Western Horse Watchers Association
Exposing the Hypocrisy, Lies and Incompetence of the Wild Horse Advocates
Opinion
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.
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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.
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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?
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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.
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Sorry, but your host isn’t throwing in with pesticide pushers and ranching sympathizers.
They’re part of the problem, not the solution.
If PZP and GonaCon were taken off the market, they’d have nothing, no reason to exist.
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An article posted yesterday by The Colorado Sun tells the story of two volunteers with Piceance Mustangs, a group known for its pro-ranching/anti-horse sentiment.
How much of this is covered on their web site? None.
They’ve accidentally darted stallions, who become infertile, lose their mares and end up living alone.
They receive their supplies from the BLM, including the projector, RDDs, rangefinder and pesticide of choice, GonaCon Equine.
The agency will pay them 14 cents per mile if they file travel reports.
The report provides evidence of unlawful use, such as handling the product without the required PPE.
On the bright side, it’s no longer classified as a restricted-use pesticide, so it can be used to control pests that interfere with animal agriculture, even in their lawful homes.
Curiously, the women describe themselves as horse lovers, typical of the advocates.
And, like most advocates, their words never match their deeds.
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One data point does not establish a trend but it can certainly indicate an unusual event in the process.
Traffic from Facebook and Twitter averaged 13.6% of the total during the 18-month period from Jan-22 through Jun-23, but dropped sharply last month, accounting for just 1.9% of the total.
A basic statistical calculation of the following form put the June data point outside the limits of random variation.
As of today, traffic in July amounts to 1.4% of the total.
The fact-checkers in socialist media, sometimes referred to as censors, know a lot about climate change, sodomy, abortion, pedophilia and transvestism, but not much about wild horses, so who put them up to it?
Maybe some of the butthurt advocates who don’t like being called pesticide pushers and don’t want you knowing the truth about their ruinous darting programs?
Perhaps their financial support is drying up as it should.
Or maybe the bureaucrats don’t want their followers learning about mismanagement of resources in the lawful homes of wild horses or the unlawful use of pesticides therein.
Time will tell if the pattern continues. But this is the type of affirmation you want when you’re going up against the old guard, who in the case of wild horses are mostly frauds.
According to the FAQs at the standards update page, the EPA classifies the most acutely toxic pesticides or those needing to be applied with special care as RUPs, which means they may be bought and applied only by a certified applicator or someone working under his or her direct supervision.
RUPs are not available for purchase or use by the general public.
Zonastat-H, also known as PZP and the Montana Solution, is a restricted-use pesticide, on the same EPA list as toxic chemicals.
It’s much better than cruel and costly helicopter roundups according to the Campaign Against America’s Wild Horses.
Although the advocates apply pesticides for the production of agricultural commodities, they’re not working on land they own or rent. Therefore, they’re considered to be commercial applicators.
Will a diploma from the Billings School of PZP Darting and Public Deception meet the new standards?
There are ten federal categories of certification.
The advocates probably fall under agricultural pest control with one distinction: Horses are the pests!
We’re not talking about the use of fly spray or dewormers to help the horses, we’re talking about reproductive barriers that help the ranchers.
Unfortunately, Zonastat-H was not approved for such purposes, making the glorious darting programs illegal.
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In an attempt to prove they can be as ruthless as the helicopter pilots and wranglers, mares in the Pine Nut HA have been reprimed “to be sure they don’t get in foal,” according to the real estate agent and PZP darter in the Minden/Gardnerville area.
Go to the column titled “Wild Horse Tales” in the June edition of Horse Tales.
Instead of pushing back against ranching overreach and the continual loss of resources, the advocates solve the problem by pounding the mares with ovary-killing pesticides.
As explained last year by Tracy Wilson, defeatist for the Campaign Against America’s Wild Horses, “As you start reducing the amount of available space and forage, then you need to manage the numbers to fit what’s available for the horses.”
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In yesterday’s public comments, Ginger Fedak, certified applicator for In Defense of Animals, said PZP was not a pesticide as some claim, refusing to look at the EPA fact sheet, apparently, and the restricted-use product report, which puts it on the same list as toxic chemicals.
She pointed to Spring Creek Basin as a shining example of wild horse management but ignored the disaster on the Maryland side of Assateague Island, with similar evidence now leaking out from the Currituck herd.
To her credit, she identified misuse of GonaCon Equine by the BLM, where mares receive a second dose of the pesticide thirty days after the first, not ninety days as specified in the directions.
This is not a problem to be resolved by a new project in ePlanning. It is a matter for law enforcement.
As stated on the label, “It is a violation of Federal law to use this product in a manner inconsistent with its labeling. A copy of this label must be in the possession of the user
at the time that the product is applied.”
The agency intends to use the product on the Reveille mares after a roundup that’s scheduled to begin today.
Hayden Ballard, a rancher and attorney specializing in natural resources, spoke about the economics of livestock grazing, noting that ranchers pay $300 to $650 per AUM, a price heretofore not seen or heard.
If that’s true, it’s easy to see what they want the horses off the range, where livestock operators pay $1.35 per AUM.
He did not say where those prices prevail.
Last year, the McGregor auction yielded an average of $31.36 per AUM.
Your host currently pays around $180 per AUM for hay, compared to $95 per AUM two years ago, a fine example of Bidenomics, where the one-horse pony and his illicit administration are hollowing out the middle class, not protecting it.
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An article by INFORUM about the wild horses of Theodore Roosevelt National Park says the herd should not be smaller than 150 and may require up to 278 horses to reach 100 breeding animals.
Section 4.4.6.3 of the WHB Handbook puts the minimum herd size at 150 to 200 to achieve 50 breeding animals.
This does not mean that larger herds have lower risks of inbreeding.
The breeding population on the Maryland side of Assateague Island appears to be less than twenty.
On the Virginia Range, where the herd numbers into the thousands, the breeding population may only be a few dozen, because most of the mares have been poisoned by Zonastat-H.
Same for the Salt River, where the breeding population is probably in the single digits, or anywhere else the advocates are pounding the mares with pesticide-laced darts.
Under normal circumstances, breeding populations should correlate with herd sizes, and the risk of inbreeding should go down as the number of horses goes up, but if the advocates are involved, that model falls to the ground.
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The Campaign Against America’s Wild Horses is a leader in non-motorized removal of wild horse herds in the American West, which they accomplish by poisoning the mares with Zonastat-H, an ovary-killing pesticide.
If you are honest about the methods in your new role, you will fail.
The affected program is livestock grazing and the applicant is the BLM with interested stakeholder requests, according to the project description.
The identity of the interested stakeholders was not disclosed.
Given that the scope involves health assessments of four idle allotments, the unnamed parties must be drillers or miners, if you believe the advocates.
Only renegades and mavericks would point a finger at their cherished friends and allies, the public-lands ranchers.
The Colorado Wild Horse Project, now state law, buys into that notion, according to a guest column in today’s edition of The Colorado Sun.
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Bidders paid an average of $5,150 for 21 saddle-started horses trained by inmates at the Northern Nevada Correctional Center, according to a June 5 news release by the BLM.
The highest bid was $11,900. The lowest was $1,100.
The outplacement program moves wild horses from areas where they’re not wanted to other areas where they’re not wanted if they don’t bring enough prizes and prestige to their new owners.
In this environment, they can look forward to being locked in stalls, smothered with blankets, bathed with carpet cleaner and coerced with bits, spurs, crops and tiedowns, mostly by women.
Curiously, it’s mostly women who are trying to stomp them out in their lawful homes with ovary-killing pesticides.
Q. What do you call a stock grower’s association dressed up as an advocacy group?
A. The Campaign Against America’s Wild Horses.
Q. What do you call an ovary-killing pesticide that sterilizes mares in five years?
A. The Montana Solution.
Q. What do you call the application of said pesticide by said group in areas designated for animal agriculture?
A. Unlawful.
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This recycled article about population control by Horse Illustrated is so far off the mark it’s hard to imagine how it was approved for publication.
The author is learning to balance motherhood with horses, dogs and writing, but not accuracy, apparently.
The story received a sudden facelift this morning, but here’s a snippet from the original version dated June 1:
Please mark these statements True or False:
The remark about a study that was done on a very small population on an island is almost certainly a reference to Assateague, where the herd has been ruined by the Montana Solution.
If treated mares have less fidelity to their bands and they leave to join other bands, is it because of the vaccine or the absence of a foal? They don’t have foals because of the vaccine, so it’s because of the vaccine, you idiot!
The article employs the customary euphemisms, such as long-term infertility instead of sterility, and increased longevity of mares instead of abnormal sex ratios.
An inset about the poisoning of mares on the Virginia Range by the Campaign Against America’s Wild Horses concludes with this remark by monster-in-charge Suzanne Roy: “Our program is an aggressive fertility control program to reduce the population size in that area humanely without moving the horses.”
Growth in the Reno area, cited by Roy, affects the western flank of the Virginia Range, a small percentage of the total area, not enough to justify the 80% reduction in herd size she’s trying to accomplish through her volunteers and your charitable contributions.
Moreover, the pesticide she’s using was not approved for use on horses that pose safety hazards or are deemed to be overpopulated.
In a news flash carried by Lucky Three Ranch, the Campaign Against America’s Wild Horses blamed hunters, trappers and ranchers for the demise of SB90, while it fought hard to advance the legislation.
Problem is, with the exception of the occasional rogue act, hunters, trappers and ranchers aren’t getting rid of any wild horses.
But CAAWH is, by the hundreds, every year, with its favorite pesticide.
They call it “a better way.”
If you add the efforts of its affiliates and offshoots, the total could go into the thousands, rivaling the largest of roundups.
Who’s the greater threat to wild horses?
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