Lake Pleasant Roundup, Day 74

The incident started on February 5. Results through April 18:

Scope: Lake Pleasant HMA
Target: Burros
Type: Planned
Method: Bait
Goals: Gather 400, remove 400
Captured: 353, up from 247 on Day 63
Shipped: 331, up from 180 on Day 63
Released: None
Deaths: 4, no change from Day 63
Average daily take: 4.8
Unaccounted-for animals: 18

The figures above are based on the daily reports. The sidebar indicates 376 animals captured, including one freeze-marked horse.

The death rate is 1.1%.

The capture total includes 140 jacks, 176 jennies and 37 foals.

Youngsters represented 10.5% of the animals gathered.

Of the adults, 44.3% were male and 55.7% were female.

The location of the trap site was not given.

The HA and HMA are the same size. The area is subject to permitted grazing.

Forage liberated to date: 2,118 AUMs per year
Water liberated to date: 1,765 gallons per day

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

The roundup targets animals that are damaging private property and creating a public safety hazard, purposes for which PZP was not authorized.

The incident supports three tenets of rangeland management.

RELATED: Lake Pleasant Roundup, Day 63.

Caliente Roundup, Day 3

The incident started on April 16. Results through April 18:

Scope: Caliente Complex
Target: Horses
Type: Planned
Method: Bait
Goals: Gather 350, remove 350
Captured: 64, up from 29 on Day 1
Shipped: 36, up from zero on Day 1
Released: None
Deaths: 2, up from zero on Day 1
Average daily take: 21.3
Unaccounted-for animals: 26

The figures above are based on the daily reports.

A mare died of a fractured neck on Day 3. Another mare was put down due to blindness in one eye, bringing the death rate to 3.1%.

The capture total includes 24 stallions, 33 mares and 7 foals.

Youngsters represented 10.9% of the animals gathered.

Of the adults, 42.1% were male and 57.9% were female.

The Complex is subject to permitted grazing.

Forage liberated to date: 768 AUMs per year
Water liberated to date: 640 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 Trapping Begins.

Foal-Free Friday, Advocates, Assateague and Amnesia Edition

A few years ago the advocates pointed to the herd as a model of wild horse management.

Now that the Park Service has released another report indicating that it’s still shrinking, eight years after the darting program was shut off, they know nothing about it.

Their safe, proven and reversible vaccine turned out to be an ovary-killing pesticide that plunged the herd into irreversible decline.

It’s great news for the advocates and should convince their allies that nonmotorized removal is more effective in the long run than motorized removal.

Adjectives for Pests 12-01-23

Think in Terms of Abundance, Not Scarcity!

The bureaucrats, ranchers and advocates want you to think there’s not enough food and water for wild horses on America’s public lands, thereby justifying their removal.

It’s all bullcrap, as discussed earlier this week for public lands in Wyoming and a few weeks ago for Nevada.

The off-range corrals, adoptions and long-term pastures are part of the ruse.

Resource availability is already known. There’s no need for scientific studies.

Most of the forage has been assigned to the public-lands ranchers and this can be quantified with the reports at RAS.

With those numbers in hand, you can estimate the True AMLs, compare them to the current AMLs and show others how the horses are getting the short end of the stick.

If you did this for every HA, HMA and WHT, you’d find that all of the off-range corrals and long-term pastures could be emptied several times over by confining the ranchers to their base properties, at great savings to American taxpayers.

The decrease in grazing fees would be trivial.

Thriving Ecological Balance-3

Winnemucca Off-Range Corrals Open to Public Next Month

Tours will be offered on May 16 and 17 according to today’s announcement.

Registration is required and groups are limited to 20 persons each.

The facility, owned and operated by JS Livestock, was at or near capacity after the East Pershing roundup earlier this year.

SOWH Conferees Tour Palomino Valley Off-Range Corrals

Story by KRNV News.

The facility is flooded with wild horses and burros because most of their food has been assigned to the public-lands ranchers.

RELATED: Challenge to SOWH Conferees.

If PZP Is Reversible, Why Is the Assateague Herd Still Shrinking?

The rate of decline (slope of line) in the last few years is almost as great as when the pesticide was applied for population reduction.

Assateague Population Trend March 2024 Update 04-10-24

Caliente Trapping Begins

The incident started on April 16 with 29 horses captured, none shipped, none released and none dead.

RELATED: Caliente Roundup in Progress?

Public Lands in Wyoming Can’t Support 9,435 Wild Horses?

That’s the estimated population in the state according to the 2024 HA/HMA Report.

The land-use plans allow 3,795 wild horses on 3,644,013 public acres, or approximately one wild horse per thousand public acres.

BLM allotments in the state offer 1,902,445 active AUMs on 17,312,214 public acres, according to the Allotment Information Report at RAS.

That means they’re supporting privately owned livestock equivalent to 158,537 wild horses on 17,312,214 public acres, or 9.2 wild horses per thousand public acres.

Why is this important?

The bureaucrats and ranchers tell us that public lands in the western U.S. can only support one wild horse per thousand acres (27,000 animals on 27 million acres).

Given that the HMAs are a subset of the allotments, they should be able to support 10.2 wild horses per thousand public acres, or approximately 37,000 wild horses, four times higher than the current population.

For every wild horse allowed on Wyoming public lands, nine have been consigned to off-range holding because of permitted grazing.

The advocates use this disparity to peddle their fertility control programs, helping the bureaucrats realize their goal of ranching superiority in the lawful homes of wild horses.

NOTE: The active AUMs in the allotments can be found by adding the values in column Q of the unfiltered dataset. The total public acres can be found by filtering the list for duplicate entries in column A and adding the remaining values in column E.

If Beaver Creek Was Managed Principally for Wild Horses

The AML would be 1,188 and the stocking rate would be 15.8 animals per thousand public acres.

The allotment, located northwest of Wells, NV, offers 14,258 active AUMs on 75,139 public acres, according to the Allotment Master Report.

Why is this important?

The bureaucrats and ranchers tell us that public lands in the western U.S. can only support one wild horse per thousand acres (27,000 animals on 27 million acres).

The advocates reinforce the story with their darting programs.

If it was an HMA, the AML would be 75 and 1,113 horses would be consigned to off-range holding because of permitted grazing.

A Penchant for Pesticides

We know from Assateague Island the fate of every wild horse herd where the advocates are involved, especially those identified for population reductions.

At the Salt River, the advocates need a zero percent birth rate and six percent death rate for ten consecutive years to achieve the goal.

The mares will be ruined after five years, setting the stage for collapse.

On the Virginia Range, the advocates need similar conditions for 30 years.

They can walk away after five years and let the herd implode.

This is the insidiousness of nonmotorized removal, attrition by pesticides.

Irreversible decline after the tipping point is reached.

The advocates won’t tell you the truth about PZP any more than they’ll talk about Assateague Island, an area they once praised as a paragon of wild horse management.

Don’t be confused if they refer to themselves as conservationists, influencers or experts.

They are phonies, allies of the ranchers, leaders of the blind.

Pesticide Pushers 07-17-23

Mustang Monday

At the southwest corner of the Virginia Range with Jennifer Fairbairn.

Colorado’s Wild Horse Refuge Seeks Ranch Hands

Two full-time openings exist according to the job posting at AgHires:

General care of property, repairing fences, field/hay work, building gates/pens
Monitoring herds, leading tours, cleaning rental house after visitors, photography

A husband-wife team would be ideal.

The facility, formerly Rio Ro Mo Ranch, covers approximately 22,500 acres near Craig.

Caliente Roundup in Progress?

Sort of. The incident started on April 2 but no horses have been captured.

They are currently adapting to the presence of the traps.

RELATED: Caliente Roundup Announced.

How to Find the 2024 Census Report for Assateague Island

It’s not at the wild horse page, which, as of today, still shows the report for 2023.

It does not appear on the Assateague news page.

It was buried among thousands of articles by NPS.

Go to the search page, type in Assateague and hit “Go.”

Then set the “Sort by” field to “Recently Updated.”

The report says the population is close to the goal range of 80-100 individuals, which is not true.

The herd has passed through the target range and continues to decline because too many mares have been ruined by the ovary-killing pesticide PZP, which the advocates peddle as a safe, proven and reversible vaccine.

They are the old guard, leaders of the blind, irrelevant.

Rhyolite Ridge Mine to Affect Silver Peak Burros, Livestock?

Today the BLM announced the start of a 45-day public comment period on a draft EIS for a proposed lithium mine in Nevada’s Silver Peak Range.

As of this evening, no new documents have been copied to the project folder.

The 2022 scoping overview puts the mine in the Silver Peak HMA, which overlaps the Silver Peak Allotment.

The HMA allows six wild burros on 239,801 public acres.

The allotment offers 1,530 active AUMs on 281,489 public acres, equivalent to 255 wild burros, on 281,489 public acres.

The land is not very useful from an agricultural viewpoint.

Lithium is used in batteries for electric vehicles, utilities, computers and mobile phones.

The advocates complain about habitat loss attributable to mining even though they, as believers in man-made climate change, vote for it.

Return of Caisson Platoon Delayed Indefinitely?

The commander of the Military District of Washington hesitated to use the term but would not commit to a specific timeframe, according to a story dated April 12 by AP News, saying only that the Army has every intention to resume operations of the horse-drawn carts during burial services at Arlington National Cemetery.

Caisson Platoon 12-17-22

Foal-Free Friday, More Bang for Your Buck Edition

A report distributed by ISPMB indicates that administration of the first dose of PZP before sexual maturity may cause infertility, according to a study by Knight & Rubenstein discussed on page 35. If you can’t access the file, click here.

Can you think of an easier way to make your darting resources go farther?

Females who have not yet reached puberty, which occurs 12 to 15 months after birth, could be sterilized with one injection.

You don’t have to stalk them for five years to finish them off.

This idea helps you to do more with less and will certainly get you noticed by the bureaucrats and ranchers.

Pesticide Patrol 08-16-23