From Tearing Families Apart to No Families at All

The advocates want to stop helicopter roundups by zeroing out the breeding populations with PZP.

Either way the ranchers win.

What’s most surprising is the number of ignorant women who support this.

New Life at Salt River?

His mom probably has a faulty immune system.

The advocates rely on predators to take out any foals that slip through their mass sterilization program.

When that happens they’ll put on a big show to make you think they’re saddened by the loss.

It’s all fake. They hate foals.

They’re far more interested in driving the numbers down with ovary-killing pesticides and winning the approval of the bureaucrats and ranchers.

Foal-Free Friday, Wailing and Gnashing of Teeth Edition

The government shutdown may be over but the BLM still doesn’t have a budget.

Temporary funding will expire on January 31.

That means the advocates have no assurance that the agency will devote more resources to their mass sterilization programs in lieu of motorized removal.

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Government Reopens, Back to Business as Usual

The advocates will continue to lie about their fertility control pesticides.

The bureaucrats will lie about the carrying capacity of public lands.

The ranchers will lie about rangeland degradation.

Their big-tech minions will bury their critics.

RELATED: Government Shutdown Ends.

Government Shutdown Ends

The President signed of HR 5371 yesterday, according to a story by The Hill, after the House voted 222-209 in favor of the bill.

The measure provides temporary funding for most federal agencies through January 30.

Forage Availability in the Wyoming Checkerboard

Three allotments in Pathfinder’s Stewart Creek Unit offer a combined 2,288 active AUMs on 21,183 public acres, equivalent to 191 wild horses or nine wild horses per thousand public acres.

Refer to Bell Springs, Jawbone and Larson Knolls in the report for Stewart Creek allotments managed by the Rawlins Field Office.

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 of the 2025 population dataset).

The advocates, defeated a long time ago and now in the tank for the ranchers, bolster the narrative with their darting programs.

WYWHIP Carries Water for Pathfinder Ranches

If you plot the outline of the Stewart Creek Unit on a map of the allotments, you’ll find that it overlaps Turkey Track, Rawlins Draw, Whiskey Peak, Arapahoe Creek, Stewart Creek, Larson Knolls, Jawbone and Bell Springs.

Turkey Track, not labeled, is in the northeast corner. Click on image to enlarge.

STEWART CREEK GRAZING ASSOCIATION appears in a first-pass review of the allotment master reports at RAS.

The operator information report gives three authorizations for SCGA:

4900602 – JAWBONE, BELL SPRINGS, LARSON KNOLLS and STEWART CREEK (in the Rawlins Field Office)
4900388 – ARAPAHOE CREEK (Lander Field Office)
4900649 – RAWLINS DRAW, TURKEY TRACK, NORTH WILLOW CREEK, WHISKEY PEAK and COOPER CREEK (Lander Field Office)

Western Horse Watchers was unable to find North Willow Creek and Cooper Creek on the map but their namesakes are inside the blue boundary.

The allotment master report for Lander indicates that SCGA holds all of the active AUMs in Rawlins Draw, Turkey Track, North Willow Creek and Cooper Creek, suggesting that it’s a legal entity owned or controlled by Pathfinder Ranches.

SCGA holds all of the active AUMs in Bell Springs, Jawbone and Larson Knolls according to the report for Rawlins.

In the Stewart Creek Allotment, where the Wyoming Wild Horse Improvement Project poisons the mares with PZP, SCGA holds 60% of the active AUMs, suggesting that WYWHIP co-founder Christie Chapman cares far more about ranching interests, especially those of Pathfinder, than she does about wild horses.

Senate Amends, Approves FY26 Budget (Sort of)

Senators voted 60-40 Monday evening in favor of HR 5371, a bill that will end the partial government shutdown if accepted by the House and signed by the President.

The measure provides full-year funding for military construction, veterans’ affairs, the Department of Agriculture (which includes the Forest Service) and the legislative branch, according to a report by The Hill, and the rest of government (which includes the BLM) through January 30.

As of today, a FY26 roundup schedule has not been posted to BLM’s website, but one may appear before the ink is dry, as high-net-worth individuals, portrayed as victims by Bobby Khan, suffer from resource invasion in the lawful homes of wild horses.

How to Sell Mass Sterilization to the American People

Refer to this November 7 news flash written by Tracy “You need to manage the numbers to fit what’s available for the horses” Wilson, a defeatist, pesticide pusher and ranching sympathizer with the Campaign Against America’s Wild Horses.

Portray helicopter roundups as cruel and costly
Never admit that the range can support more horses than the government allows
Never suggest that overpopulation might not be true
Present ovary-killing pesticides as a humane alternative to motorized removal

Never acknowledge that public lands are managed primarily for livestock
Never admit that you’re in cahoots with the bureaucrats and ranchers
Never concede that your plan will eradicate the herds in 25 years

RELATED: What Makes the Advocates Evil?

Mustang Monday

At the southwest corner of the Virginia Range with Art.

The switchback in the distance is on the Duck Hill allotment.

The channel documents the mass sterilization program inflicted on the herd by the Campaign Against America’s Wild Horses and its army of nitwits.

Pathfinder’s Stewart Creek Unit Clashes with Red Desert Horses

The map supplied with the listing shows the ranch with a red border.

Deeded acreage, which secures grazing preference on public lands, is black.

If you plot the ranch outline on a map of the HMAs, you’ll find it overlaps all of Crooks Mountain and Stewart Creek, and most of Green Mountain.

A small portion extends into the checkerboard near Rawlins.

Click on image to enlarge.

Salt River Scandal?

The attack on the herd is sinister because it’s being carried by those who claim to voices for the horses.

The Center for Biological Diversity never demanded that the mares be sterilized.

The Forest Service never laid the idea on the table.

It came from the advocates, disguised as “humane management.”

For seven years they’ve pummeled the mares with pesticide-laced darts, not to slow population growth but to reverse it, with the inevitable result of permanent infertility.

And, as usual, the perps are women.

These people are phonies and don’t deserve a penny of your support.

Foal-Free Friday, Reserves for Preserves Edition

You’d think the advocates would have special funds devoted to the purchase of base properties, so wild horses could be placed on public lands at the expense of privately owned livestock.

Instead, they use your donations to buy pesticides, so they can beat the horse populations down in favor of livestock.

They are frauds and don’t deserve a penny of your support.

Wyoming’s Pathfinder Ranches Changing Hands

The listing indicates it’s under contract, with an asking price of $79.5 million.

The operation consists of twelve ranches organized into four units:

Two Crosses
- 180,061 total acres
  - 39,034 deeded
  - 25,228 state
  - 115,799 BLM
  - 3.0 BLM acres per deeded acre
- 37,909 AUMs
  - Equivalent to 3,159 wild horses
  - Stocking rate would be 27.3 wild horses per thousand BLM acres
Beulah Belle
- 98,357 total acres
  - 23,146 deeded
  - 7,962 state
  - 67,248 BLM
  - 2.9 BLM acres per deeded acre
- 19,810 AUMs
  - Equivalent to 1,651 wild horses
  - Stocking rate would be 24.6 wild horses per thousand BLM acres
Stewart Creek
- 569,053 total acres
  - 22,470 deeded
  - 8,999 state
  - 537,584 BLM
  - 23.9 BLM acres per deeded acre
- 23,734 AUMs
  - Equivalent to 1,978 wild horses
  - Stocking rate would be 3.7 wild horses per thousand BLM acres
Wooden Rifle
- 68,606 total acres
  - 14,537 deeded
  - 6,797 state
  - 47,272 BLM
  - 3.3 BLM acres per deeded acre
- 8,991 AUMs
  - Equivalent to 749 wild horses
  - Stocking rate would be 15.8 wild horses per thousand BLM acres

Your faithful public servants claim that public lands in the western U.S. can only support one wild horse per thousand BLM acres.

Stewart Creek, the unit with the best land ratio but lowest stocking rate, overlaps three of the five HMAs in the Red Desert Complex. Not disclosed by the agent.

If the operation was repurposed as a refuge, it would support 7,500 wild horses, saving taxpayers an estimated $13.7 million per year and paying for itself in six years.

The project would likely face stiff opposition from ranchers, farm bureaus and stock grower’s associations.

Wild horses can be placed on public lands not identified for their use by acquiring base properties associated with grazing allotments and flipping the preference to horses.

A Bright Spot in the Partial Government Shutdown?

The Campaign Against America’s Wild Horses, a leader in mass sterilization and fierce opponent of principal use, has been ordered to stop the Cedar Mountain darting program according to an October 30 news flash distributed by Lucky Three Ranch.

Further, the grant that funds the effort has not been renewed.

The advocates are now begging for donations to keep the destruction going.

There haven’t been any roundups in the HMA since the program began because the advocates are working with a permittee to poison the mares with PZP, a restricted-use pesticide that tricks their immune systems into attacking their ovaries.

Mustang Monday

At the southern edge of the Virginia Range with Art.

The land can only support 300 to 600 wild horses according to the bureaucrats, not 3,000, so body condition scores should be much lower.

The advocates support the charade with their darting program.

What Happens When You Mix Women with Horses?

Lunacy sets in, almost immediately, proceeding to enmity in some cases.

RELATED: What Makes the Advocates Evil?

Maybell Base Property Offered for $6 Million

Snake River Land & Cattle covers 38,899 total acres, including 5,675 deeded acres and 33,224 BLM acres according to the agent’s listing.

The map puts the deeded acreage inside the Douglas-Sawmill Allotment, a few miles south of the Sand Wash Basin HMA.

The ranch lies within a game management unit so not only will you get pushback from ranchers in trying to flip the preference to horses but from hunters as well.

The allotment master report shows one pasture, so it may operate as a general use area shared by three permittees.

Livestock owned by the other two would remain.

The active AUMs are probably wrong and may be off by a factor of ten.

One of the bullet points in the listing says the ranch receives 743 AUMs, equivalent to 62 wild horses.

The land ratio is good, almost six public acres per deeded acre.

But the allotment overlaps the Douglas Mountain HA according to the ArcGIS viewer, so the ranch meets two out of four requirements for a refuge.

You don’t have to spend millions of dollars on a base property to get wild horses back on these public lands. You just need to rid the bureaucracy of ranchers and ranching sympathizers and overturn the planning process that zeroed out the HMA.

Don’t expect any help from the advocates. They want the ranchers to win.

REMINDER: December 2 Is Defund the Advocates Day

They’re not playing for the home team.

Hidden Valley Wild Horse Protection Fund Rebranding

The nonprofit is expanding its scope from the Virginia Range to all of Nevada’s wild horses and burros.

The news release did not include condemnation of the mass sterilization program inflicted on the Virginia Range herd by the Campaign Against America’s Wild Horses.

Until that happens, don’t give them a penny.