Exposing the Hypocrisy, Lies and Incompetence of the Wild Horse Advocates
They could keep the helicopters on the ground and eradicate the herd with PZP.
The advocates might offer to do it for free.
Mass sterilization, the inevitable result of humane population reduction, is key to wild horse conservation.
If we get rid of them they can stay.
The incident started on June 9. Results through July 6:
The figures above are based on the daily reports.
Results for Days 20 to 28 were posted today.
An abandoned foal was euthanized on Day 25, lifting the death rate to 0.3%.
The capture total includes 311 jacks, 279 jennies and 53 foals.
Youngsters represented 8.2% of the animals gathered.
Of the adults, 52.7% were male and 47.3% were female.
The location of the trap site is not known.
The name of the contractor was not provided.
Eighteen jennies were treated with PZP on Day 19, bringing the total to 78.
The July 1 schedule indicates the pesticide of choice was GonaCon Equine.
The Complex is subject to permitted grazing. Resources liberated to date:
RELATED: Three Rivers Roundup, Day 18.
Sproul Ranch covers 15,911 deeded acres in eastern Oregon, with grazing preference on five Forest Service allotments, for a total of 68,284 acres.
The allotments offer 3,058 AUMs per year on 52,373 acres according to the agent’s brochure, equivalent to 255 wild horses.
The stocking rate would be 4.9 wild horses per thousand acres.
The ranch meets the basic requirements for a wild horse refuge.
The brochure includes a map of each allotment, all within the Malheur National Forest.
Wild horses can be placed on public lands not identified for their use by acquiring base properties tied to one or more grazing allotments and flipping the preference to horses.
RELATED: Key Indicators for New Wild Horse Preserves.
What if they decided to get rid of the herd with PZP?
A sigh of relief would go up from the advocates.
They might offer to do it for free.
The ranchers would have to be patient.
But the horses would be gone for good, a result that can’t be achieved with helicopters.
The event runs from 9 AM to noon according to the BLM news release.
The privately owned facility gained media attention earlier this year when burros taken in the Canyonlands roundup died while in custody.
The facilities report indicates that 921 burros and 1,119 horses were present as of June 22.
The allotment is on the east side of Independence Mountain in northern Colorado.
The Allotment Master Report puts it in the Custodial category, condition unknown.
The permittee receives 809 active AUMs on 2,610 public acres. equivalent to 67 wild horses, or 25.7 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).
The advocates, allies of the bureaucrats and ranchers, bolster the narrative with their darting programs.
The allotment is too small to be an HMA but if it was, the AML would be 3 and 64 wild horses would be consigned to off-range holding because of permitted grazing.
BLM allotments in the state support livestock equivalent to 49,546 wild horses on 7,448,367 public acres, or 6.7 wild horses per thousand public acres.
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.
RELATED: The Allotments Tell the Story: They’re Lying, All of Them.
The advocates are trying to sell mass sterilization as a humane alternative to motorized removal.
On the Virginia Range, they’re using PZP to shrink the herd by 80% because 10% of their land has been identified for development.
The stated reason is habitat loss but the real reason is to bring the herd in line with the carrying capacity narrative on public lands: No more than one or two wild horses per thousand acres.
Instead of acting as guardians of wild horses, the advocates have thrown in with their enemies.
The inevitable result is extermination.
Apparently not.
A keyword search of a BLM blog post about the May 6 hearing yielded these results:
Some individuals argued for greater use of fertility control, which the agency recognizes as an important management tool for slowing population growth but not for reducing wild horse and burro overpopulation.
An area is said to be overpopulated when the herd exceeds the low end of AML but is far from the carrying capacity of the land.
RELATED: Motorized Removal Hearing Set for May 6.
Muddy Creek and Piute Mountain have been added to emergency/nuisance section of the July 1 update but Kiger and Riddle Mountain have been removed from 4Q25.
Their method is flawed and they know it.
You cannot use PZP for population reduction without sterilizing the mares, yet they want it to become the standard for herd management.
How stupid do you have to be to accept this as wild horse conservation?
Investigators determined that it died from a gunshot wound.
A $7,000 reward has been offered according to a BLM news release.
The nonprofit pledging $5,000 routinely shoots mares with pesticide-laced darts.
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.
RELATED: Muddy Creek Emergency Roundup Complete.
A. Proceedings in the Senate.
B. Pesticides on the range.
On the Virginia Range with Art.
The incident started on June 9. Results through June 26:
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.
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.
RELATED: Advocates, Not Congress, Greater Threat to Wild Horses.
The last-minute change leaves one topic for the ‘Call of the Wild’ event on July 1.
RELATED: ‘Call of the Wild’ Set for July 1.
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