Five individuals were charged with malicious injury to property and ordered to pay $5,000 each to permittees affected by loss of water according to a BLM news release.
The incident occurred in August 2023.
Interesting how cases involving injury to ranchers are solved while those involving injury to wild horses are not.
The name of the allotment and a link to the NEPA review for the range improvements were not given.
The agency signed a MOU with the Boone and Crockett Club to improve access to public lands for hunting, angling and wildlife conservation according to a May 27 news release.
The nonprofit will work with 14 other groups to identify opportunities and solutions.
The club issued a statement on April 2 calling for the essential use of roundups and expanded sale opportunities to protect Western rangelands and native wildlife from wild horse and burro overpopulation.
“When on-range populations exceed the land’s carrying capacity, they don’t just compete with native wildlife like elk, mule deer, and pronghorn; they fundamentally alter the landscape.”
That remark reflects a complete misunderstanding of the way federal agencies manage the resources on public lands or a deliberate attempt to mislead the public.
Consider this example from the Warm Springs HMA in Oregon. Who’s stripping away most of the forage—by design?
The AML tells you almost nothing about resource availability, carrying capacity and management priorities in the HMA.
Wild horse advocates would likely oppose the club’s demands but would see its concerns as an opportunity to sell more pesticides.
The announcement did not indicate if the club had a similar agreement with the BLM.
The Salt River advocates have thrown their support behind SB1199, a bill that would place a moratorium on wild horse removals while researchers conduct a genetic viability study to determine how many animals are needed for a healthy breeding population.
As if the herd was still viable.
To give your assent, you must disavow all knowledge of their actions, especially the fertility control program that has morphed into a mass sterilization program because it has outlived the window of reversibility.
There’s still time to act!
If the legislature formed a truth commission, here’s what they’d find:
The new executive director, who replaced Roy last year on November 1, discusses her plans for salvaging the nonprofit (which is still held in high regard by most advocates).
At 10:40 she mentions a seven-page document with individuals whose material they would not post to socialist media.
At 20:35 she says “We need to be focused on who is the real problem” but omits the cattlemen and sheepherders from her list of culprits.
How are you supposed to win the battle when you won’t even acknowledge the enemy?
You must never confuse faith that you will prevail in the end—which you can never afford to lose—with the discipline to confront the most brutal facts of your current reality, whatever they might be.
The BLM has not yet identified an immunocontraceptive method that has been proven to reliably and humanely sterilize wild mares according to the Silver King EA, published earlier this week (page 136 in the pdf).
An oocyte growth factor vaccine is currently under testing for its ability to cause long-term infertility or, potentially, sterility.
As for the approved methods, “Mares that received 5 or more doses of ZonaStat-H vaccine have been shown to have reduced ovarian function, and to be effectively infertile for life (Nuñez et al. 2017), and it is conceivable that the contraceptive effects of repeated treatment with GonaCon-Equine may last longer than a mare’s lifespan, depending on the mare’s age at treatment and the number of doses received (Baker et al. 2018, 2023).”
If you hold up the umbrella for an hour, you can let it down for an hour before you get wet.
If you hold it up for two hours, you can let it down for two hours before you get wet.
If you hold it up for at least five hours, you can get rid of it. You won’t get wet no matter how long the storm lasts.
The umbrella made you impermeable.
The distinction between the “historically accepted hypothesis” and a “complementary hypothesis,” which asserts that impermeability is the result of damaged or destroyed ovaries, is discussed on page 135 (138 in the pdf) of the Silver King EA.
Why would Larry Don Suckla, a Colorado Republican, be so interested in a bill crafted by liberals, signing on as a cosponsor?
Because he runs cattle in Gypsum Valleys, a short distance from the Spring Creek Basin HMA.
The bill, if signed into law, would help the state buy pesticides to beat the horse populations down in favor of livestock.
The allotment master report puts Gypsum Valleys in the Improve category, suggesting that your stewards of the public lands are not taking their responsibilities seriously.
The allotment offers 1,777 active AUMs on 41,187 public acres, equivalent to 3.6 wild horses per thousand public acres.
The target stocking rate across all HMAs is one wild horse per thousand acres.
Above that, rangeland health will suffer according to your faithful public servants.
Yet they allow almost four times as many animals per public acre in Gypsum Valleys, another example of management duplicity.
We have one standard for wild horses and another standard for livestock.
As for Suckla, he’s probably sending Christmas cards and birthday greetings to TJ Holmes, the rangeland eugenicist at Spring Creek Basin.
This column has always been dedicated to the wild horse advocates, who are wrong about everything, especially the importance of reproduction to herd survival.
How can you start a nonprofit and attract a large following yet be so out of touch?
As a gentle reminder of their errors, add comments to their socialist media pages about the consequences of their darting programs, such as abnormal sex ratios, injuries and infections, increasing death rates and loss of genetic diversity.
Links to anything on Western Horse Watchers would be most unwelcome.
It won’t change their minds but it might dissuade others from joining their movement.
Breeding, not mass sterilization, assures long-term viability.
The product may break the cycle of mother bears teaching their cubs to break into houses according to a report by the Tahoe Daily Tribune.
In keeping with established practice, the article refers to it as a vaccine, not a pesticide.
It’s not clear if the writer consulted with the wild horse advocates, who use it to stop mares from teaching their foals to survive in the desert.
The story pointed to MOUs with departments of agriculture in Arizona and Nevada, a reference to the mass sterilization programs at the Salt River and Virginia Range, showing that partnerships with state agencies are possible.
Curiously, a representative of the Billings School of PZP Darting and Public Deception said the advocates weren’t trying to decrease the population of black bears, just prevent them from teaching their cubs to break in.
There is a problem with their plan, however: PZP is not approved for use on bears.
So not only will the advocates at Lake Tahoe need to get certified at Billings, but they’ll also need to convince the EPA that the pesticide is suitable for bears.
The memorandum of understanding, signed by both agencies, will strengthen coordination, cut bureaucratic red tape and deliver immediate, tangible support for America’s farmers and ranchers who rely on public lands.
“By working closely with American ranchers, we are enhancing communication, investing in innovation, and modernizing our approach to land management practices,” according to Secretary Burgum, “to deliver real results for the people who feed and sustain this country.”
Yep, if it wasn’t for them we’d all be vegans.
The aim of the grazing program is to ensure that high-net-worth individuals receive generous government benefits, often at the expense of America’s wild horses and burros, with no means testing and no expiration dates.
Yesterday the Agendas & Minutes page contained links to documents from three special meetings.
Today, it has links for March 12 only, minus the minutes.
Minutes from the September 18 special meeting put the herd size at 112 but did not indicate the number of males and females.
The number of self-boosting mares was not provided. (Refer to the AdvocateSpeak decoder if you don’t know what that means.)
The size of the breeding population was not provided.
The effect on genetic diversity was not discussed.
Healthy mares were not darted in 2025 due to questions about the long-term effects of PZP according to comments under Action 1K (bottom of page 12 in the pdf).
In an attempt to thwart a better understanding of how the pesticide works, protocols are in place to send the uterus—not the ovaries—of any deceased mares to researchers at the Science and Conservation Center for analysis (manufacturers of PZP).
The herd area is not suitable for wild horses but the allotment that contains most of it supports livestock equivalent to 962 wild horses.
The equivalent stocking rate in the allotment is 6.9 wild horses per thousand public acres, almost seven times higher than the rate that avoids rangeland degradation (one wild horse per thousand acres according to your faithful public servants).
If the bureaucrats and advocates held a lying contest, who would win?
The project started with the donation of a ten-acre parcel according to a story by The Journal of Cortez, CO.
It’s not a base property and doesn’t have grazing privileges on public lands.
The facility reflects a shift in the group’s priorities, from keeping wild horses on public lands to ownership of displaced animals and placing them into private care.
The ranchers couldn’t be happier.
Western Horse Watchers refers to the trend as the downward spiral in wild horse advocacy, characterized by acceptance of methods that were previously eschewed.
If a proposed refuge doesn’t include public lands and doesn’t displace livestock therefrom, it’s not worthy of your support.
