He was born late last week according to a story by The Coastland Times.

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

The article did not indicate if his mom had been treated with the Montana Solution.

If not, they may stalking her with clipboards and darting rifles as they lecture you about keeping a safe distance and allowing mom and baby to bond.

In the wild horse world, the arrival of a new foal is not an event to appreciate but a problem to be fixed.

The Currituck advocates have adopted a naming convention similar to that of the Pryor Mountains: Foals born in 2020 have names beginning with “A,” names of foals born in 2021 begin with “B,” etc.

File under: Curated horse exhibits.

The September edition of Horse Tales has been published but there is no article this month by the real estate agent and PZP darter in the Minden/Gardnerville area.

No update on the cherished Fish Springs mustangs, their glorious darting program or the Pine Nut permittees, whom she and her colleagues adore.

Her listings are on the back page, as usual, some of which may have ties, directly or indirectly, to the permittees.

Might as well take some time off.  Will be tough to beat last month’s column anyway, which could have been subtitled “If We Don’t Get Rid of Them the BLM Will.”

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Think of a man who beats his wife but refers to her in public as his soulmate and loving spouse.

His words don’t match his deeds.

This is standard practice for the advocates.

“We’re protecting our cherished wild horses from removal.”

Nonsense!  You’re getting rid of them with PZP, an EPA-registered pesticide, and you admit it!

They think you’re dumber than a bag of hammers and won’t realize that they’re actually protecting the public-lands ranchers, as they separate you from your money to continue their important work.

File under: Charlatans.

The original piece, billed as a special to the Herald Times, ran on August 25.

Western Horse Watchers did not comment at the time as it was clearly an ode to the bureaucrats, ranchers and wild horse charlatans of the Piceance HMA, target of a roundup in July.

Today the paper published three responses, two in opposition, one in support.

The August 25 column was written by Kathleen Kelley, formerly a contract lobbyist and now co-owner of Sullivan Kelley Farms in Meeker, a cow-calf and livestock forage operation according to a 2018 letter to the paper by husband Reed Kelley.

Apparently, Mrs. Kelley is trying to establish herself with the ranching community and supporters thereof, perhaps with political and/or professional aspirations.

Knock yourself out, honey.

One of the letters was written by Scott Beckstead, a proponent of on-range management with the Montana Solution, evident in his reference to “our cherished wild equines.”

Tomorrow’s episode was written early this morning but a story by KUNR Radio, just out, validates remarks about the Campaign Against America’s Wild Horses and how it’s using the Virginia Range as a proving ground for the Montana Solution.

Tracy Wilson, Nevada State Director for CAAWH, told the writer her group is trying to prove there is a better way to get rid of wild horses and to show they can do it.

“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,” Wilson said.  “So, we want a healthy range, we want a healthy horse population.”

Funny, that’s what the bureaucrats say, as they whittle away at the land designated for wild horses and shift more and more of the resources to the public-lands ranchers.

File under: Charlatans.

The event will be held on September 17 at the Cody Holiday Inn according to an article posted yesterday by the Cody Enterprise.

The advocates at FOAL protect the horses from removal by getting rid of them with PZP.

A representative interviewed for the story said “The [darting] program keeps the herd at a sustainable level to minimize the need for roundups that are costly and also disrupt the family units and social structure within the herd,” exactly what they’re doing!

Livestock in the HMA receive 3.6 times more forage than the horses.

The BLM collects an estimated $8,230 per year in grazing fees from ranching activity inside the HMA while it spends $927,100 per year to care for the 508 wild horses displaced thereby.

That’s what the advocates are trying to protect.

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Aspects of the case involving rights protected by the First Amendment probably have merit but the rest of it will go down in flames.

A link to the amended complaint was not provided in the news release.

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The Alvord Allotment, subject of a grazing permit renewal, lies mostly within the Coyote Lake HMA, as previously noted.

Coyote Lake is one of three HMAs in the Barren Valley Complex of eastern Oregon.

All three are subject to permitted grazing, which means the government is spending 113 times more to care for wild horses displaced by privately owned livestock than it collects in fees from ranching activity inside the HMAs.

For every 12 AUMs per year assigned to livestock inside an HMA, enough to support one wild horse, the BLM collects 12 × 1.35 = $16.20 per year.

The agency spends 1 × 5 × 365 = $1,825 per year to care for a horse removed from his lawful home in favor of a cow/calf pair, assuming he was placed in short-term holding.

The ratio is 1,825 ÷ 16.20 = 112.7.

This is a scam on American taxpayers.

The HMAs are also subject to darting programs of unspecified type, according to the latest roundup and fertility control schedule.

By driving birth rates downward, the advocates protect the ranchers and keep the gravy train rolling.

Would you be surprised if the field workers were ranchers or ranching sympathizers?

The organizers of the effort were not listed in the schedule.

In a news release last month for new grant opportunities, the BLM thanked High Desert Strategies for 150 barren mares on public lands in eastern Oregon.

Western Horse Watchers has been unable to find their home page, but they may have a presence on socialist media.

RELATED: New Grants Available for Wild Horse and Burro Management.

If a resource management plan puts some of the forage in an allotment off limits to grazing, can an allotment management plan move that resource into active status?

Western Horse Watchers believes the answer is No.

Table 2 and the discussion in Section 1.1 of the revised EA for permit renewal in Alvord Allotment suggest that the 1,892 AUMs in question are still in suspended status in the Andrews Management Unit and Steens Mountain Cooperative Management and Protection Area Resource Management Plans and Records of Decision.

You can’t write a Herd Management Area Plan that assigns 98% of the authorized forage to wild horses when the RMP allocates 84% to livestock, as previously noted.

The project must be preceeded by an RMP amendment.

Likewise, you can’t write an Allotment Management Plan that puts 1,892 suspended AUMs into play without changing the RMPs first?

Further, how do you justify the assignment of those AUMs to privately owned livestock when the pastures in question are in the lawful home of wild horses?

RELATED: Alvord Permit Renewal Out for Review, Again.

The Campaign Against America’s Wild Horses, a thought leader in the wild horse world, has the answer, submitted as a comment on the Draft EA:

The recommendation was published in a document containing unique comments, according to the file name in the project folder.

Referring to it as original thoughts would be over the top.

The advocates, including the fanatics at the Virginia Range, are protecting their cherished wild horses from removal by getting rid of them with PZP.

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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.

RELATED: Advocates Fall on Swords to Glorify Montana Solution.

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.

RELATED: Nuttiness of Wild Horse World.

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?

RELATED: Minor Problem with Rock Springs RMP Amendments?

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.

RELATED: Moon Rocket to Search for New Grazing Opportunities?

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.

RELATED: Bold Prediction for Veterans Against Mustangs Act.

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.

RELATED: Virginia Range Darting Program Working as Planned?

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.