No, it doesn’t.  It benefits the government serfs who fatten their cattle on public lands at fire-sale prices.  Fewer horses on the range means more forage for livestock.  Keep the gravy train going, more cattlemen sucking the sugar teat.

The text posted with the video is propaganda, typical for the kooks at Protect the Harvest, who said earlier this year the Virginia Range had been decimated by wild horses.  (Go to the Index, scroll down to Virginia Range and look at the photos.)

Yep, female genital mutilation is good.  Nice job PTH.  Allahu Akbar.

Note the collaboration of BLM, Zoetis and Priefert on the project.

Researchers at Colorado State University will help the BLM perfect a rarely used sterilization procedure, known as ovariectomy via colpotomy, for removing a mare’s ovaries, according to a report dated 08/03/18 in the Coloradoan.  If approved, the study will begin in October.

Public acceptance of fertility control was a first step.  Now the focus is fertility prevention.

Who benefits?  Why would the BLM engage in such barbaric practices?

It’s not about reducing costs of the WHB program.  There are no plans to close departments, sell buildings and lay people off if the research is ‘successful.’

The move is a payoff to the livestock industry, with whom the BLM has been aligned for decades.  Ranchers look at the horses and burros as pests, consuming forage that belongs to them—on lands sent aside for the horses and burros.  The WHB Act, amended several times in their favor, has been a pain in their backside since 1971.

Eighty percent of Americans want these animals protected and preserved.  But it doesn’t matter, because the BLM doesn’t answer to the voters.

Two hundred mares, gathered from the range, will be placed in the program.  Of the 100 mares to be spayed, 30 will be returned to the range and 70 will go to adoption, some of whom may appear in the demonic Wild Spayed Filly Futurity.

Religion and politics, oh my!  H/T Michael Voris and the folks at Church Militant.

See also this post by Ann Barnhardt, dated 07/29/18.

See the report posted today at Intermountain Farm & Ranch about the Red Desert gather, which may begin next week.  The story addresses concerns about captured horses going to slaughter.

“Interested buyers are required to sign paperwork.”

No problems there.  Barack Obama took an oath to uphold the Constitution (and his administration was lawless).

The article also indicates that Wyoming is home to more than 7,000 wild horses, but the Appropriate Management Level is 3,725 horses.  Another case of misuse of figures.

The BLM spokesperson quoted in the article said research projects are underway that will help find more effective facility [sic] control methods, probably meaning fertility control methods, which is a code word for fertility prevention methods.

The report did not mention if AUM curtailment would be considered as a means of preventing overgrazing or if the grazing fee on public rangelands would be raised from $1.41 per AUM to $25 per AUM, in line with the costs of private ranching.

The government serfs are riding a gravy train and they know it.  And who pays?  Our wild horses and burros.

RELATED: Red Desert Gather Announced.

History Repeating by the Propellerheads.

BLM announced yesterday that it had issued a Special Recreation Permit to Black Rock City LLC for Burning Man, to be held on public lands near Gerlach, NV.  The festival will run from 08/26/18 through 09/03/18.

The permit allows up to 70,000 participants on approximately 4400 acres, for a population density of 15,909 humans per thousand acres.

As for the wild horses and burros that surround the place, they’ll probably just keep their heads down and avoid the chaos, trying to carry on their legacy at an average density of one animal per thousand acres.

RELATED: Vendor Advisory for 2018 Burning Man.

Chris Stewart (R-UT) sponsored a roundtable yesterday in Salt Lake City to discuss WHB management in his state.  He’s no friend of the horses.  There are too many of them and they go outside their herd management areas, according to a report posted 08/01/18 by KMYU-TV.

The estimated WHB population in Utah is 5,000 animals, with an AML of 2,500 (stats cited in the story, numbers from the BLM put the AML at 1,911).

This is another example of misuse of figures.  You can’t compare 5,000 to 2,500 because they don’t have the same land-basis.

The ranching industry appeared to be under-represented at the conference, judging by the list of guests, but maybe that was by design.  Perhaps the event was held to give the impression he’s interested in the advocacy viewpoint?  You know, they always kiss you before they screw you.

Chris Stewart is no conservative paragon.  Almost certainly he’s in the back pocket of the beef lobby.  He received a Liberty Score® of ‘D’ (67%) at Conservative Review.