In a guest column appearing today in the Redding-based Record Searchlight, the writer worries about the fate of captured horses but doesn’t say anything about the reasons for their removal.

Yep, it’s okay to pull them off the range and give more of their land and forage to livestock, just don’t ship them to slaughter.

The greatest threat to wild horses and burros is public-lands ranching, not oil and gas exploration, not mineral extraction, not timber harvesting.

The government serfs, along with their allies at the BLM and USFS, are laughing at you, dear, because you focus on symptoms not on causes.

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Todd Gloria, a member of the California State Assembly, has written a letter to the USFS demanding an end to the Devils’s Garden wild horse gather, according to a report that appeared yesterday in East County Magazine.  It was signed by 22 of his legislative colleagues (most of whom are liberals).

Links in the story point to the site of an ‘advocacy’ group known for its unwavering support of fertility control for horses.  To see how that method stacks up against other herd management practices, take this quiz.  Match a technique on the left with a result on the right.  Take as much time as you need.

If your answers look like this, you are correct!

Another advantage of these techniques is that they they align with the overpopulation narrative and leave more forage on western rangelands for livestock.

If you think wild horse advocates should be pushing for changes that work to the benefit of the horses, you’re in the minority.  Refer to the list in this post for some ideas.

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This story by The Salt Lake Tribune has a summary of today’s proceedings.  Public comments were taken in the afternoon session.  This was the final day of the meeting.

The enmity toward wild horses and burros was astonishing.

Multiple use was cited as the justification for a variety of activities on lands set aside for WHB, such as energy development, livestock grazing and timber harvesting.  Except when adverse conditions are found, such as soil erosion and missing vegetation.  Then it’s single use—all problems are caused by the horses.

Claims were made that AMLs represent the carrying capacity of the land.  If that was true, there could be no livestock grazing on HMAs.

An argument was advanced that livestock can’t be removed from public lands because it would ruin the lives of the ranchers.  Sadly, manufacturers of buggy whips, vacuum tubes and carburetors, along with their workers, were not available for comment.

Neither were the coal miners displaced by the wind farms of an earlier presentation.

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An opinion piece that appeared yesterday in the Redding-based Record Searchlight was written by a spokesman for the USFS to ‘correct some inaccuracies.’  However, it fails to mention that the Devil’s Garden WHT falls within permitted livestock allotments.

So much for accuracy.

Removing wild horses from HMAs and WHTs is good for the public-lands ranchers, their overlords, cheerleaders and political allies.

That is the implication of other statements in the piece, such as ‘reducing competition for limited food, water, and habitat’ and ‘communities that also depend on these lands.’

The low water mark of the morning session came when Barry Perryman, a new member of the Advisory Board, suggested that the BLM find additional reasons to remove wild horses from public lands, such as the protection of threatened species (e.g., sage grouse or desert tortoise).

The highlight of the afternoon session was a remark by Ginger Kathrens, during a review of the BLM Report to Congress, that the proposed actions would take wild horse populations back to ‘fast disappearing’ levels, a reference to the preamble of the WHB Act of 1971.

If your belief at the beginning of the day was that the BLM wants more players from Team H off the field and more players from Team L on, nothing was offered in the day’s proceedings to convince you otherwise.

RELATED: WHB Advisory Board Tours Onaqui Mountain HMA.

She knows how to do it.

Leak an embarrassing story about a central figure in the operation.  Employers nowadays are obsessed with diversity and inclusion, so it’s entirely plausible that someone involved has engaged in lewd behavior.

Stop asking questions about the carrying capacity of the land, appropriate population levels, competition on public lands with privately owned livestock, and what steps will be taken to ensure the safety of the horses.  Those topics are irrelevant.

See the report posted yesterday by The Sacramento Bee.

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The WHB Advisory Board meeting in Salt Lake City kicked off yesterday with a field trip to the Onaqui Mountain HMA.  BLM staff hosted the tour, eager to associate any and all conditions with the horses.  Refer to this report by Deseret News.

It’s like climate change.  Whatever the perceived malady, blame it on the horses.  Mud or no mud, vegetation or no vegetation, wildlife or no wildlife, ascribe it to the horses.

Don’t mention livestock, don’t mention multiple use.

Recite the wild horse narrative as often as possible.

Cover for the public-lands ranchers.

Polls show that 80% of Americans want these animals protected and preserved.

Do think that will have any effect on the anti-horse juggernaut that has rolled across western rangelands since Trump was elected?

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A syndicated report has been picked up by major news outlets regarding the second wild horse gather at the Antelope Valley and Goshute HMAs in eastern Nevada.  Refer to this article in the Beaumont Enterprise for example.  Here’s what they have in common:

• Unquestioned acceptance of statements regarding wild horse populations
• Erroneous reporting of the number of horses removed
• Animal deaths not mentioned

Although the stories hint at the role of livestock in the debacle, they fail to acknowledge that all of this is happening on lands set aside for the horses.

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The meeting on Day 2 and Day 3 will be livestreamed according to a report posted yesterday by KSL in Salt Lake City.

The theme of the meeting will be wild horse and burro overpopulation.  Not that it’s true, but an excuse is needed for removing more of these animals from lands set aside for them.

Who’s pushing that?  The National Horse and Burro Rangeland Management Coalition, a livestock advocacy group.  See this position statement in Ag Daily, posted 10/05/18.

“Overpopulation of horses and burros continues to threaten the health of our rangelands and negatively impacts the multiple-use of these public lands.”

Translation: Wild horses are burros are robbing us of forage that could be consumed by cattle and sheep.  They have to go.

RELATED: BLM Posts Agenda for WHB Advisory Board Meeting.

Meeting will occur October 9 – 11 in Salt Lake City, agenda posted here.

Topics include:

• Telling the truth about the carrying capacity of the land
• Restoring zeroed-out lands to wild horses and burros
• Allocating more land to the WHB program
• Increasing AMLs
• Introducing new ideas for keeping WHB on the range
• Ending ‘humane management practices’ (contraception and sterilization)
• Investigating misleading statements about WHB overpopulation
• Raising grazing fees for livestock on public lands
• Requiring labels on beef that indicate if it was produced on public lands
• Educating the public about treatment of WHB on western rangelands
• Publishing charts that show how forage is allocated on public lands
• Reviewing upcoming AUM curtailments
• Reviewing plans for restoring horses to areas impacted by fire and drought
• Waiving property taxes on lands obtained for private sanctuaries
• Omitting sales taxes on equipment and supplies purchased for sanctuaries
• Investigating ties between the BLM, USFS and livestock industry
• Exposing the media blackout regarding livestock on lands set aside for WHB
• Discussing the constitutionality of FLPMA (federal ownership of land)
• Nullifying the WHB Act

Not!  None of these items are on the agenda.

RELATED: National WHB Advisory Board to Meet Next Month.

The Sac Bee report about the Devil’s Garden roundup (which starts next week) is all over the news, minus one teeny weeny detail, namely, that the horses have been robbing public-lands ranchers of their birthright: forage for cattle and sheep—on lands set aside for the horses.

BLM won’t talk about it.  USFS won’t acknowledge it.  Left-wing media outlets won’t cover it.  If conservatives were involved, they’d be attacking from all sides.

Public-lands ranchers get their sustenance from government.  They graze their livestock for pennies per day (the fee in 2018 is $1.41 per cow-calf pair per month).  Government spends tens of millions of dollars every year to remove other species that might interfere with the enterprise.

Their cheerleaders think you have a right to eat meat.

Their leading political ally received a grade of ‘D’ from Conservative Review.

The entire affair looks like one big welfare racket, propagated by liberals for the benefit of liberals.  So much for hard-working cowboys and rugged individualism.

RELATED: Not One Word About Livestock at Devil’s Garden WHT.

The writer of an opinion piece that appeared yesterday in the Elko Daily Free Press argues that it’s impossible to say what’s best for wild horses until sterilization experiments are performed.

You can’t make assumptions about what’s best for them.  Theory and experience have no value.  Knowledge and facts are useless.  You have to pass the bill to find out what’s in it.

Better to cut the ovaries out of mares than to have foals born into a world of degraded ecosystems and endangered wildlife.  Spontaneous abortions, permanent injuries, infections and deaths are a just cost of doing business.

Let’s get the roundup back on track and ship those mares to Hines.

Anything for the public-lands ranchers.

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Couldn’t have said it better myself.  H/T Michael Voris and the folks at Church Militant.

How bad are things in the Catholic Church?  This interview gives you an idea of how thoroughly it has been infiltrated by liberals, modernists and progressives, whose goal is to scandalize the faithful and the faithless, driving them into hell for eternity.

Content Warning.  H/T Michael Voris and the folks at Church Militant.

Is the BLM trying to nullify the WHB Act?  Refer to the guest commentary that appeared today in The Denver Post.  Why?  Who benefits?

BLM announced yesterday that 50 wild horses and burros would be offered for direct purchase to good homes at the Bell County Expo Center October 12 – 13.  Gentling demonstrations will occur both days.  Refer to this news release for details.

The event was made possible by a BLM rule change on 05/24/18.  If you could find it in your heart to buy 10, 15, or maybe 25 horses, you would be doing the BLM—and the public-lands ranchers—a huge favor.

The more captured horses they can unload, the more wild horses they can remove from the range, to be replaced with cattle and sheep—on lands set aside for the horses.

And don’t forget, the Mexican border is only 300 miles away.

An opinion piece posted today in the left-wing blog Down to Earth states that wild horses and burros in the western U.S. are ‘…under siege by oil, gas, mining and other special interests.’  They are not.  The greatest threat to WHB is public-lands ranching.

The writer mentions livestock grazing in the essay but most of the blame is placed on the oil and gas companies, which she refers to as ‘Carbon Capitalists.’

Thus it is possible she takes this position not because she cares about the horses but because she’s a liberal.

How many frac tanks and drilling rigs do you see at this post?  How many excavators and dump trucks do you see in this post?

How many oil companies have written Zinke demanding that wild horse populations be reduced to AMLs immediately?  How many mining companies have been outspoken cheerleaders for the ovary cutters at the BLM?

Wake up, people.  These companies do not require tens of thousands of acres to go about their business.  Public-lands ranchers do.  That’s why the space available to WHB has been going down, along with the AMLs attached thereto.

Acceptance of this trend as axiomatic, a given, is at the root of the ‘humane management’ paradigm, which can only result in total defeat for the horses (and great satisfaction for their enemies).

This was in the news a few weeks ago but was avoided due to skepticism about the organization and disdain for the venue—the show circuit—which is bad for horses.

Besides, liberals aren’t known for conserving anything that’s right and good.  But the idea of returning wild horses to wilderness areas to help prevent wildfires, by grazing down excess forage, is worth considering.

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Western Horse Watchers forgot to cover the demonic event, sponsored by the kooks at Protect the Harvest.  Darn it!  Will try to do better next year.

Personnel with the Cajun Navy help flood victims in New Bern.  No, they’re not administering birth control to all the women.

Shouldn’t the government be rescuing those people?

What an individual can do, society should not take over, and what small societies can do, larger societies should not take over.  That is the principle of subsidiarity.

Nowadays too many people have given up control of their lives, instead, receiving their sustenance from government.  Can you think of an example on western rangelands?