74 acres, single family residential
• 1322-00-002-060, 41.01 acres, single family residential
• 1322-00-002-061, 41.16 acres, single family residential
• 1322-00-002-062, 40.9 acres, single family residential
• 1322-00-002-063, 40.5 acres, single family residential
• 1322-00-002-064, 42.38 acres, single family residential
• 1322-00-002-065, 41.95 acres, single family residential
• 1322-00-002-066, 41.62 acres, single family residential
• 1322-00-002-067, 944 acres, agricultural qualified
• Subtotal: 1872.26 acres, average price $1104.07 per acre

3. Document 2023-995179, Grant, Bargain, Sale Deed, $552,000.

• 1321-00-001-021, 640 acres, agricultural qualified
• Subtotal: 640 acres, average price $862.50 per acre

Grand total: $3,582,100 for 3,269.44 acres, average price $1,095.63 per acre.

This was the justification for the rebranding.

In another example of conservation just a few miles north in Storey County, volunteers with the Campaign Against America’s Wild Horses have been pummeling the Virginia Range mares with pesticide-laced darts since 2019.

RELATED: CAAWH Seeks More Land in Pine Nut Mountains?

Besides the hypocrisy, lies and collusion, no accountability to the public.

For example, the reports issued by the Campaign Against America’s Wild Horses for nonmotorized removal on the Virginia Range do not discuss the

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

The population of over 3,000 wild horses has produced only three foals this year.

That’s great news to the bureaucrats and ranchers, whom CAAWH serves, but it’s frightening to the rest of us.

How close is the herd to the tipping point, where it implodes because most of the mares are sterile?

You have a right to know but they’re not talking.

RELATED: Virginia Range Darting Update for February 2024.

The Campaign Against America’s Wild Horses, a leader in nonmotorized removal, reported today that 161 mares received 161 doses of PZP during the month, 22 given as a primer and 139 as a booster.

Over the life of the program, which began in 2019, the advocates have pumped 8,770 doses of the pesticide into 1,998 mares.

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

The current population is thought to be 3,444 with 338 horses listed as missing, compared to 3,465 with 342 horses listed as missing in January.

The population was 3,471 with 336 listed as missing in December.

The goal for March: “Continue to maximize booster treatments to mares across the Virginia Range before 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 January 2024.

The Douglas County Advisory Board to Manage Wildlife took no action at its February 27 meeting regarding a letter prepared by the Coalition for Healthy Nevada Lands, Wildlife and Free-Roaming Horses, according to a story dated March 1 by The Record-Courier of Minden, NV.

A copy of the letter, seeking a reduction of wild horses on public lands. was not included in the report.

Advocates attending the meeting came not as spokesmen for the horses but as defenders of humane management.

They noted that the Coalition pushes for the removal of wild horses to the point they would no longer be genetically viable, yet that’s exactly what they’ve done with their ruinous darting program.

Although there are around 80 wild horses in the Fish Springs herd, Western Horse Watchers suspects the breeding population is now in the single digits.

The sex ratio is likely skewed in favor of females.

The number of viable mares is unknown.

The Pine Nut advocates receive material support from the Campaign Against America’s Wild Horses, leader of the blind and recognized expert in nonmotorized removal.

They must contain 250 words or less according to an undated notice.

Presenters will be notified of acceptance by April 1.

The conference provides an opportunity for advocates to stop pretending that they care about wild horses and declare their fealty to the public-lands ranchers.

RELATED: 2024 FREES Conference Set for April.

They say she’s too young to be separated from her mom, according to a story dated March 2 by Cowboy State Daily.

Are they upset because the government is getting rid of the horses and not them?

The article said the youngster was taken on February 22 but the report for that day shows no foals captured or removed.

Most folks in the horse world would not refer to a six-month-old female as a mare.

RELATED: Advocates Bawling About Loss of McCullough Filly?

Public lands in the western U.S. can only support one wild horse per thousand acres according to the bureaucrats, ranchers and advocates (27,000 animals on 27 million acres).

A corollary is that public lands in the western U.S. can only produce 12 AUMs per year per thousand acres.

But in case after case, the latest being the base properties offered by Harry Ranch, the data show otherwise.

The allotments tied to those parcels produce enough forage to sustain from five to seven times as many wild horses.

This is the dirty little secret of rangeland management.

The roundups, darting programs and outplacement services are not necessary.

They were contrived to protect the ranchers.

Consider the undated infographic for the WHB program in FY23, especially the list of new partners at the bottom of page one.

They are defeatists, pesticide pushers and ranching sympathizers.

How do you oppose the juggernaut?

Use their own data against them.

That means having a basic understanding of the National Data Viewer, the Allotment Master Report and some simple arithmetic.

The other option is to throw in with the Love Triangle and kiss the herds goodbye.

RELATED: The Three Tenets of Rangeland Management.

This result appeared today in a Google search for “wild mustangs.”

Are you surprised that it was posted to a site controlled by the Campaign Against America’s Wild Horses?

The underlying assumption is that wild horses and burros need to be removed from their lawful homes (in favor of privately owned livestock).

This is the sound of defeat, a defining characteristic of wild horse advocacy.

Western Horse Watchers would rather see the WHB Act restored to its original form, the ranchers confined to their base properties and the advocates banned from areas identified for wild horses and burros.

RELATED: Capitulation, Surrender, Defeat.

Looks like Western Horse Watchers is still in the doghouse on socialist media.

Traffic from Facebook and Twitter accounted for 6.7% of the total during the month, down considerably from the same period two years ago.

A contributing factor might be the designation of your host as a right-wing extremist or domestic terrorist.

RELATED: Socialist Media Update for January 2024.

They love to be greeted with respect in the marketplace and to be called “Teacher.”

They love the best places at festivals and the reserved seats at conferences and seminars.

They do everything for show.

On the outside they appear to be good but on the inside they’re full of hypocrisy and lies.

They boast about their conservation and rescue efforts but when you’re not looking, they’re poisoning the mares with ovary-killing pesticides.

They’ll do anything to win the approval of the bureaucrats and ranchers, including the sterilization of entire herds, such as those at the Salt River and Virginia Range.

They want the ranchers to win.

They are the wild horse advocates, the old guard, leaders of the blind.

RELATED: Foal-Free Friday, Rallying Around Error Edition.

The Campaign Against America’s Wild Horses may have shed its skin, like the serpent it is, but its message is the same: Replace motorized removal with nonmotorized removal.

Totally self-serving.

Tomorrow, on National Horse Protection Day, these charlatans want you to tell your elected representatives to support the Wild Horse and Burro Protection Act, according to their news release, which would ban the use of helicopters and expand their pest control business.

The right thing to do is kick these buffoons to the curb and tell your representatives that you want the WHB Act restored to its original form so areas identified for wild horses and burros will be managed principally for them, not privately owned cattle and sheep.

RELATED: CAAWH Rebranding.

The Campaign Against America’s Wild Horses, leader of the blind and recognized expert in nonmotorized removal, now refers to itself as American Wild Horse Conservation.

Apparently, they think that beating the numbers down with Zonastat-H is preservation, a fine example of doublethink.

Last year the package in the middle sold for $4.98.

Today, the package on the right sells for $4.98 but you get 25% less.

This is what happens when you put liberals in charge.

Actually, you didn’t put them in charge.  They put themselves in charge and now they need to pay the price.

RELATED: The Incredible Shrinking Family.

Mission controllers believe the spacecraft is now on its side, according to an article posted yesterday by Space dot com.

As one engineer told Western Horse Watchers, “The L/D ratio gets you every time.”

A rancher from Nevada exclaimed “It’s still on public lands, even if it’s upside down!”

Fortunately, all is not lost.

The lander was equipped with instruments that can determine management status, available acreage and active AUMs—even in suboptimal positions.

A PZP darter who wished to remain anonymous said “We want to make sure the lunar cowboys get the lion’s share of the resources before any pests, such as wild horses and burros, receive protected status as on earth.”

Sensors in the ballistics package will help other engineers redesign her rifle for conditions on the moon.

The project was endorsed by some of the biggest names in ranching advocacy, including the National Cattlemen’s Beef Federation, Public Lands Alliance, Campaign Against America’s Wild Horses, Pneu-Inject, High Desert Tactics and the Science and Conversation Center.

The Campaign Against America’s Wild Horses, a recognized expert in nonmotorized removal, has an opening for a full-time operations manager in Davis, CA according to a job posting on Idealist.

The successful candidate will oversee internal operations, including administration, board relations and finance.

Compensation ranges from $29 to $36 per hour.

Some travel is required and WFH is available two days per week.

The announcement did not say if a diploma from the Billings School of PZP Darting and Public Deception was required.

Submitted in response to those who say “Keep politics out of it, you’re alienating half of your readers.”

1. Most advocacy groups are unsavory.  They’re obsessed with nonmotorized removal, which they peddle as humane management.  They constantly point to drillers and miners as the boogeymen on western rangelands.  They want the ranchers to win.

2. Liberals control the unelected bureaucracy.  That’s how they keep the Democrat agenda moving forward, even when they’re not in power.  Whatever you see on public lands in the western U.S. is because the Democrat Party wants it that way.

3. Most advocates are liberals.  Innumerate, emotional and unscientific, they couldn’t convert an AML to AUMs if their lives depended on it, much less compute forage allocations for livestock in areas identified for wild horses.  They vote Democrat, perpetuating the cycle.

4. These charlatans enjoy the protections of big tech, socialist media and legacy news services, which are also controlled by liberals.  They marginalize anyone who disagrees with them.

We don’t need to unify around error.  We don’t need to rally around lies.

We need to jettison the old guard and choose new leaders who actually care about wild horses and will restore the WHB Act to its original form.

NOTE: This is not an endorsement of Republicans.  No Democrats are Republicans but many Republicans are Democrats.

RELATED: Wild Horse Advocacy in One Word.

In a news release dated February 19, Animal Wellness Action opposes the removal of wild horses from the park, yet it mentions fertility control four times while trying to downplay the need with terms such as “in the unlikeliest of cases” and “only if warranted.”

The group refers to the pesticide as “a proven and safe method with a 40-year history,” which is nonsense.

PZP is poison, wiping out herds wherever it’s applied.

The best example of long-term harm is Assateague Island and the truth is now leaking out at the Currituck Outer Banks.

RELATED: Bold Prediction for Wild Horses at TRNP.

You know you’d rather be in Elko shmoozing with the ranchers.

But if your donors found out they’d cut you off at the knees.

What’s an advocate to do?

Keeping up appearances is important, so you’d better spend the week in Reno, at the Saving Our Wild Horses & Wildlife Conference.

The relationship to Save Our Wild Horses is not known.  An email seeking clarification was not immediately answered.

The speakers list includes pesticide pushers and ranching sympathizers.

The field trip on Day 1 will likely involve the Palomino Valley off-range corrals.

In an optional field trip after the conference, participants will travel to Tonopah and the Stone Cabin HMA, described at the birthplace of wild horse advocacy.

The HMA is known for the first wild horse roundup under the WHB Act, but wild horse advocacy was born 25 years earlier on the Virginia Range when Velma first encountered the horse runners on their way to a rendering plant.

HMAs weren’t even a pipedream.

Sadly. her vision for wild horses has been completely lost on today’s advocates.

RELATED: 2024 FREES Conference Set for April.

UPDATE: The email was answered.  SOWH&W is an offshoot of SOWH, which hosted conferences in 2022 and 2023.

The idea was cooked up to make PZP seem reversible.

If you take a shower with a raincoat on, you don’t get wet.

If you take it off, you get wet.

The pattern holds for as long as you do the experiment.

But that’s not what happens with PZP.

The pesticide tricks the immune system into attacking the ovaries.

Damage begins with the first injection.

The longer they’re on it, the longer to regain fertility.

After five years, they don’t recover.

They’re self-boosting.

The advocates know this.

That means they’re willfully getting rid of wild horses under the guise of protection and they want you to pay for it.

Why do you associate with frauds?

RELATED: Sperm-Blocking Theory Doesn’t Account for Self-Boosting Mares.

The FREES Network, a ranching advocacy group sponsored by Utah State University Extension, will meet at the Elko Conference Center to discuss interactions of free-roaming equids with wildlife.

The announcement did not indicate if the definition of wildlife would be stretched to include nonnative species such as privately owned cattle and sheep.

The agenda includes a session on Day 2 for fertility control, an opportunity for the wild horse advocates to share their message and cement their relationship with the ranchers.

Day 3 consists of a field trip to an unspecified location, probably hand-picked with the aid of land managers to associate substandard conditions with wild horses.

There are no HMAs in Elko but grazing allotments abound.

The National Data Viewer shows the HAs in black, the HMAs in orange and the allotments in green.  Click on image to open in new tab.