Exposing the Hypocrisy, Lies and Incompetence of the Wild Horse Advocates
The groundhog’s prediction was fulfilled in just two days.
“No to GonaCon.”
“No to IUDs.”
“No to bait traps.”
“No to managing the HMA principally for wild horses,” a result that cannot be achieved through a gather decision.
“Yes to PZP.”
The advocates have tricked their followers into protecting the public-lands ranchers, not wild horses.
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She was killed by a mountain lion according to the video description.
Don’t be misled as they feign sorrow for the incident. They are counting on predators to take out any foals that slip though the darting program! The same thing is happening on the Virginia Range.
Like other advocates, they are ruthless in achieving their herd reduction goals, given to them by the bureaucrats. They are hired guns.
The effort is part of a much larger plan, coordinated by the Campaign Against America’s Wild Horses and carried out by its army of volunteers, to win the approval of the bureaucrats and ranchers and subdue the herds in favor of privately owned livestock.
Don’t give them a penny!
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A story about Sand Wash Basin by the Craig Press reads like it’s based on a BLM press release, blog post or news conference, but the source was not disclosed.
Here are some tips for interpreting the article, starting at the top.
Majestic wild horses – Pests, an indication that you’re about to be deceived.
Landscape is out-of-balance – The horses are robbing forage from the public-lands ranchers.
Investing the funding necessary – Pissing away your hard-earned tax dollars on useless endeavors.
Public land users – Livestock operators.
That’s just the first paragraph.
Sage-grouse numbers are lower in areas with wild horses than in adjacent areas – Areas with horses are also grazed by livestock but you’re not supposed to know that.
Gather of horses – Roundup.
Horse populations have climbed above this carrying capacity – There are more horses than allowed by plan, not more horses than the land can support. AMLs are small relative to the available resources because most of them have been assigned to ranchers.
End of second paragraph.
Gather enough wild horses this year to get us back on track – Ensure that ranchers receive most of the authorized forage.
Beautiful horses – Pests.
World-renowned herd – Pests.
Landscape under stress due to drought exacerbated by climate change – A temporary change in the weather unrelated to human activity.
End of third paragraph.
Thriving and sustainable wild horse herds – Livestock receive most of the authorized forage.
Healthy herds on healthy public lands – Livestock receive most of the authorized forage.
This investment will help the BLM restore Sand Wash Basin for the public, for wild horses, and for greater sage-grouse and other wildlife species – Livestock receive most of the authorized forage in an area set aside for wild horses.
You can have your wild horse and burro program as long as it doesn’t interfere with the grazing program.
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North Dakota Governor Doug Burgum and Senator John Hoeven shared their concerns with park officials in a phone call yesterday, according to a story by The Bismarck Tribune, with an emphasis on collaboration between state and federal agencies.
Comments on the scoping newsletter were accepted through January 31.
The next step in the project is to draft an environmental assessment for public review.
A “How To” provided by Save Our Wild Horses begins with some information about livestock grazing and forage allocations, including an unsubstantiated remark about the number of horses the HMA can actually sustain (wonder where they got that from), then goes off the rails by defending the safe, proven and reversible fertility control program, claiming that PZP is not a pesticide, does not sterilize and has no effect on sex ratios!
Did you know that some advocates are vegans, not necessarily at SOWH, as they don’t agree with the slaughter of animals for human consumption, yet they have no problem with the killing of pigs to support their PZP habit?
The group sponsored a conference in Washington last year, where attendees had smoke blown up their butts for several days about HMAPs, which must conform to RMPs and are therefore of no use to America’s wild horses.
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One of the most astonishing developments in the wild horse world is the enthusiasm among the advocates for the Montana Solution, not for population control but for population reduction, evident in the outpouring of support for the darting program at McCullough Peaks.
That they would beat down population in the lawful home of wild horses, so livestock can access most of their food, speaks volumes about their intentions and loyalties.
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He saw his shadow this morning, according to a report by AP News, meaning six more days of babble from the advocates, including today.
You have to give them credit though, they really fired up their base for this one.
The total passed 2,500 today and continues to climb.
Go to ePlanning for the latest results.
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Since 2019 they’ve been stalking the mares across 300,000 acres in western Nevada and destroying their ovaries with a restricted-use pesticide.
Next year they’ll refer the animals as self-boosting, a code word for sterile.
Their goal is to win the approval of the bureaucrats and ranchers and spread the destruction over a much larger area, moving them into the upper echelon of the wild horse removal industry.
That’s how they protect wild horses.
But you won’t see any of that in this article about the Virginia Range darting program.
The story said that advocates with the Campaign Against America’s Wild Horses announced yesterday that their four-year long fertility control effort is reducing births and could set a new model for managing wild herds but did not say where or how the announcement was made.
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The advocates never stop.
Now they’re praising HR 726, legislation that would protect wild horses and burros on federal lands, reduce or eliminate the need for inhumane helicopter roundups, and provide jobs and avenues for healing American veterans with Post Traumatic Stress and other disorders resulting from combat, according to a news release on EIN by Animal Wellness Action.
This would be accomplished by stalking the mares and jennies in their lawful homes and destroying their ovaries with a restricted-use pesticide.
The advocates refer to the product as a vaccine, available from the Billings School of PZP Darting and Public Deception.
Other benefits:
As for the full range of wild behaviors in a natural setting, forget it.
Western Horse Watchers proposes that Cameron Ring and his mercenaries be officially designated as the Dartmoor Brigade.
Getting rid of wild horses is their job, not the government’s.
The possibility of a nuisance gather was mentioned in the January edition of Horse Tales, in a column starting at the top of page four.
The author, a real estate agent, PZP darter and pleader for the public-lands ranchers, was interviewed for a story about the removal by The Record-Courier of Minden, NV.
Five horses were captured and taken to the off-range corrals at Palomino Valley.
Note the absence of youngsters in the photo. This is the handiwork of the advocates.
The horses don’t have to compete with cattle according to the article, although the National Data Viewer suggests otherwise.
In this map, the Pine Nut HA is shown in black, the HMA is orange and the allotments are green. Click on image to open in new tab.
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A blog post by Horses in the South dated January 31 has all the markings of a useless, perhaps harmful, call to action by the wild horse advocates.
Readers are directed to the project site in ePlanning, where they are supposed to tell the BLM that they
The action alert was attributed to The Cloud Foundation.
Western Horse Watchers does not know if it originated with TCF or is simply a reprint of an exhortation written by other PZP fanatics and pleaders for the public-lands ranchers and forwarded by TCF to drive the comment total even higher.
RELATED: McCullough Comments Pass Two Thousand.
Changes that actually help the horses, such as managing the HMA principally for them, as specified in the original statute, cannot be made through a gather decision.
The advocates and their drones apparently don’t understand that.
Comments on the project, which consists of a scoping letter and nothing else, will be accepted through February 7.
A sigh of relief will go up when that day arrives.
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North Dakota governor Doug Burgum sent a letter to the Park Service today expressing confidence that the agency can find a solution that supports genetic diversity and protects the environmental integrity and capacity of the park for current and future generations of visitors, according to a report by The Bismarck Tribune.
A news release dated January 28 by the Salt River Wild Horse Darting Group says the only reason to disagree with the bill, which calls for humane management of the beloved Alpine herd, a euphemism for inhibiting the mares with their favorite pesticide, would be if you enjoy seeing wild horses go to slaughter.
Sorry, but here are ten reasons why we oppose your stupid ideas:
All of these are attributable to the Montana Solution.
As for the full range of wild behaviors in a natural setting, forget it.
The advocates care far more about their standing with the bureaucrats and ranchers than they do about the horses.
Their long-term goal is to be leaders in the wild horse removal industry.
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Horses have the day off. In the Little Picacho Wilderness, part of the Chocolate Mule Mountains HMA in southern California, with Lonnie Huffman.
No youngsters in this band. The mares should be heavily pregnant by now, at least some of them, but the advocates have blocked this essential part of their existence.
With the darting program moving into its fifth year, many of the mares are at risk of sterility and the herd is dying off. That’s how the advocates save wild horses.
Before they got involved, the Virginia Range was carrying at least ten wild horses per thousand acres, ten times higher than the target rate of the bureaucrats and ranchers, who want this outlier erased.
The advocates are eager to comply.
The Nevada Department of Agriculture and the Campaign Against America’s Wild Horses, to whom you provide financial support, are responsible for the destruction.
Photo taken January 28.
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Six reports, partially redacted, have been posted to the Colorado HMA page.
The illness claimed the lives of 146 wild horses at the facility.
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Although 43 wild horses were shot dead in October, as indicated in this story by the CBS affiliate in Phoenix, the losses will be much greater if the advocates have their way.
The bureaucrats want the horses gone.
The ranchers, whom they serve, want them gone.
The hunters and biologists want them gone.
So, the advocates, working in concert with state legislators, have drafted SB 1057, which would spread their ruinous darting program into the Apache National Forest.
Their ringleader, interviewed for the story, has already admitted that she’s getting rid of the Salt River herd with the Montana Solution.
Alternative C in the scoping newsletter for the livestock plan at TRNP may provide a solution that satisfies all of the stakeholders: Now that the herd has been thinned by shooting and trapping, a fully contracepted (sterilized) herd could be achieved and the horses could stay in the forest to live out their lives, a task for which the advocates are eminently qualified.
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If you have too many bills and not enough money, should you ignore the bills or detach your ass from the chair and take it to a job?
The image above, from the home page of the new wild horse sanctuary in Colorado, shows a symptom of the problem, not the problem.
