Western Horse Watchers Association
Exposing the Hypocrisy, Lies and Incompetence of the Wild Horse Advocates
On the range
The Park Service hasn’t updated its page in almost a year but a story by The Journal says 60 horses have been removed since low-stress trapping began.
Wild horses have been found in the Canyons of the Ancients National Monument and Weber Canyon according to the report.
RELATED: Mesa Verde Roundup Grinds On.
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The incident will begin on or about April 1 according to the news release.
The capture and removal goals are 500 each.
The target is burros.
The current population is thought to be around 1,100.
The HMA covers 157,180 total acres, including 146,701 public acres.
Operations will not be open to public observation.
Animals identified for removal will be taken to the off-range corrals at Ridgecrest.
There are no plans to treat any of the jennies with fertility control pesticides and return them to the range.
The roundup appears in the new schedule.
RELATED: Bullfrog Emergency Roundup?
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The new roundup schedule ignores solutions developed by the task force according to a story by The Colorado Sun.
Despite the recommendations, Scott Wilson, former Director of Strategy and Awareness with the Campaign Against America’s Wild Horses, said “…we are back where we were in 2022, with more than 1,000 horses being targeted for removals by helicopter.”
The group argued that strategic darting, not motorized removal, should be at the center of the state’s management efforts.
RELATED: Colorado Wild Horse Working Group Updates Eradication Plan.
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On the southern edge of the Virginia Range with Art, documenting the mass sterilization program inflicted on the herd by the Campaign Against America’s Wild Horses and its army of nitwits.
Refer to the AdvocateSpeak decoder for the meaning of self-boosting mares.
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A stallion was captured on March 19 according to the gather page.
The incident began on March 15 but no animals were caught until Day 5.
RELATED: BLM Announces Caliente Bait Trap Roundup.
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They’re not on the schedule for FY26 and probably won’t be attempted before October according to a story by WyoFile, to make sure funding is in place and they’re on sound legal footing.
The changes authorized in the 2023 final planning documents have already been implemented in the ArcGIS Viewer.
Funding for FY26, which began on October 1, was not approved until late January.
RELATED: BLM Moves Rock Springs Roundups into Next Year.
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The temporary position is based in Havre.
The successful candidate will monitor rangeland conditions and participate in wild horse utilization checks and cattle compliance checks according to the job posting.
The application period closes on March 30.
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The authorization use report for Mosier Gulch indicates nine head on a twelve-month grazing season, species unknown.
The allotment master report gives the permittee as DEMATTEIS, JOHN AND LAURA.
A search for John Dematteis associated him with Yak Daddy Ranch in Buffalo, a small town east of the allotment.
Products and services include meat and live sales for starting your own herd.
Yaks were introduced to North America in the early 1900’s according to the site, putting them in the same category as cattle and sheep (not indigenous).
Does the permit comply with the BLM’s new understanding of the meaning of livestock?
Probably, in that the animals are used for production-oriented purposes.
They generate an income for their owners.
That’s what American Prairie needs to show in response to the agency’s flip-flop on their grazing permits.
An admission fee of 25¢ should do it.
RELATED: BLM Reneges on American Prairie Grazing Permits.
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They’re usually not open to observation, interfering with the public’s right to know what their government is doing.
The risks of injury and death, after the gate closes, are similar to those of forcible removal, as the writer of a commentary in Nevada Current points out.
Especially during foaling season.
As of this morning, the BLM has not posted any results for the roundups mentioned in the column (Antelope & Triple B, Caliente, Pancake, Spring Mountains).
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The dataset puts the on-range totals at 61,523 wild horses and 23,943 wild burros, compared to an overall AML of 25,592.
Approximately 61% of the horses are in Nevada and 57% of the burros are in Arizona.
New Mexico is at the other end of the spectrum, with 97 wild horses and no burros.
The aimed-at stocking rate across all HMAs is 25,592 animals on 25,572,687 acres, or one animal per thousand acres.
Overpopulation means more animals than allowed by plan, not necessarily more animals than the land can sustain.
The report was posted to the program data page.
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The authorization use report for Lower Middle Creek indicates 75 head on a three-month grazing season, species unknown.
The allotment master report gives the permittee as DWAYNE M. OSADCHUK TRUST.
A search for Dwayne Osadchuk associated him with Lucky 8 Ranch in Oak Creek, a small town southeast of the allotment.
Products and services include bison processing and meat sales according to a profile at the Rocky Mountain Bison Association.
Does the permit comply with the BLM’s new understanding of the meaning of livestock?
Probably so, in that the animals are used for production-oriented purposes.
They generate an income for their owners.
That’s what American Prairie needs to show in response to the agency’s flip-flop on their grazing permits.
RELATED: BLM Reneges on American Prairie Grazing Permits.
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The new plan, dated March 13, begins with 16 darting programs.
Nearly 1,500 animals are in the emergency/nuisance section, with 376 unassigned.
The next section, for incidents during foaling season, adds five more bait-trap removals to those announced last week.
The last section covers incidents after foaling season, with nearly 8,000 wild horses in that category.
The overall capture and removal goals are 14,830 and 14,378, respectively.
The fiscal year began on October 1.
The agency’s budget was not approved until late January.
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On the Virginia Range, documenting the mass sterilization program, with Art.
No foals, no families, no future.
That’s what the advocates bring to the table.
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It’s too small but the BLM seeks public input on a water improvement project.
The scoping report says the allotment met Idaho standards for Rangeland Health in 2004 but today it’s in the Improve category.
The parcel offers 567 active AUMs on 4,409 public acres according to the allotment master report, equivalent to 10.7 wild horses per thousand public acres.
Your faithful public servants claim that public lands in the western U.S. can only support one wild horse per thousand acres.
Wild horses can be placed on public lands not identified for their use by acquiring or controlling a base property and flipping its preference to horses.
In this case, there are three permits on the allotment, so you might have to buy several base properties to access all of the AUMs. Not a good idea.
The authorization use report indicates that permit #1104620, held by BILL BERNT, is for horses while the other two are for cattle.
The operator information report at RAS did not show any other authorizations for BILL BERNT, no other permits to graze cattle, sheep or goats.
So what production-oriented purpose—a requirement to get a grazing permit according to the BLM’s new understanding of the meaning of livestock—do his horses serve?
This could be another permit to revoke if the agency decides to pull the grazing permits of American Prairie.
RELATED: The Allotments Tell the Story: They’re Lying, All of Them.
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The authorization use report at RAS shows 37 horses on 6.5-month grazing season, divided into two parts.
The allotment master report gives the permittee as MILLER, CHARLES & DIANA.
In its effort to nullify the permits of American Prairie and discourage those who might purchase a base property and convert the associated allotments to a refuge, the BLM claimed in its proposed decision that it cannot issue grazing permits for animals treated as wild or intended to be released into the wild but it can issue permits for animals used in production-oriented operations, or in support thereof, such as horses used to herd cattle.
The operator information report shows no other authorizations for the Millers, no permits to graze cattle, sheep or goats.
So what production-oriented purpose do their horses serve?
Maybe they run cattle on another allotment under a different name.
Do they need 37 horses for that? Must be a big one.
Or maybe their permit doesn’t comply with the agency’s new understanding of the meaning of livestock.
If that’s true, they should be drafting more than one notice of permit cancellation.
RELATED: American Prairie Unfairly Targeted for Indigenous Livestock Grazing?
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Margaret Sanger, the founder of Planned Parenthood, believed that contraceptives would be useful in reducing certain undesirable elements in society and avoiding the detrimental effects of overpopulation according to an article by Wikipedia.
So it is today on public lands in the western U.S., with the advocates and their political allies clamoring for wild horse birth control.
What they don’t tell you is that their fertility control vaccines are actually pesticides that sterilize the mares, leading to herd demise.
Like Sanger, who found favor with the eugenicists, the advocates are gaining the respect of those who want the range cleansed of wild horses.
Why are you still giving them money?
PREVIOUS: Foal-Free Friday, Pesticide Delivery Edition.
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The agenda includes minutes from a September 18 special meeting.
The population at that time was 112, with deaths slightly outpacing births.
It’s still not clear if the PZP darting program was stopped soon enough to avoid total herd collapse.
RELATED: Currituck Wild Horse Advisory Board to Hold Special Meeting.
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The allotments affected by the decision to cancel the permits authorizing bison and replace them with permits authorizing cattle—an attempt by the BLM to placate the ranchers and discourage those who would weigh the advantages of purchasing a base property and converting the attached allotment(s) to a refuge—are:
The authorization use report at RAS shows the livestock type as INDIGENOUS.
The permit information report yielded 7,181 records for Montana, with 41 designated as INDIGENOUS.
Only ten can be associated with the nonprofit. Authorizations marked red in the filtered spreadsheet were granted to others.
That means there are ranchers in the state who may not be engaged in production-oriented operations because their animals do not meet the agency’s ad hoc definition of livestock and are not eligible for grazing permits.
Western Horse Watchers has not seen any news releases announcing a review of grazing authorizations, not just in Montana but across the western U.S., to determine if they comply with applicable laws.
Permits marked INDIGENOUS were found in Colorado, New Mexico and Wyoming.
RELATED: BLM Reneges on American Prairie Grazing Permits.
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The incident will begin on or about March 15 according to the news release.
The capture and removal goals are 425 wild horses and 425 wild burros.
The Spring Mountains Complex consists of the Johnnie, Red Rock and Wheeler HMAs.
The Nevada HMA page has vital statistics.
The current population is thought to be 749 horses and 1,048 burros, plus this year’s foal crop.
Operations will not be open to public observation.
Animals removed from the complex will be taken to the off-range corrals at Palomino Valley.
There are no plans to treat any of the mares with fertility control pesticides and return them to the range.
Foaling season, which runs from March 1 through June 30, usually corresponds to a lull in roundups.
A schedule for FY26 has not been posted to the customary location.
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The incident will begin on or about March 15 according to the news release.
The capture and removal goals are 300 each.
The Pancake Complex consists of the Pancake and Sand Springs West HMAs, plus Jakes Wash HA—an area unfit for wild horses.
The Monte Cristo WHT was omitted.
The current population is thought to be 1,436, not including this year’s foal crop.
Operations will not be open to public observation.
Animals removed from the complex will be taken to the off-range corrals at Sutherland.
There are no plans to treat any of the mares with fertility control pesticides and return them to the range.
The complex is subject to permitted grazing.
Foaling season, which runs from March 1 through June 30, usually corresponds to a lull in wild horse roundups.
A schedule for FY26 has not been posted to the customary location.
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