They’re losing the support of the American people because they seek the approval of the bureaucrats and ranchers.

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They mean well and want to help America’s wild horses but the advocates have been blowing smoke up their butts for years.

The problem is resource management, not wild horses, which they won’t discuss.

Instead, they go on about HMAPs, fertility control, drilling and mining, climate change, sanctuaries, adoption and other off-the-range programs.

“We’re changing the way wild horse herds are managed, not their land.”

Who benefits from this?

Not the horses.

So it’s no wonder that the American people are shaking their heads, some of which are starting to look like smokestacks.

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Over the last few days, we’ve seen three of them come forward with statements about their darting programs, one from the Pine Nut Mountains, one from the Virginia Range and another from the Salt River, revealing themselves as imbeciles.

“We’re protecting wild horses from removal by getting rid of them with PZP.”

What’s the common denominator in these cases?

The Campaign Against America’s Wild Horses.

Most HMAs and HAs have resource management problems, not wild horse problems, as illustrated this morning.

“We’re changing the way wild horse herds are managed, not their land.”

Here’s what you need to know about CAAWH and its army of nitwits:

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

2. They’re trying to convince the bureaucrats and ranchers that the Montana Solution is a viable alternative to helicopter roundups.

3. They want to be a leader in the wild horse removal industry.

These people are charlatans and don’t deserve a penny of your hard-earned donations.

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The federal agency charged with protecting wild horses is still working to eliminate them from their habitat, according to a commentary on the Rock Springs RMP Amendments in today’s edition of WyoFile.

The amendments would zero out two HMAs in Wyoming and downsize a third.

The advocates protect wild horses from removal by getting rid of them with PZP.

They walk in lockstep with the bureaucrats.

Ever notice that?

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One of the headlines on Drudge pointed to a story by CNBC.

Here are some details omitted by the compliant media.

The spacecraft was equipped with an array of sensors that will detect forage, water and cover, and will determine if the soil is amenable to fencing and cattle gates.

The resource management plans, still in development, were influenced by lessons learned from the westward migration on Earth.

Future legislation would initiate rulemaking that sharply limits the possession of horses and burros by explorers, settlers and prospectors.

The RMPs would assign at least 98.6% of the authorized forage to privately owned livstock, with the balance reserved for wildlife, inverting the intent of the WHB Act.

The scanners will also search for remote wilderness areas, not particularly suited to livestock grazing, where estrays could be shipped under the guise of wildfire prevention.

Desperate for a seat at the table, the advocates have already indicated their willingness to track down and inhibit any escaped mares.

They are bolstered by new technology that promises unmanned aerial vehicles equipped with global positioning, facial recognition and self-propelled darts.

“Like the Democrat Party,” one of them told Western Horse Watchers, “we’ve had to be coy about our long-term plans, but in this environment we’re coming out of the closet.”

Contrary to rumors going around on socialist media, if you look closely at the photo, the logo on the booster says NASA not NCBA.

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Cameron Ring, an Army National Guard veteran, told Cowboy State Daily in a story posted today that letting combat veterans tap into their battle skills by sneaking up on wild mares with darting rifles would help them heal, as well as keep the mustang populations at reasonable levels.

You heard that right.

Veterans suffering from PTSD can overcome the illness by targeting symbols of the values they fought to protect!

Our veterans deserve better.

Ring should study the work of Leo Kuntz, a veteran who tried to save the original wild horses of Theodore Roosevelt National Park, not get rid of them.

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UPDATE: Added video about Kuntz and the Nokota horses.

Contrary to what you’ll read in this column, Velma Johnston would be shocked at the betrayal of wild horses by the advocates, a topic that fits perfectly with today’s episode of Foal-Free Friday.

To wit:

“Under state law, Virginia Range wild horses removed from their habitat can be sold at livestock auctions, which are frequented by ‘kill buyers’ who will ship them to Canada and Mexico for slaughter, something that three out of four Nevadans oppose.”

“A robust fertility control program is humanely slowing birth rates while keeping wild horses on the range.  It utilizes the PZP immunocontraceptive vaccine, which is more than 90% effective in preventing pregnancy.  The effort has become the world’s largest program of its kind in the world and it’s delivering dramatic results.  Births have decreased by over 60 percent and, when combined with a foal mortality rate of over 50 percent primarily due to natural predation, the program is close to achieving population reduction in just over three years.”

They’re protecting wild horses from removal by getting rid of them with PZP.

Here’s what you need to know about the Campaign Against America’s Wild Horses and its army of nitwits:

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

2. They’re trying to convince said bureaucrats and ranchers that the Montana Solution is a viable alternative to helicopter roundups.  The Virginia Range darting program is only a pilot project, a stepping stone.

3. They want to be a leader in the wild horse removal industry.

Pay attention to what they do, not what they say.

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The Blue Wing roundup went off as planned, despite two legal complaints from the advocates, one involving HMAPs and the other involving the First Amendment.

While the second case may have had merit, the first one certainly didn’t.

Why do the advocates act in ways that are unlikely to help wild horses?

To keep their base fired up and the donations rolling in, while maintaining the status quo, under which they prosper.

Yes, they are private entities and are free to spend their money as they please.

But you don’t have to be part of it.

They’re already living in a twisted reality of their own making.

“We’re changing the way wild horse herds are managed, not their land.”

“We’re protecting them from removal by getting rid of them with PZP.”

“If we don’t take them off the range, the BLM will.”

The public-lands ranchers are students of history.

They’re not going to let another new world be overrun by horses that escape from explorers and settlers.

This time, they’re backing a plan that will assess the grazing potential of an area known as the Sea of Ubiquity, aptly named for a practice that occurs almost everywhere in the American west.

If detected, new legislation would protect the resources and reserve them for privately owned cattle and sheep.

Land would be divided into allotments, to be managed exclusively for livestock, and ranchers would be shielded from the realities of a free market.

Taxes would be increased to pay for the program, with cattlemen reaping the benefits.

Critics condemn the plan as redistribution of wealth, a product of left-wing ideology.

Supporting the effort are numerous advocacy groups, who are redesigning their darting rifles for the lower-gravity environment.

“We’ve had an uphill battle on earth,” said one of their members, “too may people want the horses to succeed, not the livestock.”

Another delegate who attended the press conference said “This is our chance to get out in front, to stop those mustangs before they get started, a goal we’ve always held but were afraid to discuss.”

“Public support would dry up,” she lamented.

Don’t let the door smack you on the way out!

The headline on Drudge pointed to a story by AP News.

Yesterday’s loss marks the beginning of a new chapter in her political career, she believes, almost certainly with closer ties to the Democrat Party.

The successful candidate will be responsible for overseeing wild horse protection and habitat conservation programs and will manage and expand relationships with the scientific community, government agencies, public officials and other allied organizations, according to an undated posting on the Conservation Job Board.

You must be a resident of Nevada.

The deadline is September 30.

Your new employer?

The Campaign Against America’s Wild Horses.

You’ll join others trying to change the way wild horses are managed, not the way their land is managed.

Figures like those above, which indicate a resource management problem not a wild horse problem, mean nothing because you’re driven by ideology not facts.

You view Cattoor, Uhalde and Sun J as competitors.

And your favorite words of encouragement are “A little to the left.”

There’s not one word about permitted grazing, which affects three of the four HMAs in the state, in this column posted yesterday by The Denver Post.

All of them are subject to the Montana Solution, or similar product, including the curated horse exhibit at Spring Creek Basin.

Three or four foals are born every year, down from 12 to 15 each year before the darting program was put in place, according to an article by The Journal of Cortez, CO.

The advocates refer to the practice as on-range management, but the goal in most cases is to take horses off the range.  Helicopters don’t fly but the results are the same.

Why don’t they talk about the way public lands are managed?

Spring Creek Basin is not subject to permitted grazing and the darting program has been in effect for 11 years.

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The discussion in this 19-minute audio segment goes off the rails in the second half when the advocate rambles on about drought, mineral extraction and climate change.

Instead of building on the dialogue of the first half, which focused on the way public lands are managed, she’s worried about saving the planet.

This is why our horses are in trouble.  Those who claim to be their voice are detached from reality and unmoored from the truth.  Men can be women and water flows uphill.

The data above, from the Warm Springs HMA in Oregon, identify the problem and explain why the wild horse and burro program operates like a pest control program.

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The proposal has been in the news recently, including a report by ABC15 News, a podcast by NPR, an article by The Hill and a column in the Pagosa Daily Post.

Wild horses would be moved from areas where they’re not wanted (by public-lands ranchers) to remote wilderness areas not particularly suited to livestock grazing.

The plan was developed by a rancher.

How would it be put into practice?

They would be forced from their lawful home by helicopters, crammed into trailers and hauled to places nobody can access, where they would devour forage that propagates wildfires, supposedly.

How does that differ from what you see today at Piceance, Triple B and Twin Peaks?

The means by which they’d stop lightning, smokers and arsonists is a detail that hasn’t been worked out.

Boosting their appetite for conifers is another problem but they’re working on it.

Once the horses are gone, the ranchers will be able to enjoy everything their allotments have to offer, a goal they almost achieved in the “fast disappearing” days before the WHB Act.

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In 2018, vanadium was designated as a critical material by the U.S. government due to its importance to the defense and energy storage sectors, with no domestic production and all supplies imported, mostly from Russia, China and South Africa.

A vanadium shortage is expected by 2025, according to Nevada Vanadium, with the rising popularity of the vanadium redox flow battery, a mature technology that is scalable to hundreds of megawatt-hours of storage.

Battery life is projected to be at least 20 years with no degradation of the vanadium or charge density.

However, a story by NPR indicates there are few if any companies making the batteries in the U.S. and the top producer is in China.

The NVV flow diagram suggests the mine’s output is intended for batteries.

Why won’t the government license the technology to American manufacturers?

The metal will be pulled from American soil and processed with American resources.

As with the Keystone Pipeline, enriching our enemies seems to be a top priority of the one-horse pony and his illicit administration.

The Draft EIS for the Gibellini Mine only mentions vanadium redox flow batteries in Section 2.3, the Renewable Energy Alternative to the Proposed Action.

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She’s been wandering the Currituck Outer Banks in search for companionship and has finally been accepted by another band, according to a story dated July 28 by The News & Observer of Raleigh, NC.

Alma joined up with Cowboy, a stallion, mares Daisy and Shala, and Shala’s 3-year-old son Renzi.

Apparently, the band does not include any foals.

Alma and Renzi may eventually split from the group and create their own family, a statement attributed to the Corolla Wild Horse Fund, like others in the article.

Western Horse Watchers decided to check it out.

An email sent to the herd manager asked if Alma had been treated with fertility control and what was the plan going forward.

As of this evening, no answer has been received.

Birth rates and breeding patterns are determined by the advocates, not the horses.

If Alma has been darted, the statement about starting a family was a lie.

A commenter on socialist media said “It’s hard to sit back sometimes and let nature take its course,” which is just about impossible wherever the advocates are involved.

Here are the headlines on Drudge.

The first link pointed to a story by the New York Post.

What’s next, tail gunners on bread trucks?

It’s tempting to blame the Biden voters, and they certainly bear great responsibility, but there weren’t enough of them to put the one-horse pony over the top.

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The term does not appear in the news release issued earlier this week but that’s what it’s all about, according to a brief by Law Street Media.

A copy of the complaint was posted to Docket Alarm.

The Interior Board of Land Appeals has held that an HMAP is not a prerequisite to a wild horse roundup as long as the record indicates compliance with the WHB Act, as noted, for example, in Section 1.1 of the Final EA for livestock protection actions in the Bible Springs Complex.

If the BLM can show that the major components of an HMAP have been addressed, including the establishment of HMAs, AMLs and objectives for managing them, with ongoing monitoring and evaluation of whether those objectives are being met, the case will likely go down in flames and the advocates will not win the relief they seek.

A waste of time and money.  Exactly what you’d expect from the advocates.

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Might be, according to a story posted this evening by the Steamboat Pilot & Today.

The advocates, with the assistance of BLM firefighters, are darting the mares with fertility control so the herds won’t bounce back.

Visitors will be eager to see these curated horse exhibits.

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