Although this report by KPVI News of Pocatello, ID mentions resource management plans, it does not explain them, but it’s far more informative than anything you’ll get from the advocates.

The article refers to legal actions by the Rock Springs Grazing Association and the Campaign Against America’s Wild Horses as “Lawsuits from both sides of the debate,” which is not correct.

They are on the same side of the debate: One group wants the horses removed with helicopters, the other wants them removed with PZP.

The first method is fast and the second method is slow but both give the public-lands ranchers unfettered access to cheap feed in areas set aside for wild horses.

This bogus advocacy group cares more about its standing among the bureaucrats and ranchers than it does about America’s wild horses.

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The forage liberated by the removal of 20,000 wild horses from public lands would support 40,000 cow/calf pairs over a six-month grazing season.

The increase in supply will have little impact on beef prices, as the release of oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve did for fuel prices, but may convince some of the voters that the one-horse pony and his illicit administration have their interests in mind.

The government will collect $324,000 per year in grazing fees from the project, in exchange for the $20 million outlay to remove the horses plus $15 million per year to stockpile them in off-range holding.

The only way the enterprise survives is with huge subsidies from American taxpayers.

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Don’t ask the advocates.  Ask someone trapped for 23 hours in the snowstorm earlier this week on I-95 in Virginia.

If this motorist managed his fuel the way the advocates manage wild horses, he’d grab a screwdriver, puncture his tank and let the contents trickle to the ground.

The Campaign Against America’s Wild Horses, and the advocacy groups associated therewith, will not sponsor name-that-foal contests in 2022.

Deception will be the primary means of separating you from your money.

Revered by the advocates, he did not invent PZP but expanded its use in wild horse herds under the guise of population control.

Some of them make the pilgrimage to The Science and Conservation Center in Billings, which he founded, for training in the handling and use of PZP.

Why would you want to keep wild horse herds in check?  Because their land is managed primarily for livestock.  You won’t hear that from the advocates or the SCC.

The substance is a federally registered pesticide.  Curiously, a pest control license is not required to apply it.

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Not exactly, the advocates are using PZP to get rid of them, not Zyklon B.

If I was a resident of Montana, I would not want the name of my state associated with the chemical eradication of wild horses.

He came into the world that we might be saved from eternal damnation.

If the government was going to remove the horses with helicopters, there’d be outrage.

But the Proposed Action will get rid of them with GonaCon or PZP.

Silence.

In both cases, the management plan assigns four times more forage to privately owned livestock than the horses.

The advocates don’t oppose the removals, only the way they are carried out.

What about the resource allocations that prompt them?

More silence.

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For livestock, words.

For horses, darts.

Which species do they think is the problem?  Which one is overpopulated?

Your Christmas giving should not include them.  They are wrong about almost everything in the wild horse world.

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This article in Horse Nation, written by a senior advisor to the Animal Welfare Institute, a sponsor of the misleading Rock Springs petition, notes that livestock vastly outnumber wild horses and graze on the same public lands.

Further, the government is trying to reduce the nation’s wild horse population to just 27,000 animals, citing arbitrary AMLs that are not supported by science.

Yet it concludes with this inconsistent and unoriginal idea: The BLM should implement safe and humane fertility control methods to keep horses on the range.

If a darting program prevents 125 births in a herd of 600, it is equivalent to a roundup of 125 wild horses—every year.  It does not keep horses on the range.

There is no turning over of the genetic soil, the older horses die off, and the population goes down.  Exactly what the ranchers want, although on a much longer timeframe.

The wild horse world is full of charlatans.

“Stay Wild,” a favorite of the advocates, is a lie.  Next to the federal government, nobody’s getting rid of more wild horses than they are.

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No, Congress did.

Western Horse Watchers reminds you to think in terms of a process and to realize that the causes of roundups, adoptions, warehousing and slaughter are far upstream.

Statutes > Regulations > Policies > Plans > Programs > Procedures > Actions

Problems are solved by addressing the causes, not by treating the symptoms, a concept that has eluded the advocates for decades.

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The year is almost over and while the advocates are reviewing what they did to our wild ones in 2021, Craig Downer explains in this article what can be done for them.

Regarding base properties, Western Horse Watchers believes that they are part of the solution: Confine the ranchers to their deeded acres and let them pay market rates to feed their animals, in a year-round off-season.

The proposed feedlot north of Winnemucca will support 4,000 animals on 100 acres of private property.  If it works for the horses it works for the cattle.

As for climate change, Western Horse Watchers believes that it’s a naturally occurring process that’s been going on for eons and is not attributable to modern life, as the Marxists would have you believe.

They’re not interested in protecting the environment but controlling every aspect of your life.  Why are you still voting for them?

This column in yesterday’s edition of The Salt Lake Tribune was written by the director of communications for the Campaign Against America’s Wild Horses.

Whenever they get involved, there is no more wildness, no natural selection, no legacy.

When are you leaving, dear?

The December edition of Horse Tales is out, along with another article by the real estate agent and PZP darter in the Minden-Gardnerville area.

The listings are on page 24 and the article begins at the bottom of page 5.

The action takes place on the Pine Nut Mountains HA, which includes the HMA but extends well to the south, coinciding roughly with the Buckeye and Pine Nut allotments.

The land was identified for wild horses in 1971 but has since been taken away and is now managed principally for livestock.

Horses still inhabit the area, which is unfit for them, supposedly.  The AML is zero.

Instead of demanding that the HA be managed principally for wild horses—as specified in the statute—the advocates are getting rid of them with PZP.

There is little if any turning over of the genetic soil and the herd may be dying off, depending on how severely they’ve reduced the birth rate.

If things get out of hand, the government will remove them, ensuring that all of their food, except for a small amount reserved for wildlife, goes to public-lands ranchers.

Good job, guys.

Like the Virginia Range a few miles to the north, the Campaign Against America’s Wild Horses has its tentacles in this program.

The Allotment Master report puts Buckeye and Pine Nut in the Improve category.

An article by Cowboy State Daily said it was delivered to U.S. Department of the Interior Secretary Deb Haaland on Monday.

Not mentioned in the narrative:

• Changes to WHB Act that benefit public-lands ranchers
• Land already taken from the horses and managed principally for livestock
• RSGA and Rock Springs Consent Decree
• Additional land to be confiscated by Rock Springs RMP Amendments
• Management priorities at Rock Springs HMAs

If the sponsoring organizations were honest about the circumstances affecting these horses, nobody would have signed their petition.

RELATED: Advocates to Interior: Let Us Get Rid of Rock Springs Horses.

Manage HMAs and WHTs primarily for livestock.

Make AMLs small relative to the available resources.

Assign most of the forage to privately owned cattle and sheep.

Remove excess horses and burros to achieve these objectives.

But do it with PZP, not helicopters.

That’s what needs to change.

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The current statute bears little resemblance to the original and no longer affords the protections sought by Velma.

The task ahead is rebuilding and restoration.

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Refer to this opinion piece in today’s online edition of The Oregonian.

What about the Forest Service and the advocacy groups?

Today we celebrate the work of Velma Johnston, whose steely determination earned her the nickname “Wild Horse Annie.”

The origin of the Wild Horse and Burro Act is the Virginia Range, where the horses she first encountered were captured in 1950.

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Reports about free-roaming horses and burros usually do not mention permitted grazing and how the original WHB Act was altered at the behest of ranching interests.

The new priorities, which protect the public-lands ranchers, not the horses and burros, are reflected in the current statute and the federal regulations affecting those animals.

Today we we acknowledge the role of big tech and the media in controlling what the American people see and hear about wild horses and burros.

Search results point to groups that accept the overpopulation narrative, promote PZP darting and other means of population suppression, and are helping the government achieve and maintain AMLs—which are biased in favor of the ranchers.

Film crews don’t go back to the HMAs after roundups to see what type of animals filled the void and follow-up reports suggest the horses are better off in the gulags.

Is it because they’re not curious or are they just following orders?

These people don’t bring you the truth, they insulate you from it.

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