Cost of Feed?

Here is the receipt from a recent trip to the feed store. These supplies will take care of six horses for three to four weeks.

Let’s drop the Layena (chicken food), round the amount to $600 and call it a month.

Six hundred dollars feeds six horses for one month. That’s $100 per AUM.

How much would a public-lands rancher pay to feed six cow/calf pairs for one month?

Eight bucks at current prices.

A cow/calf pair is said to be equivalent to a horse in terms of its resource loading.

RELATED: Grazing Fee Defies FLPMA.

Pendley Keeps Job at BLM for Another Three Months

The acting director of the BLM will retain that role until April 3, according to a report posted today by Federal Times. At that time his appointment can be extended again or the President can nominate him or another individual permanently to the position.

Solar Farm Coming to Public Lands in Southern Nevada

KTLA News reported yesterday that the final environmental impact statement for the proposed Gemini project has been released for public review.

The facility will produce 690 megawatts (for a few hours on either side of mid day) and will require 7,100 acres. It will be situated on the south side of I-15, between the Moapa Indian Reservation and the Muddy Mountains, home to a small herd of wild burros.

The BLM news release appeared on Monday. Project documentation can be found here.

The map does not show any battery storage buildings, which are in the scope, according to the report.

The project means only one thing for Nevada ratepayers: Their electric bills will be going up, all in the name of climate change, a hoax if ever there was one.

A conventional gas-fired combined-cycle power plant, needed for backup (because, you know, night) would require less than 100 acres and would produce power that’s clean, dependable and affordable, 24/7, rain or shine.

If the lights flicker next time you’re in Las Vegas, it might be the burros chewing on the solar panels, for they, unlike the investors, can spot a boondoggle miles away.

Price of Water Going Up

Status of WHB in U.S.

Refer to this opinion piece in Soapboxie, posted today. The writer has the right idea but there are several errors in his assessment. What are they? Show your work.

PSA 01-01-20

Off the Range

What do these things have in common?

Overpopulation narrative
Plans based on false premises (such as the Path Forward)
Roundups
Fertility control
Chemical sterilization (extended use of contraceptives)
Surgical sterilization
Sex ratio skewing
Sale without limitations
Adoption events
Adoption incentives
Trainer Incentive Program
Extreme Mustang Makeover
Inmate training programs
Sanctuaries and preserves
New off-range corrals and pastures

They all convey the same message: OFF THE RANGE. Get wild horses and burros off public lands (so they can be replaced by privately owned cattle and sheep).

Many of these ideas are accepted and promoted by the so-called advocacy groups and government agencies charged with the care of these animals.

The truth will set you free, but first, as Rick Gore says, it will piss you off…because you’ve been on the wrong side of the debate.

Why not let 2020 be the year that you started pushing back against the lies and did something for America’s horses not to America’s horses?

Conflict and division will always exist because evil always tries to subdue the good.

Those who ask “Why can’t we all just get along?” are already whipped.

Almost Closed for the Season

These Virginia Range mustangs were the last ones seen on days in 2019. They have probably moved to lower elevations or the lee side of the mountains.

Water Tanks 11-18-19 PM

Waipio Valley Horses for a Cold Winter Day

Short but sweet! H/T Todd Pettyjohn.

RELATED: Waipio Horses Carry On.

Floyd County Wild Horse Rescue in Progress

The Kentucky Humane Society has received a pregnant mare and colt, according to a report by WYMT News. Three more horses are thought to be roaming the area where 21 others were hunted down and killed about two weeks ago.

Cattlemen Optimistic About ‘Progress’ in Washington D.C.

Greater access to markets in Japan, China and Europe should bode well for American beef producers, according to a report posted today by Capital Press of Salem, OR.

A spokesman for NCBA said that “congressional funding to increase roundups and fertility control” will hopefully avoid “producers go[ing] out of business in the areas where these horses are exploding in population.”

The industry is also pushing for labeling laws and standards of identity for beef and its alternatives, in view of growing consumer interest in meat substitutes.

Range Fed Beef

Seaman Roundup to Resume Next Week

BLM said today that helicopters will return to the air on or about January 5, to remove an additional 150 wild horses from the Herd Areas. Operations will be open to public observation, starting on January 6, according to the news release.

Captured animals will be taken to the off-range corrals in Ridgecrest, CA.

Gather stats and daily reports will be posted to this page.

The roundup was suspended last month because the horses moved to areas with heavy pinyon-juniper cover, typical for higher elevations in Nevada.

RELATED: Seaman Roundup Delayed.

Mustang Monday

On the Virginia Range with John T. Linn.

Fish Springs Context

The story of the roundup has been going around on socialist media for several weeks and many of the followers are upset, understandably.

But the report by KOLO News didn’t provide any background on the situation.

The local ‘advocacy’ group now crying “Foul!” actually called for the removal of ten bachelor stallions from the area a year ago.

When they’re not photographing the horses, they’re shooting them with contraceptives.

Who benefits from this? Certainly not the horses.

PSA 12-15-19

AWHC Reviews 2019 Results

What exactly have they done to push back against the public-lands ranchers?

Not a damn thing.

Yet they’re doing everything they can to destroy the Virginia Range mustangs—the herd that defies the wild horse narrative and contradicts the lies of the BLM.

Velma would be shocked.

The organization is so far gone that it can only be salvaged by a complete change of leadership. Don’t give them a penny.

Late Season Travelers

Water system was still running in mid November but not for much longer. The shadows going off to the right at 12:30 were produced by lamps on the other trailcam.

Water Tanks 11-18-19

BLM Nabs Fish Springs Mustangs

The incident began in late November with a phone call from a Douglas County resident and now 21 of the horses are in captivity at Palomino Valley.

The studs have been gelded and separated from the mares.

They will be auctioned next month, according to a report by KOLO News of Reno.

The horses lived in the Pine Nut Mountains Herd Area, south of the HMA, which was gathered earlier this year.

The local ‘advocacy’ group took a pro-ranching message to the WHBAB in October.

Marr Plan: Most Ignored Story of 2019?

The proposal would protect America’s wild horses by (OMG) removing privately owned cattle and sheep from public lands in the western U.S. You knew that, right?

PSA 12-07-19

Always Vigilant

No coyotes in these photos but what lurks in the shadows? There is little if any livestock grazing on the Virginia Range, so these horses do have natural predators.

Water Tanks 11-06-19

Coyote Lunch?

Trailcam shows this guy visiting the water tanks a few weeks before the incident.

Buck at Water Tanks

Coyotes at Water Tanks

Are these guys responsible for the deer carcass seen on Christmas Eve?

Coyotes at Water Tanks

Top Story in Wild Horse World for 2019?

The year isn’t quite over, but almost certainly the top story would be the announcement on 04-22-19 of the ill-conceived ‘Path Forward’ and its eventual funding by Congress.

Honorable mentions would include the