“There is a small faction of people in Nevada pushing for full extermination of wild horses,” according to the writer of a column in today’s edition of The Nevada Independent.

“Some want immediate removal of all wild horses and others want to get rid of wild horses a little at a time by cutting down the size of the herds well below what is needed for healthy breeding by frequent roundups and removals—death by a thousand cuts,” yet he applauds a variant of the latter carried out by the Campaign Against America’s Wild Horses and its army of volunteers.

Many of the mares are now at risk of sterility as the program moves into its fifth year, but because he doesn’t see any adverse effects, it must not be a concern.

The wild horse preservation advocates, as he calls them, look at the Virginia Range as a demonstration project, an opportunity to convince the bureaucrats and ranchers that they have a better way (to get rid of wild horses).

And they want you to pay for it.

How do the advocates protect their cherished/beloved/innocent/treasured wild herds?

By destroying their ovaries with a restricted-use pesticide.

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In this paid position, you’ll convince unsuspecting donors that you actually care about wild horses, while your colleagues work behind the scenes to displace as many as possible from their lawful homes.

You’ll carry on a fine tradition of not only caving to the ranching agenda, but actively supporting it.

And, like most advocacy groups, you’ll claim that the only way to save wild horses is to destroy their ovaries with a restricted-use pesticide or move them to remote wilderness areas where they’ll welcomed like the Gila livestock.

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Today we recognize a remarkable achievement of the advocates.

With an unexpected lull in gather activity and a schedule dominated by fertility control programs, they are now leaders in the wild horse removal industry.

In fact, if they get their way, future schedules will have a limited number of roundups but massive delivery of their favorite pesticide.

This practice, sometimes referred to as keep them wild and free, humane management, or a better way, means few if any youngsters, gradual extermination of the herds and most of their food consumed by livestock, as specified in the land-use plans.

You can learn more about these concepts at the SOWH DC conference.

Pre-conference activity includes a postcard campaign.

Events like this keep their base fired up while accomplishing nothing for wild horses.

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With few if any helicopters forcing them off the range, and a schedule that’s dominated by fertility control programs, the advocates have taken the lead in 2023, fulfilling their goal, at least temporarily, of being leaders in the wild horse removal industry.

The bill status indicates that it did not pass an initial vote among the senators in the Agriculture, State and Public Lands & Water Resources Committee.

The resolution would ask Congress to enact legislation and make other necessary policy changes to allow the slaughter wild horses and burros for processing and shipment to markets within or outside the United States.

Western Horse Watchers is not aware of any legislature in any state calling for an end to public-lands ranching.

The advocates want to poison their treasured mares and jennies with a restricted-use pesticide.

Such animals would be unfit for human consumption?

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The company secured a $2 billion loan from the Department of Energy for a battery recycling and manufacturing plant east of Reno, according to a story dated February 9 by the Reno Gazette Journal.

The 173-acre facility, south of Tesla’s Gigafactory, will be able to process two-and-a-half Gigafactories worth of materials, enough to supply one million electric vehicles per year.

Why is this important?

The advocates will point to the project as further justification for their Virginia Range darting program.

As noted yesterday, their goal is to convince the bureaucrats, politicians and ranchers that they have a better way to get rid of wild horses.

As for you, they couldn’t care less.

Climate change, a fake problem invented by liberals, and the green energy movement, are designed to enrich the communists and punish the capitalists, while imposing totalitarian control on the American people.

Ever wonder what the propagandists at the Campaign Against America’s Wild Horses are pushing out to their followers?

You don’t have to subscribe to their feed.

Meredith Hodges of Lucky Three Ranch runs an echo chamber for their news releases.

You’ll find all the buzzwords and all the lies, punctuated by their shameless attempts to separate you from your money.

What you won’t find is a sincere effort to help America’s wild horses and burros.

We are realists—we work with the bureaucrats and ranchers.

“Our own PZP fertility control program on Nevada’s Virginia Range has reduced foaling rates by 62%.  And hard-hitting data like this has helped us demonstrate to the public, Congress, and the BLM that there is a better way to manage our wild herds.”

You are defeatists, turncoats and sellouts.

You say you’re protecting wild horses but your actions prove otherwise.

RELATED: Press Briefing for Virginia Range Horse Program?

Letters to the editors of newspapers and online news services should focus on two issues, resource management and predation by the advocates.

This example from the Craig Press addresses the former but not the latter.

Mismanagement of resources, indicated by the prevalence of livestock, is largely responsible for the removal and stockpiling of wild horses, but attempts to eradicate the herds with a restricted-use pesticide, favored by most advocates, are far more insidious.

Therefore, one of the best ways to protect wild horses is to put the advocacy groups out of business.

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They will be dispatched from the Gila Wilderness, starting on February 23, according to a report posted today by KQRE News of Albuquerque.

Unlike privately owned livestock covered by a permit, these animals have been aggressive towards visitors, graze all year and trample stream banks and springs, causing erosion and sedimentation.

And you thought only horses did that.

Speaking of wilderness, isn’t this where the Wild Horse Fire Brigade would ship our free-roaming horses?

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Refer to the list at ePlanning.  The numbers change minute by minute.

As of this morning, over 2,600 comments have been submitted.

There is only one document up for public review, a map.

The project would expand the 2012 Western Solar Plan from six states to eleven, among other things.

A February 7 news release indicated that an additional online meeting will be held on February 14, from 9:00 to 11:30 AM Pacific Time

Pre-registration is required.

The driver, of course, is man-made climate change, a fake problem invented by liberals to enrich the peddlers of renewable energy while imposing authoritarian control on the American people.

This is the watermelon theory of radical environmentalism: Green on the outside, red on the inside.

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In the interview posted yesterday about the Wild Horse Fire Brigade, Simpson tells Sherwood that his mission is to resolve conflicts by moving wild horses from areas where they’re not wanted, sometimes referred to as their lawful homes, to remote wilderness areas not particularly suited to livestock grazing.

Not wanted by whom?

Why aren’t the horses there already?

Sherwood isn’t curious who might be backing the nonprofit and does not ask for disclosure of its supporters.

Although Simpson comes down on the right side of many issues, such as rangeland health and fertility control, he goes off the rails with WHFB.  It is a scam, exactly what the ranchers ordered.

He does not acknowledge that the conflict can be resolved and the animals can be rewilded, several times over, by confining the ranchers to their base properties in a year-round off season.

As for Sherwood, her fawning support of the project represents total defeat.

The video description, presumably of her authorship, says “The Wild Horse Fire Brigade has the only viable sensible realistic solution if we really want to save the last remaining wild horses of America.”

You just screwed up, dear, big time.

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The wild horse advocates are experts at concealing their true intentions and loyalties, much like the Democrat Party.

For example, “protect wild horses” means get rid of them with the Montana Solution, leave most of their food to the public-lands ranchers.

“Humane management” means beat down the horse population with a restricted-use pesticide in their lawful home so livestock can access most of the resources.

Systematic elimination by helicopter must be replaced with systematic elimination by poison-filled darts.

Vaccines don’t prevent illness, they cause it.

Mares ruined by the treatments aren’t sterile, they’re self-boosting.

On the Virginia Range, the herd isn’t dying off, it’s aging out.

McCullough Peaks doesn’t have an abnormal sex ratio, mares are living longer.

At Theodore Roosevelt National Park, the herd should be large enough to have a healthy breeding population but breeding should be limited with a fertility control program.

Makes perfect sense.

The advocates are voices for the bureaucrats and ranchers, not wild horses.

Why are you still giving them money?

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A bill introduced last week would amend Chapter 77 of the New Mexico statutes to allow free-roaming horse experts to control the population of free-roaming horses and allow the state livestock board to make rules regarding the qualifications of said experts.

Western Horse Watchers has been unable to find a news report covering the legislation.

An individual may be eligible if he or she has (1) expertise in conducting free-roaming horse herd surveys, (2) an understanding of land carrying capacity analyses, land status and property ownership, and (3) an understanding of free-roaming horse habitat, biology, behavior and management strategies, according to Section 2 of the measure.

A diploma from the Billings School of PZP Darting and Public Deception was not included in the requirements.

Failure to understand forage production, carrying capacity and resource management will rule out most advocates anyway.

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A letter to INFORUM about the new management plan says the herd should be large enough to have a healthy breeding population but reproduction should be limited with PZP, not GonaCon.

If the mares can’t bear fruit, why are you worried about herd size?

If you poison them with the pesticide, as the advocates are doing on the Virginia Range, the population will need to be larger than 150.

As for other national parks where you can find wild horses, don’t forget Cumberland Island and the Ozark National Scenic Riverways.

Sadly, the herd on the Maryland side of Assateague Island, mentioned in the letter, has been ruined by a safe, proven and reversible darting program.

RELATED: TRNP Comment Period Closes, Discussions Continue.

The article last week by Nevada Current apparently originated with an online news conference hosted by the Campaign Against America’s Wild Horses.  A snippet of the presentation was included in a report by KRNV News of Reno.

Was it by invitation only?  Preference was given to news outlets that would only tell one side of the story and not challenge their authority?

The event was billed as a press briefing on the Virginia Range horse program, not the Virginia Range darting program, where the advocates are systematically eliminating the herd, not with helicopters or traps, but with a restricted-use pesticide.

Kris Thompson, Project Manager for the Tahoe Reno Industrial Center, who can’t see any adverse effects, applauded the effort: “You can tell by the way they walk their bellies, their hunches are muscular and full.  The ears are alert, and it’s just easy to see it’s been a real success.”

Indeed.  Destruction of the ovaries, which begins with the first injection and proceeds to sterility in four to five years, is not apparent from the outside, as noted in the January 13 edition of Foal-Free Friday.

Tracy “You need to manage the numbers to fit what’s available for the horses” Wilson said the horses are living creatures and they age out, according to a report by the Las Vegas Sun, meaning that the herd is dying off, as planned.

Suzanne Roy, monster-in-charge at CAAWH and one of the panelists, indicated that fertility control stabilizes and gradually decreases the population humanely, admitting that her goal is herd reduction, not slower growth rates, consistent with the ranching agenda and the subject of last week’s episode of Foal-Free Friday.

Neither Roy nor Wilson could convert an AML to AUMs if their lives depended on it, much less compute a forage allocation for livestock in an area set aside for wild horses.

At 300,000 acres, the Virginia Range is twice the size of your average HMA and was carrying at least ten wild horses per thousand acres before the advocates got involved.

The bureaucrats and ranchers insist that public lands in the western U.S. can only sustain one wild horse per thousand acres (27,000 animals on 27 million acres), so they want this outlier erased.

The advocates, desperate for their approval, are eager to comply.

As always, they want your financial support but not your informed opinion.

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A blog post by Horses in the South dated January 31 has all the markings of a useless, perhaps harmful, call to action by the wild horse advocates.

Readers are directed to the project site in ePlanning, where they are supposed to tell the BLM that they

• Support the (ruinous) darting program, a model for other HMAs
• Disagree with the removal of any wild horses (unless done with PZP)
• Oppose the use of GonaCon and other methods that destroy ovaries (PZP excepted)

The action alert was attributed to The Cloud Foundation.

Western Horse Watchers does not know if it originated with TCF or is simply a reprint of an exhortation written by other PZP fanatics and pleaders for the public-lands ranchers and forwarded by TCF to drive the comment total even higher.

RELATED: McCullough Comments Pass Two Thousand.

Changes that actually help the horses, such as managing the HMA principally for them, as specified in the original statute, cannot be made through a gather decision.

The advocates and their drones apparently don’t understand that.

Comments on the project, which consists of a scoping letter and nothing else, will be accepted through February 7.

A sigh of relief will go up when that day arrives.

RELATED: Advocates Push McCullough Comments Past One Thousand.

A news release dated January 28 by the Salt River Wild Horse Darting Group says the only reason to disagree with the bill, which calls for humane management of the beloved Alpine herd, a euphemism for inhibiting the mares with their favorite pesticide, would be if you enjoy seeing wild horses go to slaughter.

Sorry, but here are ten reasons why we oppose your stupid ideas:

• Barren mares
• Confused stallions
• Increasing death rates
• Shrinking herds
• Injuries and infections
• Abnormal sex ratios
• Massive human involvement
• Disruption of natural order
• Sterility
• Subordination to livestock

All of these are attributable to the Montana Solution.

As for the full range of wild behaviors in a natural setting, forget it.

The advocates care far more about their standing with the bureaucrats and ranchers than they do about the horses.

Their long-term goal is to be leaders in the wild horse removal industry.

RELATED: Salt River Advocates Mobilize in Favor of Alpine Ranchers.