That’s what Forest Service personnel said according to a story by KPHO News.

Why are they offering a reward for information on the deaths of trespass livestock?

RELATED: Heber Shootings Resume.

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The loss of nine free-roaming horses in the Apache-Sitgreaves National Forest is just another day at the office for the advocates.

At the Salt River, they’ve taken the herd from 450 to 280.

The largest attempted eradication of wild horses is not being carried out by the BLM in Wyoming but by the advocates at the Virginia Range.

The number of horses lost is not known because they scrubbed their darting resources page and the monthly reports posted thereto.  The final result could go as high as 3,000.

New programs are springing up wherever they can convince the bureaucrats that they have a better way.

They are enemies of America’s wild horses and don’t deserve a penny of your support.

RELATED: Heber Shootings Resume.

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The Prognosticator of Punxsutawney said earlier today that winter’s not going anywhere according to a report by CBS News.

Neither are the lies about wild horse behavior, carrying capacity of public lands and the reversibility of PZP.

You can bring an early spring by giving the advocates the boot.

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They are the pesticide pushers, enemies of America’s wild horses and servants of the public-lands ranchers.

They couldn’t convert an AML to AUMs if their lives depended on it, much less compute a forage allocation for livestock in an area identified for wild horses.

But they know how much adjuvant to add to the PZP and how long to mix them.

Resolve now to cut them off.

PREVIOUS: Foal-Free Friday, Turncoats and Sellouts Edition.

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The bill would increase the number of horse-drawn carriages in densely populated areas to help fight global warming.

RELATED: Who’s Advising Bobby Khan About Wild Horses?

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Not mentioned in the report are the allotments where the horses roam and the priorities attached thereto.

Comments from a representative of the Campaign Against America’s Wild Horses were not included, a deviation from established practice.

To his credit, the writer did not try to sell mass sterilization as wild horse conservation.

RELATED: Mono Lake Update.

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Of course not!

The opponents of motorized removal want to pummel the mares with pesticide-laced darts, which inevitably leads to permanent infertility and herd collapse.

The bureaucrats in Colorado are leading the way in this regard, with close support from the big-name advocacy groups.

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The buyer was Ensign Group of Salt Lake City according to a January 16 report by Cowboy State Daily.

The price was not disclosed.

The Stewart Creek Unit clashes with three HMAs.

The total preference, a little over 90,000 AUMs, is equivalent to 7,500 wild horses.

Taxpayers will receive $121,500 per year for the resource at the current grazing fee, while they spend $6 per day per head, or $16.4 million per year, to care for 7,500 wild horses in off-range holding.

Nobody in the private sector would do that.

But a government agency co-opted by a special interest would, especially when it’s aided and abetted by a cadre of frauds who claim to be voices for the horses.

RELATED: Wyoming’s Pathfinder Ranches Changing Hands.

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The herd reduction program will continue for at least two more months according to a report by the Payson Roundup.

The ringleader of the Salt River Wild Horse Darting Group, a forward base for the Campaign Against America’s Wild Horses, told her followers that “the only thing that’s certain is that the future for the Salt River Horses is extremely uncertain.”

This is nonsense.  The herd has no future because SRWHDG ruined the mares with PZP.

The long-term effects of the pesticide were known from the beginning by everyone involved but swept under the rug to win public assent.

A new contract, if one is needed, would provide for documentation and mopping up as the herd fades to extinction.

A secondary task would be to bring the liars and frauds to justice.

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

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Posting a new link due to changes in the NEPA register.

Try your luck!

Previously the search yielded four results but now it gives three.

You’re looking for a project that flips the preference to horses.

Given the attitudes and beliefs of the permit holder, the odds of winning are very low.

RELATED: The Buckeye Lottery.

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Rangeland health will deteriorate if wild horse populations exceed AML, which corresponds to one wild horse per thousand acres.

Rangeland health will not deteriorate if livestock do not exceed permitted levels, equivalent to seven wild horses per thousand acres.

Rangeland health can be maintained at 7X AML but not 2X or 3X AML.

Ask the advocates to explain it.

RELATED: Protecting Rangeland Health or Maximizing Rancher Prosperity?

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Those who claim that wild horses are a nonnative species and don’t belong on public lands rank among the greatest supporters of nonnative species on public lands.

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Two goals of resource management:

1. Keep wild horses at or below AML.

2. Keep livestock at or below permitted limits.

The first criterion corresponds 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).

The second criterion is equivalent to seven wild horses per thousand acres.

These two figures suggest that public lands in the western U.S. can support many more wild horses than the government admits.

The advocates, long on zeal but short on truth, want you to focus on #1, an arbitrary value that feeds the overpopulation narrative and maximizes rancher prosperity while supplying a rationale for their darting programs.

If the goal was rangeland health, most acreage grazed by livestock, which includes areas identified for wild horses, would be in the Maintain category.

In reality, not even a third meets the requirements.

RELATED: Double Standard for Rangeland Health?

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A report by the Congressional Research Service puts the cost of short-term holding at $6.00 per day and the cost of long-term holding at $2.35 per day.

For every AUM assigned to livestock in the lawful homes of wild horses, the government collects $1.35 from the permittee while it spends $70 to $180 to care for the horse displaced thereby.

Nobody in the private sector would do that.

If they really cared about costs, Congress would direct the government to put the horses back on the range and relieve the ranchers of their grazing permits, while making the necessary changes to the statutes.

The advocates would likely oppose the new policy.

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They have their own vocabulary.  Conservation means eradication.

Refer to the AdvocateSpeak decoder for more examples.

The advocates realized a long time ago that lying was the best way to keep their base fired up while protecting the public-lands ranchers.

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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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