Story by CBS News of Denver.
RELATED: Helicopters Take to the Skies at Piceance HMA.
Helicopters Take to the Skies at Piceance HMA
The first day of forced removal ended with 159 horses captured, none shipped and no deaths, according to the gather page.
The initial phase, using bait traps, yielded 18 horses.
The HMA is overlapped and surrounded by grazing allotments.
RELATED: Stupid Horses Won’t Take the Bait at Piceance HMA.
FREES Conference Announced
The Free Roaming Equids and Ecosystem Sustainability Network, a ranching advocacy group sponsored by the Utah State University Extension, will meet in St. George October 12-14, according to the conference home page.
Presenters have not been named and a schedule has not been posted.
The theme of this year’s summit is Community Connections. The conference organizers probably won’t be rolling out the red carpet for those in the wild horse community.
A top-tier sponsor is the Utah Public Lands Policy Coordinating Office.
To understand their position on wild horses, read comments 5 and 6 in Appendix 12 of the Draft EA for resource enforcement actions in the Bible Springs Complex.
Contrary to what the advocates would have you believe, the event is not sponsored by drilling and mining interests and you won’t find any such comments in Appendix 12.
Information gathered at the meeting will aid the development of action plans towards the goal of “Healthy Herds on Healthy Rangelands,” code words for “most of the resources assigned to—and consumed by—privately owned livestock.”
RELATED: FREES Conference Last Week.
BLM to Remove Wild Burros from Yuma Proving Ground?
A new project has been created in ePlanning.
A Decision Memorandum was issued on July 13.
There were no opportunities for public involvement.
Approximately 80 animals will be removed from an area outside the Cibola-Trigo HMA but inside the Yuma Proving Ground north of Dome Valley, AZ.
The test center wraps around a wildlife refuge to the east.
The Western Watersheds map shows the arrangement.
The incident will be carried out with bait traps and will probably not be open to public observation.
An announcement was not found at the BLM news site.
The roundup appears on the latest schedule with a start date of July 26.
The HMA is managed for horses and burros.
Pokegama HMA Added to 2022 Roundup Schedule
The incident will begin on August 1 according to the latest schedule, increasing the FY 2022 capture target to 23,141, compared to 22,991 in the previous schedule.
The original goal, announced in January, was 22,000.
Foal-Free Friday, Putting Them Out of Their Misery Edition
The Salt River horses are overpopulated, emaciated and on death’s doorstep, as shown in the following video.
Thank God for the advocates, who are helping them die off with the Montana Solution.
RELATED: Foal-Free Friday, Exposing the Lies of the Advocates, Part 2.
Assateague Ponies Flee Island
A stallion and yearling crossed the Verrazano Bridge to the mainland yesterday but were safely returned, according to a story posted today by the Maryland Coast Dispatch.
The bridge appears at 2:27 in this video.
Colorado Governor Wants State Observer in Piceance Roundup
The duly elected sodomite sent a letter to the BLM this week asking the agency to ensure the animals’ safety amid concerns about high temperatures and potential impacts to foals, according to a story by The Grand Junction Daily Sentinel.
Almost certainly he’s responding to requests and recommendations from groups that would be first in line to get rid of them with the Montana Solution.
An ecologist with the Colorado Sierra Club visited the HMA this month and found no evidence to support the BLM’s claims of wild horse malnourishment, arguing that upland habitats provide ample forage to support the population.
The article did not indicate how much of that resource had been assigned to privately owned livestock.
Operations will transition to helicopters tomorrow, according to the gather page.
R3C Inmate Training Program in the News
Bitless is better. Auction begins at 6 PM today, pacific time.
RELATED: R3C Saddle-Started Horses Up for Adoption.
Chincoteague Ponies Hit the Water in Two Weeks
The action begins on July 23 with the southern herd roundup, as explained in the official guide, followed by the northern herd roundup on July 24.
The annual swim occurs on July 27.
The herd includes 150 adults and 60 to 70 foals according to the guide, putting the birth rate above 40%!
The growth rate probably exceeds 35% per year, assuming a 5% death rate.
Most of the foals will be auctioned. A few will be returned.
When the incident is over the island will resemble the Salt River and Virginia Range, where the advocates are ruining the herds with the Montana Solution:
- Barren mares
- Confused stallions
- Disruption of natural order
- Breeding patterns determined by humans
The incident would qualify for an episode of Foal-Free Friday.
Wild Horse Freedom Rallies Return in September
The next round of protests will occur on September 23 or 24.
The organizers are still pushing the Wild Horse and Burro Protection Act, which would replace helicopter roundups with capture by wrangler, despite the video from Day 2 of the Buffalo Hills roundup showing mistreatment of a foal by wranglers!
RELATED: Wild Horse Freedom Rallies Set for Next Month.
Stupid Horses Won’t Take the Bait at Piceance HMA
No horses were captured in July according to the gather page.
Helicopters take to the sky starting on Friday.
RELATED: Piceance Gather Page Found!
Inflation Gauges Don’t Consider Price of Hay?
Here are the headlines on Drudge. The first link pointed to a story by CNBC.
The price of alfalfa-grass hay in this area went from $19 per bale last July to $36 per bale this July, an 89% increase.
Democrat supporters didn’t get a return on their investments in 2016 so now the party is under great pressure from our enemies, foreign and domestic, to destroy the country and its standard of living.
RELATED: Price of Hay Hits New Record.
Story of Jicarilla Mustangs Told in New Documentary
The film premieres this weekend during a historical society fundraiser in Farmington, NM, according to a report posted yesterday by the Farmington Daily Times.
The JMA, consisting of the Carracas Mesa HMA and Jicarilla WHT, is jointly managed by the BLM and Forest Service.
The HMA covers 9,000 acres and the WHT contains 76,000 acres. The combined AML is 128 and the stocking rate allowed by plan is 1.5 wild horses per thousand acres.
The HMA does not appear on the Western Watersheds map but is on the west side of the WHT abutting the Colorado state line.
The WHT overlaps three allotments and is probably subject to permitted grazing.
The grazing status of the HMA is not known.
The story did not indicate if the film would discuss resource allocations, land-use plans and the mismanagement of areas set aside for wild horses.
Warning to those wearing “Stay Wild” caps: The article contains images of foals.
Bible Springs Complex Added to Roundup Schedule
The incident, set to begin on August 7, increased the FY 2022 capture goal from 22,541 in the previous schedule to 22,991 in the latest schedule.
The EA for the new resource enforcement plan went through the planning process like red clover through a bull.
The project was created in ePlanning on February 24, no documents posted.
An announcement for the scoping phase does not appear in the project documents and cannot be found at the BLM news site. That step was skipped?
The Draft EA was released for public review on May 18, comments accepted through June 17.
The Decision Record was signed on July 7.
Maybe the permittees and their cheerleaders were big donors to the Biden Campaign?
RELATED: Bible Springs Decision Released.
When Are Helicopter Roundups Safe and Efficient?
When they’re part of catch-treat-release. Otherwise they’re cruel and costly.
The advocates have no convictions. They’ll hop on any bandwagon that leads to greater use of the Montana Solution and more attention from the bureaucrats and ranchers.
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R3C Saddle-Started Horses Up for Adoption
Displaced from their home range by permitted grazing and placed into the inmate training program, two geldings and a mare will be offered in an online auction hosted by the BLM on July 14, from 6 to 8 PM pacific time.
The news release said the animals can be picked up on July 16 by appointment at the Rio Cosumnes Correctional Center in Elk Grove, CA.
Details at the R3C adoption page.
Equine Flu Spreading Among Reche Canyon Burros
The infection has killed seventeen animals since mid June, according to a report dated July 6 by The Press-Enterprise of Riverside, CA.
The burros live in the foothills and canyons between Colton and Moreno Valley.
The incident follows an outbreak two years ago that killed over 40 animals.
Triple B Roundup Announced
The incident will begin on or about July 14, according to the BLM news release.
The capture goal is 1,900 and the removal goal is 1,800. Mares returned to the range will be treated with GonaCon.
Helicopters will push the horses into the traps and operations will be open to public observation.
The Complex includes the Maverick-Medicine HMA, Triple B HMA and Antelope Valley HMA west of US Highway 93.
The 821 horses allowed by plan require 9,852 AUMs per year in an area covering over 1.6 million total acres. The Western Watersheds map shows the arrangement.
The current population is thought to be 3,475.
Table 2 in the 2017 EA for resource enforcement actions includes the Cherry Springs WHT in the Complex, with an AML of 68, but it is not mentioned in the announcement.
The HMAs are subject to permitted grazing. Livestock receive an estimated 49,188 AUMs per year, which would support an additional 4,099 wild horses.
Captured animals will be taken to the corrals in Fallon, NV and Sutherland, UT.
Gather stats and daily reports will be posted to this page.
The EA was posted with other project documents.
RELATED: Triple B Roundup Next?
Bible Springs Decision Released
The Decision Record, signed on July 7, authorizes the Proposed Action, which features removals of excess animals to low AML as quickly as possible, population suppression using PZP or GonaCon, IUDs, manipulation of sex ratios, and monitoring of herds with GPS tracking devices. Refer to Section 2.2.1 in the Final EA.
A roundup is not imminent but at least 750 wild horses will need to be removed from state, private and BLM-managed public lands in and around the Complex to ensure a healthy landscape, according to the news release.
The new resource enforcement plan, effective immediately, has a ten-year life.
The Complex intersects 16 grazing allotments.
Three HMAs and one HA are affected.
The DR and EA were posted with other project documents.
