Category: Range

On the range

Advocates Go on the Offensive with New ATV

The eugenicists at the Virginia Range and Pine Nut Mountains just got a shot in the arm with access to the new vehicle, courtesy of the Wild Horse Preservation League.

The goal is to minimize or even eradicate the need for future roundups according to a guest column in The Comstock Chronicle.

Of course, that can only be achieved by driving the birth rate to zero, shrinking the breeding population to zero and kissing genetic diversity goodbye.

Eradication of the Pine Nut horses benefits ranchers in the Buckeye Allotment, which includes the Campaign Against America’s Wild Horses, a leader in mass sterilization.

You heard that right.  The advocates are getting rid of wild horses so they can run cattle on public lands identified for wild horses.

You can’t make this stuff up!

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Chincoteague Foals Blooming Like Wildflowers

The count as of May 3 was 31.

Thunderbolt is the top producer, sire of five.

Chief trails Thunderbolt with four.

Fillies outnumber colts 16-11, with four undetermined.

The herd, known for its highly abnormal sex ratio, has been engineered for maximum production and maximum revenues from the pony auctions.

Meanwhile, at the Salt River, where the advocates work tirelessly to defend and protect the herd, no new foals have been reported.

Breeding, not mass sterilization, assures long-term viability.

RELATED: Chincoteague Foaling Season Underway.

UPDATE: Here is a link to the spreadsheet with pivot tables.

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Cutting the Herd by 40%: It’s OK if the Advocates Do It

What they’re not telling you is that it’s not possible to reduce a herd by 40% with birth control and natural attrition without sterilizing the mares.

A 40% herd reduction, assuming a 6% death rate, would require about eight years.

The mares will be sterile after five years of treatment.

If the Forest Service took the herd from 450 to 270, the advocates would be howling.

RELATED: Where to Find the Airheads of the Wild Horse World.

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Silver King EA Out for Review

It’s in the documents folder with comments due by May 29.

The news release solicits public input but does not indicate for what.

Alternative A, the Proposed Action, features forcible removal to low AML, sex ratio skewing and application of fertility control pesticides.  Refer to section 2.4.

The new HMAP is discussed in Appendix XII.

The HMA overlaps nine grazing allotments per section 3.7 and is managed principally for livestock.

RELATED: Scoping Begins for Silver King HMAP.

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BLM Announces Bordo Atravesado Bait Trap Roundup

The incident will begin on or around May 6 according to the news release.

The capture and removal goals are 26 each.

The target is horses.

The current population was not given.

The HMA covers 19,614 total acres, including 16,487 public acres, and the number of animals allowed by plan is 60.

Operations will not be open to public observation.

The destination of animals identified for removal was not provided.

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

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Assateague Herd Grew Slightly in 2025

The population climbed to 83 in March, up from 79 a year earlier, according to an undated report by NPS.

The number of births and deaths were not given.

Females outnumbered males by a margin of 1.4:1.

A population with that sex ratio should produce many more foals but it can’t because the mares have been ruined with PZP.

Contrary to a statement in the report, the herd cannot maintain genetic diversity because the breeding population is too small.  Refer to 4.4.6.3 in H-4700-1.

Genetic diversity and long-term viability correlate with birth rates, not herd sizes as the advocates would have you believe.

RELATED: Assateague Herd Grows Slightly.

If PZP is reversible, why is the population still going sideways ten years after the darting program was shut off?

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Advocates Intervene as ASNF Threatens Wild Horse Removal

Who’s leading the charge?  The woman who organized the mass sterilization program at the Salt River, taking the herd from 450 to 280, and who will accelerate the decline with motorized removal starting this summer.

The area along the Mogollon Rim is covered by grazing allotments.

No roundups have been announced at the USFS news site or ASNF news site.

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Where Is the Britton Springs Holding Facility?

A map in a 2016 NEPA review puts it on Crooked Creek Road in the southwest corner of the Pryor Mountain HMA.

In the latest incident, the Decision Record, which may have been issued after the fact, says “The stallion was recently corralled on private property after commingling with, and exhibiting aggressive behavior toward, domestic horses and the individual attempting to corral the stallion.  With landowner permission, the BLM retrieved the horse and transported it to the BLM corrals at Britton Springs within the Pryor Mountain HMA.”

RELATED: BLM Nabs Pryor Stallion.

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BLM Nabs Pryor Stallion

The project description says the Proposed Action is to remove one wild horse from private lands but the news release says the agency retrieved him and took him to the corrals at Britton Springs, as if it’s a done deal.

He strayed from the HMA twice within a 12-day period, resulting in complaints from private landowners.

The incident follows the removal of three wayward horses in December.

RELATED: BLM Captures Three Pryor Mountain Horses.

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