Another Muddy Creek Emergency Roundup?

The incident will begin on July 10 according to the news release.

The capture and removal goals are 150 each.

The current population is thought to exceed 400.

Horses will be pushed into the trap by a helicopter.

Operations will be open to public observation.

Captured animals will be taken to the Axtell off-range corrals.

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

A link to the gather page was not given.

The HMA is subject to permitted grazing.

The announcement did not indicate if the grazing season would be curtailed and if any AUMs would be moved from active to suspended as a result of the drought.

Who’s Setting the Standard for Mass Sterilization?

A. Senators from Nevada.

B. Advocates from Nevada.

RELATED: What Makes Wild Herds Vanish?

What Makes Wild Herds Vanish?

A. Proceedings in the Senate.

B. Pesticides on the range.

Which Does More Harm to Our Wild Horses?

A. Talk.

B. Action.

Mustang Monday

On the Virginia Range with Art.

Three Rivers Roundup, Day 18

The incident started on June 9. Results through June 26:

Scope: Alamo, Big Sandy, Havasu HMAs
Target: Burros
AML: 160 + 139 + 166 = 465
Pre-gather population: Not given, 2,644 according to 2025 population dataset
Type: Planned
Method: Bait
Goals: Capture 1,100, remove 1,000
Captured: 444
Shipped: 337
Released: None
Deaths: 1
Average daily take: 24.7
Unaccounted-for animals: 106
Snippet from statute: It is the policy of Congress that wild free-roaming horses and burros shall be protected from capture, branding, harassment, or death
Snippet from manual: To protect wild horses and burros from unauthorized capture, branding, harassment or death

The figures above are based on the daily reports.

The Day 14 results have not been corrected but are probably 18/21/4, not 10/8/2 as shown at the gather page.

The death rate is 0.2%.

The capture total includes 241 jacks, 178 jennies and 25 foals.

Youngsters represented 5.6% of the animals gathered.

Of the adults, 57.5% were male and 42.5% were female.

The location of the trap site is not known.

The name of the contractor was not provided.

Sixty jennies have been treated with PZP although the June 3 schedule indicates the pesticide of choice was GonaCon Equine.

Given that no animals have been released, they will likely receive a second dose.

RELATED: More Three Rivers Confusion.

Who’s the Greater Threat to America’s Wild Horses?

A. Politicians wrangling over the language in a bill.

B. Bitter and unsuccessful women poisoning the mares with PZP.

Those who sound the alarm about wild horses are often among their worst enemies.

Senate Drops Public Lands Sale from Budget Reconciliation Bill

The last-minute change leaves one topic for the ‘Call of the Wild’ event on July 1.

Colorado Grazing Project Reveals Abundant Forage

Little Snake Land & Livestock Company was selected in 2018 for an outcome-based demonstration project.

The operator information report at RAS associated the ranch with two authorizations, 0500302 and 0504960.

The allotment information report tied the authorizations to four allotments, all in the Little Snake Field Office:

0500302 – HORSE DRAW
0504960 – RICEGRASS, PISKWIK, SEVEN MILE

The news release said the project involved an authorization with three allotments, so it’s probably 0504960.

Horse Draw is northeast of the Sand Wash Basin HMA and other three are east of Horse Draw.

The allotment master report provides management status, acreage and active AUMs.

The allotments support livestock equivalent to 177 wild horses on 16,984 public acres, or 10.4 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 (25,500 animals on 25.6 million acres).

Suggestions for ‘Call of the Wild’

Go off script. Ask for something that helps wild horses stay on public lands.

Raise the federal grazing fee to at least $30 per AUM
Restore the WHB Act to its original form
Put labels on range-fed beef

Advocates, Not Congress, Greater Threat to Wild Horses

Yes, they have a pesticide caucus but they get their information from the advocates, who have sensationalized language in current legislation regarding slaughter—referring to it as a bullet to the head of wild horses—and the sale of public lands, without providing screen images or links to the offending material.

Meanwhile, they spend their days on the range, shooting the mares with pesticide-laced darts.

The advocates, not your elected representatives, are a clear and present danger to America’s wild horses.

Muddy Creek Emergency Roundup Complete

A BLM public affairs specialist told Western Horse Watchers yesterday that the contractor captured 40 horses on June 26.

As of today, no reports have been posted to the Utah gather page.

‘Call of the Wild’ Set for July 1

Handout provided as a public service.

Western Horse Watchers believes no action is necessary.

Those who organize these appeals are often among the most gullible and least informed about wild horses and burros.

Removal of Mount Charleston Wild Horses Imminent?

Story by FOX5 News in Las Vegas.

Foal-Free Friday, Ratifying the RMPs Edition

If you’re thinking about HMAPs, you’re right, but there are other ways the advocates tell you they want the ranchers to win.

Forage allocations for wild horses and livestock are specified in resource management plans, sometimes referred to as land-use plans.

The plans are usually enforced by motorized removal.

If horses are consuming 40% of the authorized forage when the plan gives them 20%, a roundup is ordered to protect the ranchers.

The advocates don’t like roundups but concur with the idea of resource enforcement.

Fertility control is a better way of ensuring the ranchers receive 80% of the authorized forage in the lawful homes of wild horses, as specified in the RMPs.

There are no low-flying helicopters and no roping of fatigued animals.

In its extreme form there are no horses—exactly what the ranchers want.

Black Rock Desert Closing for Burning Man

The order affects public lands northeast of Gerlach, NV from July 24 to October 5.

A map was included with the news release.

Black Rock City runs from August 24 to September 1 this year.

More Three Rivers Confusion

Results for Days 9 to 15 were not posted until yesterday.

Results for Days 4, 5 and 8 were edited.

The report for Day 14 says 43 animals captured, but the breakdown says 10 jacks, 8 jennies and 2 foals.

The gather page says 350 animals captured but the daily reports yield 327.

The discrepancy is probably in the Day 14 results.

Only adults have been shipped.

The designated pesticide is GonaCon Equine according to the June 3 schedule but the contractor treated 20 jennies with PZP on Day 13 and 20 more on Day 15.

No animals have been released, suggesting that booster doses are pending.

A burro was dispatched on Day 14 for a pre-existing condition but no details were given.

The location of the trap site was not disclosed.

Three HMAs are affected.

RELATED: Three Rivers Confusion.

Wyoming Cheatgrass Mitigation Project Leaves Readers Hanging

As usual, the news release does not include a map of the project area or link to the NEPA analysis.

Permit holders, among others, were urged to be aware of treatment operations.

Ironically, the agency that routinely ignored the 2017 labeling amendment for GonaCon Equine, which extended the interval between primer and booster from 30 days to 90 days, said in the announcement that “Strict adherence to the pesticide label restrictions and instructions is followed as required by law.”