From Tearing Families Apart to No Families at All

The advocates want to stop helicopter roundups by zeroing out the breeding populations with PZP.

Either way the ranchers win.

What’s most surprising is the number of ignorant women who support this.

New Life at Salt River?

His mom probably has a faulty immune system.

The advocates rely on predators to take out any foals that slip through their mass sterilization program.

When that happens they’ll put on a big show to make you think they’re saddened by the loss.

It’s all fake. They hate foals.

They’re far more interested in driving the numbers down with ovary-killing pesticides and winning the approval of the bureaucrats and ranchers.

Foal-Free Friday, Wailing and Gnashing of Teeth Edition

The government shutdown may be over but the BLM still doesn’t have a budget.

Temporary funding will expire on January 31.

That means the advocates have no assurance that the agency will devote more resources to their mass sterilization programs in lieu of motorized removal.

PREVIOUS: Foal-Free Friday, Reserves for Preserves Edition.

Government Shutdown Ends

The President signed of HR 5371 yesterday, according to a story by The Hill, after the House voted 222-209 in favor of the bill.

The measure provides temporary funding for most federal agencies through January 30.

Forage Availability in the Wyoming Checkerboard

Three allotments in Pathfinder’s Stewart Creek Unit offer a combined 2,288 active AUMs on 21,183 public acres, equivalent to 191 wild horses or nine wild horses per thousand public acres.

Refer to Bell Springs, Jawbone and Larson Knolls in the report for Stewart Creek allotments managed by the Rawlins Field Office.

Your faithful public servants claim that public lands in the western U.S. can only support one wild horse per thousand acres (25,600 animals on 25.6 million acres according to the last page of the 2025 population dataset).

The advocates, defeated a long time ago and now in the tank for the ranchers, bolster the narrative with their darting programs.

WYWHIP Carries Water for Pathfinder Ranches

If you plot the outline of the Stewart Creek Unit on a map of the allotments, you’ll find that it overlaps Turkey Track, Rawlins Draw, Whiskey Peak, Arapahoe Creek, Stewart Creek, Larson Knolls, Jawbone and Bell Springs.

Turkey Track, not labeled, is in the northeast corner. Click on image to enlarge.

STEWART CREEK GRAZING ASSOCIATION appears in a first-pass review of the allotment master reports at RAS.

The operator information report gives three authorizations for SCGA:

4900602 – JAWBONE, BELL SPRINGS, LARSON KNOLLS and STEWART CREEK (in the Rawlins Field Office)
4900388 – ARAPAHOE CREEK (Lander Field Office)
4900649 – RAWLINS DRAW, TURKEY TRACK, NORTH WILLOW CREEK, WHISKEY PEAK and COOPER CREEK (Lander Field Office)

Western Horse Watchers was unable to find North Willow Creek and Cooper Creek on the map but their namesakes are inside the blue boundary.

The allotment master report for Lander indicates that SCGA holds all of the active AUMs in Rawlins Draw, Turkey Track, North Willow Creek and Cooper Creek, suggesting that it’s a legal entity owned or controlled by Pathfinder Ranches.

SCGA holds all of the active AUMs in Bell Springs, Jawbone and Larson Knolls according to the report for Rawlins.

In the Stewart Creek Allotment, where the Wyoming Wild Horse Improvement Project poisons the mares with PZP, SCGA holds 60% of the active AUMs, suggesting that WYWHIP co-founder Christie Chapman cares far more about ranching interests, especially those of Pathfinder, than she does about wild horses.

Mustang Monday

At the southwest corner of the Virginia Range with Art.

The switchback in the distance is on the Duck Hill allotment.

The channel documents the mass sterilization program inflicted on the herd by the Campaign Against America’s Wild Horses and its army of nitwits.

Pathfinder’s Stewart Creek Unit Clashes with Red Desert Horses

The map supplied with the listing shows the ranch with a red border.

Deeded acreage, which secures grazing preference on public lands, is black.

If you plot the ranch outline on a map of the HMAs, you’ll find it overlaps all of Crooks Mountain and Stewart Creek, and most of Green Mountain.

A small portion extends into the checkerboard near Rawlins.

Click on image to enlarge.

Foal-Free Friday, Reserves for Preserves Edition

You’d think the advocates would have special funds devoted to the purchase of base properties, so wild horses could be placed on public lands at the expense of privately owned livestock.

Instead, they use your donations to buy pesticides, so they can beat the horse populations down in favor of livestock.

They are frauds and don’t deserve a penny of your support.

Wyoming’s Pathfinder Ranches Changing Hands

The listing indicates it’s under contract, with an asking price of $79.5 million.

The operation consists of twelve ranches organized into four units:

Two Crosses
- 180,061 total acres
  - 39,034 deeded
  - 25,228 state
  - 115,799 BLM
  - 3.0 BLM acres per deeded acre
- 37,909 AUMs
  - Equivalent to 3,159 wild horses
  - Stocking rate would be 27.3 wild horses per thousand BLM acres
Beulah Belle
- 98,357 total acres
  - 23,146 deeded
  - 7,962 state
  - 67,248 BLM
  - 2.9 BLM acres per deeded acre
- 19,810 AUMs
  - Equivalent to 1,651 wild horses
  - Stocking rate would be 24.6 wild horses per thousand BLM acres
Stewart Creek
- 569,053 total acres
  - 22,470 deeded
  - 8,999 state
  - 537,584 BLM
  - 23.9 BLM acres per deeded acre
- 23,734 AUMs
  - Equivalent to 1,978 wild horses
  - Stocking rate would be 3.7 wild horses per thousand BLM acres
Wooden Rifle
- 68,606 total acres
  - 14,537 deeded
  - 6,797 state
  - 47,272 BLM
  - 3.3 BLM acres per deeded acre
- 8,991 AUMs
  - Equivalent to 749 wild horses
  - Stocking rate would be 15.8 wild horses per thousand BLM acres

Your faithful public servants claim that public lands in the western U.S. can only support one wild horse per thousand BLM acres.

Stewart Creek, the unit with the best land ratio but lowest stocking rate, overlaps three of the five HMAs in the Red Desert Complex. Not disclosed by the agent.

If the operation was repurposed as a refuge, it would support 7,500 wild horses, saving taxpayers an estimated $13.7 million per year and paying for itself in six years.

The project would likely face stiff opposition from ranchers, farm bureaus and stock grower’s associations.

Wild horses can be placed on public lands not identified for their use by acquiring base properties associated with grazing allotments and flipping the preference to horses.

Mustang Monday

At the southern edge of the Virginia Range with Art.

The land can only support 300 to 600 wild horses according to the bureaucrats, not 3,000, so body condition scores should be much lower.

The advocates support the charade with their darting program.

What Happens When You Mix Women with Horses?

Lunacy sets in, almost immediately, proceeding to enmity in some cases.

RELATED: What Makes the Advocates Evil?

Maybell Base Property Offered for $6 Million

Snake River Land & Cattle covers 38,899 total acres, including 5,675 deeded acres and 33,224 BLM acres according to the agent’s listing.

The map puts the deeded acreage inside the Douglas-Sawmill Allotment, a few miles south of the Sand Wash Basin HMA.

The ranch lies within a game management unit so not only will you get pushback from ranchers in trying to flip the preference to horses but from hunters as well.

The allotment master report shows one pasture, so it may operate as a general use area shared by three permittees.

Livestock owned by the other two would remain.

The active AUMs are probably wrong and may be off by a factor of ten.

One of the bullet points in the listing says the ranch receives 743 AUMs, equivalent to 62 wild horses.

The land ratio is good, almost six public acres per deeded acre.

But the allotment overlaps the Douglas Mountain HA according to the ArcGIS viewer, so the ranch meets two out of four requirements for a refuge.

You don’t have to spend millions of dollars on a base property to get wild horses back on these public lands. You just need to rid the bureaucracy of ranchers and ranching sympathizers and overturn the planning process that zeroed out the HMA.

Don’t expect any help from the advocates. They want the ranchers to win.

Hidden Valley Wild Horse Protection Fund Rebranding

The nonprofit is expanding its scope from the Virginia Range to all of Nevada’s wild horses and burros.

The news release did not include condemnation of the mass sterilization program inflicted on the Virginia Range herd by the Campaign Against America’s Wild Horses.

Until that happens, don’t give them a penny.

If Wild Horses Had Principal Use of Pumpkin Creek, Goblin Gulch

Both allotments are in Wyoming.

Pumpkin Creek is southwest of Gillette and Goblin Gulch is northwest of Kemmerer.

The allotment master report puts Pumpkin Creek in the Improve category, suggesting that your stewards of the public lands are not taking their responsibilities seriously.

The report for Goblin Gulch says it’s in the Maintain category.

The Pumpkin Creek permittee receives 1,456 active AUMs on 13,235 public acres, equivalent to 121 wild horses or 9.2 wild horses per thousand public acres.

The advocates bolster the narrative with their darting programs.

Goblin Gulch offers 287 active AUMs on 2,845 public acres, equivalent to 24 wild horses or 8.4 wild horses per thousand public acres.

If Pumpkin Creek was an HMA, the AML would be 13 and 108 wild horses would be consigned to off-range holding because of permitted grazing.

If Goblin Gulch was an HMA, the AML would be 3 and 21 wild horses would be shipped to off-range holding.

Both areas would be held to a small fraction of carrying capacity to accommodate high-net-worth individuals who pay almost nothing for the resources they consume, which explains why their wealth grows along with the burden laid on American taxpayers.

Don’t be fooled by politicians who tiptoe around this.

BLM allotments in Wyoming support livestock equivalent to 158,425 wild horses on 17,312,214 public acres, or 9.2 wild horses per thousand public acres.

Wild horses can be placed on public lands not identified for their use by acquiring base properties associated with grazing allotments and flipping the preference to horses.

Unmanned Aerial Systems for Wild Horse Roundups?

HR 5829 would direct the Secretary of the Interior to establish a grant program to support the use of unmanned aerial systems for the humane roundup and management of wild horses and burros.

As of today, the bill text has not been published.

Mustang Monday

On the Virginia Range with Art, where the Campaign Against America’s Wild Horses operates the world’s largest mass sterilization program.

Chincoteague Ponies Struggle with Brackish Water

The southern herd had no fresh water for nearly two weeks according to a story by Shore Daily News.

High tides from Hurricane Erin and lack of rain are thought to be responsible for the contamination.

The northern herd was not affected.

The ponies are unique as stated in the article, not because of adaption to island life, but because of the highly abnormal sex ratio and unprecedented birth rate.

In August, after the pony swim but before the hurricane, the herd consisted of 23 males and 126 females.

The population limit is 150.

The saltwater cowboys have turned the wildlife refuge into a puppy mill for wild horses, raking in over $1 million from this year’s auction.