Exposing the Hypocrisy, Lies and Incompetence of the Wild Horse Advocates
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.
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:
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).
Go off script. Ask for something that helps wild horses stay on public lands.
RELATED: ‘Call of the Wild’ Set for July 1.
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.
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