Category: Range

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TRNP South Unit Surrounded by Grazing Allotments

The park is in the Little Missouri National Grassland, a territory of the Dakota Prairie Grasslands, according to the map.

The horses live in the South Unit.

Now you know why the Campaign Against America’s Wild Horses, a leader in mass sterilization and servant of the public-lands ranchers, was eager to establish a beachhead in the area, which it did through Chasing Horses Wild Horse Advocates.

The Annual Operating Instructions for the allotments may provide data on forage availability, to assess the proposed stocking rate in the South Unit.

Unfortunately, the Forest Service did not post them to the Rangeland and Grazing page.

RELATED: How to Fix S1377.

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How to Fix S1377

Paragraph 5(b)(1) should direct the Secretary of the Interior to maintain a genetically diverse herd in the South Unit with a population of at least 150 horses untouched by fertility control pesticides.

Breeding, not mass sterilization, assures genetic diversity.

What about a provision for returning the original wild horses to the park?

The South Unit covers 46,158 acres according to park statistics.

The proposed stocking rate would be 3.2 wild horses per thousand acres.

Has anybody looked at forage supply to see if that’s feasible?

The land would need to produce 3.2 × 12 × 2 = 76.8 AUMs per year per thousand acres to support the herd, at 50% utilization (safety factor of two).

RELATED: TRNP Wild Horse Protection Act Cannot Achieve Stated Goals.

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Foal-Free Friday, Magic Numbers Edition

The breeding population in a wild horse herd should consist of at least 50 animals to maintain genetic diversity according to section 4.4.6.3 in H-4700-1.

This can be accomplished in populations ranging from 150 to 200 animals or more.

The advocates are telling their political allies that genetic diversity will be satisfactory if the herd contains at least 150 animals, evident in S1377.

This is a subtle but critical deviation from the recommendation.

The guideline applies to reproducing populations.

The advocates think reproduction is a defect of nature, to be cured with fertility control pesticides.

Breeding, not mass sterilization, assures genetic diversity, which disappears as they ruin the mares with their phony vaccines.

A herd of 500 would not be large enough.

Stay away from the advocates, they’re not who they say they are.

PREVIOUS: Foal-Free Friday, Humane Conservation Edition.

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Who’s Advising Hoeven on TRNP Wild Horses?

A minimum herd size of 150 wild horses, as specified in S1377, will not assure genetic diversity if the mares have been ruined or are in the process of being ruined by fertility control pesticides.

In a December 7 news flash distributed by Lucky Three Ranch, the Campaign Against America’s Wild Horses refers to Chasing Horses Wild Horse Advocates as a partner.

That is an albatross, the kiss of death for the nonprofit.

It means Kman is an acolyte of Roy, the queen of equine pesticides, and they’re probably drafting a proposal to destroy the breeding population with PZP.

Don’t give them a penny.

RELATED: Senate Subcommittee Hears Testimony on S1377.

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Senate Subcommittee Hears Testimony on S1377

Mike Caldwell, Associate Director of Park Planning, Facilities and Lands for the National Park Service, appeared before the National Park Subcommittee on December 9 to answer questions about the Theodore Roosevelt Wild Horse Protection Act.

His responses indicated support for the bill.

Was the dialogue scripted?

Not mentioned in the discussion were the original wild horses of TRNP, thought to be descendants of Sitting Bull’s ponies, and if they would be returned to the park.

RELATED: Legislation to Protect TRNP Wild Horses Introduced in Senate.

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Virus Detected in Salt River Herd

The news release does not indicate if it was associated in any way with the advocates and their mass sterilization program.

The alert runs from December 6 to March 6.

The closure order prohibits riding, hitching, tethering or hobbling a horse or other saddle or pack animal in the Described Area.

The map indicates the Described Area to be most if not all of the designated habitat.

The wild horse habitat overlaps the Goldfield and Sunflower Allotments in the Tonto National Forest.

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BLM Launches Wild Horse and Burro Public Dashboard

It’s like RAS only for wild horses and burros.

Adopters can now find basic information about the history of their animals according to the news release.

The system will give you their vaccination status and other health information if you supply the freeze mark or microchip number.

It will not tell you how many AUMs were liberated by their removal or the names of the permittees benefitting therefrom.

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On the Eve of Defund the Advocates Day

They protect ranchers, not wild horses.

They’re sterilizing the mares and calling it preservation.

They’re driving genetic diversity into the ground and calling it conservation.

They’re demanding new management plans that reinforce old policies and practices while calling it protection.

They want you to think the herds will vanish without their involvement when in reality they’re disappearing because of their involvement.

Let this year be different.  Give them the boot, along with their pesticides and HMAPs, on Giving Tuesday.

PREVIOUS: Two Days Until Defund the Advocates Day.

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Crocodile Tears for Indigenous Communities at Mono Lake

The turncoats at the Campaign Against America’s Wild Horses think you’re malleable, dumber than a bag of hammers, and can be easily persuaded to finance their mass sterilization programs.

The indigenous peoples who might be affected by wild horse migration into their communities come in two varieties: Ranchers who graze BLM allotments and ranchers who graze Forest Service allotments.

The ArcGIS Viewer shows the arrangement.  Click on image to enlarge.

RELATED: BLM Issues Montgomery Pass Final Planning Documents.

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Morons and Malice at the Salt River

The morons are those who lap this stuff up without question.

The malice comes from those who post it, trying to give the impression that all is well while sweeping the mass sterilization program under the rug.

They deserve your contempt not your money.

RELATED: What’s Harder to Find Than a Salt River Foal?

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