The developer of Zonastat-H, sometimes referred to as the Montana Solution, never envisioned the ruthlessness of the advocates and their enmity toward wild horses, reflected in their callous disregard for the rules when handling the product.

In the introduction to “Immunocontraceptive Reproductive Control Utilizing Porcine Zona Pellucida (PZP) in Federal Wild Horse Populations,” a paper published in 2012, he indicated that oversight by The Humane Society of the United States would assure that the vaccine is used only to slow reproduction and would not be used for extermination of entire herds.

He was wrong.

What we see today is the willful destruction of entire herds, with the cooperation of state and federal governments, while the Humane Society looks the other way.

Were you expecting something different from a signatory to the “Path Forward?”

In case you did not know, Zonastat-H is a restricted-use pesticide, not a vaccine, appearing on the same list as noxious chemicals.

The product skews sex ratios in favor of females, the opposite of what’s needed to reverse population growth, so the advocates must ensure that the mares are sterilized, a condition that occurs after five consecutive years of use, as Kirkpatrick warned in his introductory remarks.

RELATED: Foal-Free Friday, Actual Versus Expected Trends Edition.

The ringleader of the Salt River Wild Horse Darting Group, an affiliate of the Campaign Against America’s Wild Horses, admits again in this report by KPNX News that her group is getting rid of the horses with their favorite pesticide.

At least she’s using neon orange darts and a Dan-Inject rifle, as specified by the EPA.

In the introduction to a lengthy paper about PZP, Jay Kirkpatrick, its developer, said oversight by the Humane Society of the United States assures that the product is used only to slow reproduction and would not be used for the extermination of entire herds.  He also indicated that PZP is designed to bring about short-term infertility and is reversible, if not used beyond five consecutive years.

We know that didn’t happen on the Maryland side of Assateague Island and massive reductions are now underway on the Virginia Range and Salt River.

In their enmity for the horses and their desire to be respected by the bureaucrats and ranchers, the advocates will end up sterilizing most of the mares.

RELATED: Coalition Sues Forest Service Over Salt River Horses.

A senior scientist with the Center for Biological Diversity, the group that instigated the “Jumping Mouse” roundup last year and has now turned its sights on Salt River herd, has joined forces with an island resident and two advocacy groups alleging that the horses have trouble finding enough to eat and drink, and have degraded the marshes and dunes inhabited by threatened and endangered species, according to a story dated April 21 by Georgia Public Broadcasting.

The plaintiffs want the animals removed from the Cumberland Island Wilderness and Cumberland Island National Seashore, among other things.

They believe that the horses have standing to bring a suit in their own right, according to section 10 of the complaint.

They claim that the condition of the horses has had an adverse impact on their aesthetic enjoyment of the natural wonders of Cumberland Island.

They further claim that the horses receive no food, water, or veterinary care.

This is nuts!

Do they know anything about wild horses?

How many did they consult?

What percentage asked to be removed from their home range?

What about other animals that receive no food, water, or veterinary care, including those on public lands in the American west?

They can’t possibly be happy until they’ve been cut, locked in stalls, smell like carpet cleaner, wear blankets, have their manes and tails braided, and are ridden by morons who can’t control them without big pain bits, spurs, tiedowns and crops.

The case should be thrown out.

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This collection in PryorWild, a blog about the Pryor Mountain wild horses, contains several posts from the years running up to the EPA’s approval of the pesticide in 2012.

One post from 2010 discusses research on the Maryland side of Assateague Island involving the Montana Solution, and what it portends for wild horses.

We now know that the experiment was a failure.  The herd has been ruined.

What do you get from the advocates about this?  Silence, denial.

The truth will ruin their business models, thwarting their efforts to dominate the wild horse removal industry.

Another post from 2010 about reversibility says PZP is vaccine, a shameless attempt to sell poison as medicine.

A third post, also from 2010, discusses longevity of mares, code words for abnormal sex ratios, a documented side-effect of the wonder drug.

The advocates know and have always known about the harmful effects of PZP, yet they continue to lie about them.

They’re not who they say they are.

Their words don’t match their deeds.

They’re sterilizing as many mares as they can get their sights on, and they want you to pay for it.

RELATED: Reaffirming Previous Statements.

The project has been dropped from the most active list in ePlanning, even though it is still open for comments.

The total as of this evening was 3,486.

RELATED: Pryor Comments Top 3,000.

The advocates never stop.

The total as of this evening is 3,057.

The Draft EA can be found in the project folder.

Only two days left.  Hallelujah.

RELATED: Pryor Comments Zoom Past 2,500.

With few exceptions, the advocates apply the chemical to keep the pests in check, so ranchers can access most of their food.

They are stupid beyond imagination, enemies of the horses!

RELATED: Yes, We Have No Authority?

The numbers are changing minute by minute, but as of this evening, the total was 2,577.

The Cloud Foundation has also issued an Action Alert, with a recommendation to be courteous, factual, and polite when commenting on the project.

Only four days left.

RELATED: Pryor Comments Pass 1,500.

The Senate Agriculture & Natural Resources Committee passed the bill on April 20 by a vote of 5 to 1, according to a report posted this morning by Colorado Politics.

The measure was referred to the Committee on Appropriations.

In an attempt to sell poison as medicine, Amendment L.002 changed “FERTILITY CONTROL METHODS” to “IMMUNOCONTRACEPTIVE FERTILITY CONTROL VACCINES.”

Why not say “RESTRICTED-USE PESTICIDES?”

The fertility control program would manage the herds through “humane, nonlethal and safe fertility control methods,” and would ban the use of lethal population management or surgical sterilization.

Chemical sterilization is OK, apparently.

How do you know that SB23-275 is bad for wild horses?

The advocates are for it.

RELATED: Rally for Colorado Wild Horse Project Tomorrow.

An animal you’re trying to eradicate with a restricted-use pesticide.

Sometimes referred to as a beloved/innocent/treasured horse or burro.

Never let the public know your true intentions.

RELATED: BLM to Trial New Herbicides on Cherished Plants and Weeds.

The advocates think that by putting “humane” in front of terms like “management,” “fertility control,” “outcomes” and “alternatives to helicopters” you’ll think they’re a voice for wild horses.

Similarly, if they put “humanely” in front of “reducing the herd size,” you’ll agree with them that not only is getting rid of wild horses acceptable, it’s the right thing to do and you should be paying for it.

The ranchers couldn’t have asked for a better bunch of hucksters.

RELATED: Another Rorschach Test for Wild Horse Advocates.

Although 215 trespass horses have been trapped and removed in the past year, the Forest Service hasn’t made a dent in the overall numbers, according to a report dated April 21 by the White Mountain Independent.

A spokesman said the Forest Service will likely have to enter into a long-term contract to keep the herd from rebounding.

What do you suppose that might involve?

Advocates with the Salt River Wild Horse Darting Group, an affiliate of the Campaign Against America’s Wild Horses, a leader in the wild horse removal industry, have already offered to get rid of the herd with a safe, proven and reversible fertility control program that sterilizes the mares in four to five years.

The contract would likely amount to a memorandum of understanding or zero-dollar purchase order.

Donors to these organizations would foot the bill, not taxpayers.

Ranchers in the area, the leading beneficiary of the effort, could pick up an easy tax deduction.

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

The population estimate as of March 1 was 82,833, according to a BLM blog post dated April 21, only 499 more than the same time last year.

Permitted grazing, which occurs in most of the areas identified for wild horses and burros, was not mentioned.

Predators are few and far between according to the article, yet the advocates count on them to take out any foals that slip through their darting programs.

To achieve the goal of managing healthy wild horses and burros on healthy public lands, the bureaucrats beat down the herds with helicopters and the advocates snuff out new life with pesticides, so ranchers can access most of their food and water.

Not exactly what Velma and the 92nd Congress intended.

They’re a native keystone species vital to the health of our public lands, according to a news release on EIN, but we need to drive their numbers down with a restricted-use pesticide so ranchers can access most of their food and water.

Who promotes such legislation?  The PZP darters and their allies.  Totally self-serving.

If you want to help America’s wild horses, stay home.

RELATED: State Lawmakers Introduce Colorado Wild Horse Project.

What do you call a restricted-use pesticide that destroys the ovaries of mares in four to five years?  A vaccine.

What do you call a mare whose ovaries have been destroyed by said pesticide, or nearly so?  Self-boosting.

Next time a storm moves through your area, try this experiment.

Grab an umbrella and head out the door.  Hold the umbrella at your side.  Rain falls on your head.

Now, hold the umbrella over your head.  Rain can’t reach your head.

Try it again.  By your side, head gets wet.  Above, head stays dry.

If you try it next month, you’ll get the same results.

Next year, same.

The effect of the umbrella is reversible.

This is not true for the Montana Solution.

The advocates have been telling you for years that PZP is a sperm blocker, an umbrella of sorts, that wears off after a few years when the treatments are stopped.

Unfortunately, if the umbrella has been in place for five years and you remove it, there will be no raindrops falling on your head.

PZP is not reversible, as the advocates claim.  Rather, it is a sterilant.

Results from Assateague Island prove it.

In a similar manner, the advocates are destroying the herds on the Virginia Range, Salt River and the HMAs listed on the latest roundup schedule.

If they told you the truth about their darting programs, the injuries and infections, the increasing death rates, shrinking herds, abnormal sex ratios and sterilization of mares, you’d withdraw your financial support immediately.

So, they conceal their enmity with euphemisms like “safe, proven and reversible,” hoping you won’t catch on.

RELATED: Foal-Free Friday, Avoiding the “S-Words” Edition.

NOTE: Examples of these lies, such as this one, can usually be found on the propaganda page of Lucky Three Ranch.

The same way you treat your cherished ants and roaches.  Except they deliver their pesticide with gas-fired darts.

Don’t worry, it’s safe, proven and reversible.  Similarly, carbon is a pollutant, men can be women, and water flows uphill.

Last year, she blew smoke up your butt about HMAPs.

This year, it’s habitat fragmentation.

Anything to distract from the real problem, public-lands ranching, which devours entire HMAs and beyond, the driver of the overpopulation narrative and the reason why the off-range corrals and long-term pastures are flooded with “excess” animals.

Pummeling the mares with restricted-use pesticides only helps the ranchers.

The Campaign Against America’s Wild Horses, a leader in the wild horse removal industry, has issued an Action Alert, reposted on the propaganda page of the Lucky Three Ranch, urging its followers to speak out against the proposed management plan, and they are now flooding the project with the same stupid comments.

The plan would cut the population in half, according to CAAWH, exactly what it’s trying to do on the Virginia Range, if not more.

These people are charlatans, no longer deserving of your financial support.

RELATED: Pryor Comments Pass 1,000.

The bureaucrats, ranchers and advocates are united in their belief that wild horse reproduction is the problem, not the reproduction rate.

If you’re at 3X AML, you’re not interested in slowing the growth rate but reversing it.

Given that AMLs are small relative to the available resources, the conflict between wild horses and privately owned livestock can be alleviated by confining the ranchers to their base properties in a year-round off season and expecting them to pay (OMG) the going rate to feed their animals, but that’s taboo in the Love Triangle and fringe groups like the Wild Horse Fire Brigade.

The decision earlier this week to test two new fertility control drugs is just the latest attempt to eradicate the pests in favor of the most noble and deserving nonnative species on America’s public lands.

What’s the difference between long-lasting contraception (that can be achieved with just one dose) and sterility?

Not much.  But you can’t call it sterility and you can’t refer to the experiments as sterilization research.  Off limits.

You can talk about self-boosting mares, but not in mixed company.

Using the Rule of 72 for a quick estimate, you need a growth rate of 72 ÷ 5 = 14.4% per year to double the herd size in five years.  If the death rate is six percent per year, the required birth rate is 20.4% per year.

You need a growth rate of 18% per year, and a birth rate of 24% per year, to double the herd size in four years, as some land managers and wild horse detractors claim.

What do the data indicate?  Consider the results from last year’s roundups that started on or after July 1 (after foaling season).  These figures are based on the daily reports, which may differ slightly from the cumulative totals posted to the gather pages.

The weighted average birth rate was 17.4%, implying a growth rate of 11.4% per year.

The death rate this year may be higher than normal, as previously discussed.

On average, one foal was born to every 2.6 mares.  Each mare produced 0.38 foals.

With the probability of a mare delivering a live foal slightly more than one out of three, the advocates target every animal they can get their sights on.

Why?  Because their goal is one of the S-words.

Hopefully their enmity and mettle will appeal to the bureaucrats and ranchers, who, like them, want the wild herds minimized and domestic herds maximized.

RELATED: Foal-Free Friday, Busting the Myth of Reversibility Edition.

The wild horse advocates are trying to snuff out new life by poisoning the mares with a restricted-use pesticide.

RELATED: CAAWH Distributes More Lies about VR Darting Program.