W Bar Ranch covers 23,894 total acres according to the agent’s listing, including 1,618 deeded acres, 2,390 state acres and 19,886 BLM acres.

The numbers are very close to those in the allotment master report for Cornucopia Ranch, located a few miles south of Piñon, NM.

The allotment is currently permitted for cattle according to the authorization use report, with a twelve-month grazing season.

The permittee receives 5,032 active AUMs per year, enough to support 419 wild horses.

The stocking rate would be 21.1 wild horses per thousand public acres, despite claims by your faithful public servants that public lands in the western U.S. can only support one wild horse per thousand acres.

The land ratio is good, 17 public acres per deeded acre.

The property might be suitable as a wild horse refuge, saving taxpayers 419 × 6 × 365 = $917,610 per year.

The simple payout period would be 4.4 years.

Wild horses can be placed on public lands not identified for their use by acquiring base properties tied to one or more grazing allotments and flipping the preference to horses.

The advocates could be investing in such projects, which would likely gain value over time, instead of wasting your donations on programs that benefit ranchers.

RELATED: Key Indicators for New Wild Horse Preserves.

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The allotment contains an area identified for wild horses, which is unacceptable.

The ArcGIS Viewer shows the arrangement.

About 70% of the HA is managed principally for livestock.

Horses are tolerated in the HMA, the remaining piece in the northeast corner.

The allotment offers 8,279 active AUMs on 68,879 public acres according to the allotment master report, equivalent to ten wild horses per thousand public acres.

Your faithful public servants claim that public lands in the western U.S. can only support one wild horse per thousand public acres.

You don’t need to buy the base property to put wild horses back in the HA.

You just need to rid the bureaucracy of ranchers and ranching sympathizers and overturn the planning process that zeroed it out.

The advocacy groups could have special funds to acquire base properties not associated with HMAs and WHTs, opening up new spaces on public lands for wild horses.

Instead, they use your donations to buy pesticides so they can beat the horse numbers down in favor of livestock.

RELATED: Suitability of Allotments for Wild Horse Preserves.

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The incident started yesterday as advertised, with 60 horses captured, none shipped, none released and one dead.

RELATED: Jakes Fire Emergency Roundup Announced.

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The founder of Mustang Monument speaks with John Catsimatidis in this audio segment by WABC Radio in New York City.

The authorization use report indicates the preference on the Spruce allotment has not been flipped to horses, which was part of the deal when she bought the base property.

Her rescued mustangs are probably on the deeded acreage.

RELATED: How Did Mustang Monument Rate as a Wild Horse Refuge?

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At or near the Salt River with Dustin Doppmann.

The absence of foals should sound an alarm about wild horses and those who are trying to wipe them out with fertility control pesticides.

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The HMA lies within the Bullhead allotment.

Its southern border stops short of a checkerboard area and the western edge omits a slice of public lands, but the rest of it coincides roughly with that of the allotment.

The 140 wild horses allowed by plan require 1,680 AUMs per year.

The stocking rate allowed by plan is 1.3 wild horses per thousand public acres, slightly more than the target rate across all HMAs of one wild horse per thousand acres.

The allotment offers 12,050 active AUMs on 142,361 public acres, equivalent to 7.1 wild horses per thousand public acres.

The allotment master report puts it in the Improve category, with 7,233 AUMs in the suspended column.

The HMA should be able to support 1.3 + 7.1 = 8.4 wild horses per thousand acres.

Given that it covers 103,802 public acres, the estimated carrying capacity is 872.

Under the current management plan, the BLM collects $11,858 per year from grazing activity inside the HMA while it spends $1.6 million per year to care for 872 – 140 = 732 wild horses displaced thereby.

Nobody in the private sector would do that.

The advocates would solve the problem by sterilizing the mares, eliminating the need for roundups and off-range holding while ensuring that most of the authorized forage goes to livestock in the lawful home of wild horses.

RELATED: How Many Wild Horses Can Public Lands Really Support?

UPDATE: The authorization use report indicates the allotment is permitted for cattle.

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The bill was signed today according to a White House news release, giving the BLM a budget for FY26.

A new roundup schedule should appear at the agency’s gather page.

Remarks about the wild horse and burro program, including links to the House and Senate reports, can be found in the explanatory statement.

RELATED: HR6938 One Step Away from Becoming Law.

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The incident will begin on or about January 26 according to the news release.

The capture and removal goals are 182.

Horses in and around the burned area, which includes portions of the Snowstorm Mountains and Little Humboldt HMAs, will be pushed into the traps by a helicopter.

The announcement did not indicate if operations would be open to public observation.

Captured animals will be taken to the off-range corrals in Winnemucca.

There are no plans to treat any of the mares with fertility control pesticides and return them to the range.

The fire burned 26% of Snowstorm Mountains and 90% of Little Humboldt according to the project description in ePlanning.

The DNA Worksheet and Decision Record are silent about the Bullhead and Little Humboldt allotments, which overlap the HMAs.

The Complex also includes the Little Owyhee, Owyhee and Rock Creek HMAs.

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The advocates have abandoned all pretense of caring for wild horses.

They’re using your donations to buy pesticides so they can beat the populations down in favor of livestock.

Would you be surprised if the fastest-growing segment in their donor base consists of hunters and ranchers?

PREVIOUS: Foal-Free Friday, Spending Your Money Wisely Edition.

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Fees, permits and base properties are discussed in this report by the Congressional Research Service.

In FY24, the BLM issued 17,045 authorizations for grazing, with 88% written for cattle, yearlings and bison, 6% for horses and burros, and 6% for goats and sheep.

Footnote 158 equates the resource loading of burros with that of cattle and horses while the customary relationship puts the ratio at 2:1, 2 burros = 1 horse = 1 cow/calf pair.

The report gives the acreage identified for grazing but does not give the AUMs sold thereon for a recent fiscal year.

Western Horse Watchers believes the figure is around nine million annually for BLM allotments, equivalent to 750,000 wild horses on 155 million acres or 4.8 wild horses per thousand acres.

Your faithful public servants claim that rangeland health will suffer if horse populations exceed one animal per thousand acres.

RELATED: CRS Looks at Costs of Wild Horse and Burro Program.

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The bill, which will give the BLM a budget for FY26, has been presented to the President for signature.

Temporary funding will expire at the end of next week.

RELATED: Senate Passes HR6938.

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Final results per Forest Service news release:

• Twenty-four horses captured alive
  • One died
  • Three euthanized
• Six found dead in field
• Twenty survivors taken to unnamed facility at Modoc National Forest

RELATED: Mono Lake Roundup Ends.

NOTE: An article by the Los Angeles Times alleges that some of the deaths were caused by people who went into the forest to feed the horses, giving them too much, too fast, without water.

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The Forest Service captured 23 horses and transported them to a temporary holding facility in Bishop according to the news release.

Three were euthanized due to poor body condition.

Seven were found dead in the field due to starvation and exposure.

The next step might be a trip to the Double Devil Corrals near Alturas.

Recovery is expected to take up to ten months.

The closure order will be lifted on January 22.

RELATED: Forest Service Issues Alert for Mono Lake Emergency Roundup.

UPDATE: Forest Service revised the results.

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The allotment is too small but the permit is up for renewal.

The parcel offers 540 active AUMs on 2,371 acres according to the allotment master report, equivalent to 19 wild horses per thousand public acres.

Given that the target stocking rate across all HMAs is one wild horse per thousand acres, the allotment is at 19X AML but it’s in the Maintain category!

Your faithful public servants warn that rangeland health will suffer if wild horse populations exceed AML (25,600 animals on 25.6 million acres).

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The URL has changed to https://eplanning.blm.gov/.

UPDATE: Added video and link to news release.

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At the Verde River, a tributary of the Salt River, with Stray Compass Life.

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The closure notice runs from January 17 to January 27.

The operation will capture and remove up to 25 snow-bound horses located in the Inyo National Forest south of Mono Lake.

The original news release said nine.

Most of the closure area is in the Mono Mills allotment, which is permitted for sheep.

Links to the NEPA review and daily reports were not provided.

The grazing season and active AUMs are not known.

RELATED: Forest Service to Remove Nine Snow-Bound Horses.

UPDATE: Forest Service changed URL of closure notice from “baldy” to “bald.”

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This search result reminded me of a scene from The Music Man.

More poison!

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The explanatory statement for HR6938, a bill that will give the BLM a budget for FY26, indicates that the amount available for wild horse and burro activities, $144 million, includes up to $11 million for immunocontraceptive vaccine strategies.

The bill does not acknowledge that roughly one third of FY26 has already passed and that the department was funded during that time by a continuing resolution.

In the preceding paragraph, the statement directs the agency to prioritize the analysis, review, processing and approval of grazing permits, as well as the administration of grazing permit renewals.

Given these priorities, which part of the new roundup schedule—not yet published—will receive the most attention, darting operations or motorized removal?

PREVIOUS: Foal-Free Friday, Systematic Removal Edition.

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They’re outside the Montgomery Pass WHT with limited food and water according to today’s news release.

They’ll be drawn into the trap with bait.

Operations will not be open to public observation.

They’ll be held at an undisclosed location until the next steps can be determined.

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