Western Horse Watchers Association
Exposing the Hypocrisy, Lies and Incompetence of the Wild Horse Advocates
Opinion
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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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?
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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.
The Currituck County Wild Horse Advisory Board met on February 15.
Minutes have not been posted.
The agenda includes minutes from the November 16 meeting and a report by herd manager Meg Puckett.
The minutes indicate that healthy mares were not darted in 2023 due to significant losses over the last several years.
A previous report indicated that mares were not darted in 2022.
The report by Puckett indicates that healthy mares are not being darted in 2024 “Due to significant loss over the last several years, an aging population, and questions about the long-term effects of PZP on the mares’ reproductive systems,” suggesting that “significant loss” refers to genetic diversity and the number of viable mares.
Exactly what you’d expect from an ovary-killing pesticide, not a safe, proven and reversible vaccine.
Curiously, protocols are in place to send the uterus (not the ovaries) of any deceased mares who were darted with PZP to the researchers and veterinarians at the Billings School of PZP Darting and Public Deception.
They also have procedures for introducing horses from other areas, the final attachment to the agenda, a tactic used by the BLM to boost genetic diversity while keeping herd sizes small.
In this case it would be used in desperation to keep the herd from imploding, a consequence of the Montana Solution and its false promises.
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Some organizations would rather get rid of wild horses than let them remain in the wild, according to a story dated February 16 by Wrangler News.
But not the Salt River Wild Horse Darting Group.
They’re stabilizing the population with PZP, which they peddle as humane management.
That’s the same term used by a staffer with the Campaign Against America’s Wild Horses in a story about the East Pershing roundup.
Apparently, it’s a codeword for getting rid of wild horses with ovary-killing pesticides.
In most circles, stabilize means to brace or support, to stop something from changing.
Not to these charlatans.
They’re getting close to sterilizing the Salt River mares, just as their big-name enabler is doing at the Virginia Range.
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Nobody talks about wild horse removal more than the advocates.
They’re obsessed with pesticides, their theories don’t hold water and they serve no charitable purpose.
They are the old guard, snake oil salesmen, allies of the ranchers.
America’s wild horses need leadership, not collusion.
Put them out to pasture today!
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Switch to nonmotorized removal with PZP.
Refer to the Day 10 report for an explanation.
So says a report by KLAS News.
A more plausible explanation is that there were issues in Paradise Valley.
The privately owned corrals are off-limits to public observation.
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This article by the Casper Star-Tribune is not about the loss of a yearling during the McCullough roundup, but the phoniness of the advocates.
The two women interviewed for the story, Sisti and Walker, are pesticide pushers.
If they had their way, there wouldn’t be any yearlings to trap.
They are the old guard, members of the Love Triangle, irrelevant.
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The Love Triangle never stops.
Velma’s first encounter with the mustangers occurred in the area but that’s not what makes it famous today.
It’s the site of the world’s largest darting program, where the advocates are trying to convince the bureaucrats and ranchers that they can be as ruthless as the helicopter pilots and wranglers.
Their duplicity is on full display in this rugged area, as they pummel their cherished wild horses with ovary-killing pesticides.
They are the old guard, snake oil salesmen, turncoats.
Their allies want the herd drastically reduced because it contradicts their lies about resource availability and carrying capacity.
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“A wild horse is just gonna do what a wild horse does,” according to herd manager and PZP darter Meg Puckett, “and it’s not really up to us to decide whether or not that’s good behavior or bad behavior.”
Not so fast, dear.
Like most advocates, you determined that procreation is a bad behavior and you tried to stop it.
Worse, the herd was designated as Critical/Nearly Extinct by the Equus Survival Trust as you pummeled the mares with ovary-killing pesticides.
Two years ago, the herd was at 106. Today, it’s at 110, a 2% annual growth rate.
How many in the wild are female? How many are still viable? What’s the size of the breeding population?
The greatest threat to these animals is the advocates, not tourists, not climate change and not apples.
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Because it didn’t do a very good job of correlating the observed facts.
The heliocentric model wasn’t perfect but it did a better job of explaining the motions of the heavenly bodies.
Euclidian geometry works well within the confines of the village but fails at larger distances because the surface of the earth is curved.
Likewise, the sperm-blocking theory of PZP doesn’t do a good of correlating the observed facts, especially the skewing of sex ratios in favor of females, and therefore deserves a fair share of skepticism.
Better yet, it should be tossed out along with its adherents in favor of the ovary-killing theory, which is not perfect but does a better job of explaining the observed facts.
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The paper posted an editorial today, written by the publisher, claiming that roundups are necessary to preserve not only the horses but also our public lands.
Wild horses can’t be legally hunted and there aren’t enough natural predators to combat their growing populations. Without the BLM’s diligent work to achieve an appropriate management level, these wild herds can increase rapidly and public lands can be overwhelmed by the demand for forage and water.
What about the six allotments that overlap the HMA?
How much forage do the ranchers receive?
What happened to the predators?
Why is the AML so small?
The HMA is managed primarily for animal agriculture.
The darting program protects the ranchers.
The roundup protects the ranchers.
Depredation protects the ranchers.
The AML protects the ranchers.
But there’s not one word in the commentary about the ranchers.
Shame on you Megan Barton!
The ovary-killing theory does.
It explains why the Assateague herd isn’t growing.
It also explains why recovery time goes up the longer they’re on it.
After five years, they don’t recover, they’re self-boosting.
The sperm-blocking hypothesis was cooked up so the advocates could sell the pesticide as a safe, reversible vaccine.
For a discussion of the adverse effects of PZP, go to page 30 in this report.
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