Exposing the Hypocrisy, Lies and Incompetence of the Wild Horse Advocates
A judge has ruled that the New Mexico Livestock Board has no jurisdiction over the wild horses in Lincoln County and can no longer gather and sell them. The horses live in an area north of Ruidoso, NM. Refer to the story that appeared yesterday Ruidoso News.
The case was brought by the Wild Horse Observers Association, an ‘advocacy’ group that favors fertility control over roundups.
Both stock tanks are now on float control. The underground water supply line and yard hydrant have been installed. Short video posted to WHW YouTube channel.
The idea is to keep the horses up in the hills and away from populated areas, a practice known as ‘diversionary watering.’
The gather is complete according to a report posted yesterday by The Daily Sentinel in Grand Junction, CO, although the BLM has not issued a news release confirming that.
“The agency undertook the operation because of concerns about heavy grazing pressure by the horses, a problem exacerbated by drought.”
The wild horse population at the beginning of the roundup was 190, barely large enough to maintain genetic viability of the herd.
RELATED: Stupid Horses Won’t Take the Bait at Little Bookcliffs.
Still no national news coverage of wild horse massacre at Spruce-Pequop HMA in late August. If conservatives were involved, you would have heard about it weeks ago.
RELATED: BLM Thinks Spruce-Pequop Massacre was Humane.
UPDATE: See these remarks from The Cloud Foundation that appeared today in The Desert Independent.
In a guest column appearing today in the Redding-based Record Searchlight, the writer worries about the fate of captured horses but doesn’t say anything about the reasons for their removal.
Yep, it’s okay to pull them off the range and give more of their land and forage to livestock, just don’t ship them to slaughter.
The greatest threat to wild horses and burros is public-lands ranching, not oil and gas exploration, not mineral extraction, not timber harvesting.
The government serfs, along with their allies at the BLM and USFS, are laughing at you, dear, because you focus on symptoms not on causes.
Family band came in for a drink on 10/19/18, shortly after the stock tanks had been dumped, bleached and refilled. Great to see the youngster!
Temperatures at night are reaching the low 30s / high 20s for a few hours, which is not a big problem, but the system will have to be shut off and drained in a few more weeks.
Wild horses in eastern Utah, somewhere between the towns of Ouray and Bonanza, possibly on BIA land (go to page 3 in this map). There are no HMAs in that part of the state, only the Bonanza HA (red border), which is no longer managed for WHB due to ‘inadequate food and water.’ Yet there they are!
If you want to deceive the public about wild horse overpopulation, count horses like these, outside of HMAs, and compare the result to the allowable number of horses inside HMAs.
H/T Susan Allison.
Regarding the remarks in this post (reprinted below), I hereby offer Exhibit A, an article about wild horse training that appeared yesterday in SLO Horse News. You don’t need to read it, you only need to see the photo at the top of the page.
If you’re an experienced horseman, adopting a mustang is an opportunity to break with your past.
Learn no-metal horsemanship. Understand the importance of communication, trust and relationships. Be patient. Avoid pain and confusion. Consider that you may not need bits, spurs and tie-downs to control a horse. They don’t know anything about that equipment, they only know what you teach them.
Todd Gloria, a member of the California State Assembly, has written a letter to the USFS demanding an end to the Devils’s Garden wild horse gather, according to a report that appeared yesterday in East County Magazine. It was signed by 22 of his legislative colleagues (most of whom are liberals).
Links in the story point to the site of an ‘advocacy’ group known for its unwavering support of fertility control for horses. To see how that method stacks up against other herd management practices, take this quiz. Match a technique on the left with a result on the right. Take as much time as you need.
If your answers look like this, you are correct!
Another advantage of these techniques is that they they align with the overpopulation narrative and leave more forage on western rangelands for livestock.
If you think wild horse advocates should be pushing for changes that work to the benefit of the horses, you’re in the minority. Refer to the list in this post for some ideas.
The Navajo County Sheriff’s department has offered a $2500 reward for information leading to the arrest of the person(s) responsible. See the report posted yesterday by AZFamily, the CBS affiliate in Phoenix. Includes video.
RELATED: Horses Shot at Heber WHT.
Refer to this report, posted tonight by Las Vegas Now. BLM said the horses were in such poor condition that life-ending actions were justified. A photo was provided to support their position.
This is not a problem of humane methods of euthanasia. Rescues take in horses like that all the time. It’s a problem of enmity toward wild horses. Eight of them were executed summarily by the agency entrusted with their care.
The report says all documents related to the case have been formally requested, which probably means FOIA.
RELATED: Spruce-Pequop Gather: Absence of the Story is the Story.
Trailcam photo of some Virginia Range mustangs at the stock tanks. Check out the stud on the left with the bi-colored mane and tail. You guys are awesome!
Still no coverage of the wild horse massacre by national news outlets. The original story can now be seen in this FB video.
Questions that have not been answered:
The original report by Las Vegas Now can be found here. GET. THE. WORD. OUT.
RELATED: Massacre at Spruce-Pequop HMA Getting Some Media Attention.
Free-roaming horses on White Mountain HMA, in southwestern Wyoming, with Pilot Butte in the background. Classic western image at 1:22. H/T Voyageurs 64 Sylfred.
RELATED: Pilot Butte Wild Horse Scenic Tour.
Refer to this post dated 10/09/18 at The Daily Pitchfork for livestock grazing on lands managed by the BLM. Grazing receipts from 2002 to 2018 were used to estimate the number of livestock on western rangelands vis-à-vis wild horses and burros.
The report did not indicate how many livestock were on lands set aside for WHB so comparisons of cattle and sheep to horses and burros may not be valid because they don’t have the same land-basis.
If all of the animals were found inside the 27 million acres managed for WHB, then yes, you could say that cattle and sheep vastly outnumber horses and burros.
The family of Leo Kuntz has been forced to sell the horses from his ranch near Linton, ND, according to a report dated 10/13/18 by the Fargo-based news service Inforum.
They are unable to care for a herd of nearly 200 horses and would like to sell them and the ranch to a single buyer if possible.
A donor provided funds for hay to feed the horses on Kuntz’s ranch through the winter.
RELATED: Story of the Nokota Horses.
Refer to this story by KUSI in San Diego, CA, posted yesterday. BLM has admitted responsibility but who did the deed?
The gather was justified by lack of water at Boone Springs. Madeleine Pickens, wild horse advocate and owner of the land, offered to provide water but the BLM refused.
RELATED: Intrigue at Spruce-Pequop HMA.
UPDATE: Added video by KUSI News.
Two wild stallions were found dead on 10/13/18. Refer to this video from KPNX-TV in Phoenix, AZ (has mandatory ad). Also this story from KPNX and this FB post. There are no suspects at this time and a motive is not known.
The Heber WHT lies within the Apache-Sitgreaves National Forest, about 80 miles northeast of Phoenix, AZ. It appears on the USFS map of WHTs but is not linked on the page.
On the Virginia Range. H/T Lauri Duke.
A helicopter is now pushing horses into the traps at Little Bookcliffs Wild Horse Range near Grand Junction, CO. Refer to this report in Western Slope Now, posted today.
Don’t worry though, they’re being treated humanely, like the horses at Spruce-Pequop.
On the other end of the line are hundreds of adopters who have been around horses their whole lives, eager to suffocate them with blankets, shove big pain bits into their mouths and pound nails into their feet.
As for the nutjobs at Friends of the Mustangs, don’t give them a penny. They have failed these horses miserably.
RELATED: BLM to Use Helicopter to Finish Little Bookcliffs Roundup.
