Your faithful public servants claim that wild horse herds need to be kept at AML or less to achieve and maintain rangeland health.

That works out to one wild horse per thousand acres (25,600 animals on 25.6 million acres according to the last page of the 2025 population dataset).

Yet the Muddy Mountain allotment in Wyoming, grazed by Big Red Creek Ranch, carries livestock equivalent to 15.3 wild horses per thousand acres and it’s in the Maintain category!

Who should we believe?

Not the bureaucrats and not the advocates and not the ranchers.

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The third edition of the National Pesticide Applicator Certification Manual should be available for sale this week—giving you plenty of time to order one for Valentine’s Day.

It’s a no-brainer.  What advocate isn’t striving to become a certified applicator of restricted-use pesticides?

Unfortunately, the publisher does not donate a percentage of the selling price to Rifles for Wretches^TM or similar charity that equips the advocates with the tools of their trade.

RELATED: PERC Updates National Pesticide Applicator Certification Manual.

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The bill cleared a procedural hurdle yesterday according to a report by The Hill.

The plan is to bring it to a floor vote and pass it without amendments this week.

The article said there appears to be enough support among the members to quash a filibuster and get it across the finish line.

The measure would give the BLM a budget for FY26.

Look for a new roundup schedule to drop shortly after that.

RELATED: BLM to Receive Full-Year Funding with 30% of FY26 Gone?

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The Pesticide Educational Resources Collaborative, not to be confused with the Property and Environment Research Center, has prepared a third edition that covers changes in regulations since 2014 according to an article by Capital Press.

The second edition is available at the EPA website.

The manual is intended as a study guide for those planning to take the Pesticide Applicator Certification Core Exam.

The 2014 edition states on page 51 that restricted-use pesticides (such as PZP) demand special attention because there is reason to believe they could harm humans, livestock, wildlife or the environment even when used according to label directions.

Such as permanent infertility in mares.

Unlawful use of pesticides is discussed on page 39.

The advocates want you to think of PZP as a medication, always referring to the product as a vaccine.

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HR5371 covered its expenses through January 30.

HR6938 will award another $144 million.

Should Congress pro-rate the bill for time remaining?

RELATED: House Passes HR6938.

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As stated in its Year Two Report, the Colorado Wild Horse Working Group believes that strategic darting should be the cornerstone of wild horse management.

It’s an indication that the stakeholders are willing to play the long game in support of their goals and a major win for the advocates.

Not mentioned in the discussion are the long-term effects of the fertility control pesticides and the eventual disappearance of the herds.

PREVIOUS: Foal-Free Friday, Year of the RUP Edition.

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The fertility control program was launched in Magoffin County early last year according to a story by WHAS News.

The report refers to PZP as a contraceptive vaccine, not a restricted-use pesticide.

Contrary to another statement in the article, the product is not reversible if applied for more than five years.

The group expects the population to stabilize in three years.

The story did not indicate if the partner organizations would become obsessed with pesticides as they have out west and if the effort would morph into a mass sterilization program across the nine-county region where the horses are found.

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The hypergeometric function in Excel lets you compute the probabilities of matching one to five numbers in the first part of the Powerball drawing.

Suppose your favorite number is seven.  What is the probability that it appears in the sample of five taken at random from a field of 69, as it did on November 15?

Using Excel’s nomenclature, the number of successes in the sample would be one, the sample size would be five, the number of successes in the population would be one, the population size would be 69 and the cumulative argument would be set to false.

The result is approximately .072, about 7.2%.  The probability that seven does not appear would be 1 – .072 = .928 or 92.8%.

What is the probability of matching all five numbers?   Change the number of successes in the sample to five and the number of successes in the population to five.

The result is almost zero, .000000089, or 1 in 11,238,513.

Unfortunately, Excel does not have a function for computing the probability of the advocates telling the truth about PZP in 2026, that you can’t use the pesticide for “humane population reduction” without sterilizing the mares.

RELATED: Probabilities and Possibilities for 2026.

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A report by The Hill says President Trump is in a full-fledged feud with politicians in Colorado due to the prosecution of former Mesa County elections clerk Tina Peters, who has aligned herself with the president’s claims of election fraud in 2020.

The article suggests that actions by the administration are retribution over Peters.

• Vetoing a bill that would have completed the Arkansas Valley Conduit, a project that would send water to the southeastern part of the state
• Dismantling the National Center for Atmospheric Research, an institution specializing in climate science
• Denial of a disaster declaration following wildfires and flooding last year in southwestern Colorado

The writer did not cite the scuttling of the inmate training program at Cañon City.

Western Horse Watchers is not aware of closures in other states, which host programs at Florence, Rio Cosumnes, Hutchinson, Carson City and Riverton.

RELATED: BLM Pulling Wild Horses and Burros from Cañon City Prison.

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The odds of winning the Powerball grand prize are 1 in 292,201,338 according to the prize chart.

You might have a better chance of being hit by lightning.

What are the odds that the advocates do something beneficial for wild horses in 2026?

Powerball players choose five numbers between 1 and 69 for the white balls and one number between 1 and 26 for the red Powerball.

The odds of matching the first five numbers are 1 in 11,238,513 and the odds of matching the Powerball are 1 in 26.

The odds of matching all six are 1 in 11,238,513 × 1 in 26 = 1 in 292,201,338.

RELATED: The Buckeye Lottery.

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Some folks say 2026 is the Year of the Horse, the perfect time to raise awareness about helicopter roundups.

They don’t see it as an opportunity to stop the removals and restore basic concepts such as principal use and management at the minimum feasible level.

Instead, they see it as an opportunity to expand the use of RUPs, to replace motorized removal with mass sterilization.

They don’t want you to know that public lands in the western U.S. can sustain many more wild horses than the government admits.

They are servants of the ranchers and don’t deserve a penny of your support.

PREVIOUS: Foal-Free Friday, Wave of the Future Edition.

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Not really.  The advocates will continue to push for mass sterilization in lieu of motorized removal, but they’ll call it wild horse conservation.

Their top priority—to separate you from your money—will not change.

They’ll post an endless stream of syrupy messages on socialist media to achieve it.

They’ll use your donations to buy pesticides so they can beat the horse populations down in favor of livestock.

They’ll say it’s necessary because of habitat loss.

Wherever they’re involved, you’ll find

• Barren mares
• Confused stallions
• Shrinking herds
• Injuries and infections
• Abnormal sex ratios
• Increasing death rates
• Tiny breeding populations
• Loss of genetic diversity
• Acclimation to people

As the damage accrues, they’ll tell you the herds are living wild and free as nature intends.

They are phonies, leaders of the blind, and don’t deserve a penny of your support.

RELATED: New Year, Same Lies.

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The EPA specifies a minimum age for applying restricted-use pesticides but not a minimum height.

You should be tall enough to control your darting rifle, not the other way around.

There are no limitations on personalities or preferences and the profession is now dominated by wretches.

PZP (Zonastat-H) can be found on page 33 of the RUP list.

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This year’s update to the Colorado Wild Horse Eradication Plan provides the clearest indication yet of what the advocates think about wild horses and who they’re really trying to protect.

Strategic Darting as the Cornerstone of Wild Horse Management

Who will turn this vision into reality?  The largest consumers of abortion, contraception and sterilization in the nation.

As they destroy the herds, they’ll tell you they’re living wild and free as nature intends.

Lying is good for business.

PREVIOUS: Foal-Free Friday, Good News, Bad News Edition.

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The advocates have discovered that lying is the best way to keep their coffers filled.

Sorry, but barren mares, confused stallions, shrinking herds, injuries and infections, abnormal sex ratios, increasing death rates, tiny breeding populations, loss of genetic diversity and acclimation to people do not qualify as living as nature intended.

RELATED: Virus or No Virus, Salt River Herd Is Toast.

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That you do not fall prey to the advocates.

They are evil beyond imagination, enemies of America’s wild horses.

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What happens when you put ranchers and ranching sympathizers in a room and ask them what to do about wild horses?

You get another set of recommendations that will destroy them.

The executive summary argues that strategic darting must be the cornerstone of sustainable wild horse management, and that the group expects the Colorado BLM to champion the method, along with other findings, conveying them forcefully to the national office.

These are the same lunatics who put a couple of sodomites in the governor’s mansion.

A keyword search of the document yielded these results:

• Adoption – 125 occurrences
• Darting – 53
• Fertility control – 10
• Immunocontraceptive – 7
• Treatable mares – 7
• Cattle – 2
• Sheep – 0
• AUM – 0
• Allotment – 0
• Permit – 0
• Rancher – 0
• Pesticide – 0
• Reversible – 0
• Sterility – 0
• Sterilization – 0
• Breeding population – 0
• Genetic diversity – 1
• Principal use – 0
• Management at the minimum feasible level – 0
• Nature’s way – 0

The group claims on page 33 that large tracts of private land, suitable for wild horse preserves, are scarce, which is nonsense.

There are hundreds of such parcels in the state, known as base properties, that could be repurposed for wild horses, with the added benefit that they have grazing preference on public lands—and therefore provide the best value to taxpayers and/or donors.

But the idea was not supported by some members, who were concerned about removing land from agricultural production.

And that’s the point of the entire exercise: To charter a group that would do what’s best for the ranchers, not the horses.

RELATED: Colorado Wild Horse Working Group Releases Year One Report.

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It was a rough week for the wild horse advocates, who were weighed down by the death of their hero.

Would you be surprised if hunters and ranchers were the fastest-growing segment in their donor base?

RELATED: Who Was Jay Kirkpatrick?

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His mom probably has a faulty immune system.

Don’t be fooled by the syrupy posts on socialist media.

The advocates are praying for an early demise, most likely by a predator, to get the mass sterilization program back on track.

RELATED: New Life at Salt River?

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Rehoboam, son of Solomon, son of David, fathered 28 sons and 60 daughters according to 2 Chronicles 11:21.

Elsewhere, but not at the Salt River or Virginia Range, a herd of wild horses produced 28 colts and 60 fillies.

Do those results look like they came from a random process centered at 50% males / 50% females?

The expected range of variation is given by this formula, where p-bar = .5 and n = 88.

The calculated limits are .34 and .66.

The observed proportion of colts, .318, falls outside this range along with the observed proportion of fillies, .681.

Therefore, the results don’t look like they came from a random process centered at 50% males / 50% females.

Although Rehoboam was in the Messianic Line (see Matthew chapter 1), he did not do what was pleasing to the Lord and was responsible for the division of Israel into the Northern and Southern kingdoms.

Abnormal sex ratios, such as 28 stallions and 60 mares, are common in herds treated with PZP.

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