Western Horse Watchers Association
Exposing the Hypocrisy, Lies and Incompetence of the Wild Horse Advocates
On the range
A representative of the Heber Wild Horses Freedom Preservation Alliance said yesterday in a letter to the White Mountain Independent that the investigative process was “slow and lackadaisical,” noting that in the latest incident, documented by a photographer, the Forest Service never even bothered to go out to the scene to interview the witness or suspect.
RELATED: Photographer Says LE Not Taking Heber Shooting Seriously.
The system that came through on 05/26/19 brought snow and freezing temperatures to the higher elevations in the west, more like what you’d expect in November.
Refer to this story posted today by KX Net of Bismarck, ND. Includes video.
Of course, the real wild horses of Theodore Roosevelt National Park were done away with years ago and replaced with those you see today.
Trailcam caught some Virginia Range mustangs playing near the water tanks just before sunrise on 04/30/19.
On Corolla Beach (Outer Banks, NC) with Christina Welch.
Daybreak on the Virginia Range. Water supply to tanks was restored on 05/04/19.
A guest column appearing today in the White Mountain Independent, written by the woman who witnessed the incident, questions the integrity of law enforcement agencies involved in the case.
RELATED: Photographer Insists Man Was Shooting at Heber Wild Horses,
BLM announced today that 200 ‘excess’ wild burros would be removed from the Seven Troughs HMA in northern Nevada and shipped to the Palomino Valley Off-Range Corrals, starting around June 1.
Bait traps will be used to effect the gather, which will not be open to public observation.
The HMA is managed for wild horses and burros, and is subject to permitted livestock grazing. It covers 148,884 acres and has a combined AML of 202, for an aimed-at population density of 1.36 animals per thousand acres.
The news release said the burros were leaving public rangelands and crossing roadways in search of food and water but did mention any such problems for cattle and sheep.
Gather stats and daily reports will be posted to this page.
Here is the story of the Horse Heaven Hills. Special thanks to Gaylord Mink for reposting it on YouTube. A related article in Benton REA was also scrubbed.
Agricultural producers in the area like to use the horses to sell their products but they don’t like to talk about their history.
Refer to this letter, posted today by St. George News in response to the letter of 05/17/19 by Rep. Chris Stewart and Sen. Mike Lee of Utah.
“Overpopulation is a concocted crisis. It is wrongful to take wild horses from the range and inject them with chemical sterilants because the rationale for doing so – overpopulation – is fake.”
Not one word about public-lands ranching! Western rangelands can support way more than 27,000 wild horses but not if your goal is to fill them with as many fee-paying animals as possible (privately owned cattle and sheep).
RELATED: Financial Incentive Will Reduce Wild Horse Population?
On the beach near Corolla, NC with Bonnie Waddell.
On the Black Mountain HMA in Oatman, AZ with Kristoff’s Journey.
RELATED: Get Your Kicks on Route 66.
Off-road trip to the Marietta Wild Burro Range by kingcidtravels.
The designation of ‘Range’ means the area is managed primarily for wild burros in accordance with the WHB Act. It is the only WBR in the western U.S.
There are three ‘Ranges’ for wild horses in the western U.S. Many of the remaining areas—which were set aside for wild horses and burros—are managed primarily for domestic livestock, a twisting of the law by the BLM to pacify the public-lands ranchers.
On the Salt River with Mrs Green Thumb.
Forty five wild horses will be released later this month in three separate areas, according to a news release posted today. One of the releases will be open to public observation.
The Hardtrigger HMA was damaged by the Soda Fire of 2015, which also affected the nearby Sands Basin HMA.
The announcement did not say if the mares will be treated with contraceptives or if the land is subject to permitted livestock grazing.
RELATED: BLM Returning Horses to Sands Basin HMA.
UPDATE: Added video by KTVB News of Boise, ID. Pay attention to the remarks from 0:15 to 0:17.
She has photos and videos of the incident but the Forest Service is not interested in them, according to a report posted yesterday by ABC15 News in Phoenix.
RELATED: Photographer Disputes Report on Heber Shooting Incident.
A news release by the Animal Welfare Institute yesterday said the BLM is rebooting its plans to sterilize wild horses, at the behest of a group funded by Lucas Oil Products.
Hacks at the off-range corrals in Hines, OR will cut the ovaries out of mares gathered from the Warm Springs HMA last year. Complications and fatalities related to the procedures will likely be high but are of no concern to these people.
Some of the survivors will be returned to the range to form non-reproducing herds, a dream-come-true for the public-lands ranchers. Others may end up in the demonic Wild Spayed Filly Futurity.
Critics say wild horse populations should be controlled by contraceptives, which can lead to sterilization. In both cases the result is the same—fewer horses on the range.
There is no meaningful opposition here, only a debate on methods and timing.
The ranchers want the horses gone quickly, the wild horse ‘advocates’ want them to decline slowly.
On the Virginia Range and Pine Nut Mountains HMA with Jeff Parr.
First-hand account by Josh Saverse.
