Western Horse Watchers Association
Exposing the Hypocrisy, Lies and Incompetence of the Wild Horse Advocates
On the range
The advocates are beating the horse population down in favor of their livestock.
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A report by KTMF News says a packed public meeting on June 11 brought out strong opinions about what should happen next to the horses roaming in the area.
Many residents want to keep them on the landscape.
But County Commissioners have drafted a resolution to establish a process for private landowners to capture abandoned horses located on their property, request Department of Livestock inspection to confirm they’re not owned and guide the transfer of the animals through approved channels.
Section 6 covers disposition.
A keyword search of the proposal yielded these results:
Comments can be submitted at the county’s website for the Miller Creek herd.
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A report by KX News says it passed today but does not give any details.
The last update at Congress dot gov was on December 17.
The bill would require the Park Service to keep at least 150 wild horses at TRNP.
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Search for “horse” (CTRL+F) in HR9171 to see the provisions and prohibitions related to wild horses and burros in the next fiscal year, which starts on October 1.
The accompanying report says that “up to $11,000,000 shall be used for the administration of humane population growth suppression strategies, including immunocontraceptive vaccines and permanent sterilization efforts, of which not less than $7,000,000 is for the implementation of existing immunocontraceptive vaccines.”
It also mentions the Wild Horse and Burro Task Force established in FY22, and the quarterly reports produced thereby, but Western Horse Watchers is not aware of a place where they can be accessed by the public.
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The bill received 43 ayes and 10 nays in its third reading and was returned to the Senate for ratification of amendments.
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Highway 395 runs through the allotment and there are no fences at the northern end to keep livestock off the road, but the Lakeview Field Office has approved a project to resolve that according to a BLM news release.
The parcel offers 6,223 active AUMs on 87,570 public acres, equivalent to 518 wild horses or 5.9 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, and that rangeland health will suffer if the stocking rate exceeds that value.
But in Alkali Winter, the stocking rate is almost six times higher and the land meets or exceeds those standards.
An impediment to setting up a refuge is the number of permits in the allotment—four to be exact—so you may need to purchase or lease several base properties to access all of the AUMs.
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At the Hickison HMA with Brian & Marisa.
The segment at 7:00 tells you the advocates are not involved.
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The total reached 65 on June 6, up from 56 on May 17.
Last year’s record was 103.
There was a two-way tie between Hoppy and Twist for top producer.
Colts led the battle of the sexes 35 to 30.
Refer to this spreadsheet for a ranking of sires.
The herd has been engineered for maximum production and revenues, despite a limit of 150 horses in the refuge.
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Go to the solicitation in SAM and click on Award in the left sidebar.
The contract amount is $228,147, about $507 per animal captured.
An op-ed in the Monterey Herald, which turns out to be a sales pitch for pesticides and sanctuaries, says $400,000 to Cattoor.
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The Umatilla National Forest needs two. Refer to the solicitation for details.
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If you’re a hunter or rancher, are you more inclined to give money to a nonprofit that produces videos and policy statements against free-roaming horses or an NGO that has volunteers in the field sterilizing the mares?
The choice is clear.
The smart money’s going to the NGOs.
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A story by WITN News says the number of wild horses continues to grow, as if there were no losses in 2025.
The population was 102 at the end of the year according to NPS.
Can you think of a reason why the birth rate is low, the breeding population is small and genetic diversity is at risk?
Here’s a hint:
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Two more horses were caught today according to a story by WBTV News, bringing the total to nine.
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The project will evaluate a range of management actions, and the environmental effects thereof, to be used in site-specific EAs for wild horse and burro management.
The idea is to streamline the planning process by analyzing actions found in a majority of management plans so the results can be dropped into future EAs by the field offices.
Comments are due by July 2.
UPDATE: The news release, published after this post went live, does not refer to a programmatic EA.
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The grand totals as of May 28, representing short-term and long-term holding, were 53,773 wild horses and 4,252 wild burros, compared to 55,533 wild horses and 2,741 wild burros on March 26.
Reasons for the changes were not given in the report.
Adoptions, sales, deaths and transfers to other agencies bring the numbers down.
Motorized removal, preferred by ranchers, drives them up.
Mass sterilization, favored by the advocates, could eliminate the need for off-range holding along with the wild horse and burro program.
Would you be surprised if hunters and ranchers were the fastest growing segment in their donor base?
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He was confirmed by the Senate on May 18, along with a slate of other nominees, according to the Congressional Record.
The BLM org chart has been updated accordingly.
It’s not clear if he’ll tolerate the lies about resource availability, carrying capacity and management priorities on America’s public lands.
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At the Dishpan Butte HMA, part of the North Lander Complex, with Angelique Rea.
Or, if you prefer, in the Dishpan Butte Allotment.
The management plan allows 1.1 wild horses per thousand public acres in the HMA and livestock equivalent to 10.1 wild horses per thousand public acres in the allotment.
At what point does rangeland health begin to deteriorate?
Data sources: 2026 population estimates, RAS, ArcGIS Viewer.
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The event will be held at the refuge with the exception of a film screening in Steamboat Springs on the opening night.
A schedule, speaker’s list and travel recommendations have not been posted to the conference website.
Sponsoring organizations have not been identified.
Registration is required. The price of admission is $150.
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UPDATE: URL changed, click here.
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The incident concluded on May 28 with 350 horses captured, 338 shipped, none released and 12 dead.
There were no unaccounted-for animals.
The death rate was 3.4%.
All but two of the deaths were intentional.
Youngsters represented 10.6% of the animals gathered, lower than expected for an event that occurred during foaling season.
Of the adults, 49.8% were male and 50.2% were female.
There were no plans to treat any of the mares with fertility control pesticides and return them to the range, a huge disappointment to the advocates.
The roundup supported three tenants of rangeland management.
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The agency will take public comments on June 8 regarding the use of helicopters and other motorized equipment to capture and remove wild horses from areas outside the Montgomery Pass WHT.
Instructions for participating were included in the news release.
Although some natural and cultural resources may be affected, as indicated in the announcement, a concern of equal or greater importance must be AUM liberation and rancher prosperity, given that the project area contains numerous grazing allotments.
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