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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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?

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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.

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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?

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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.

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The bill, designated HR 7631, has been referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources, according to the summary at Congress.gov.

Another stupid idea from your elected representatives.

Hopefully it terms out with its sponsors.

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A board member for the Campaign Against America’s Wild Horses told The Colorado Sun in an article posted this morning that “We cannot continue to round up wild horses from their native habitats, cram them into holding pens and expect a good outcome for the wild horses or the taxpayers who are funding this broken system.”

Sounds great.  Is he suggesting the animals would be better off on the range?

No!  He’s suggesting that the BLM should be getting rid of them with PZP.

The advocates are always looking for new ways to sell old ideas.

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Better if they were not even born according to a column in today’s edition of The Gazette of Colorado Springs, CO.

Let the permittees have most of the food and water in areas set aside for wild horses.

Exactly what you’d expect from the advocates.

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The investigation currently centers around the outbreak of an influenza virus and the vaccine protocols intended to prevent it, as discussed in the following report by CBS News in Denver.

The government has not provided a satisfactory explanation for the high mortality rate in the West Douglas horses compared to other animals at the facility.

But nobody’s asking why they aren’t living on their home range.

The problem is the way our public lands are managed, especially in areas set aside for wild horses.

Most of the food and water have been assigned to privately owned cattle and sheep.

With few resources remaining for the horses, most of them end up in off-range holding.

A blog post dated April 27 by the BLM describes that as nirvana.

Privately owned land formerly used for cattle grazing has been repurposed for wild horses and public lands designated for the horses are now used for cattle grazing, with expenses covered by the taxpayers.

It’s absolutely nuts.  The aim of the wild horse and burro program is to minimize its impact on the grazing program.

Confine the ranchers to their base properties and let them pay the going rate to feed their animals.  They’ve been insulated from the realities of a free market, at least on the cost side, for too long.

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No, because it’s too far downstream to be of any use to the horses.  It can’t change the conditions that forced them off the range in the first place.

Consider this example from the North Lander Complex:

• Forage allocations before incident – 11.5% to horses, 88.5% to livestock
• Forage allocations after incident – 11.5% to horses, 88.5% to livestock

The Proposed Action in the new resource enforcement plan will make the area a nirvana for the ranchers and its rightful inhabitants will end up in off-range holding.

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As stated in today’s news release on PR Newswire: “RTF has long advocated for the use of a readily available fertility control vaccine that if properly implemented can replace removals as the agency’s primary management tool and allow for the phasing out of long-term holding.”

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The advocates will demand an end to the roundups and warehousing of wild horses in off-range corrals.

But they won’t call for an end to the removals.

Instead, they’ll insist that the government get rid of them with the Montana Solution, a business they plan to dominate while the pilots and wranglers sit on the sidelines.

RELATED: Death Toll Still Climbing at Cañon City Off-Range Corrals.

The numbers will likely go higher but the inmates and staff at a horse training facility in Colorado can’t match the damage inflicted on the herd by the advocates in Nevada.

As noted yesterday, the Campaign Against America’s Wild Horses and its army of volunteers have pumped nearly 6,000 doses of PZP into the mares over the last three years, with somewhere between 1,500 and 2,000 lives denied over the same period.

A member of the CAAWH board told CBS News in a story yesterday that “If there weren’t roundups we wouldn’t have the consignment and we wouldn’t have this contagion so the bigger picture this could have been avoided,” a reference to the Montana Solution and the group’s raison d’être.

No more roundups, no more off-range holding and no more horses.

Move over Cañon City, the advocates will not be outdone.

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