Tips for Writing Letters About Wild Horses

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.

Advocates are the Predators 11-30-21

Forest Service to Resume Aerial Shooting of Gila Livestock

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?

Move Over McCullough Peaks, Solar Energy Tops Most Active

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.

Dilemma for Ranchers: How to Support WHFB Inconspicuously

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.

McKinney Fire 08-08-22

Foal-Free Friday, Fooling You with Euphemisms Edition

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.

VR Darting Injury 09-15-21

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?

New Mexico Lawmakers Tackle Wild Horse Problem?

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.

Conflicting Priorities at TRNP?

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.

Press Briefing for Virginia Range Horse Program?

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.

CAAWH Systematic Elimination 02-05-23

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.

Standing Up for Wild Horses on Virginia Range 06-18-22

Cloud Foundation Behind Surge in McCullough Comments?

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.

TCF Behind McCullough Comment Surge 02-01-23

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.

For Your Beloved Ants and Roaches 10-08-22

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.

No Reason to Oppose SB 1057?

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.

For Your Beloved Ants and Roaches 10-08-22

Barren on the Virginia Range

No youngsters in this band. The mares should be heavily pregnant by now, at least some of them, but the advocates have blocked this essential part of their existence.

With the darting program moving into its fifth year, many of the mares are at risk of sterility and the herd is dying off. That’s how the advocates save wild horses.

Before they got involved, the Virginia Range was carrying at least ten wild horses per thousand acres, ten times higher than the target rate of the bureaucrats and ranchers, who want this outlier erased.

The advocates are eager to comply.

The Nevada Department of Agriculture and the Campaign Against America’s Wild Horses, to whom you provide financial support, are responsible for the destruction.

Photo taken January 28.

Barren on Virginia Range 01-28-23

Salt River Advocates Mobilize in Favor of Alpine Ranchers

Although 43 wild horses were shot dead in October, as indicated in this story by the CBS affiliate in Phoenix, the losses will be much greater if the advocates have their way.

The bureaucrats want the horses gone.

The ranchers, whom they serve, want them gone.

The hunters and biologists want them gone.

So, the advocates, working in concert with state legislators, have drafted SB 1057, which would spread their ruinous darting program into the Apache National Forest.

Their ringleader, interviewed for the story, has already admitted that she’s getting rid of the Salt River herd with the Montana Solution.

Alternative C in the scoping newsletter for the livestock plan at TRNP may provide a solution that satisfies all of the stakeholders: Now that the herd has been thinned by shooting and trapping, a fully contracepted (sterilized) herd could be achieved and the horses could stay in the forest to live out their lives, a task for which the advocates are eminently qualified.

Too Many Wild Horses and Not Enough Land?

If you have too many bills and not enough money, should you ignore the bills or detach your ass from the chair and take it to a job?

The image above, from the home page of the new wild horse sanctuary in Colorado, shows a symptom of the problem, not the problem.

Advocates Push McCullough Comments Past One Thousand

What do they think they’re going to accomplish?

The project will protect ranching interests and enforce the specifications of the land-use plan over a ten-year period by gathering and removing excess animals to the low end of the AML while thwarting population growth with pesticides, including alternate treatments for mares not responding to the Montana Solution.

Is that what they don’t like?

They’re all in if the government ruins the mares with PZP but not with Gonacon or other technologies such as IUDs?

McCullough Peaks Forage Allocations 01-14-23

Wailing and Gnashing of Teeth at Pine Nut Mountains?

The January edition of Horse Tales has been published, along with another column about wild horses by the real estate agent, PZP darter and pleader for the public-lands ranchers in the Minden/Gardnerville area.

As you read the article, which begins on page four, how many of these underlying beliefs can you identify?

If we get rid of them, they can stay
We’re protecting them from removal by getting rid of them with PZP
If we don’t get rid of them, the BLM will
We’re changing the way wild horse herds are managed, not their land
You have to manage the numbers to fit what’s available for the horses

The writer says the reproduction rate has been reduced by over 90% and there are very few livestock competing for the range.

The majority of the acreage is in pretty good shape. The areas in poor condition are either privately owned or on BIA land.

The National Data Viewer tells a different story.

The HMA, with the orange border, is half the size of the HA, shown in black.

Almost all of the acreage is subject to permitted grazing (green).

There is no BIA land in the area identified for wild horses.

Like the Campaign Against America’s Wild Horses, the Pine Nut advocates work hard to protect ranching interests, not wild horses.

The Virgina Range, site of world’s largest darting program and magnet for dozens of nitwits, is just a few miles to the north. Click on image to open in new tab.

Cowboy State Daily Lining Up Buyers for Wyoming Horsemeat?

At least you know where they stand on the issue. Their outdoors reporter has identified a lead in Vilvoorde, Belgium, according to a story posted this evening.

McCullough Peaks Tops ePlanning Most Active List

The project has likely been flooded with a narrow range of comments tracing to a handout or form letter distributed by the advocates.

Sadly, the changes that need to be made cannot be made in a wild horse gather decision.

RELATED: McCullough Comments Hit 500!

Beware of the Advocates

A reference to the Campaign Against America’s Wild Horses automatically makes them suspect. “You need to manage the numbers to fit what’s available for the horses.”

Beware of the Advocates 01-21-23