Western Horse Watchers Association
Exposing the Hypocrisy, Lies and Incompetence of the Wild Horse Advocates
Opinion
Imagine having a net worth of several million dollars and being eligible for food stamps.
That’s permitted grazing.
The ranchers pay almost nothing for the forage they consume and the services rendered on their behalf by the government.
And it’s a lifestyle, not temporary public assistance.
What did they know and when did they know it?
You cannot use the Montana Solution to reduce a herd from 450 to 200 without sterilizing the mares.
You need a diploma from the Billings School of PZP Darting to apply it.
To claim ignorance implies gross negligence of the instructors.
Will the guilty parties please step forward?
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He’s one of the greatest proponents of the herd according to a story posted yesterday by the Powell Tribune.
The 2025 population dataset put the size at 149 and he’s already darted 45, which may be close to 100% of the breeding-age mares. Any left for the advocates?
His efforts are not mentioned at their darting page.
The HMA is a curated horse exhibit. There’s nothing natural about it.
All of this to prop up a failed industry, referred to in the article as the folks with stock.
An article by The Colorado Sun points to a long-term challenge in the management of the state’s wild horses: Many of the advocates are growing older and there is not much interest among young people in taking over.
Given that wild horse management generally equates to beating the numbers down with ovary-killing pesticides, that’s a good thing.
Don’t let the door smack you on the way out.
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Simone Netherlands of the Salt River Wild Horse Darting Group and Suzanne Roy of the Campaign Against America’s Wild Horses should be ordered to appear before the Board—if there is one—and put under oath to discuss the condition of the herd.
The meeting would be open to the public.
Those responding to the RFP are entitled to know how much damage has been done by the advocates before taking responsibility for the herd.
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The article begins with a faulty assumption.
The title should say “How should Utah fix the mismanagement of resources in the lawful homes of wild horses and burros?” not “How should Utah rein in the wild horse and burro problem?”
The writer noted that wild horse and burro numbers in the state far exceed appropriate management levels and that animals are straying outside of federal management areas.
So what? AMLs don’t indicate carrying capacities.
Those sounding the alarm are usually involved with animal agriculture.
Putting more wild horses in private sanctuaries, identified as a possible solution, is exactly what they want.
If a proposed facility doesn’t include public lands and doesn’t displace livestock therefrom, it’s not worthy of your support.
Those who sound the alarm about wild horses and burros are often among their worst enemies.
Take for example the Campaign Against America’s Wild Horses, a leader in humane disposal and faithful servant of the bureaucrats and ranchers.
Who’s the greater threat to wild horses, a President whose budget will be tempered by Congress or a nonprofit that’s wiping out herds with mass sterilization?
Do these people not understand that the Campaign Against America’s Wild Horses, a leader in nonmotorized removal and servant of the public-lands ranchers, is sterilizing the Virginia Range mares with PZP, a restricted-use pesticide that tricks the immune system into attacking their ovaries?
How stupid do you have to be to support an organization like that?
File under: Charlatans.
Application of fertility control pesticides beyond the sterilization threshold.
Next to the Virginia Range, it’s the biggest market for their pest control services.
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Maybe to break up their PRIDE parade or something.
How many synonyms for mass sterilization can you find in this Google search result?
Hint: There’s more than two and less than four.
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Jackie Hughes is co-leader of the Wild Horse Transition Team, one of the groups vying for the new management contract.
Consider the possibility that both parties are unsavory.
Western Horse Watchers does not read or link to anything on socialist media.
Legend ties them to shipwrecks and new world explorers but no one really knows how they got there according to a story by the Daily Press.
They’ve survived under harsh conditions for 500 years but today they face a threat nobody imagined: The advocates and their ovary-killing pesticides.
Imagine submitting a proposal to manage the herd at 150 head and instead of seeing it grow, you’re watching it shrink, irreversibly.
Everyone’s looking at you with suspicion.
But you had nothing to do with it.
The problem was created by your predecessor, the Salt River Wild Horse Darting Group and its overlords at the Campaign Against America’s Wild Horses.
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The advocates lure you in with remarks about helicopter roundups then ask you to give them money so they can eradicate the herds with pesticides.
File Under: Charlatans.
“Let the mustang be in charge.”
Can you think of a better way to set him up for failure and put yourself at risk of injury?
The full video runs nearly two hours.
Some equestrians are as nutty as the wild horse advocates.
Lately they’ve referred to it as humane management, in-the-wild management or one of these terms:
They all mean the same thing: Wiping out herds with ovary-killing pesticides.
There are no helicopters, no horses falling out of trailers on the way to off-range corrals and no euthanizing animals for pre-existing conditions.
But the results are the same, with the added benefit that the herds don’t bounce back.
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The NGO advising you of a threat to animals in off-range holding is, in fact, humanely disposing the herd on the Virginia Range.
Its affiliate in Arizona, who insists that the state’s new plan will destroy the Salt River herd, is in fact destroying the herd.
Whatever the advocates warn you about, they’re doing times ten, a sure sign they’re liberals.
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The advocates are obsessed with nonmotorized removal, which they express several different ways:
Their allies in Congress recently formed a pesticide caucus.
Everything points to mass sterilization as a humane alternative to motorized removal with the goal of ranching superiority in the lawful homes of wild horses.
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