Advocates Bawling About Removal of McCullough Filly

They say she’s too young to be separated from her mom, according to a story dated March 2 by Cowboy State Daily.

Are they upset because the government is getting rid of the horses and not them?

Getting Rid of Wild Horses Is Our Job 10-14-23

The article said the youngster was taken on February 22 but the report for that day shows no foals captured or removed.

Most folks in the horse world would not refer to a six-month-old female as a mare.

RELATED: Advocates Bawling About Loss of McCullough Filly?

The Allotments Tell the Story: They’re Lying, All of Them

Public lands in the western U.S. can only support one wild horse per thousand acres according to the bureaucrats, ranchers and advocates (27,000 animals on 27 million acres).

A corollary is that public lands in the western U.S. can only produce 12 AUMs per year per thousand acres.

But in case after case, the latest being the base properties offered by Harry Ranch, the data show otherwise.

The allotments tied to those parcels produce enough forage to sustain from five to seven times as many wild horses.

This is the dirty little secret of rangeland management.

The roundups, darting programs and outplacement services are not necessary.

They were contrived to protect the ranchers.

Consider the undated infographic for the WHB program in FY23, especially the list of new partners at the bottom of page one.

They are defeatists, pesticide pushers and ranching sympathizers.

How do you oppose the juggernaut?

Use their own data against them.

That means having a basic understanding of the National Data Viewer, the Allotment Master Report and some simple arithmetic.

The other option is to throw in with the Love Triangle and kiss the herds goodbye.

RELATED: The Three Tenets of Rangeland Management.

Working Together for a Horse-Free Future 12-21-22

Voices of Defeat

This result appeared today in a Google search for “wild mustangs.”

Voices of Defeat 03-01-24

Are you surprised that it was posted to a site controlled by the Campaign Against America’s Wild Horses?

The underlying assumption is that wild horses and burros need to be removed from their lawful homes (in favor of privately owned livestock).

This is the sound of defeat, a defining characteristic of wild horse advocacy.

Western Horse Watchers would rather see the WHB Act restored to its original form, the ranchers confined to their base properties and the advocates banned from areas identified for wild horses and burros.

RELATED: Capitulation, Surrender, Defeat.

Foal-Free Friday, Scribes and Pharisees Edition

They love to be greeted with respect in the marketplace and to be called “Teacher.”

They love the best places at festivals and the reserved seats at conferences and seminars.

They do everything for show.

On the outside they appear to be good but on the inside they’re full of hypocrisy and lies.

They boast about their conservation and rescue efforts but when you’re not looking, they’re poisoning the mares with ovary-killing pesticides.

They’ll do anything to win the approval of the bureaucrats and ranchers, including the sterilization of entire herds, such as those at the Salt River and Virginia Range.

Protect Wild Horses from Advocates 08-29-21

They want the ranchers to win.

They are the wild horse advocates, the old guard, leaders of the blind.

RELATED: Foal-Free Friday, Rallying Around Error Edition.

Stop the Helicopters But Not the Poisons!

The Campaign Against America’s Wild Horses may have shed its skin, like the serpent it is, but its message is the same: Replace motorized removal with nonmotorized removal.

Totally self-serving.

Tomorrow, on National Horse Protection Day, these charlatans want you to tell your elected representatives to support the Wild Horse and Burro Protection Act, according to their news release, which would ban the use of helicopters and expand their pest control business.

The right thing to do is kick these buffoons to the curb and tell your representatives that you want the WHB Act restored to its original form so areas identified for wild horses and burros will be managed principally for them, not privately owned cattle and sheep.

RELATED: CAAWH Rebranding.

Calling it a Vaccine 05-01-23

Odysseus Reaches Moon, Tips Over on Landing

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.

CAAWH Seeks Operations Leader

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.

Why Your Host Won’t Throw in with the Advocates

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.

RELATED: Wild Horse Advocacy in One Word.

Ranching Juggernaut 11-26-23

AWA to NPS: Depopulate TRNP with PZP

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.

RELATED: Bold Prediction for Wild Horses at TRNP.

Tough Choices: SOWH&W Conference Overlaps FREES

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.

RELATED: 2024 FREES Conference Set for April.

UPDATE: The email was answered.  SOWH&W is an offshoot of SOWH, which hosted conferences in 2022 and 2023.

Sperm-Blocking Theory Doesn’t Hold Water

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.

Protecting Them From Removal 12-03-23

Why do you associate with frauds?

RELATED: Sperm-Blocking Theory Doesn’t Account for Self-Boosting Mares.

2024 FREES Conference Set for April

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.

CAAWH Membership Card Exposed 01-01-24

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.

HMAs and Allotments Near Elko 02-18-24

Currituck Outer Banks to Become Like Assateague Island?

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.

RELATED: If PZP Is Reversible, Why Hasn’t Assateague Herd Rebounded?

Fighting a Never-Ending Battle at the Salt River?

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.

Simone Neterlands with Darting Rifle 09-02-23

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.

RELATED: Ringleader Admits Her Group Is Getting Rid of Salt River Horses!

Foal-Free Friday, Passing the Torch Edition

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!

RELATED: Foal-Free Friday, No Bad Behaviors Edition.

Advocates are the Predators 11-30-21