Red Rock Roundup, Day 7

The incident started on April 29. Results through May 5:

Scope: Red Rock HMA
Target: Horses and burros
Type: Planned
Method: Bait
Goals: Gather 112 horses and remove 92, gather 70 burros and remove 70
Captured: 109 horses, up from 97 on Day 5, and 45 burros, up from 40 on Day 5
Shipped: 82 horses, no change from Day 5, 39 burros, up from zero on Day 5
Released: None
Deaths: 2 horses, no change from Day 5, and 1 burro, no change from Day 5
Average daily take: 15.6 horses, 6.4 burros
Unaccounted-for animals: 25 horses, 5 burros

The figures above are based on the daily reports.

Horses

The death rate is 1.8%.

The capture total includes 46 stallions, 45 mares and 18 foals.

Youngsters represented 16.5% of the animals gathered.

Of the adults, 50.5% were male and 49.5% were female.

Body condition scores were not given.

Burros

The death rate is 2.2%.

The capture total includes 19 jacks, 23 jennies and three foals.

Youngsters represented 6.7% of the animals gathered.

Of the adults, 45.2% were male and 54.8% were female.

General

The location of the trap site was not given.

The HMA is not subject to permitted grazing.

Up to ten mares will be treated with GonaCon Equine, a fertility control pesticide, and be returned to the range with up to ten stallions.

There are no such plans for the burros.

RELATED: Red Rock Roundup, Day 5.

Advocate Responds to Poor Body Condition of Currituck Stallion

He does not need any help and there are no plans to intervene, according to a report dated May 7 by OBX Today.

He’s around 30 years old and deserves the chance to die as naturally as he lived, without ever having human hands on him.

However, if the management team and veterinarian determine that he has reached the end of his life and needs to be humanely euthanized, they will step in immediately.

RELATED: Currituck Herd Expands by One.

Nobody Wants to Watch Animals Die?

That’s according to Tracy “You need to manage the numbers to fit what’s available for the horses” Wilson of the Campaign Against America’s Wild Horses in a story dated May 6 by KTVN News about fences and water for the Virginia Range mustangs.

The video shows a foal tangled in the wires.

This is nonsense.

She oversees the PZP darting program that has put many of the mares at risk of sterility.

That’s how nonmotorized removal works: You snuff out new life and pray for the older horses to die, especially when you’re trying to convince the bureaucrats and ranchers that it’s a viable alternative to motorized removal.

Pesticide Pushers 07-17-23

Mustang Monday

At Grayson Highlands State Park with Bonnie K Hunter.

WARNING: Images of foals! Will be disturbing to most wild horse advocates.

Red Rock Roundup, Day 5

The incident started on April 29. Results through May 3:

Scope: Red Rock HMA
Target: Horses and burros
Type: Planned
Method: Bait
Goals: Gather 112 horses and remove 92, gather 70 burros and remove 70
Captured: 97 horses, up from 84 on Day 3, and 40 burros, up from zero on Day 3
Shipped: 82 horses, up from 69 on Day 3
Released: None
Deaths: 2 horses, 1 burro
Average daily take: 19.4 horses, 40 burros
Unaccounted-for animals: 13 horses, 39 burros

The figures above are based on the daily reports.

Trapping shifted from horses to burros on Day 5.

Horses

Two stallions were dispatched on Day 3, bringing the death rate to 2.1%.

The capture total includes 44 stallions, 38 mares and 15 foals.

Youngsters represented 15.5% of the animals gathered.

Of the adults, 53.7% were male and 46.3% were female.

Body condition scores were not given.

Burros

A jack was found dead in an open trap on Day 5, putting the death rate at 2.5%.

The capture total includes 18 jacks, 21 jennies and one foal.

Youngsters represented 2.5% of the animals gathered.

Of the adults, 46.2% were male and 53.8% were female.

General

The location of the trap site was given.

The HMA is not subject to permitted grazing.

Up to ten mares will be treated with GonaCon Equine, a fertility control pesticide, and be returned to the range with up to ten stallions.

There are no such plans for the burros.

RELATED: Red Rock Roundup, Day 3.

SHOCKER: Advocates Don’t Know What to Do

Let’s see, the WHB Act no longer affords the protections sought by Velma, roughly half of their land is managed principally for livestock and the other half is managed primarily for livestock, and you don’t know what to do?

An organizer of the Save Our Wild Horses conference told KRNV News in a story dated May 2 “We don’t know if [the horses] should be rounded up at all, but we also don’t know can we improve the range conditions and leave the horses on the range where it doesn’t cost the taxpayers any money? Right now, we’re doing these expensive roundups, putting horses in holding where we’re keeping them.”

A schoolboy could figure this out but we’re not dealing with schoolboys.

If forage demand exceeds forage supply, you have a problem.

Once you understand that AMLs correspond to a small portion of the total authorized forage, and that most of the resource has been assigned to privately owned livestock, you’ll realize that public lands in the western U.S. can support many more horses than the bureaucrats and ranchers admit and that overpopulation is a myth.

History of Wild Horse and Burro Program 12-01-22

RTF Seeks PZP Darter, Launching Pest Control Business?

The signatory to the “Path Forward,” a 2019 plan for ranching superiority in the lawful homes of wild horses, has placed an undated job ad in High Country News for a wild horse population field coordinator and technician.

The successful candidate will report to Celeste Carlisle, RTF science advisor, chair of the Wild Horse and Burro Advisory Board and co-leader of the FREES Population Management Working Group.

In this role, you will work with RTF staff to identify wild equine herds in several herd management areas to determine tractability and appropriateness for current and future range projects.

You should be familiar with 4WD travel, firearms, hiking, camping, map reading, fixing flat tires and bringing survival gear into field, such as extra food and water, layers, batteries, flashlights, blankets or sleeping bags and first aid supplies.

In short, you’ll help RTF leadership transform the organization into a government contractor specializing in nonmotorized removal, just like the Campaign Against America’s Wild Horses.

Join the race to the bottom today!

Working Together for a Horse-Free Future 12-21-22

Foal-Free Friday, Starting New Families Edition

A young bachelor stallion spends his days trying to steal mares from the family bands as discussed in the April edition of Horse Tales. Go to “Wild Horse Tales” at the bottom of page 7.

It’s risky business and injuries do occur, but that’s how nature operates.

Speed, strength and shrewdness are passed on. Weakness is not.

If he succeeds, he faces a more formidable challenge: The advocates.

They don’t like families. They don’t like procreation. They don’t like Velma, principal use and the 92nd Congress.

They like ranchers. They like pesticides. They like thriving ecological balances in the lawful homes of wild horses.

They rank among the lowest and sleaziest of the nonprofits.

They are phonies, leaders of the blind, irrelevant.

Thriving Ecological Balance-3

Scoping Begins for Blue Wing HMAP

A new project has been created in ePlanning and three files have been placed in the documents folder.

The Scoping Statement brings forth certain requirements from the RMP that the new plan must satisfy.

The goal is to achieve and maintain a thriving ecological balance and multiple-use relationship on public lands, codewords for ranching superiority in the lawful homes of wild horses and burros.

The Blue Wing Complex consists of eleven HAs that were reconfigured into five HMAs lying within the Blue Wing / Seven Troughs Allotment.

The new HMAP cannot

Change forage allocations
Confine the ranchers to their base properties
Restore the original HAs

The advocates would have you believe it’s panacea for the Blue Wing horses and burros.

Comments will be accepted through June 1 according to today’s announcement.

Red Rock Roundup, Day 3

The incident started on April 29. Results through May 1:

Scope: Red Rock HMA
Target: Horses and burros
Type: Planned
Method: Bait
Goals: Gather 112 horses and remove 92, gather 70 burros and remove 70
Captured: 84 horses, up from 54 on Day 1
Shipped: 69 horses, up from zero on Day 1
Released: None
Deaths: None
Average daily take: 28.0
Unaccounted-for animals: 15

The figures above are based on the daily reports.

The capture total includes 39 stallions, 33 mares and 12 foals.

Youngsters represented 14.3% of the animals gathered.

Of the adults, 54.2% were male and 45.8% were female.

Body condition scores were not given.

The HMA is not subject to permitted grazing.

Up to ten mares will be treated with GonaCon Equine, a fertility control pesticide, and be returned to the range with up to ten stallions.

RELATED: Red Rock Roundup in Progress.

Red Rock Roundup in Progress

The incident started on April 29 with 54 horses captured, none shipped, none released and no deaths.

RELATED: Red Rock Roundup Announced.

Caliente Roundup, Day 13

The incident started on April 16. Results through April 28:

Scope: Caliente Complex
Target: Horses
Type: Planned
Method: Bait
Goals: Gather 350, remove 350
Captured: 115, no change from Day 11
Shipped: 112, up from 96 on Day 11
Released: None
Deaths: 3, no change from Day 11
Average daily take: 8.8
Unaccounted-for animals: None

The figures above are based on the daily reports.

The death rate is 2.6%.

The capture total includes 49 stallions, 51 mares and 15 foals.

Youngsters represented 13.0% of the animals gathered, consistent with a herd growth rate of eight percent per year.

Of the adults, 49.0% were male and 51.0% were female.

Body condition scores were not given.

The location of the trap site is not known.

The Complex is subject to permitted grazing.

Forage liberated to date: 1,380 AUMs per year
Water liberated to date: 1,150 gallons per day

There are no plans to treat any of the mares with fertility control pesticides and return them to the range.

The roundup supports three tenets of rangeland management.

RELATED: Caliente Roundup, Day 11.

Mustang Monday

On the Maryland side of Assateague Island with Canadian Glampers.

The herd continues to shrink eight years after the PZP darting program was shut off.

New Pest Control Plan for Little Book Cliffs WHR?

A new project has been created in ePlanning but the folder only contains maps.

The proposed plan includes forcible removal by helicopter, relocating some animals to other parts of the range to maintain herd genetic viability, selective return to maintain band integrity, and application of fertility control methods such as pesticides (which the advocates are already doing) and IUDs.

It would be effective for ten years.

The WHR covers 36,100 total acres northeast of Grand Junction, CO, including 35,178 public acres, and is not subject to permitted grazing. Surrounding lands are.

The 150 horses allowed by plan require 1,800 AUMs per year and the stocking rate allowed by plan is 4.3 wild horses per thousand public acres, four times higher than the target rate across all HMAs.

The current population is thought to be 211 according to the latest HA/HMA Report.

A roundup is on the latest schedule with a start date of September 11.

Caliente Roundup, Day 11

The incident started on April 16. Results through April 26:

Scope: Caliente Complex
Target: Horses
Type: Planned
Method: Bait
Goals: Gather 350, remove 350
Captured: 115, up from 103 on Day 9
Shipped: 96, up from 82 on Day 9
Released: None
Deaths: 3, no change from Day 9
Average daily take: 10.5
Unaccounted-for animals: 16

The figures above are based on the daily reports.

The death rate is 2.6%.

The capture total includes 49 stallions, 51 mares and 15 foals.

Youngsters represented 13.0% of the animals gathered, consistent with a herd growth rate of eight percent per year.

Of the adults, 49.0% were male and 51.0% were female.

Body condition scores were not given.

The location of the trap site is not known.

The Complex is subject to permitted grazing.

Forage liberated to date: 1,380 AUMs per year
Water liberated to date: 1,150 gallons per day

There are no plans to treat any of the mares with fertility control pesticides and return them to the range.

The roundup supports three tenets of rangeland management.

RELATED: Caliente Roundup, Day 9.

Forest Service Mulls Wild Horse Removal at Mount Charleston?

Although there are no plans in place or a timeline for managing them, the agency says they’re outside their designated territory and they contribute to negative visitor impacts and unsafe interactions with wildlife.

That has the locals riled up and they’ve started a petition asking the Forest Service to establish an educational program to dissuade the public from feeding and petting them.

Those results will be presented to the Forest Service on May 30 according to a story by KTNV News of Las Vegas.

The Spring Mountains NRA, where the animals reside, is surrounded by BLM lands identified for wild horses and burros.

Lake Pleasant Roundup Ends

The incident concluded on April 20 with 401 burros captured, 397 shipped, none released and four dead according to figures on the sidebar.

The capture and removal goals were 400 each.

A freeze-marked horse was also caught and returned to its owner.

Data quality was poor.

The capture total included 178 Jacks, 186 jennies and 37 foals.

The daily reports indicated 161 jacks, 181 jennies and 37 foals, for a total of 379, with more animals processed than captured.

The death rate was 1% according to figures in the sidebar.

Foals represented 9.2% of the animals gathered.

Of the adults, 48.9% were male and 51.1% were female.

There were no plans to treat any of the jennies with fertility control pesticides and return them to the range.

The roundup supported three tenets of rangeland management.

Foal-Free Friday, Selecting for Weakness Edition

From time to time, you hear about the birth of a foal in an area where the advocates are working vigorously to snuff out new life.

Simone Neterlands with Darting Rifle 09-02-23

They usually rely on predators to take out any youngsters that slip through their darting programs but those who survive may have faulty immune systems.

PZP tricks the immune system into attacking the ovaries.

The pesticide works best (sterilizes faster) on mares with strong immune systems.

They don’t bear fruit, while the immuno-compromised females keep producing foals who inherit that trait.

A herd being treated with PZP undergoes selective breeding for weak immunity, which puts the population—what’s left of it—at risk for disease and ultimately, extinction.