Gotta love the colors, ponies too.  H/T Steven Green.

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Stock tanks have been received very well by the horses.  One of them is now on float control, which means it should always stay full.

Personnel with the Salt River Wild Horse Management Group rescued a gelding in the Tonto National Forest, according to a news release posted today on their web site.

They will make sure he ends up in a good home, along with another gelding rescued earlier in the same area.

Dry conditions persist in some parts of the western U.S.  H/T KJZZ Phoenix.

RELATED: Advocates Bringing Hay to Salt River Horses.

The number of wild horses in the Fish Springs area must be reduced from 78 to 58 by 2020, according to a report posted 09/21/18 in The Record-Courier.

“If you need our help with panels or bait trapping to get that reduction done, we will schedule that help.”

The requirement, part of a plan for managing the horses, was laid down by Mike Courtney, acting director of the BLM in Nevada.

He also stressed the importance of ‘healthy rangelands.’

“That means no more than moderate utilization 40-60 percent forage species between wild horses and livestock.”

Yep, the number of horses in the Pine Nut HA (south of the Pine Nut HMA) must be reduced by 25% and livestock will get 50% more forage than the horses—on lands set aside for the horses.

Will the advocates help the BLM set the traps, as was done a few weeks ago at Little Bookcliffs?  How much PZP will be required to impose a negative birth rate on these horses?  How many poor ranchers will be hurt by the mandatory AUM curtailment?

There is no curtailment.

Courtney said the planned roundup of horses in the HMA should happen sometime between November and January.

This is what happens when an unelected bureaucracy caters to a special interest against the wishes of the American people.  The special interest, of course, is the oil and gas industry, as indicated by all the drilling rigs, frac tanks and generator sets in the Fish Springs area.

The last things you’ll see are stock tanks, cattle gates and T-post fencing.

RELATED: Status of Fish Springs Horses to be Discussed Tonight.

BLM announced today that the helicopter roundup ended on 09/21/18, with 303 horses removed from the Eagle HMA in eastern Nevada.  Three were euthanized and none were returned to the range.  Refer to this news release, posted earlier today.

Captured animals were taken to the Palomino Valley Wild Horse and Burro Center north of Reno, NV, to be prepared for adoption or transfer to long-term segregated holding in off-range pastures.

Gather stats and daily reports can be found at this page.

No livestock were harmed in the process.

RELATED: Emergency Gather Starts This Week at Eagle HMA.

Status of horses still unknown in an area hit hard by the onshore flow from Hurricane Florence.  Refer to this story in The News & Observer posted 09/23/18.

Personnel from NPS are still unable to reach the island on the Outer Banks, which is accessible only by boat.  Updates will be posted to their FB page.

Somewhere along the Salt River, east of Phoenix, AZ.  H/T Robin Bender Knight.

On Theodore Roosevelt National Park.  H/T Curtis Starck.

Her track record is mostly defeat but she never gives up.  Refer to this story in the Gillette News Record dated 09/22/18.  A fine example of wild horse advocacy.

“Tillett opposes both the gathering of mustangs and the administering of PZP fertility control.”

Unfortunately, the writer did not explain the relationship of the woman to those who helped save these horses in the early days of the wild horse preservation movement.

The name Tillett is not to be taken lightly in the Pryor Mountains, as noted in the 14-minute video at this post.

One of the stock tanks on the Virginia Range is now on float control, with a temporary water supply.  The horses empty them in a few days when filled manually.  They are on private property, elevation 6500 ft.  Hopefully the horses won’t pull the hoses apart.

These are the tanks that appear in the trailcam photos posted from time to time on these pages.  Yes, it is illegal to feed wild horses in Nevada but not to water them.

The idea is to keep the horses up in the hills and away from problems in suburbia, a practice known as ‘diversionary watering.’

A series of trailcam photos showing the arrival and departure of a large group of Virginia Range mustangs on 09/02/18.  They come and go in the space of three minutes.  Poor guys, the stock tanks were probably empty at the time (not yet on float control).  The signal is given and they all file out, moving to the west.

At Grayson Highlands State Park.  H/T Rebecca Subbia.

UPDATE: See also this article on the horses of Assateague Island and Grayson Highlands State Park by the Bristol Herald Courier, dated 09/23/18.

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A law firm representing wild horse advocacy groups filed a lawsuit yesterday in the U.S. District Court in Portland, OR to halt the sterilization research planned by the BLM, which begins next month with a gather at the Warm Springs HMA.  Refer to this story posted today in The Desert Independent.

RELATED: BLM Hauls Water to Warm Springs Horses?

Trailcam image of two Virginia Range coyotes playing on a dirt pile near the stock tanks.

RELATED: Wild Horse Narrative.

You jackals!  You’re only trying to keep them in good condition before shipping them to the ovary cutters in Hines.  Otherwise no water would be given.  You should be ashamed of yourselves!

RELATED: Warm Springs Gather to Yield Test Subjects for Spay Research.

Looking north across the Virginia Range, where the population density is ten horses per thousand acres, maybe a bit more, compared to the average density of one horse per thousand acres on lands managed by the BLM.  Sardine city!

Critics say the current population of 3000 horses is unsustainable and needs to be reduced to around 500, not because they care about horses, but because they’ve been lying about the carrying capacity of the land.

Can’t have the wild horse advocates pointing to a case that doesn’t fit the wild horse narrative.  Filmed 09/21/18.

The horses you see today are only an exhibit.

NPS said today that all visitor services and facilities at Cape Lookout National Seashore are closed, including the cabins, due to Hurricane Florence.  Park staff are starting to assess conditions throughout the park and a check of the wild horses at Shackleford Banks is still on their to-do list.  Refer to this post at their FB page.

RELATED: Rachel Carson Wild Horses Survive Florence.

Advocates for the Fish Springs wild horses will meet at 6:00 PM this evening at the Volunteer Fire Station, east of Gardnerville, NV, as noted in a story posted today by The Record-Courier.

The horses roam on lands outside the Pine Nut Mountains HMA and were the subject of a roundup until protesters convinced the BLM to delay the operation.

RELATED: Water Troughs at Fish Springs Destroyed by Vandals.