Alternative C, a fully contracepted herd that dies off, is no longer on the table but it could still become a reality.  Here’s how.

The herd needs to be reduced from 200 to 60 or less according to the story by AP News.

Motorized removal will draw the same negative reaction as the original plan.

The advocates have had some success in convincing the public that attrition by pesticides is better than attrition by helicopters, and nobody talks about getting rid of wild horses more than they do, so let’s see what would happen if the Park Service turned to them for advice.

The initial population is 200 and the goal is 60.

Assume a six percent death rate and zero percent birth rate.

Let x = number of years to achieve goal by nonmotorized removal.

The advocates will need almost 20 years to achieve the goal.

Actually, they only need five years.  The mares will be sterile after that and the herd will implode, just like Assateague Island.

The assumption of a constant death rate is probably not valid.

With no new foals hitting the ground, the average age of the herd will increase, along with the death rate, so the goal could be achieved sooner than expected.

RELATED: TRNP Decision Offers Mixed News to Wild Horse Advocates.

Advocates with the Salt River Wild Horse Darting Group, an affiliate of the Campaign Against America’s Wild Horses, are supposed to be getting rid of them.

This little guy probably has a weakened immune system as discussed on Friday.

If a predator doesn’t get him, disease will, which is great news for the advocates.

RELATED: Salt River Darting Program by the Numbers.

The event runs from 8 AM to 5 PM at the Nugget Casino Resort in Sparks, NV, according to yesterday’s announcement.

BLM staff will provide guidance on land status, locating and mapping new claims, and transfers of interest, among other things.

Personnel with the State of Nevada will be available to answer questions and will provide information on filing with counties.

The National Data Viewer has an option for mining claims in the layer list but you have to zoom in to enable it.

The following image shows claims and herd areas around Caliente, NV.

The Public Land Survey System, another option in the list, helps you identify their size and location.

The advocates would have you believe that drilling and mining are the greatest threat to wild horses, as they eradicate the herds with ovary-killing pesticides.

They are masters of misdirection and subterfuge.

One by one they’re coming out of the closet.

This time it’s In Defense of Animals, commenting on yesterday’s announcement that wild horses can stay in TRNP:

“PZP is the darting method that should be used for wild horse sterilization, not GonaCon.”

For years the advocates have been telling you it’s a safe, proven and reversible vaccine.

Now they admit it’s a sterilant.

They are enemies of the horses, leaders of the blind, irrelevant.

RELATED: Mass Sterilization OK if Done with PZP.

That’s according to a story published by The Daily Telegraph for its subscribers but available on MSN without restrictions.

We want to be equal with men → We don’t need men → We are men

Real men don’t want to be around them.

Where do you find these wretches in the wild horse world?

• In the field, with clipboards and darting rifles
• On the staffs and boards of the advocacy groups
• Among the supporters and followers thereof
• In the state and federal bureaucracies

Can you think of anyone better qualified to destroy families and disrupt the natural order than women who have been brainwashed out of marriage and distaff pursuits?

The bad news is that Alternative C, a fully contracepted herd that dies off, is not going to happen.

For now, they’ll have to be content with their sterilization programs at the Salt River, Virginia Range and elsewhere.

The good news is that the herd still needs to be whittled down to an appropriate level, and that could be accomplished with ovary-killing pesticides instead of helicopters.

RELATED: Park Service Terminates TRNP Livestock Plan.

Public lands in the western U.S. managed by the BLM currently support livestock equivalent to one million wild horses on 145 million acres, as determined previously.

If you scale that down to 42 million acres, public lands identified for wild horses and burros in 1971, you get 290,000 wild horses.

The current population is 59,000 wild horses and 15,000 wild burros, equivalent to 66,500 wild horses, well below the carrying capacity of their land.

The population target is 27,000, the number of animals allowed by plan.

The advocates are doing everything they can to help the bureaucrats and ranchers achieve this goal.

Public lands in the western U.S. can support way more than 27,000 wild horses and burros, the number currently allowed by plan.

The advocates won’t tell you that because they’re fully subscribed to the overpopulation narrative.  They sound just like the bureaucrats and ranchers.

RELATED: How Many Wild Horses Can Public Lands Really Support?

If the Save Our Wild Horses conference was even halfway sincere, and this is not known, most wild horse advocates would stay away because they are frauds.

They would be attracted, however, to a Save Our Poor Ranchers conference, because that’s what they do.  Actions speak louder than words.

The event would give them an opportunity to stop pretending that they care about wild horses, let their hair down, and schmooze with the bureaucrats and ranchers, whose approval they seek at all costs.

With more evidence coming out of Assateague Island, soon to be followed by the Salt River and Virginia Range, they can prove that they do indeed have a better way to get rid of wild horses.

Forced to live in multi-million-dollar base properties, if they live on site at all (some are investors or corporate owners), the ranchers receive only 80% of the authorized forage in the lawful homes of wild horses.

For this they pay pennies on the dollar compared to market rates.

The bureaucracies keep predators in check, repair wildfire damage and provide funding for range improvements.

They remove wild horses and cram them into off-range corrals, also at taxpayer expense, while the ranchers pocket the profits.

It’s government dependency and redistribution of wealth, no getting around it.

The advocates, desperate for a seat at the table, have a plan that will fix the problem once and for all.

The ranchers can realize their dream of 100%.  They just need to be patient.

RELATED: SOWH Conferees Tour Palomino Valley Off-Range Corrals.

A few years ago the advocates pointed to the herd as a model of wild horse management.

Now that the Park Service has released another report indicating that it’s still shrinking, eight years after the darting program was shut off, they know nothing about it.

Their safe, proven and reversible vaccine turned out to be an ovary-killing pesticide that plunged the herd into irreversible decline.

It’s great news for the advocates and should convince their allies that nonmotorized removal is more effective in the long run than motorized removal.

RELATED: Foal-Free Friday, More Bang for Your Buck Edition.

The bureaucrats, ranchers and advocates want you to think there’s not enough food and water for wild horses on America’s public lands, thereby justifying their removal.

It’s all bullcrap, as discussed earlier this week for public lands in Wyoming and a few weeks ago for Nevada.

The off-range corrals, adoptions and long-term pastures are part of the ruse.

Resource availability is already known.  There’s no need for scientific studies.

Most of the forage has been assigned to the public-lands ranchers and this can be quantified with the reports at RAS.

With those numbers in hand, you can estimate the True AMLs, compare them to the current AMLs and show others how the horses are getting the short end of the stick.

If you did this for every HA, HMA and WHT, you’d find that all of the off-range corrals and long-term pastures could be emptied several times over by confining the ranchers to their base properties, at great savings to American taxpayers.

The decrease in grazing fees would be trivial.

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We know from Assateague Island the fate of every wild horse herd where the advocates are involved, especially those identified for population reductions.

At the Salt River, the advocates need a zero percent birth rate and six percent death rate for ten consecutive years to achieve the goal.

The mares will be ruined after five years, setting the stage for collapse.

On the Virginia Range, the advocates need similar conditions for 30 years.

They can walk away after five years and let the herd implode.

This is the insidiousness of nonmotorized removal, attrition by pesticides.

Irreversible decline after the tipping point is reached.

The advocates won’t tell you the truth about PZP any more than they’ll talk about Assateague Island, an area they once praised as a paragon of wild horse management.

Don’t be confused if they refer to themselves as conservationists, influencers or experts.

They are phonies, allies of the ranchers, leaders of the blind.

RELATED: Latest Census Shows Assateague Herd Imploding.

It’s not at the wild horse page, which, as of today, still shows the report for 2023.

It does not appear on the Assateague news page.

It was buried among thousands of articles by NPS.

Go to the search page, type in Assateague and hit “Go.”

Then set the “Sort by” field to “Recently Updated.”

The report says the population is close to the goal range of 80-100 individuals, which is not true.

The herd has passed through the target range and continues to decline because too many mares have been ruined by the ovary-killing pesticide PZP, which the advocates peddle as a safe, proven and reversible vaccine.

They are the old guard, leaders of the blind, irrelevant.

RELATED: Latest Census Shows Assateague Herd Imploding.

If they cover the report by the Park Service about the condition of the herd on Assateague Island, they’re legit.

If they ignore it, they’re frauds.

RELATED: Latest Census Shows Assateague Herd Imploding.

Because most of their food has been assigned to the public-lands ranchers, not because the advocates haven’t implemented enough darting programs.

WITHOUT DARTING PROGRAMS

• Goal: Ranching superiority in the lawful homes of wild horses
• Forage allocations: 20% to horses, 80% to livestock
• Result: For every wild horse allowed on public lands, four have been consigned to off-range holding
• Who foots the bill: Taxpayers

WITH DARTING PROGRAMS

• Goal: Ranching superiority in the lawful homes of wild horses
• Forage allocations: 20% to horses, 80% to livestock
• Result: For every wild horse allowed on public lands, four have been consigned to off-range holding
• Who foots the bill: Taxpayers

Darting programs change the method of removal, with the added benefit that the herds don’t bounce back.

Thus, the advocates do a better job of achieving the long-term goal than the helicopter pilots and wranglers.

Absolutely!  This is the year they push the herd over the cliff.

The Campaign Against America’s Wild horses said in its March update that a goal for April is to renew the cooperative agreement with NDA to continue reducing the wild horse population on the Virginia Range.

As the effort moves into its sixth year, many of the mares are at risk of sterility.

This is the point of no return, the time when the herd begins to shrink, irreversibly.

RELATED: Virginia Range Darting Update for March 2024.

Like the advocates, the bureaucrats use deceptive language to mislead the public about their true intentions and loyalties.

In 1971, Congress declared that wild horses and burros were to be protected from capture, branding, harassment and death.

Areas where they were found were to be managed principally for them.

Today, the wild horse and burro program operates as a grazing program ancillary, supporting three tenets of rangeland management.

This process is sold to the American people as

• Achieving and maintaining AMLs,
• Healthy horses on healthy rangelands, and
• Restoring a thriving ecological balance and multiple-use relationship,

Meaning that livestock operators receive most of the authorized forage in the lawful homes of wild horses.

But inverting the priorities is not enough.

Congress is unlikely to repeal in the statute so the bureaucrats have opted for long-term nullification through the planning process, one HMA at a time.

The Caliente Complex is a perfect example.

The advocates condone the effort through their darting programs.

RELATED: Codewords for Nonmotorized Removal (of Wild Horses).

Your host is not a villain, he tells you about the villains.

• Western Horse Watchers is not pursuing a hidden agenda, the advocates are

• Western Horse Watchers is not poisoning the mares with ovary-killing pesticides, the advocates are
• Western Horse Watchers is not selling eradication as conservation, the advocates are

• Western Horse Watchers is not driving the breeding populations into the single digits, the advocates are
• Western Horse Watchers is not skewing the sex ratios in favor of females, the advocates are
• Western Horse Watchers is not inflicting injuries and infections, the advocates are

• Western Horse Watchers is not praying for the older horses to die, the advocates are
• Western Horse Watchers is not blowing smoke up your butt about HMAPs, the advocates are
• Western Horse Watchers is not telling you that PZP is reversible, the advocates are
• Western Horse Watchers is not promoting the overpopulation narrative, the advocates are
• Western Horse Watchers is not trying to hide the mismanagement of resources in areas identified for wild horses, the advocates are

• Western Horse Watchers is not desperate for a seat at the table, the advocates are
• Western Horse Watchers is not fighting for ranching superiority in the lawful homes of wild horses, sometimes referred to as achieving and maintaining AMLs, the advocates are

Why don’t you hear about this?  It’s illegal for the government to stifle free speech so today’s messengers are silenced by its big-tech minions.

RELATED: Foal-Free Friday, Arithmetic for Advocates Edition.

The Campaign Against America’s Wild Horses, a leader in nonsurgical sterilization, reported today that 165 mares received 165 doses of PZP during the month, 31 given as a primer and 134 as a booster.

Over the life of the program, which began in 2019, the advocates have pumped 8,927 doses of the pesticide into 2,007 mares.

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

The current population is thought to be 3,480 with 353 horses listed as missing, compared to 3,444 with 338 horses listed as missing in February.

The population was 3,465 with 342 horses listed as missing in January and 3,471 with 336 listed as missing in December.

The goal for April: “Continue to maximize booster treatments to mares across the Virginia Range as we move through 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 February 2024.

It’s a demonstration project intended to convince the bureaucrats and ranchers that the advocates can be as ruthless as the helicopter pilots and wranglers, with the added advantage that the herd won’t bounce back.

Problem solved.

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