The advocates can’t be trusted with anything, especially your financial support.

Make all footage available to the public.

The proposed supplementary rule, which addresses public conduct, safety concerns involving exploding targets, flammable devices and target shooting, the possession or use of alcohol and the burning of wood pallets, among other things, would apply to all public lands in Wyoming, according to a notice appearing today in the Federal Register.

The last two provisions involve wild horses.  Accordingly,

15. You must not intentionally engage in any activity within any distance that disturbs, displaces, or otherwise interferes with the free unimpeded movement of wild horses.

16. You must not feed, water, or touch any wild horse.

Would #15 include the filming wild herds with drones, chasing them with manned aerial equipment or poisoning the mares with pesticide-laced darts?

The rule would not apply to federal, state, local and military employees or contractors acting within the scope of their official duties.

Only you.

Comments will be accepted through November 13.

Was it truly a presentation of opposing viewpoints or simply a dispute about fine points between two factions of the same coalition?

Three reports have hit the wires in the last 24 hours:

• Nevada Independent
• KRNV News
• Elko Daily Free Press

Hansen wants the horses removed with helicopters and Beckstead wants them removed with ovary-killing pesticides.

Are wild horses overpopulated in Nevada?  Yes, there are more animals than allowed by plan.

Are there more horses than the land can support?  No, most of the resources in their lawful homes have been assigned to privately owned livestock.  If you confine the ranchers to their (multi-million dollar) base properties in a year-round off season, and expect them to pay the going rate to feed their animals, there would be plenty of food and water for the horses.

As of this morning, video of the debate has not been posted to the AWA YouTube channel.

RELATED: Dust-Up in the Desert Set for September 7.

The Campaign Against America’s Wild Horses, a leader in nonmotorized removal, said in the August update that 116 mares received 116 doses of PZP during the month, 27 given as a primer and 89 as a booster.  If you can’t access the document, click here.

Over the life of the program, 1,940 mares have received 8,027 doses of the pesticide.

The report will be submitted to the Nevada Department of Agriculture.

If it was written by a stockgrower’s association, farm bureau or cattlemen’s group, there’d be few if any changes.

Of the 158 foals born this year in the primary target zone, a record low, 74 have died.

The causes of death were not discussed but predation is likely a factor.

As usual, the advocates are silent about the long-term population goal and how many horses they intend to eradicate, as well as herd demographics.  What does the sex ratio look like nowadays?

There is no mention of sterility and the growing risk thereof.

The current population is thought to be 3,559, including 395 listed as missing.

RELATED: CAAWH Publishes Virginia Range Darting Resources.

The Campaign Against America’s Wild Horses, a leader in nonmotorized removal, said in a news flash posted by Lucky Three Ranch that the Cedar Mountain mustangs will never have to face the helicopters again, thanks to a new BLM grant.

This will be accomplished by turning the HMA into an HTA, a place where the mares are gradually poisoned with PZP, a restricted-use pesticide.

The project brings together diverse stakeholders, according to the announcement, including the Utah BLM, one of the permittees and CAAWH.

Except there’s no diversity in that group—it’s the Love Triangle!

With shared goals of humanely managing the Cedar Mountain horses, stewarding their habitat and eventually eliminating helicopter roundups, it’s “a model for collaboration in the wild horse conservation space.”

RELATED: Foal-Free Friday, Removal by Pesticides Edition.

As envisioned by the Campaign Against America’s Wild Horses, it’s a place where

• Advocates poison cherished/beloved/innocent mares with ovary-killing pesticides
• Ranchers receive most of the food and water
• Donors pay for the destruction

Forget about HMAs and managing principally for wild horses, those ideas are as old and irrelevant as the Ten Commandments.

RELATED: If You Repeat a Lie Long Enough, People Will Believe It.

The bureaucrats and ranchers will be slobbering over each other today in a luncheon hosted by the Public Lands Council.

The event is part of the 2023 PLC Annual Meeting.

The winners of the Rangeland Stewardship Award, Permittee Category, divided the Apex Slope Allotment into ten pastures and implemented grazing practices better adapted to changing conditions and pasture rotations based on rangeland health, according to a BLM news release dated September 5.

Although the work contributed to improved watershed function, wildlife habitat, forage diversity and habitat resilience, the Allotment Master Report puts it in the Improve category, failure to meet standards for rangeland health.

The allotment offers 622 active AUMs on 12,953 public acres, or 48 AUMs per year per thousand public acres, equivalent to four wild horses per thousand public acres.

These same individuals insist that public lands in the western U.S. can only support one wild horse per thousand acres (27,000 animals on 27 million acres).

The winners of the Rangeland Innovation Award, Permittee Category, have used holistic resource management for over thirty years, consistently adjusting livestock numbers to changes in climatic and vegetative conditions, and have implemented temporary non-renewable grazing suited for positive resource conditions, higher precipitation years and increased biomass.

The allotment, not named in the announcement but determined through RAS, is MT04903-HRM, managed by the Billings Field Office.

The Allotment Master Report puts it in the Maintain category, meeting standards for rangeland health.

The allotment offers a whopping 1,752 active AUMs on 6,734 public acres, or 260 AUMs per year per thousand public acres, equivalent to over 21 wild horses per thousand public acres!

It’s a gold mine.

And how much does the BLM collect in royalties?  Five cents on the dollar or less.

Like Cinderella, some advocates, especially those affiliated with the Campaign Against America’s Wild Horses, a leader in nonmotorized removal, yearn to attend an event like this and be respected and admired by the cattlemen and their allies.

Perhaps they will.

They might be invited guests.

RELATED: Winners of 2022 Stewardship Awards Announced.

Because getting rid of wild horses is their job.

Pilots to push the horses into the traps, stitched together with pipe panels, where some break their necks.

Ovary-killing pesticides to reverse population growth.

Public lands managed primarily for permitted grazing.

This is not business as usual, it’s catch-treat-release.

Herd management areas are now herd treatment areas, with stagnant or dwindling populations, thanks to the pioneering work of the wild horse advocates.

RELATED: Catch-Treat-Release, Misuse of GonaCon, Roll Out at Reveille.

Like helicopters, the fertility control pesticides are tools for boosting rancher prosperity, a goal of federal agencies charged with wild horse protection.

This is why the helicopter ban is a ruse: It changes the way wild horse removals are carried out but does not stop them.

In a 2012 paper posted by the Billings School of PZP Darting and Public Deception, Jay Kirkpatrick, developer of the Montana Solution, speculated that “the greatest cause for opposition to PZP is the failure of advocacy groups to understand that there are really only two choices for wild horse management – roundups and removal or fertility control.  There are no other choices.”

He noted in his opening remarks that “oversight by The Humane Society of the United States assures that the vaccine is used only to slow reproduction and may not be used for the extermination of entire herds.  PZP is designed to bring about short-term infertility and is reversible, if not used beyond five consecutive years.  It reduces the need for gathers and preserves the original gene pool in each herd.”

All of this turned out to be false.

On Assateague Island, where the pesticide was applied for over twenty years, the herd has been ruined.

On the Salt River and Virginia Range, advocates associated with the Campaign Against America’s Wild Horses are using the product to reverse population growth, not slow it.

They don’t follow EPA rules for its use.

A common violation is failure to wear the proper PPE.

In other areas, the advocates use the product to control horses that interfere or could interfere with animal agriculture, a purpose for which it was not approved.

In some cases, the justification is safety hazards to passing motorists, another illicit use.

The product label indicates PZP is intended for use on female wild horses and burros, privately or publicly owned, that are capable of doing environmental damage.  That’s it.

There are two other reasons why population suppression is necessary, or not necessary, depending on your point of view:

• Habitat loss
• Confiscation and reapportionment of resources

If you think more land should be taken from the horses and given to the ranchers, along with their food and water, you’ll demand greater use of pesticides and helicopters.

If you believe the trend is unacceptable, and want the land managed principally for the horses as specified in the original statute, you’ll oppose removal by any means.

RELATED: How the Advocates Respond to Habitat Loss.

If the initial population was 450 and the goal in ten years was 250, a six percent death rate and zero percent birth rate would be needed:

450 × (1 – .06) ^ 10 = 242

This is nonstop darting for ten years with 100% efficacy.  The mares will be sterile and the herd will be ruined, just like Assateague Island.

On the bright side, the advocates may convince the bureaucrats and ranchers of their tenacity and ruthlessness, and the feasibility of nonmotorized removal, breaking the Cattoor monopoly.

RELATED: New Colt Slips Through Salt River Darting Program.

The birth occurred in August but the advocates said nothing out respect for the horses, which they achieve by poisoning the mares with ovary-killing pesticides.

Now, they’re praying for a predator to fix the mistake, as they did for Mirabelle.

The article said his mom has been darted five times but did not say if that was a primer plus four boosters and if the injections had been given in consecutive years.

The threshold for sterility is usually taken as five consecutive years (primer plus five boosters).

Such animals are said to be “self-boosting,” a term in common use among the advocates.

What about the other mares that have been darted five times?  A herd of 400 plus should be producing more than two foals per year!

Truth is, the breeding population is nearly zero, thanks to Simone Netherlands and her band of merrymen.  Here she is in fine form, showing off her bona fides to other like-minded individuals:

The writer did not dispute that PZP is a restricted-use pesticide.

You only need to look at the herd on Assateague Island to see where this is going.

There is no way these phony voices for wild horses can achieve the population reduction targets given to them by Arizona bureaucrats without sterilizing the mares.

The darting program skews the sex ratio in favor of females, exactly what they don’t want and don’t need.

They know this and they are pushing ahead full speed.

The same thing is happening on the Virginia Range, where their parent organization, the Campaign Against America’s Wild Horses, leads the effort.

RELATED: If You Repeat a Lie Long Enough, People Will Believe It.

Overpopulation is the analog of climate change in the wild horse world.

Both are lies.

Suzanne Roy, feckless leader of the Campaign Against America’s Wild Horses, beats the fertility control drum in today’s edition of The Colorado Sun, claiming that the best way to protect wild horses is through fertility control.

If you still think she’s playing with a full deck, watch her May 16 testimony before the Nevada State Assembly regarding SB90.

The piece was probably drafted by her subordinates.

Poisoning mares with ovary-killing pesticides protects other users of public lands, such as hunters and ranchers, not wild horses.

Roy and her followers are getting rid of them!  The latest assault is on the Cedar Mountain herd in Utah, with the blessing and financial support of the Bureau of Livestock Multiplication.

At the Virginia Range, site of their flagship darting program, which Roy describes as the world’s largest, these zealots are running the herd into the ground.  Go to the Year 4 Report submitted to the NDA.  If you can’t access the document, click here.

You know about herd management areas but are you aware of herd treatment areas?

That’s their glorious vision for America’s wild horses: To convert HMAs to HTAs!

Thumbs down for helicopters, thumbs up for pesticides.

As for the other users of public lands, the same report indicates Roy sent her henchmen to the 2022 FREES conference to sell the idea of nonmotorized removal to the ranchers and ranching sympathizers.

The Nevada State Director is Tracy “You need to manage the numbers to fit what’s available for the horses” Wilson, champion of habitat loss and livestock encroachment.

These people, who claim to be voices for the horses, are frauds, no getting around it.

RELATED: Choosing Your Words Carefully.

Traffic from Facebook and Twitter accounted for 2.1% of the total in August, continuing the shift that started in June.

July was the dead cat bounce.

RELATED: Socialist Media Update for July 2023.

A goal for August in the July report for the Virginia Range darting program is to continue to maximize booster treatments to mares to prevent pregnancies, allowing for continued population reduction.  Click here if you can’t access the document.

You need not know how to convert an AML to AUMs or how to compute a forage allocation for livestock in an area set aside for wild horses.

You need to know how much adjuvant to add to the PZP!  (Remember, you’re not pushing back against the ranchers, you’re trying to help them.)

Got that?

The advocates believe wild horse and burro populations should be reduced with ovary-killing pesticides, not motorized equipment.

They’ve allowed themselves to be manipulated by the bureaucrats and ranchers, earning them the title of Useful Idiots.

RELATED: Foal-Free Friday, “Stay Barren” Edition.

How can the HA be overpopulated with 122 wild horses when the BLM authorizes privately owned livestock equivalent to 832 wild horses in the same area?

Why not confine the ranchers to their base properties in a year-round off season and shift the resources back to the horses?

Or would it be better to get rid of them with ovary-killing pesticides as the advocates recommend?

RELATED: What’s Wrong in this Picture?

The West Douglas HA was zeroed out because it doesn’t have enough food for wild horses yet the Twin Buttes Allotment, which overlaps most of the HA, offers 11,550 AUMs per year to livestock!

The 122 horses currently in their lawful home consume 1,464 AUMs per year.

RELATED: BLM to Remove All Remaining Horses from West Douglas HA.

It’s time to bury the hatchet.  Everybody can rally around darting programs.

No more broken necks, shattered legs and deaths due to blindness.

Ranchers can access most of their food and water and the herds won’t bounce back.

If you’re a nonprofit, which statement will bring in more donations?

1. We’re protecting these innocent animals with immunocontraceptive vaccines.

2. We’re poisoning the mares with restricted-use pesticides.

The first statement will likely fool more donors, while statement #2 is the truth.

If you’d like to see how the advocates market their poisons in western Nevada, including the Virginia Range, go to Wild Nevada.

The advocates wear “Stay Wild” caps to signal their support of the Montana Solution, not the welfare of wild horses.

They’re wiping out breeding populations and snuffing out new life with safe, proven and reversible darting programs, evident in the following video.

The destruction in this case was caused by the Salt River Wild Horse Darting Group, an affiliate of the Campaign Against America’s Wild Horses.

Specializing in nonmotorized removal, they’re trying to take market share from the legacy contractors.

Both groups are desperate for the approval of the bureaucrats and ranchers.

RELATED: Foal-Free-Friday, Women for Pesticides Edition.