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!

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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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The Campaign Against America’s Wild Horses, a leader in nonmotorized removal, reported today that 82 mares received 82 doses of PZP during the month, 17 given as a primer and 65 as a booster.

Over the life of the program, which began in 2019, the advocates have pumped 8,609 doses of the pesticide into 1,994 mares.

Two foals were born and one died of unspecified causes.

The current population is thought to be 3,465 with 342 horses listed as missing, compared to 3,471 with 336 listed as missing in December.

Goal for February: “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
• 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.

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He didn’t see his shadow according to a report by AP News.

Actually, it doesn’t matter.  We know they’re defeatists, pesticide pushers and ranching sympathizers.

“As you start reducing the amount of available space and forage, then you need to manage the numbers to fit what’s available for the horses.”

That’s what the bureaucrats have been doing for 50 years and instead of opposing it, the advocates go along with it.

Why are you still giving them money?

The Campaign Against America’s Wild Horses, a leader in nonmotorized removal, publishes monthly reports for the Virginia Range darting program, which they share with the Nevada Department of Agriculture.

The report for January should post next week.

What is the size of the breeding population?

How many mares are still viable?

What is the sex ratio?

They have the information but they don’t say.

Accountability to the public is lacking in this and other such programs.

When the long-term effects become apparent, the herds will be lost forever.

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Her freedom and safety have been safeguarded thanks to the pioneering fertility control program, according to a January 31 news flash distributed by Lucky Three Ranch.

The advocates have determined that three foals are enough and her contribution to the genetic diversity of the herd is adequate.

So now they’re going to sterilize her with an ovary-killing pesticide, which they describe as a lifeline.

Won’t you give them $30 so they can buy another dose of the miraculous vaccine?

Curiously, they didn’t refer to it as reversible.

These frauds care far more about their standing with the bureaucrats and ranchers than they do about wild horses.

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The anchors at FOX5 News got the story right but the headline is a bit confusing.

Now others will come forward claiming responsibility for the shootings?

If the advocates got rid of them with PZP, would you still be upset?

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Traffic from Facebook and Twitter accounted for 2.1% of the total during the month as the advocates tried desperately to insulate their little fiefdoms from the truth.

They are the old guard, part of the problem, irrelevant.

Western Horse Watchers is not on socialist media and never will be.

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They teamed up with Cowboy State Daily in an article dated January 29 to mislead readers about management practices in the HMA, the lawful home of wild horses.

Fertility control, described as “shooting mares with darts containing birth control medication,” has been implemented there for years according to Angelique Rea.

At McCullough Peaks, the darts contain PZP, a restricted-use pesticide that tricks the immune system into attacking the ovaries.  It’s not a medication.

Rae said the BLM failed to provide evidence of rangeland degradation and that removing the horses because they’re above AML is not reason enough.

Yes, it is.

The AML represents a limit on forage available to the horses, not the forage available in the HMA or the number of horses it can actually support.

The roundup will remove the pests and protect the ranchers.

The forage assigned to livestock would support an estimated 535 wild horses, on top of the 140 allowed by plan.

The advocates are silent about this.

Sandy Sisti, a PZP darter and ranching sympathizer, noted that the herd is aging out, a codeword for dying off.

She said the birth control has spared mares the rigors of pregnancy and delivering foals (an essential part of their existence), so they’re living longer.

That’s a codeword for abnormal sex ratio.

These buffoons, and others like them, are sterilizing the mares and driving the breeding population into the single digits, which spells disaster for the herd.

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Charity is not in their wheelhouse.

Previous remarks can be found in the Index under Microcasts.

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