Western Horse Watchers Association
Exposing the Hypocrisy, Lies and Incompetence of the Wild Horse Advocates
Opinion
What exactly have they done to push back against the public-lands ranchers?
Not a damn thing.
Yet they’re doing everything they can to destroy the Virginia Range mustangs—the herd that defies the wild horse narrative and contradicts the lies of the BLM.
Velma would be shocked.
The organization is so far gone that it can only be salvaged by a complete change of leadership. Don’t give them a penny.
The proposal would protect America’s wild horses by (OMG) removing privately owned cattle and sheep from public lands in the western U.S. You knew that, right?
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The year isn’t quite over, but almost certainly the top story would be the announcement on 04-22-19 of the ill-conceived ‘Path Forward’ and its eventual funding by Congress.
Honorable mentions would include the
Information about these and other events can be found in the Index.
We still have a representative republic, so let your voice be heard.
It’s not about about evidence, it’s not about witnesses and it’s not about due process.
It’s about the Supreme Court and what happens to the liberal agenda when the Six Million Dollar Justice passes on to her eternal reward.
You see, there are some things in this country, such as the fundamental transformation, that are too important to be left to the voters.
Just ask the residents of Laramie County.
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Refer to this report by Associated Press, posted today. The legislation, which goes into effect tonight, keeps the federal government afloat through September 30 of next year.
The non-defense bill provides a hefty down payment on the disastrous ‘Path Forward.’
The horses weren’t federally protected but they were killed just the same. Here’s a recap of similar incidents on federal lands since the summer of 2018:
In these cases, each count carries a penalty of one year in prison and a fine of $2,000.
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UPDATE: The reward is now $15,000 according to a story by the Washington Post.
The measure passed by a 71 to 23 vote, according to a story by Associated Press, which includes $21 million for an aggressive wild horse population reduction strategy. Go to Division D, Title I in the HR 1865 text.
The President said he would sign it before tomorrow’s midnight deadline.
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The folks at PERC published a commentary earlier this week claiming responsibility for the $1,000 adoption incentive, describing it as a market-based solution that gets horses out of holding facilities and into real homes.
Why are they in holding facilities? Because they compete for water and forage with other wildlife.
Yep, wildlife. Privately owned cattle and sheep were omitted from the story.
So are they guilty of sloppy research or are they shills for the public-lands ranchers?
Why haven’t they proposed market-based solutions to the ranching problem?
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The votes for impeachment were 230-197-1 on the first article and 229-198-1 on the second, according to a report posted this evening by Associated Press.
Six hours of debate began shortly after noon EST. You can watch it here.
Almost certainly the brave and loyal Democrats who control the House were able to resist the lobbying pressures of the ranching cabal, but were overwhelmed by the underhanded tactics of oil, mining and timber companies.
That’s why HR 1865 contains $21 million for an aggressive population reduction strategy for America’s wild horses and burros. Control comes later.
Now the bill moves to the Senate, also dominated by liberals, and on to the President, who can only accept it or reject it. No line-item veto.
If you magnified the wrongdoing ten thousand times and stuck it in a fly’s ear, it would bounce around like a BB in a boxcar.
The articles are fiction and the process is theater.
They can’t beat him in 2020 and a Supreme Court vacancy nears, so he has to go.
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A syndicated report by the Associated Press, making its way through major news outlets, refers to the disastrous management plan as “a new Trump administration proposal.”
As stated back in October by the chair of the WHBAB, the proposal was presented to Congress and it’s up to Congress to act on it (full quote at this post).
Of course, the executive branch will own it if the President signs a bill that funds it.
Although legislators are working out the details of the new spending bill, which will eventually end up on the President’s desk, we really don’t know what he’s been told about America’s wild horses.
Animal Wellness Action, a lobbying group in Washington D.C., said yesterday that a letter had been sent to leadership of the House and Senate appropriations committees for the Department of the Interior, urging them to fund only the $6 million proposed in the House and to restrict those funds solely to the use of PZP.
The Cloud Foundation and American Wild Horse Campaign applauded the request.
The signatories also oppose surgical sterilization, according to the news release, but apparently they don’t mind if it happens via contraceptives.
When will these ‘advocacy’ groups come to their senses, learn the difference between symptoms and causes, and act in favor of the horses, not the public-lands ranchers?
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1. Sell at least 80% of their food to public-lands ranchers.
2. Define the AML as the number of horses the remaining crumbs can support.
3. When the crumbs run out, declare them to be overpopulated (even though most of their food is still there).
4. If they try to reclaim their food from the ranchers, refer to them as ‘excess.’
5. Send in the helicopters.
One of the defining characteristics of the Trump presidency is the prevalence of bad advice, and givers thereof, evidenced by the turnover in his administration.
What about the BLM? What has the President been told about America’s wild horses?
When interviewed back in September about the agency’s move to Grand Junction, U.S. Senator Cory Gardner (R-CO) said, in response to a question about the location of the new headquarters (same building as some of the companies that lease federal lands),
“Washington is infested with special interests. You mean to tell me that BLM is insulated from that? They’re infested.”
Is the WHB program affected? Of course it is.
You only need to look at the signatories to the ill-conceived ‘Path Forward‘ to see who’s calling the shots:
When you come across a story about the wild horse ‘crisis,’ such as this one, posted today by United Press International, think about outside influences, hidden agendas and the underlying beliefs of the legislators and bureaucrats.
The ranching cabal wants the horses off the range so their food can be sold to them.
Everything else is pretense.
You don’t have a horse problem on western rangelands, you have a ranching problem.
The BLM announced today the opening of a 15-day comment period on the preliminary Environmental Assessment for testing of a single-dose vaccine that will cause long-term infertility in wild mares, to help the agency achieve and maintain a thriving ecological balance [on public lands].
The news release did not indicate what’s on the other side of the scales but more than likely it’s privately owned cattle and sheep.
What they’re really looking for, according to page 5 in Section 1.2, is lifetime infertility, code words for sterilization.
Section 4.4.1 says that the WHB Act of 1971 provides for contraception and sterilization of wild horses. It does not. The terms are not in the statute.
The reference should be the WHB Act of 1971, as amended [by ranching interests], which no longer affords the protections sought by Velma.
The proposal adds more weight to the argument that the agency entrusted with the care of these animals actually views them as pests—something to be eradicated.
A 45-day comment period began yesterday, according to a report by the Wyoming Tribune Eagle, to help county commissioners make a decision regarding a proposed wild horse adoption facility near Burns.
Personnel from Equine Elite, the company pitching the project, didn’t like the answer given by residents, so they asked the county to change the rules, silencing those voices.
An interesting and valuable follow-up to the story would be to find out what’s driving it.
Why was ‘No’ an unacceptable answer? Who benefits as more and more wild horses come off the range?
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