The bill carried 397-28 in a vote today according to a story by The Hill.

It now heads to the Senate.

The measure would fund the Department of the Interior, including the wild horse and burro program, for FY26.

RELATED: House and Senate Release FY26 Appropriations Bills.

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One of the most amazing statistics in this report by High Country News is the number of individuals who declined to comment.

The article did not mention services provided by the wild horse advocates that benefit the ranchers.

The aim of the grazing program is to ensure that high-net-worth individuals receive generous government benefits, often at the expense of America’s wild horses, with no means testing and no expiration dates.

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They’ll be flying for the Utah Division of Wildlife Resources to capture bighorn sheep according to the BLM news release.

The Decision Record authorizes the Proposed Action, discussed in section 2.1 of the Final EA.

Table 1-2 indicates that “captures could take place in the Muddy Creek Wild Horse HMA as well as the Sinbad Burro HMA.  Helicopter overflights may temporarily disturb wild horses and burros in the vicinity of the capture.  Impacts beyond short-lived stress are not expected because these animals would not be the target of pursuits, which would already be short in duration, and could readily escape the area.”

Although the EA mentions livestock grazing, it does not show the allotments in the project area.

One of the greatest threats to wild sheep is illness picked up from domestic sheep.

The Authorization Use Report at RAS would tell which if any of the allotments are permitted for sheep.

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Some residents were upset by limited opportunities for public comment at yesterday’s town council meeting according to a report by KALB News.

The mayor has received complaints ranging from horse manure and property damage to vehicle accidents and child safety.

The town is on the east side of the Evangeline Unit in the Calcasieu Ranger District, Kisatchie National Forest.

To the west is Fort Johnson (previously Fort Polk), an Army base the horses once called home.

The article did not associate the horses with the forest and did not indicate if the advocates had submitted a plan to beat the numbers down with ovary-killing pesticides.

RELATED: End of Line for Kisatchie Horses?

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The Senate news release includes links to summaries and explanatory statements for (1) Commerce, Justice, Science and Related Agencies, (2) Energy and Water Development and (3) Interior, Environment and Related Agencies.

The bill for Interior provides $144 million for wild horse and burro management according to the Division C explanatory statement, including $11 million for fertility control.

Temporary funding for the department expires at the end of the month.

The House news release includes similar links.

The bill text indicates $144 million for the wild horse and burro program but is silent on fertility control.

RELATED: Government Reopens, Back to Business as Usual.

UPDATE: The House bill is now HR6938.

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Horses have the day off.  At or near the Lake Pleasant HMA with Angie Bartkus.

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Click this link to search ePlanning for projects involving the Buckeye Allotment, to see if the Campaign Against America’s Wild Horses has asked the BLM to convert its grazing preference to wild horses.

Try your luck!

Look for projects dated 2025 or beyond in the Sierra Front Field Office.

RELATED: Flipping the Buckeye Preference to Horses.

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The news release indicates the BLM conveyed 929 public acres to the Washington County Water Conservancy District in exchange for 89 private acres designated as critical habitat for the Mojave desert tortoise.

Figure 3.4 in the Final EA shows the arrangement.  The BLM parcel has a purple border and the private parcel is red.

Four allotments were affected by the project but the smallest was hit the hardest.

Table 3.3 in the Final EA gives the acreage and active AUMs.

Warner Valley, consisting of 834 public acres, will lose 700 acres and 119 of 124 active AUMs according to section 3.5.5.1.

It’s not clear what will happen to the Warner remnant.

The EA did not consider the loss in value of the base property tied to the allotment due to a near total loss of grazing preference.

The allotment master report puts Warner Valley in the Custodial category, condition unknown.

Before the exchange, the allotment supported livestock equivalent to 12.4 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 acres.

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The 2024 AOIs show five pastures, each carrying 60 cow-calf pairs for approximately one month.

Therefore, the authorized forage should be around 5 × 60 × 1 = 300 AUMs per year, equivalent to 25 wild horses.

The allotment overlaps the Heber WHT.

AOIs for the ASNF can be found at its Rangeland and Grazing page.

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At the Heber WHT with AZ Places Camping.

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The project would combine the Blair and Stange allotments into the Little Joe allotment.

The ArcGIS Viewer shows the outline for Little Joe but not Blair and Stange.

Blair offers 61 active AUMs on 246 public acres according to the allotment master report, equivalent to 20.7 wild horses per thousand public acres.

Stange offers 360 active AUMs on 1,285 public acres, equivalent to 23.3 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 acres.

If resources on the deeded acreage were added to the mix, Little Joe would support livestock equivalent to 127 wild horses on 5,358 total acres, or 23.7 wild horses per thousand acres.

The deadline for submitting comments is January 5.

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The allotment, due for permit renewal, offers 4,317 active AUMs on 26,099 public acres, equivalent to 360 wild horses or 13.8 wild horses per thousand public acres.

The grazing season is 12 months according to Table 1 of the CX.

The allotment master report puts it in the Improve category.

Your faithful public servants claim that public lands in the western U.S. can only support one wild horse per thousand acres, so it seems like a good deal.

There is one authorization tied to the allotment, so you’d only need to acquire or control one base property to secure all of the active AUMs.

The allotment includes 9,963 state acres, offering an additional 1,778 AUMs, but there is no assurance the resource would transfer to you—the new permittee.

The 1,960 private acres may correspond to some or all of the base property.

Proceed with caution.

RELATED: Key Indicators for New Wild Horse Preserves.

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The allotment, at the north end of the Great Salt Lake, offers 7,707 active AUMs on 71,308 public acres, equivalent to 642 wild horses or nine wild horses per thousand public acres.

The allotment master report puts it in the Maintain category.

Your faithful public servants claim that public lands in the western U.S. can only support one wild horse per thousand acres, so it seems like a good deal.

But there are ten authorizations tied to the allotment, which means you may have to acquire ten base properties to secure all of the active AUMs.

Probably not a good idea.

RELATED: Key Indicators for New Wild Horse Preserves.

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The herd grew by six between 2021 and 2024 according to data in the 2025 update to the Colorado Wild Horse Eradication Plan.

There were no new foals.

The mare population increased by five.

The number of treatable mares decreased by nine, accounting for just one third of the mares in 2024.

What’s the status of the other 29?  Ruined by the advocates?

The breeding population does not meet the requirements of 4.4.6.3 in H-4700-1 and the outlook for genetic diversity is poor.

This is what the advocates are doing to your free-roaming horses with the blessing of your faithful public servants.

RELATED: Colorado Wild Horse Working Group Updates Eradication Plan.

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They went off the reservation and displayed aggressive behavior toward domestic horses on private property according to the news release.

The CX indicates they were corralled by the landowner, who submitted a written request to the BLM to remove them.

The agency retrieved the horses and took them to corrals at Britton Springs. 

The paperwork and NEPA review may have been completed after the fact.

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At Paynes Prairie State Park with Lisa Mills.

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As of November 21, there were 60,283 wild horses and 3,750 wild burros in off-range holding, liberating 745,896 AUMs per year for “other mandated uses” of public lands.

The advocates will point to the report, and costs associated therewith, as justification for their mass sterilization programs.

The populations at Axtell and Wheatland increased after the inmate training program at Cañon City was cancelled.

Allotments managed by the BLM carry livestock equivalent to one million wild horses.

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The bill would limit public comments to citizens of the United States and establish a process to deter attempts at public involvement by artificial intelligence.

The measure received a favorable review on December 17 by the Senate Energy & Natural Resources Committee and now joins S1377 on the chamber floor.

RELATED: S1377 Passes Out of Committee on Voice Vote.

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Duplicity rules the day in the wild horse world.

Publicly, the advocates celebrate the birth of filly or colt but privately they hold the animal in contempt because he’s an embarrassment in the face of their allies, a blot on their mass sterilization program and an impediment to their herd reduction goal.

Likewise, they want you to think they’re saddened by the death of a stallion or mare but privately they couldn’t be happier because it moves them a step closer to the goal.

They don’t care about the horses.  They care about pesticides and putting the legacy contractors out of business.

They deserve your ire, not your support.

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The environmental assessment looks at the effects of a proposed update to the Herd Management Area Plan and a new AML, according to the news release.

Other actions include removal of excess animals and implementation of fertility control.

The Proposed Action is discussed in section 2.2.

The pesticides of choice are GonaCon-Equine, ZonaStat-H and PZP-22.

The new AML, discussed in Appendix C, ranges from 140 to 250.

The current AML is 166 to 208.

The EA was copied to the project folder with other supporting documents.

The deadline to submit comments is January 21.

The HMA is managed for wild burros.

RELATED: BLM Updating Lake Pleasant Pest Control Plan?

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