Bait traps will be used according to a news release dated 07/06/18. Goal is remove 300 excess animals. Captured burros will be taken to an Off-Range WHB Facility in Axtell, UT, where they will be available for adoption.
The Bullfrog HMA covers 157,180 acres and has a target population density of 0.6 animals per thousand acres (based on upper end of AML). The density at current population levels is 4.3 animals per thousand acres. Gather stats can be found on this page.
It is according to a story posted yesterday by KOLO-TV in Reno, NV. Only a barbed wire fence separates the horses from a new section of the Southeast Connector, but the Regional Transportation Commission plans to build something more substantial over the next month.
Wild horse advocates worry that vehicle collisions with horses will lead to removal of the animals from the area.
The new road, which opens today, should improve traffic flow between residential areas south of Reno and Sparks and employment centers to the north.
The Virginia Range, not shown on the map, is on the east side of the new connector.
Bait-trapping began 06/28/18, per BLM news release dated 07/05/18. Removal was prompted by insufficient water and high temperatures. Affected area is near Fenner, CA, on the south side of I-40. Captured burros will be taken to the Ridgecrest WHB Corrals for adoption.
There are no AMLs for herd areas, they’re not managed for WHB due to lack of resources. Yet the burros are there. Gather stats can be found on this page.
Wild horses and burros will be offered by the BLM for adoption and sale July 27 – 28, 2018 at the Cherokee County Fairgrounds, according to a BLM news release dated 07/02/18. Tahlequah is about 60 miles east of Tulsa.
Wild horse and burro posters will be available at the event.
There are some sick minds in the federal government and the BLM is no exception.
They’re trying to develop methods for cutting ovaries out of mares (while keeping the mortality rate to an ‘acceptable’ level, of course). In the following video, one of the wild horse Mengeles carries out the procedure for your viewing enjoyment.
According to the statement posted with the video, “…no highly effective, easily delivered and affordable fertility-control methods are currently available to manage wild horse and burro populations.”
In other words, PZP darting of mares is too expensive, too difficult to administer and doesn’t provide a lasting solution (to the wild horse ‘problem’). We have to come up with something better, such as sterilization or euthanization of ‘excess’ animals.
All of this is a scam. It’s not about saving money on roundups. There are no plans to close departments, sell buildings and lay people off if the techniques are successful. The goal is to clear the deck for more livestock grazing on public lands set aside for wild horses and burros in 1971.
Yes, he’s in the house. Either that or you put a cot in the barn. That’s what you have to do with critical-care babies. Just ask Palomino Armstrong. See also the videos posted last few days at the Salt River Wild Horse Management Group FB page.
BLM says OK. See this post on their FB page, originally published 06/29/18, updated 07/03/18. The area has received some rain in recent weeks but they’re still not out of the woods.
The Sand Wash Basin HMA is in northwest Colorado. The target population density (at upper end of AML) is 2.3 animals per thousand acres, a bit higher the national average (all HMAs) of one animal per thousand acres.
Sometimes it’s better to watch a TV program several years after it was broadcast, because you can see what’s changed. Consider this documentary by Oregon Public Broadcasting, originally aired February, 2014.
At the time it was filmed, wild horses and burros inhabited 32 million acres. Today, that figure is 27 million acres.
When the video was produced, there were 179 HMAs across ten western states, now there are 177. Back then, Oregon had 19 HMAs, today it’s 18.
Some things haven’t changed. In 2014, the carrying capacity of the land for WHB (based on upper value of AMLs) was about 26,000 animals. Ditto for today.
Rancher sentiment hasn’t changed. They still think wild horses and burros are destroying western rangelands and consuming forage that belongs to them.
But there is hope. The BLM corral facility in Hines, OR, may soon become Auschwitz of the West, where the Josef Mengeles of the of the wild horse world perform gruesome experiments on mares to find the best method of sterilization.
That’s the name of an unfinished sculpture set on a ridge above the Columbia River to commemorate the statehood of Washington and the horses that once roamed there (not the horses that died off 10,000 years ago, the horses that were rounded up and slaughtered in the middle of the last century to make way for wineries, farms and Democrat pinwheels).
The video is as haunting as the memory of these free-roaming spirits.
Immune cells pass from a pre-born child to the mother across the placenta. They carry the complete DNA of the child and persist in the mother’s body for the rest of her life.
Thus it is possible for a woman to be healed in part by the baby she murdered.
Sacred Heart of Jesus, have mercy on us.
Immaculate heart of Mary, pray for us.
In the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.
Update on the horses in this post. Tried to get some photos of the mares with welts but the stud wouldn’t have it. No improvement on the mare with the smaller welt. Unable to see the mare with the larger welt (third photo in original post). Inflammation due to bites or stings should have resolved by now. These photos taken 06/29/18.
The pond seen in the photos from 06/15/18 has lost quite a bit of water, which increases the concentration of dissolved minerals, making it unfit for animal consumption.
