Researchers at the University of Wyoming found that the animals can maintain good body condition across a variety of landscapes and different seasons according to an October 16 news release.

The study confirms previous research showing high dietary overlap of free-roaming horses and cattle.

Let’s put that finding into practice.

The Stewart Creek HMA lies within the Stewart Creek Allotment.  Their borders coincide, more or less, except for the northeast corner.

The 175 horses allowed by plan receive 2,100 AUMs per year.

The permittees receive 8,267 AUMs per year, equivalent to 689 wild horses due to the interchangeability of forage.

Therefore, the land should be able to support 175 + 689 = 864 wild horses.

The herd is held to 20% of carrying capacity because the HMA is managed primarily for livestock.

Advocates with the Wyoming Wild Horse Improvement Partnership enforce the plan by beating the horse numbers down with ovary-killing pesticides.

RELATED: History of Consent Decree and Rock Springs RMP Amendments.

The advocates convert free-roaming self-reliant herds into curated horse exhibits with their darting and feeding programs.

Signs of their presence:

• Barren mares
• Confused stallions
• Shrinking herds
• Injuries and infections
• Abnormal sex ratios
• Increasing death rates
• Tiny breeding populations
• Loss of genetic diversity
• Sterility
• Acclimation to people
• Prevalence of livestock

They talk about wild horses and put photos of such on socialist media, but when they get through the herds are anything but.

RELATED: Foal-Free Friday, the Great Replacement Edition.

Three interesting characteristics of the in-depth article by WyoFile:

• The author did not include remarks from the Campaign Against America’s Wild Horses, a departure from established practice when writing about wild horses
• He did not imply that drillers and miners were the greatest threat to said animals
• He did not try to sell mass sterilization as wild horse conservation

However, he did give considerable airtime to Christi Chapman, co-founder of the Wyoming Wild Horse Improvement Partnership, who, according to an undated brochure posted by the state legislature, was raised in a ranching lifestyle, received a formal education in soils and livestock production and has worked in the agriculture industry for over 20 years.

Volunteers with WYWHIP are certified in the remote delivery of PZP and are active in the Stewart Creek HMA, earning the nonprofit a spot on the list of charlatans.

RELATED: Advocates Prevail in Rock Springs RMP Appeal.

He was taken off the beach and treated for colic but last week his condition went south so they put him down according to a report by The Outer Banks Voice.

They said he lived the kind of life they want for every foal born on the beach but did not mention the declining number of foals born on the beach or anywhere else, thanks to their use of PZP, so the long-term prospects for the herd remain uncertain.

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 in the 2025 population dataset).

A simple way to apply this rule is to round the acreage to the nearest thousand and drop the last three digits.

For example, Thirty Mile Spring, an allotment in eastern Nevada, covers 178,716 public acres.

If it was an HMA, the AML would be 179.

• Acreage rounded to the nearest thousand = 179,000
• Remainder after dropping the last three digits = 179

The permittee receives 8,405 active AUMs (per year), equivalent to 700 wild horses.

Thus, the horse population would be held to approximately 25% of carrying capacity, with 75% devoted to livestock, which means 700 – 179 = 521 wild horses would be consigned to off-range holding because of permitted grazing.

The advocates like the arrangement and want it enforced with ovary-killing pesticides, not low-flying helicopters.

RELATED: AMLs Don’t Indicate Genetic Diversity or Carrying Capacity.

Last week they held their fall fundraiser in a gay enclave.

Yesterday they celebrated Indigenous Peoples Day, not Columbus Day.

This is how they win the protections of the Democrat Party, including censorship of their critics and legislation that supports their anti-horse / pro-ranching agenda.

At Grayson Highlands with Jason Fleming.

Helicopters are the fastest and most efficient way of shifting resources from wild horses and burros to privately owned cattle and sheep.

An advantage of mass sterilization, favored by the advocates, is that the herds don’t bounce back.

RELATED: Shrinking Populations and Managing to Extinction.

He’s a bay pinto colt according to the list of foals by DSC Photography.

Not bad for a herd of 150.

Meanwhile, at the Salt River, a herd of 280 has only produced one or two foals in 2025 because the advocates are sterilizing the mares with PZP.

At Chincoteague, the saltwater cowboys have turned the wildlife refuge into a puppy mill for wild horses while FWS looks the other way.

RELATED: Chincoteague Herd Produces One More Foal in 2025?

The wind and dust can be pretty intense.  Filmed 10-07-25.

The advocates want to replace cruel and costly helicopter roundups with cruel and costly sterilization programs.

If they get their way, we won’t have any wild horses.

RELATED: Foal-Free Friday, the Great Disconnect Edition.

Report by KTVN News.  A start date was not given.

RELATED: NDA Gives Virginia Range Fencing Update.

There is no announcement at the BLM news page or input and actions page.

A link to the daily reports has not been added to the Nevada gather page.

We’re still waiting for a FY26 roundup schedule.

A temporary banner says blm.gov is not being updated and staff will not be able to respond to inquiries until FY26 appropriations are enacted.

But they can send notices to their media partners, such as KTNV News in Las Vegas.

The capture goal is 250 according to the report.

The driver is public safety and private property encroachment.

They’re billing it as an emergency.

Burros will be drawn into the traps with bait.

Operations are probably not open to public observation.

There are no plans to treat any of the jennies with PZP and return them to the range, a huge disappointment to the advocates.

Animals identified for removal will be taken to the contract corrals in Axtell.

The HMA surrounds the town of Beatty.

The report did not mention that Nevada is a fence-out state.

RELATED: BLM Issues Bullfrog Final Planning Documents.

The NDA website was down at the time but it’s working now.

He stated on August 26 that feeding and watering the horses was illegal.

But the FAQ says on page two that watering is not illegal.

If he’s wrong about that, should we believe what he says about the advocates and their mass sterilization program?

RELATED: Unlawful to Feed or Water Virginia Range Mustangs?

On the Virginia Range with Western Horse Watchers.

The allotment covers 81,960 public acres but there is only one pasture so it may operate as a general use area shared by two permittees, with cattle and sheep moving across the land as specified in the AMR.

The actual arrangement is unknown.

If free-roaming horses replaced cattle, the other permittee would still be entitled to graze sheep.

The advocates may never make such a request as they have been working for years to cement their relationship with the bureaucrats and ranchers.

The base property tied to 1,471 AUMs in the allotment consisted of a 40-acre parcel but the preference was transferred to another parcel inside a 944-acre tract before it was purchased by the advocates.

Thus, the land ratio is very good.  Up to 81,960 public acres can be accessed through the acquisition of 944 deeded acres.

Unfortunately, the allotment overlaps the Pine Nut Mountains HA, an area that could be returned to the horses not by spending millions of dollars on a base property but by purging the bureaucracy of ranchers and ranching sympathizers and overturning the planning process that zeroed it out.

A refuge should increase territory for wild horses while decreasing lands occupied by livestock.

In summary, the allotment satisfies two of four requirements for a refuge:

If the project moves ahead and the cattlemen are howling, along with their cheerleaders, it might be worthy of your support.

RELATED: Buckeye Grazing Preference Transfers to CAAWH.

The nonprofit holds 75% of the active AUMs according to the Allotment Master Report.

The percentage of public land is not known.

The Authorization Use Report shows their portion is still permitted for cattle with a 5.5 month grazing season.

Western Horse Watchers does not know if the advocates have asked the BLM to change the livestock type to horses and the grazing season to 12 months, turning the area into a refuge for up to 122 equines.

A search of ePlanning for projects involving Buckeye turned up the grazing preference transfer but nothing for repurposing the allotment.

The portion controlled by CAAWH may not overlap the Pine Nut Mountains HMA but almost certainly overlaps the HA.

RELATED: Who Has Grazing Preference on the Buckeye Allotment?

The advocates tell us that wild horses face competition from livestock, unfair resource allocations and shrinking habitats but their solution—mass sterilization—aligns with and can only aggravate the problem.

The ranchers couldn’t have asked for more feckless opponents.

Why are you still giving them money?

RELATED: Foal-Free Friday, Finding Common Ground Edition.

The incident concluded on September 30.

The documented capture total, based on the daily reports, is 268, including 120 stallions, 121 mares and 27 foals.

The capture goal was 350.

Youngsters accounted for 10.1% of the sample.

Of the adults, 49.8% were male and 50.2% were female.

The average daily take was 7.7.

The death rate, based on the stated capture total of 276, was 2.5%.

Body condition scores were not given.

The number of animals shipped is not known.

The operation liberated 3,216 AUMs per year.

The WHT is subject to permitted grazing.

RELATED: Eighth Annual Devil’s Garden Roundup Announced.

The Decision Record authorizes the Proposed Action, discussed in Section B of the Categorical Exclusion, clearing the way for bait-trap removal of six wild horses that have strayed from the Pokegema HMA onto school property.

A map of the project area was not provided but the incident would probably take place near Highway 66 on the west side of the HMA based on the school address.

The news release did not indicate if Oregon was a fence-out state and if the barrier around the school meets the requirements of a legal fence.

Funding for the operation would come from ______________________.

RELATED: No FY26 Budget, No FY26 Roundup Schedule.