Shrinking Populations and Managing to Extinction

Do you see the contradiction in this statement?

Fertility control is the leading cause of stunted and shrinking populations!

Who’s publishing this garbage?

The group that’s driving the Virginia Range herd to extinction via mass sterilization.

Its affiliate at the Salt River is doing the same thing.

These people are shallower than a dry creek on the 92nd day of a drought.

Reminder About Sanctuaries

If they don’t include public lands and don’t displace livestock therefrom, they’re not worthy of your support.

Nonprofits operating solely on deeded acreage do the will of the public-lands ranchers.

The model employed by American Prairie gives hope to wild horses.

They buy base properties tied to grazing allotments and flip the preference to bison.

The problem in the wild horse world is that those who claim to be voices for the horses are actually servants of the ranchers.

If the Public Lands Council isn’t howling about your project, you’re not doing it right.

RELATED: Defund the Advocates Day Set for December 2.

BLM Issues Antelope-Triple B Final Planning Documents

The Decision Record authorizes Alternative A, the Proposed Action, discussed in section 2.4 of the Final EA.

Details of the new HMAP can be found in Appendix XIII.

  • No changes to AMLs or authorized AUMs
  • Forcible removal
  • Application of fertility control pesticides
  • Skewing of sex ratios in favor of males
  • Monitoring of genetic diversity
  • Massive interference in natural order

Recall the rallying cry in the Nevada Current op-ed: “America’s wild horses have faced competition from livestock, unfair resource allocation, and shrinking habitat for generations.”

How does the new plan fix any of that?

It doesn’t.  The only change the advocates want is more government spending on services they provide.

RELATED: Antelope-Triple B Preliminary EA Out for Review.

Propaganda, Not Education, Coming to Virginia City

Now they’re billing it as education and awareness.

The Campaign Against America’s Wild Horses will serve cookies and hot cider on October 23 as they try to convince you that mass sterilization is a humane alternative to motorized removal.

How stupid do you have to be to believe anything from these phonies?

RELATED: An Evening of Education and Advocacy for Wild Horses?

Leadership Shakeup at Wild Horse Transition Team

John Mack has left the group over disagreements with founder Jacquelyn Hughes as to how many horses should be removed from the Salt River herd according to a report by Phoenix New Times.

That shifts management responsibilities to Hughes for five years if AZDA was to select her proposal, which is not her style.

As a wild horse removal contractor, she wants to get in, get the job done and move on to the next opportunity.

By contrast, the Salt River advocates have stayed the course, which is necessary to sterilize the mares.

RELATED: AZDA Should Give Salt River Advocates the Boot.

Who’s Advising Bobby Khan About Wild Horses?

The advocates asserted in the Nevada Current op-ed that “America’s wild horses have faced competition from livestock, unfair resource allocation, and shrinking habitat for generations,” which is a fair statement, but their solution is completely unrelated and can only make the problem worse.

Makes perfect sense once you realize they’re in the tank for the ranchers.

Bobby Khan, a candidate for the seat currently held by a co-founder of the pesticide caucus and author of the “Ground a Helicopter, Sterilize a Mare” Act, has proposed a five-step plan for resolving the issues.

1. End the Roundups.  “Halt helicopter roundups and stop funneling horses into holding facilities or auctions.”  The goal is to end the removals not the roundups.  Bait trapping and fertility control are alternate methods of removal.

2. Return Horses to the Wild.  “Reintroduce horses and burros to their designated lands where they legally belong.”  Not if they’re managed principally for livestock.

3. Herd Management Solutions.  This one wrecks the whole program: “Work with experts, ranchers and advocates to implement responsible herd management practices that protect horses and respect ranching interests.”  Resource management is a zero-sum game.  What you give to the ranchers must be taken from the horses.  This is why there so many in off-range holding.  Not compatible with item 2.

4. Cut Costs and Save Taxpayer Money.  “Replace costly confinement programs with humane, natural management that saves taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars annually.”  Probably a reference to fertility control, straight out of the advocates’ playbook.

5. Build Coalitions for Change.  “Partner with leaders, advocates, and public voices…to bring national attention and action to the issue.”  Enlarging the committee will not produce the required knowledge.

RELATED: Palomino Valley Horse Rally Won’t Break Any New Ground.

An Evening of Education and Advocacy for Wild Horses?

The event, organized by the Campaign Against America’s Wild Horses, is set for October 23 in Virginia City.

The topic is wild horse management on the Virginia Range.

They’ll sell the program as humane population reduction or wild horse conservation, but it’s really mass sterilization.

There’s nothing natural about it and it’s all based on myths propagated by bureaucrats, hunters and ranchers.

Palomino Valley Horse Rally Won’t Break Any New Ground

From the solutions page at Bobby Khan for Congress:

“He’ll fight to ban helicopter roundups, demand full transparency from the Bureau of Land Management, and push for humane, science-based herd management solutions. That includes fertility control, strategic rewilding, and support for sanctuaries and tribal partnerships doing the real work on the ground.”

Sounds just like the advocates.

RELATED: Political Rally at Palomino Valley Off-Range Corrals?

BLM Moves Rock Springs Roundups into Next Year

An attorney representing plaintiffs in a new lawsuit said they won’t happen before the summer of 2026 according to a report by Wyofile.

The case was brought by two advocacy groups and two women, all PZP adherents, who may have been offended by being described as “pro-horse groups and individuals.”

As of today, the agency has not released a roundup schedule for FY26.

RELATED: BLM Moving Ahead with Rock Springs Roundups?

CAAWH Returns to LA for Wild Horse Shakedown

This year’s event will be held at Gracias Madre in West Hollywood (sometimes referred to as the city of the sodomites), according to an announcement on Average Socialite.

The venue features Mexican food made from plant-based ingredients only, a must-have for liberals.

The online flyer shows a mare and foal, antithetical to the CAAWH mission.

Ticket options:

  • General admission – $250
  • VIP foal friend – $350
  • VIP meadow guardian – $450
  • VIP herd protector – $550

The general admission ticket gets you drinks and hors d’oeuvres.

The foal friend ticket pays for care of an orphaned foal.  There aren’t supposed to be any foals.

The meadow guardian ticket funds the reseeding of one acre of scorched earth in their bogus land trust.  The name of the affected allotment was not given.

The herd protector ticket buys 20 doses of PZP.  In exchange, you get an 8×10 photo taken by the head darter in charge at Cedar Mountain, where the BLM pays them to ruin the mares.

The organizers say the event is dedicated to protecting America’s wild horses and burros, yet there are no remarks about stopping competition from livestock, fixing unfair resource allocations and restoring lost habitat.

RELATED: Advocates to Fleece West Coast Liberals at Wild Horse Gala?

Punishing the Victims

The September 9 commentary in Nevada Current reveals the duplicity and betrayal of the Campaign Against America’s Wild Horses.

The problem: America’s wild horses have faced competition from livestock, unfair resource allocation, and shrinking habitat for generations.

Their solution: Sterilize the mares, beat the horse numbers down with ovary-killing pesticides.

How does that stop the competition from livestock, fix the resource allocations and restore lost habitat?

It doesn’t.  They don’t want any changes, other than more government spending on services they provide.

These people are phonies, allies of the bureaucrats and ranchers, and don’t deserve a penny of your support.

RELATED: Capitulation, Surrender, Defeat on the Virginia Range.

Capitulation, Surrender, Defeat on the Virginia Range

If your opponent appears to be winning, should you rethink your strategy or continue on the same path?

Consider this commentary in today’s edition of Nevada Current, written by the State Director for the Campaign Against America’s Wild Horses.

The author identifies the problem, but instead of offering a solution, shows how to make it worse.

“America’s wild horses have faced competition from livestock, unfair resource allocation, and shrinking habitat for generations.”

Fair statement.

The answer?

Sterilize the mares.

Give the ranchers what they want.

While you’re at it, feed the public a steady diet of lies.

“The Virginia Range program uses an immunocontraceptive vaccine known as PZP (porcine zona pellucida). Administered by trained volunteers via remote darting, PZP prevents pregnancy in mares without harming hormone cycles or behaviors, and it’s reversible.”

PZP is a restricted-use pesticide that tricks the immune system into attacking the ovaries.

After five years of treatment, the mares can no longer bear fruit.

“The USA now has more wild horses in captivity than running free on the rangelands in the West.”

Why is that?

Refer to the problem statement at the beginning of your op-ed, about which you, and your army of nitwits, do nothing.

Political Rally at Palomino Valley Off-Range Corrals?

The flyer says wild horses are a living symbol of America’s spirit of freedom, but career politicians and bureaucrats in Washington have sold them out to special interests.

What special interests?

If the speakers don’t talk about livestock, forage allocations and the way your public lands are managed, shake the dust from your sandals and leave.

The event starts at 10 AM on September 20 at the BLM adoption center.

The organizer, who served eight months in prison for wire fraud, is trying to unseat Dina Titus, a left-wing kook, co-founder of the Pesticide Caucus and close supporter of the Campaign Against America’s Wild Horses, from Nevada’s 1st congressional district.