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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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?

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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.

RELATED: Pine Nut Advocates Not Playing for Home Team.

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.

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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.

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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.”

Less land + Fewer resources = More roundups + More fertility control, a formula that benefits everybody but the horses.

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The comment count as of mid day was 344, compared to 267 yesterday morning.

Perhaps the advocates drafted a form letter and gave it to their drones to flood the project with the same comment?

“Less trapping, more darting.”

The Clan Alpine scoping period, which closes today, received just 19 comments.

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A story dated January 18 by WIRED magazine explains how undercover video of gas chamber operations was obtained from a meatpacking plant in Vernon, CA.

The facility is owned by Smithfield Foods, a producer of pork controlled by the Chinese conglomerate WH Group.

The footage, showing how pigs are suffocated in an oxygen-deficient atmosphere, was copied to the interloper’s Vimeo channel.

In the following example, the animals are pushed into a cage which is lowered into the chamber where they die.  The camera was attached to the cage.

After a few minutes, the cage comes back up and they are dumped out for processing.

Is this where the folks at the Billings School of PZP Darting and Public Deception get their pig ovaries?

Who knows.

But the production process starts in plants like this.

The rankings change minute by minute but here’s a screen image as of this morning.

Comments must comply with land-use plans.  If livestock receive four times more forage than the horses and you request a reduction in grazing activity, your comment will be dismissed out of hand.

“Such changes cannot be accomplished through a wild horse gather decision.”

If you express support for the project, which will keep the pests in check so ranchers can access most of their food, the response will likely be “Thank you for your comment.”

RELATED: McCullough Peaks Takes Third Place in ePlanning Top 5.

The rankings change minute by minute but here’s a screenshot as of this evening.

The purpose of the project is to minimize the herd size over a ten-year period, so ranchers can access most of their food.

Suggestions that would help the horses, such as confining the ranchers to their base properties in a year-long off season, are outside the scope of the project.

Offering to provide an aggressive darting program at no cost to the government would likely receive a favorable review.

Oh wait, the advocates are already doing that.

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The measure was introduced last week, according to a story by The Denver Post.

The author noted that Colorado lawmakers passed legislation in 2010 declaring horses a cherished part of western heritage.

Curiously, all four of the HMAs in the state are subject to the Montana Solution.

RELATED: Wyoming Legislature Petitions Congress to Legalize Slaughter.

Public-lands ranching is government dependency and redistribution of wealth, hallmarks of liberalism and the domain of the Democrat Party.

The practice can’t be defended from an economic viewpoint, as each AUM sold to the ranchers brings in $1.35 in grazing fees while the government spends around $150 to care for the horse displaced thereby.  (One AUM can sustain one cow/calf pair or one wild horse for one month.  The cost of off-range holding is $5 per day or more.)

Undeterred, the folks at the Berryman Institute have embarked on a plan to help the ranchers and improve their image, as explained in this presentation by director and front man Terry “Can Cougars Eat Their Way to AML” Messmer.

References to Celeste correspond to the presentation by Celeste Carlisle, Chair of the Wild Horse and Burro Advisory Board, in cahoots with the ranchers up to her eyeballs.

Most advocates will concur with his observation that you need to put the crosshairs on the mares, not the foals.

The wild horse and burro program has been a drag on the grazing program for 51 years.

RELATED: Better if They Weren’t Even Born.

The story in Colorado Politics of a calf calling for its mother, who had been gunned down by Forest Service personnel or their agents, carried to the scene by helicopter, is sad and terrifying as the author suggests.

Then there was the foal put down on Day 4 of the 2021 Jackson Mountains roundup not because of a pre-existing condition, but because it was an orphan.  The BLM later edited the report to conceal the incident.

Why do these events make us sick?

Could it be they’re an affront to our innate understanding of family, and the importance thereof, written on our hearts by our creator?

Not the twisted notions promoted by liberals, such as two sodomites and their pet children, or the mergers and acquisitions of divorce and remarry, but the uniting until death of husband and wife in the holy sacrament of marriage and their subsequent cooperation with God to bring forth the future inhabitants of heaven.

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