But they’re not bringing any babies with them.

Trailcams haven’t picked up much activity until recently.

Water system put back in service yesterday after the Carson City Rally.

One group demonstrated at the capitol and another in front of the legislature.

Both received strong support from passing motorists.

RELATED: Details Released for Wild Horse Freedom Rally in Carson City.

The Park Service announced today that wild burros will be removed from Death Valley National Park starting on April 25, but did not specify the capture and removal goals.

Helicopters will drive the animals into the traps.

The news release did not indicate if the incident will be open to public observation.

Burros removed from the park will be taken to the off-range corrals at Ridgecrest.

The current population is thought to be around 4,000.

The animals are not federally protected according to the Q&A.

The rescue initially tasked with the removal is still involved.

RELATED: Removal of Death Valley Wild Burros Continues.

It’s how they signal to each other that they’re down with the Montana Solution.

Wild horses should be restricted to 20% or less of the authorized forage in their home range and if they’re consuming more than their allocated share of the resources, the best way to get rid of them is PZP, not helicopters.

RELATED: Wild Horse Freedom Rallies Set for Next Weekend.

Some horses are still showing signs of illness, according to a BLM news release, so an adoption event scheduled for May 6 has been postponed and the facility remains closed to the public.

RELATED: Strangles Outbreak at Wheatland Off-Range Corrals.

At the Salt River with THE TRACK ENTHUSIAST.

Sun J and Cattoor, move over!  The advocates want a larger share of the wild horse removal business.

RELATED: Foal-Free Friday, Saving Wild Horses by Getting Rid of Them.

The defendant pleaded guilty today to two counts of conspiracy to commit arson and one count of arson, twenty plus years after he participated in a series of attacks that damaged or destroyed environmental targets in Oregon and California.

One of the incidents occurred at the Cavel West meatpacking plant in Redmond, Oregon, where wild horses were slaughtered according to a report by The Oregonian, and another was at the BLM wild horse corrals near Litchfield, California.

RELATED: Litchfield Arsonist to Accept Plea Deal.

Minden resident Craig Downer, Dr. Don Molde and wild horse rescuer Elaina Deva Proffitt are expected to speak.  Singer Jim Eaglesmith will perform and actress Fia Perera will serve as MC, according to a story posted today by The Record-Courier.

The event is set for Saturday in front of the state capitol, part of the Wild Horse Freedom Rally planned for all 50 states.

RELATED: Wild Horse Freedom Rallies Set for Next Weekend.

This news release on EIN, titled “Supporters of Wild Horses to Gather Next Week in Washington D.C.,” has been out for over a day, but a Google search for “Wild Horses” over the past 24 hours yielded no articles with that tagline.

RELATED: National ‘Save Our Wild Horses’ Conference Debuts in April.

At or near the Heber WHT with Paul Kiely.

The HMA lies mostly within the Sands Basin Allotment according to the Western Watersheds map.

The 64 horses allowed by plan require 768 AUMs per year and the HMA covers 11,724 acres, so the aimed-at stocking rate is 5.5 wild horses per thousand acres, considerably higher than the target rate across all HMAs of one wild horse per thousand acres.

The land must be able to produce at least 65.5 AUMs per year per thousand acres to support the Sands Basin horses.

The allotment, in the Improve category, covers 13,565 total acres, including 10,883 public acres, and currently offers 558 AUMs per year for livestock, according to the Allotment Master Report.

This means the horses receive more forage than the ranchers!

The percentage of the allotment occupied by the HMA is unknown and the Draft EA may be months away but the forage assigned to livestock inside the HMA has to be less than or equal to 558 AUMs per year.

The allotment must be able to produce at least 41.1 AUMs per year per thousand acres to satisfy the ranchers, enough to support 3.4 wild horses per thousand acres.

The carrying capacity of the HMA, neglecting wildlife, would be 5.5 + 3.4 = 8.9 horses per thousand acres, assuming that forage is evenly distributed across the allotment.

The True AML would be 8.9 × 11,724 ÷ 1,000 = 104, the number of horses the HMA could support if it was managed principally for them.

The horses displaced from the HMA by permitted grazing would be the difference between the True AML and current AML, 104 – 64 = 40, or 3.4 × 11,724 ÷ 1,000.

The current size of the herd is unknown.

RELATED: New Resource Enforcement Plan Coming to Owyhee Mountains?

Horses being horses.  No foals, might be a bachelor band?  Or maybe the Montana Solution was a bit more effective than advertised?

Census results for 2022 still not known.

Film by Jim Wagner.

The following video by the Arizona Game and Fish Department discusses the use of habitat enhancement funds on the Heber Allotment, which overlaps the WHT.

The Western Watersheds map shows the arrangement.

The ranchers also benefit from mining operations, in a way you might not expect, as noted at 1:49.

As for the horses, they weren’t considered in the analysis.

The forage assigned to livestock in the allotment is not known and Western Horse Watchers has not yet discovered an equivalent to RAS for the Forest Service.

Forage density (AUMs per year per thousand acres), is a better indicator of carrying capacity than AMLs.

A new project was created in ePlanning yesterday but only a map was posted.

The scope includes the Sands Basin, Hardtrigger and Black Mountain HMAs in western Idaho, with AMLs of 64, 130 and 60, respectively.

All three are subject to permitted grazing, as shown in the Western Watersheds map.

The Proposed Action will likely employ aerial roundups and other forms of population suppression to assure that most of the forage goes to privately owned livestock, as specified in the land-use plan(s).

Many of the horses in the area were removed after the 2015 Soda Fire but some were returned four years later.

He was seen with his parents by the Carova fire station around 4 PM yesterday, according to a story by The Virginian-Pilot, and was gone 30 minutes later.

Necropsy results are pending.

The report did not indicate if his mom had been treated with PZP before she was allowed to conceive and if so for how long.

RELATED: Currituck Herd Grows by One.

The 150 horses allowed by plan require 1,800 AUMs per year.

The the number of wild horses the HMA can support, if it was managed principally for them as specified in the original statute, referred to on these pages as the True AML, can be found as outlined in this post.

The idea is to shift the forage assigned to livestock back to the horses, which is heresy to the bureaucrats, ranchers and PZP fanatics.

Section 3.2.2 of the Draft EA for resource enforcement actions in Three Fingers and Jackies Butte identifies one grazing allotment that overlaps the HMA.  The Western Watersheds map shows the arrangement.  Click on image to open in new tab.

The Allotment Master Report provides the active AUMs.

Table 6 in the EA indicates that 28.5% of Jackies Butte Summer is inside the HMA.

The forage assigned to livestock inside the HMA is 3,947 AUMs per year, assuming the resource is evenly distributed across the allotment.

That amount would support 3,947 ÷ 12 = 328 wild horses.

The True AML is 150 + 328 = 478.

The current herd, thought to include over 200 adults according to Section 1.2 of the EA, is well within this range.  The HMA is not overpopulated and there is no justification for a roundup or fertility control program, which the Proposed Action would implement over a ten-year period.

The stocking rate at the new AML, based on the acreage of Section 1.2, would be 478 ÷ 65,211 × 1,000 = 7.3 wild horses per thousand acres.

Given that the horses currently receive 31% of the authorized forage, neglecting wildlife, the HMA is managed primarily for livestock.

The 328 horses displaced from the HMA by permitted grazing represent about 0.6% of the 55,000 animals in off-range holding.

The number of horses displaced from the Three Fingers HMA was 423 and the True AML was 573, as discussed previously.

RELATED: Status of Three Fingers and Jackies Butte Allotments.

The nationwide event will occur on April 23, with gatherings at every state capital.

The venue for Nevada is Carson City, as explained in this announcement.

RELATED: Carson City Wild Horse Rally Part of Nationwide Protest.

The Nevada Department of Transportation installed eight miles of four-strand, four-foot livestock fencing along U.S. 50 in the Dayton area to reduce collisions between vehicles and wild horses, according to a report posted yesterday by KOLO News of Reno, NV.

Many more horses have been lost to the advocates than motorists and they are still the greatest threat to the herd, fencing notwithstanding.

RELATED: Fence Installation Next Week on South Edge of Virginia Range.

Back to the Salt River with Paul Kiely.

This is what the advocates bring to the table.  The Montana Solution.

Helicopter roundups in slow motion.

And you’re still giving them money.

RELATED: Foal-Free Friday, Watching the Herds Disappear.