Q. Why are you always cracking on the advocates?

A. Because they’re wrong.

Q. Isn’t that a bit divisive?

A. I don’t care what they think, I am a voice for the horses.

Q. What don’t they like about Western Horse Watchers?

A. The numbers—the truth is in the numbers and they are innumerate.

Q. What’s missing from the wild horse world?

A. The technical side—the data, the calculations, the comparisons.

Q. Why is that important?

A. The American people don’t realize how far we’ve strayed from the original statute.

Q. Why aren’t you on socialist media?

A. You can say whatever you want as long as it conforms to leftist ideology.

Q. What’s wrong with that?

A. Seriously?

Refer to the commentary dated May 24 in the Reno Gazette Journal, written by a volunteer who filmed the colt with the broken leg on Day 1 of the roundup.

The incident prompted the introduction of HR 6635, the helicopter ban, that would not affect the driver of wild horse removals, only the way they are carried out.

The road to improvement starts with Herd Management Area Plans, according to the writer.

“The effect of not having these plans is these outrageous and large helicopter roundups.”

Wrong.

The Draft EA for resource enforcement actions in the Bible Springs Complex indicates in Section 1.1 that HMAPs are not prerequisites to the BLM taking horses off the range.

On-site observation of wild horse roundups, discussed in the column, documents the problem but does not point to solutions.

Injuries, deaths and subsequent mistreatment of these animals, including the incident at Cañon City and the fallout from the adoption incentive program, are too late, too far downstream in the management process, yet they receive most of the attention.

Areas identified for wild horses are managed primarily—if not principally—for privately owned cattle and sheep.

The off-the-range philosophy of the wild horse and burro program follows naturally.

This explains why roundups, fertility control, sterilization, sex-ratio skewing, adoptions, training and warehousing of captured animals devour most of its budget.

It’s a pest control program, designed to minimize its impact on the grazing program.

Would HMAPs change any of that?

Of course not.

The EA suggests that HMAPs establish AMLs and objectives for managing the HMAs, consistent with pre-existing management plans and other decision documents, monitor conditions and evaluate whether management objectives are being met, and provide corrective actions if the goals are not being achieved.

Put simply, they ratify and reinforce the status quo!

What are the results where they’ve been applied?

• Paisley Desert HMA – Livestock receive 85% of authorized forage
• Frisco HMA – Livestock receive 80% of authorized forage
• Sulphur HMA – Livestock receive 77% of authorized forage

Livestock receive 88% of the authorized forage at the North Lander Complex, to be affirmed by an HMAP.

Livestock receive 89% of the authorized forage at the Warm Springs HMA in Oregon, to be locked in by an HMAP.

At Little Colorado HMA in Wyoming, livestock receive 97% of the authorized forage, awaiting ratification by an HMAP.

The writer’s thesis is off the mark.  The folks at Wild Horse Education, widely regarded as experts in the field, should know that.

RELATED: HMAPs Are Not the Answer.

Those who are so concerned about saving wild horses from slaughter would be first in line to get rid of them with the Montana Solution.

Ever notice that?

Don’t forget your “Stay Wild” cap.

RELATED: International Fertility Control Conference Next Week.

If every mare in a herd produced a foal, you’d see birth rates approaching, possibly exceeding, 50% per year.

Mares tend to outnumber stallions on the range, indicated by data from roundups.

A 45/55 split between males and females would not be unusual.

The Montana Solution magnifies the disparity, even taking it outside the range of expected variation from a random process.

Foals typically represent fifteen to twenty percent of the horses captured in a roundup.

Not all mares want to be bred, at least in your host’s experience.

They resist the stallion’s advances.

You may have heard about horses taking their riders under trees to knock them off.

Same thing happens at the ranch.  The mare, untreated, goes straight for the barn when the colt, uncut, tries to mount her, knocking him off.  This has been going on for several weeks, complete with dust and flying gravel.

This suggests that there may be other ways of letting the horses manage themselves on the range, without the interference of humans.  They may know more about appropriate herd sizes, genetic diversity and the risks of inbreeding than we think.

“Dart them anyway, it’s good for business.”

The duly elected sodomite and enemy of marriage, family and traditional values—but praised by the advocates because he’ll push for infertility of wild horses—told the Acting Director of the BLM in the state that the roundup should be delayed until any influx of new horses will not face the same kind of outbreak that occurred at Cañon City, as explained in a story posted yesterday by Fox21 News of Colorado Springs.

The roundup is set for late August according to the latest schedule.

The Campaign Against America’s Wild Horses, platinum sponsor of the International Conference on Fertility Control, knows how to stop it.

They are a voice for the public-lands ranchers.  Why are you still giving them money?

No more roundups, the group said today in a news release, until the BLM can ensure the animals’ health and safety off the range.

Then it’s okay to let the helicopters fly?

Western Horse Watchers says no more roundups until lands designated in 1971 are managed principally for wild horses and burros, as specified in the original statute, and the True AMLs have been exceeded.

• Livestock confined to base properties
• Most resources assigned to horses and burros
• Small amount reserved for wildlife

The inquiry would likely focus on vaccines that prevent illness, not on vaccines that prevent life.

The announcement refers to First Gentleman Marlon Reis, who is the sodomite partner of the Governor of Colorado.

RELATED: Critics of Cañon City Incident Have Hidden Agenda.

The event is set for May 23 – 25 in Colorado Springs, CO.

The conference committee includes members from RTF and HSUS, signatories to the rancher-friendly “Path Forward.”

Look at the sponsors: BLM, HSUS, CAAWH, AWI, SCC, ASPCA, RTF.

The opening plenary features remarks about wild equid fertility control and stakeholder engagement by the Assistant Director of Resources and Planning at the BLM.

The agenda includes a session on Day 2 regarding the treatment of burros with PZP, probably on the Black Mountain HMA (now subject to a roundup).

The conference promises to create an environment that is inclusive, welcoming, supportive, collaborative and productive for all participants, and will cater to a community known for its moral depravity.

The Governor of Colorado, a filthy sodomite, will speak to the group on May 23.

RELATED: Science-Based Management (of Wild Horses) Explained.

You should always follow the science.

Science tells us that the “clump of cells” inside a woman when she’s pregnant is a human but that means abortion is murder.

You should follow the science most of the time.

Science also tells us that water runs downhill but almost anything is possible when you’re a liberal, including a man being a woman.

You should only follow the science that fits your narrative.

Science tells us that livestock receive 89% of the authorized forage in the Warm Springs HMA, the True AML is off the chart and the herd is not overpopulated.

You should never follow the science, only your kook narrative.

Left-wing ideology, not science, tells us that the climate is changing, mostly because of our modern lifestyle.

Left-wing ideology, not science, tells us that elections, Congress and the Constitution are impediments to progress.

Left-wing ideology, not science, tells us that the nation is rigged against minorities and that capitalism and free markets only help the rich.

Left-wing ideology, not science, tells us that big, bloated, overreaching, iron-fisted, authoritarian government is the key to our happiness.

Left-wing ideology, not science, tells us that procreation and population growth are bad while abortion, contraception and sterilization are good, and that brings us to where we are today, even in the wild horse world.

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He was euthanized by order of the Salt River Wild Horse Darting Group, a surrogate of the Campaign Against America’s Wild Horses.

“He was literally starving and dehydrating,” their ringleader told KPNX News of Mesa, AZ in a story published yesterday.  “He was trying to drink and eat and it was the saddest thing we’ve ever seen.”

Watching her destroy the herd with the Montana Solution—and get away with it—is one of the saddest things we’ve ever seen.

Do you see any foals in the video posted with the report?

The advocates have ten years to take the herd from its current size of 400 down to 250, according to an unidentified voice in the April 1 episode of Foal-Free Friday.

The incident puts them one step closer to their goal.

Do not be misled by the coverage, the advocates are the greatest threat to these horses, not the kayakers, paddleboarders and plastic bags.

UPDATE: Added video.

Earlier this year, film of a colt running on a broken leg during the Pancake roundup sparked outrage and condemnation of helicopter roundups.

Now, the advocates are willing to overlook the collateral damage because they see greater opportunities for the Montana Solution.

In the old days, when faced with hopeless situations leading to the removal of wild horses, the advocates would walk away.

Today, they are willing participants.

RELATED: CAAWH Applauds Fertility Control Solicitation!

A representative told KNPR Radio yesterday that the project would mark a significant shift towards humane on-range management of wild horses and away from cruel, costly helicopter roundups.

Three paragraphs above the writer notes that contractors would “gather the animals,” a reference to helicopter roundups.

A few months ago the advocates were “all in” for the “Save a Horse, Hire a Cowboy” helicopter ban.

Watching them flip-flop so quickly is truly astonishing.

RELATED: It’s Happening: RTF Endorses Fertility Control Solicitation!

The advocates will throw in with the government contractors, and drop their opposition to helicopter roundups, including the injuries, deaths and mistreatment associated therewith, if it means greater use of the Montana Solution in America’s wild herds.

This will show that their criticism of the gathers, removals and stockpiling of horses in off-range corrals was simply a ploy to sell more PZP.

Not only will the herds have to suffer the long-term effects of the Montana Solution, evident at Assateague Island but concealed by the Park Service, they’ll also have to endure the trauma of roundups to receive it.

Doesn’t get any better than that for America’s wild horses.

RELATED: Montana Solution Necessitates Helicopter Roundups?

It’s supposed to prevent them according to the advocates.

But Section 3, Part 1, Paragraph c in yesterday’s solicitation for fertility control services says the method of capture will be with the use of [helicopter] drive and/or bait trapping in accordance with the standards of the Comprehensive Animal Welfare Program.

The advocates oppose the use of helicopters, but perhaps they can be accommodated in the early stages of the project until the herds are small enough to stalk the remaining animals on the range and shoot them with darts as taught in Billings.

The advocates refer to sterilized mares as “self-boosting.”

The CAWP and other supporting documents can be found at the solicitation page.

RELATED: Proposals Sought to Catch, Treat, Release Wild Horses and Burros.

The closure of two HMAs and the downsizing of a third will reduce opportunities for the helicopter contractors and wild horse advocates, the two leading players in the livestock protection industry.

The advocates oppose the roundups but not the removals, preferring to take horses off the range with the Montana Solution.

Both groups offer the same results, assuring that most of the food and water in areas identified for the horses go to the public-lands ranchers.

The Montana Solution takes longer to implement but, unlike helicopter roundups, the herds don’t bounce back.

The Proposed Action in the Final EIS (Alternative D) did not appear in the Draft EIS and was not subject to public review.

Only those who participated in the planning process can protest and new issues cannot be introduced.

Refer to Section 2.2.4 in each document for a comparison of the two plans.

Suppose you bought land in a new subdivision and the builder offers four floor plans for your consideration.

You go through them and give him your feedback.

A year later he comes back with a new plan that was not among the original four and he wants you to accept it without comment.

Are you going to agree to that?

RELATED: Protests Accumulating in Rock Springs RMP Amendments.

How could it be unable to support the 457 horses living there before the roundup, when the BLM authorizes privately owned livestock equivalent to 832 wild horses in the same area?

Captured animals were taken to the Cañon City off-range corrals, where 136 have died as of May 7.  The foals reported yesterday may have been born in the corrals.

News reports focus on the situation at the corrals, not on the mismanagement of their home range.  Same for the advocates.

RELATED: Cañon City Deaths Preventable?

Foals represented seven percent of the burros captured at Sinbad and twelve percent of the burros captured near Death Valley.

We know what they think about youngsters.

Yes to privately owned cattle and sheep, no to wild horses and burros.

How else can you explain their zeal for the Montana Solution, the humane alternative to helicopters roundups?

With vaccines, according to the executive director of the Campaign Against America’s Wild Horses in a story posted today by The Daily Sentinel of Grand Junction, CO.

It’s not clear if she meant vaccines that prevent illness or vaccines that prevent life.

She and her supporters are much more interested in the latter than the former.

The 131 horses lost to date at Cañon City are all in a day’s work on the Virginia Range, where her foot soldiers deny life to perhaps five times that many every year with the Montana Solution.

The herd shrinks as the older ones die off, all part of a broader plan to take market share from Cattoor, Sun J and Uhalde while affording the same level of protection to the public-lands ranchers.

The deaths could have been avoided by leaving the horses on their home range, which is managed principally for livestock.

Why didn’t she mention that?

RELATED: Critics of Cañon City Incident Have Hidden Agenda.

None of the big-name advocacy groups will claim responsibility for it.

They may have been upstaged.

The news release by Animal Wellness Action, a lobbying group for the PZP fanatics and presenter at the SOWH Conference, indicates that the legislation is endorsed by

• Veterans for Mustangs
• Animal Wellness Action
• Animal Wellness Foundation
• Center for a Humane Economy (another presenter)
• Wild Beauty Foundation (ditto)
• American Horse Protection Society
• American Legion
• Monty Roberts
• Flag Is Up Farm
• Horse Sense and Healing
• War Horse Creek
• Devil Dog Depot Equine Sanctuary and Rescue
• Wish for Our Heroes

The advocates’ plan to take market share from Cattoor and Sun J may now have a serious challenger.

RELATED: Veterans Against Mustangs Act Now in Committee.