Western Horse Watchers Association
Exposing the Hypocrisy, Lies and Incompetence of the Wild Horse Advocates
Opinion
The event starts at 9:00 AM local time at the BLM state office in Reno, according to a news release on EIN.
Organizers will likely focus on mistreatment of captured animals, not the reasons for removal from their lawful homes, guaranteeing the problems will continue.
No more posts going around on Facebook?
Couldn’t care less!
The advocates have their little fiefdoms and Potemkin Villages online, where they try to separate you from your money, but hopefully those sites are crumbling as well-meaning donors realize they’re liars and frauds.
RELATED: Western Horse Watchers Banned from Socialist Media?
GonaCon Equine has been applied to wild horses in the park but what are the long-term effects?
Most wild horse advocates condemn the product but praise Zonastat-H, an ovary-killing pesticide known as the Montana Solution.
What happens when you argue about symptoms and the best way to treat them?
The illness continues or gets worse.
That’s what you’ll find in an article about the Antelope roundup by The Hill.
Apparently, the writer wasn’t interested in looking upstream in the management process to understand why roundups occur.
An advocate with WHE offered an explanation:
Habitat fragmentation and habitat loss is the main driver of problems for all wildlife, wild horses included.
OK. Why is their habitat shrinking? What’s causing the fragmentation?
Like the author, the advocates and their supporters have no interest or no ability to distinguish between cause and effect.
Their “solutions” don’t cure the disease, they make the patient feel more comfortable.
It’s like adding inspectors at the end of a production line to cull out defective items.
The practice can only prolong the problem because it does not fix the causes.
RELATED: Antelope Roundup North, Day 21, SNAFU Edition.
The defeatists at Return to Freedom, signatory to the ill-advised “Path Forward,” applauded Senate lawmakers last week for directing the BLM to implement thoughtful management that would slow (not stop) the growth of wild herds, keeping them on their home ranges rather than relying on the costly and traumatic capture, removal and warehousing of wild horses and burros.
This, of course, means pummeling the mares with ovary-killing pesticides. It’s not a question of proper implementation as suggested in the announcement. The stuff is poison and those who promote it are frauds.
The group works with lawmakers on both sides of the aisle to demand the immediate scaling up of safe, proven and humane fertility control for wild horses and burros, according to a news release dated July 29.
Like the Campaign Against America’s Wild Horses, its affiliates, offshoots and supporters, Return to Normal (Before WHB Act) is always eager to beat down wild horse populations so ranchers can access most of their food.
The bureaucrats refer to this as achieving and maintaining AMLs, which are small relative to the available resources.
RELATED: Better if They Weren’t Even Born.
The first step in restoring public lands and wildlife in the state is to stop scapegoating wild horses and start addressing the root cause of the problem, which is reining in the excesses of the cattle and sheep industries, according to a column dated July 28 in CounterPunch.
Western Horse Watchers says let the ranchers do whatever they want on their own land.
Confine them to their (multi-million dollar) base properties in a year-round off season and let them pay the going rate to feed their animals.
No more sucking on the sugar teat.
The Veterans for Mustangs Act, HR 726, was reintroduced in the House on February 21 and referred to the Subcommittee on Federal Lands.
The bill directs the Department of the Interior, but not the Department of Agriculture, to prioritize the use of on-range fertility controls to manage populations of wild horses and burros.
In particular, the Secretary (of Interior) shall recruit and train of military veterans to apply said controls, including Zonastat-H, an ovary-killing pesticide.
The Pesticide Platoon would include paid graduates from the Billings School of PZP Darting and Public Deception.
The measure does not preclude the use of other products, such as GonaCon Equine.
The bill does not alter but instead reinforces previous amendments to the WHB Act that favored livestock operators: The Secretary shall immediately take steps to remove excess animals and achieve appropriate management levels, which are small relative to the available resources.
It has gone nowhere since introduction, another stupid idea endorsed by the advocates, proving once again that they’re allies of the public-lands ranchers, not wild horses.
RELATED: Foal-Free Friday, the Lies Begin in Billings Edition.
Keep the advocates away, at least 100 yards, beyond the range of their darting rifles.
RELATED: Advocates, Not Climate Change, to Destroy Currituck Herd.
Not only do your enemies want to get rid of you, so do your “friends.”
RELATED: Genuine Advocates Disappearing Faster Than Wild Horses?
As expected, a volunteer with the Campaign Against America’s Wild Horses, a leader in nonmotorized removal, suggests there is a better way to manage wild horses in an opinion piece dated July 24 in the Reno Gazette Journal.
And what would that involve?
Safe, proven and reversible fertility control instead of helicopters and fixed-wing aircraft, code words for poisoning the mares with Zonastat-H, an ovary-killing pesticide.
The roundup schedule has been divided into three parts.
The first part covers nonmotorized removals. The advocates want this section to grow.
The second and third parts cover motorized removals. The advocates want these sections to shrink.
But they still want removals. They still want horses off the range. They still want ranchers to receive the lion’s share of the resources.
They’re not protecting the horses, as the writer would have you believe, they’re protecting the ranchers, while taking market share from the legacy contractors.
RELATED: Helicopter Ban Is Not the Answer.
The July edition of Horse Tales features a brief column about the Antelope roundups titled “What Do You Think?” Go to page 7.
Roundup season is in full swing as the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) continues its attack against thousands of wild horses across the West. Right now, innocent horses on Nevada’s Antelope Complex are being subjected to cruel and brutal helicopter roundups putting them in danger of severe injury and even death.
The writer does not admit that her group advocates for removal of these animals with pesticide-laced darts.
How do you explain this? They’re hypocrites!
They want the horses off the range as much as the bureaucrats and ranchers, but they want it done by non-motorized methods. Why are you still giving them money?
The EPA approved PZP (Zonastat-H), so training is required to receive and/or apply the vaccine to cherished/beloved/innocent/treasured equids, according to the Billings School of PZP Darting and Public Deception.
Makes perfect sense, doesn’t it?
When the EPA approved Raid Ant and Roach Killer, you had to attend an eight-hour class before you could use it, right?
You didn’t?
Then why is training necessary for the Montana Solution?
Because it’s a restricted-use pesticide, on the same EPA list as toxic chemicals!
The brochure acknowledges that the product is a pesticide, describing the classification as regrettable, and the closest it comes to admitting that it’s a restricted-use pesticide is to say that there’s no such thing as off-label use (such as control of pests that pose safety hazards or interfere with animal agriculture).
It’s a poison, not a medication, and the sperm-blocking principle of operation is a myth.
RELATED: Foal-Free Friday, We Need to Come Together Edition.
Roundups are set for Saturday and Sunday, the swim will occur on Wednesday and the auction will take place on Thursday, according to a story by Delmarva Now.
The return swim is scheduled for Friday, after which the herds resume normal life, minus most of the foals.
It’s massive interference in the natural process, not management at the minimum feasible level.
The current population is at 5X AML and the Federal Government must quickly conduct a herd reduction campaign, implying the use of motorized equipment, according to a story dated July 17 by KRNV News.
The monster-in-charge of the Campaign Against America’s Wild Horses, a leader in non-motorized removal, said poisoning the mares with ovary-killing pesticides is a better option.
What do we know about AMLs?
Our esteemed colleague is screaming for protection from the pests because his voters, the poor ranchers with their multi-million-dollar base properties, are screaming for protection from the pests.
RELATED: Villains and Victims in Elko County Emergency Declaration.
That was the message on socialist media according to a story posted this morning by Shore Daily News, a service of WESR Radio.
In a few days, volunteers with the fire department will trample the wetlands to corral the herds ahead of the annual pony swim, after which most of the foals will be stripped away at auction.
Refer to this article by WBOC news for more information.
They are not unlike the advocates, who lecture you about approaching wild horses while they get within a few dozen yards to pummel the mares with pesticide-laced darts.
Go back to the report by KLAS News about the July 13 incident at the Antelope roundup and listen to the advocate’s remarks at 1:58.
But if you’re going to remove ’em, remove ’em in the fall, and do it humanely.
Does that sound like a voice for the horses or a propagandist for the ranchers?
Why would you want to remove them? Where are her figures for acreage, forage production and their allocation among the various users?
In most circles, “humanely” is a code word for “poisoning the mares with ovary-killing pesticides.” Is that what she means?
Or maybe she wants them forcibly removed from their lawful homes by cowboys, with a few foals body-slammed along the way.
The new management plan for McCullough Peaks illustrates the prevailing attitude among the advocates: “You need to manage the numbers to fit what’s available for the horses.”
That’s how they respond to shrinking acreage and loss of food and water to the public-lands ranchers.
It’s not unique to the HMA, the pattern has been occurring across the western U.S. for 50 years.
The advocates have no understanding of processes, cause and effect, problem identification and problem solving.
They’re as dull as the livestock they’re trying to protect.
RELATED: Draft EA for McCullough Pest Control Out for Review.
The incident on July 13 was a symptom. It had nothing to do with helicopters.
The same thing would happen if you pushed the horses into the trap with bulldozers and wranglers.
Why won’t the reporters, and the advocate who leaked the video, talk about the causes of roundups, such as multiple use, resource management and public-lands ranching?
RELATED: Antelope Escapee Caught, Killed.
It’s the kiss of death. The Campaign Against America’s Wild Horses, a leader in nonmotorized removal, has offered its assistance to the Park Service, according to a story dated July 13 by INFORUM.
The advocates have their own vocabulary to conceal their true intentions and loyalties, so you can’t take their statements at face value.
Helping wild horses means pounding the mares with pesticide-laced darts, exactly what the group is doing on the Virginia Range. With the program now in its fifth year, many are at risk of sterility.
As noted previously, what CAAWH wants most is a contract with the Park Service to carry out Alternative C of the proposed livestock management plan (establish a fully contracepted herd that dies off in the park).
Nobody’s better qualified.
RELATED: TRNP Rally Next Month.
Western Horse Watchers Association 