Exposing the Hypocrisy, Lies and Incompetence of the Wild Horse Advocates
State and local officials were on hand yesterday to dedicate the Wild Horse Highway, a portion of highway 14/16/20 near the McCullough Peaks HMA in northern Wyoming.
Grant Bulltail of the Crow Nation blessed the ceremony and sang a Crow song, according to a report by KULR News of Billings, MT.
On the other side of the road is the Fifteenmile HMA, target of a roundup later this year.
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At the Pryor Mountain Wild Mustang Center with Venessa Carpenter.
BLM reported today that a wildfire twenty miles southeast of Alamo, NV in the Delamar Mountains was ten percent contained. The incident began Friday morning.
The map at InciWeb puts the blaze at the southwest corner of the Delamar Mountains Herd Area, one of nine HAs in the Caliente Complex (site of ongoing nuisance gather).
The news release did not indicate if any of the Delamar horses were at risk or if gather operations were affected. The area is also subject to permitted livestock grazing.
The report at InciWeb says the fire is 80% contained.
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Nine days of moral depravity on the high desert, in the middle of wild horse country.
Radical inclusion, a core principle of the festival, is a leftist code word for acceptance and celebration of all manner of disease, filth and perversion. The event should not be allowed on public lands, even if it is a favorite of rich white liberals from the Bay Area.
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BLM said today that limited opportunities for viewing the temporary holding facilities at the Antelope gather will begin on September 4. Holding activities will be open to public observation if wild horses are in the pens and the ongoing gather is not disrupted by the visitors, according to the news release.
The operation, which began on 08/10/19, has taken 393 wild horses from their home range, with five deaths. Refer to this page for details.
RELATED: Roundup Starts Next Week in Lower Half of Antelope Complex.
Statements like that are misleading and incomplete.
Truth is, public lands in the western U.S. can only support that many wild horses and burros because they’ve been consigned to ‘other mandated uses,’ such as the grazing of privately owned cattle and sheep.
Section 3 in the Original WHB Act, which calls for a ‘thriving natural ecological balance’ on public lands, orders the Secretaries of Interior and Agriculture to confer with state agencies to ensure that wildlife have access to sufficient resources and are not squeezed out by the horses and burros, especially endangered species.
“All management activities shall be at the minimal feasible level and shall be carried out in consultation with the wildlife agency of the State wherein such lands are located in order to protect the natural ecological balance of all wildlife species which inhabit such lands, particularly endangered wildlife species.”
There is no provision for domestic livestock! (That’s one of the ‘errors’ in the WHB Act that the public-lands ranchers and their political allies, mostly Democrats, ‘corrected’ when they drafted FLPMA.)
Statements about roundups and other actions, that they are required by the WHB Act of 1971, are also misleading. That statute is gone, destroyed by the ranchers.
Off-range corrals and long-term pastures are flooded with (former) wild horses and burros as a consequence.
Current herd management practices are justified by the WHB Act of 1976/1978/2004.
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BLM said today that rewards amounting to $18,500 have been offered for information leading to the arrest of the person(s) responsible for the deaths of over 40 wild burros in the Mojave Desert near the CA-NV border. The shootings have occurred along the I-15 corridor between Halloran Springs, CA and Primm, NV, according to the news release.
The Clark Mountain Herd Area is on the north side of the interstate, has no AML, and is not managed for wild burros. See page eight in the California HMA maps.
Curiously, the advocacy groups who supplemented the BLM reward are upset with the situation, yet they all want fewer wild horses and burros on western rangelands, either through application of contraceptives or outright removal. Shame on them.
Back-country adventure in Grayson Highlands State Park with Jonathan Lovelace.
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A report posted today by Carson Now says the Nevada Department of Agriculture has joined forces with Wild Horse Connection of Reno to manage the free-roaming horses of the Virginia Range.
Accordingly, WHC will respond to citizen concerns regarding public safety, including wild horse removal and adoption, diversionary feeding and installation of fencing.
The agreement follows one signed earlier this year for fertility control (PZP darting).
Blue roan on the Virginia Range. Or is he a bay roan?
On the Pryor Mountains Wild Horse Range with The Cloud Foundation.
Foreground, on the left, and at the water tank on the right. Base color is definitely not black. Strawberry roans? Trailcam photos from the Virginia Range.
The four year old was put down after a vet said his leg injury was beyond repair, according to a report by WFMY News of Greensboro, NC.
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For years we’ve heard that taxes and regulations are destroying businesses—weakening our competitive position—but now we’re learning that wild burros are the culprit, at least in Arizona.
They’re trampling the ground, reducing vegetation, invading farmland, breaking fences and releasing livestock, according to a story posted Thursday by the U.S. Small Business Administration Office of Advocacy.
They have no natural predators and compete with domestic cattle for resources.
While all of these things may be true, the author did not indicate if they were occurring on public lands set aside for the burros.
If not, were those lands designated as open range, where the owners are responsible for keeping the burros out (by constructing suitable fences)?
Whatever the answers, the ranchers want the burro populations reduced and are willing to look at all options.
Complaints about the burros from oil companies, mining companies, timber companies, hikers, campers and tourists appeared nowhere in the story.
BLM said today that the number of wild horses in the Fifteenmile HMA, northwest of Worland, WY, would be reduced from nearly 700 to around 100 this fall, the point at which the HMA can support the horses and other mandated uses of the land (privately owned sheep in this case).
Horses that have moved onto private and state lands will also be removed, according to the news release.
Supporting documentation, including the final environmental assessment and herd management plan, can be found on this page.
The HMA intersects five grazing allotments, according to the EA, with 3,370 AUMS per year allocated to sheep (60%) and 2,300 AUMs per year allocated to the horses (40%).
There isn’t one. See this report, posted today by The News & Observer of Raleigh, NC.
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There must be a mistake. A post from today appeared in Bing search results…today.
“We have spoken to the developers and it won’t happen again.”
Camping and hiking at Theodore Roosevelt National Park with Reel Diel Outdoors.
A report posted today by the Lexington Herald-Leader says they eat bugs stirred up by the horses. Observers are not sure if the horses actually like these birds or just tolerate them, according to the story.
