Wild Horse Freedom Rallies Focus on SAFE Act?

Interest in the bill, which died in committee last week according to a story posted yesterday by CBS News of Colorado, may have received a boost due to a report by the Campaign Against America’s Wild Horses about the adoption incentive program and the number of horses sent to kill pens.

The solution?  Replacing cash incentives with vouchers for veterinary care or training to gentle the animals.

Better yet, stop reproduction with the Montana Solution and let the herds die off.

The writer—not CAAWH—suggests the problem lies elsewhere.

“The Bureau of Land Management has said wild horse roundups are necessary because there aren’t enough resources for the horses, but as CBS4 Investigates reported in May, those lands are also shared by private ranchers who are allowed to graze their cattle and sheep there.”

You won’t hear that from CAAWH and their surrogates.

They intend to be leaders in the wild horse removal business, aiding and abetting the ranchers, as announced on September 15.

Next to the federal government, nobody’s getting rid of more wild horses than CAAWH and its army of nitwits.

RELATED: Wild Horse Freedom Rallies Return in September.

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AIP Reforms Not Working?

A report produced by the Campaign Against America’s Wild Horses shows changes to the Adoption Incentive Program have not reduced the flow of wild horses into kill pens, according to a story posted yesterday by the Las Vegas Review-Journal.

The findings include 1,020 animals over three years that were sold to kill buyers and presumably shipped to slaughter in Canada and Mexico.

Western Horse Watchers estimates that the group and its affiliates got rid of 2,000 to 3,000 wild horses during the same period.

Don’t be fooled by the advocates!  Their downstream focus guarantees that more and more horses will be coming off the range, to the delight of the public-lands ranchers.

RELATED: Investigation Finds More Slaughter Cases in AIP.

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Foal-Free Friday, the Advocates Have a Better Way Edition

A story by KLAS News about the Calico roundup concludes with this remark:

The BLM says the ranges can’t support the animals, citing deteriorating health conditions in the herds.  Wild horse advocates counter that the horses are removed to make room for commercial livestock that grazes on the same land.

This is not correct.  The advocates want the horses removed to make room for commercial livestock and they have a better way of doing it.

Consider these two scenarios for wild horse removal:

Method A

  • Initial population – 440
  • Final population – 250

Method B

  • Initial population – 440
  • Final population – 250

Which one corresponds to a cruel and costly helicopter roundup and which one was carried out with proven fertility control?

Method A, the Montana Solution, is the best choice because the horses were protected from removal.

Method B, a deadly helicopter roundup, is unacceptable because the horses were taken off the range by force.

This is what the advocates are selling!  They have nothing to offer America’s wild horses except continuation of their misery.

What’s their top priority?  To be loved and respected by the bureaucrats and ranchers.

As for you, they care mostly about your money.

As for the horses, they couldn’t care less.

RELATED: Foal-Free Friday, Fighting Crime on the Virginia Range.

Advocates are the Predators 11-30-21

Climate Change Threatens Wild Horses and Burros?

The topic is so important that the commie-pinko-fags at Google added this statement to the video:

Climate change refers to long-term shifts in temperatures and weather patterns, mainly caused by human activities, especially the burning of fossil fuels.

This story by KERO News of Bakersfield looks at the Piute roundup, which has taken 16 burros off the range since it began on August 19.

Long-term shifts, like modern attention spans, cover 24 to 36 hours.

The bureaucrats and advocates will point to man-made climate change, or anything else they can invent, to justify the removal of these animals from their lawful home, leaving more and more resources to privately owned livestock.

RELATED: Piute Roundup in Progress.

Livestock Rule the Range?

The opinion piece picked up today by the Carlsbad Current Argus originally appeared at Writers on the Range, an op-ed syndication service created by High Country News but now independent.

The site posted another column about wild horses that challenges some of the notions in the first article but hedges the argument with a remark about on-range management using “proven fertility control,” code words for “off the range.”

The wild horse and burro program has been a drag on the grazing program for 50 years.

RELATED: Wild Horses Rule the Range?

Currituck Herd Adds New Colt

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.

No News from Western Front

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.”

RELATED: How Many Wild Horses Can the Pine Nut HA Support?

What Are Cherished Wild Horses and Burros?

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.

For Your Cherished Ants and Roaches 08-30-22

Readers Respond to “Romance Versus Reality” Diatribe

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.”

For Your Cherished Ants and Roaches 08-30-22

Prelude to Foal-Free Friday

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.

McCullough Fundraiser Benefits Ranchers Not Horses

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.

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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.

RELATED: Youngsters Hard to Find at FOAL.

Barren Valley, Indeed

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.

Barren Valley Complex Map 09-11-22

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.

AMPs Must Conform to RMPs?

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.

Alvord Allotment Map 09-08-22

Protecting the Calico Wild Horses from Removal

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:

CAAWH Comment on Calico EA 09-07-22

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.

RELATED: Calico Roundup Announced.

For Your Cherished Ants and Roaches 08-30-22

Millions of Americans Suffering from Chimney Head Syndrome?

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.

Saving Wild Horses 06-18-22

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.

Advocates are the Predators 11-30-21

Satisfying the Wishes, Hopes and Dreams of Livestock Operators

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.

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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?

Artemis to Go Where No Rancher Has Gone Before

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

Artemis on Launchpad 08-27-22

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?