The average age of the herd is increasing because few if any new foals are hitting the ground, which should increase the death rate, but not by this much.
The herd will continue to shrink when the contract expires.
The persons responsible will not face charges.
Still can’t place it?
There was no roundup.
You can’t call it removal because the advocates did it.
It’s a fine example of wild horse conservation, carried out by the Salt River Wild Horse Darting Group with support from the Campaign Against America’s Wild Horses.
The contract with the Salt River Wild Horse Darting Group expires in May and the new agreement states that for every horse born, three other horses must be removed or adopted out according to a report by KPHO News.
SRWHDG ringleader Simone Netherlands said “We want every horse born on the Salt River to be able to live out their lives on the river” but that doesn’t happen very often thanks to her and her band of merrymen.
Mares that do bear fruit probably have faulty immune systems and the advocates rely on predators to fix those uh-ohs.
Other benefits of PZP darting programs, besides shrinking herds, include abnormal sex ratios, injuries and infections, tiny breeding populations and loss of genetic diversity.
But the crème de la crème, which the advocates deny, is mass sterilization and the Arizona Department of Agriculture apparently doesn’t understand that.
The herd has likely reached the tipping point and will continue to decline, contract or no contract.
A better option would be to acquire land that meets the requirements of a base property, attach it to one or more vacant allotments in the Tonto National Forest, such as Bartlett or St. Clair, and move the horses from the contested area into a much larger home.
Here’s your chance to place wild horses in the Wyoming checkerboard!
Haystack River Ranch covers over 92,000 acres, including 25,000 deeded acres, 41,000 BLM acres, a private lease of 23,500 acres and a state lease according to the listing.
The land produces over 9,000 AUMs (per year), equivalent to 750 wild horses.
The overall stocking rate would be 8.1 wild horses per thousand 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 agent’s map puts the deeded acreage, shown in white, on the east side of the ranch and the private lease on the west.
BLM parcels of approximately 640 acres each, shown in yellow, appear on both sides.
Wild horses can be placed on public lands not identified for their use by acquiring base properties tied to grazing allotments and flipping the preference to horses.
The online meeting runs from 1 to 3 PM Mountain time according to the news release.
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The announcement did not indicate if a hearing had been scheduled to address the issue of nonmotorized removal, peddled by the advocates as in-the-wild management.
The Campaign Against America’s Wild Horses is a world-class manufacturer of slogans intended to deceive its supporters and the American people.
Although the packaging might change, the message doesn’t: Replace motorized removal with mass sterilization, beat the numbers down with ovary-killing pesticides.
The BLM plans to remove juniper trees from a variety of landscapes near the Alcova Reservoir according to yesterday’s news release.
The project is a collaborative effort between the BLM, Bureau of Reclamation, Wyoming Game and Fish Department, and private landowners.
BLM representatives will be on hand to provide information, answer questions and gather public input at an open house on May 7.
A map of the project area was provided.
A link to the NEPA review was not given.
You must travel to Alcova to participate.
The ArcGIS Viewer shows the reservoir is surrounded by grazing allotments.
The private landowners are likely permittees.
The trees, a native species, are not being targeted because they might burn if lightning strikes one of the pastures but because they crowd out forage preferred by livestock, a nonnative species.
This is another example of wasteful spending intended to prop up a failed industry.
This year National Infertility Awareness Week runs from April 20 to April 26.
It’s not a naturally occurring condition in the wild horse world but is inflicted by the advocates so ranchers can enjoy more of what their allotments have to offer.
They say it’s a humane alternative to motorized removal and sell it as wild horse conservation, even though the inevitable result is sterility.
Moreover, they want you to pay for it.
They are phonies, leaders of the blind, irrelevant.
Juniper Mountain Ranch covers approximately 5,900 deeded acres southeast of Maybell, CO, with grazing preference on 5,800 BLM acres and 640 state acres according to the agent’s listing.
The deeded acreage lies within the allotment boundary.
The BLM allotment offers 800 active AUMs, equivalent to 66 wild horses or 11.4 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).
If the deeded acreage offers the same level of forage as the public acreage, the ranch should be able to support around 130 wild horses.
The property meets three out of four requirements for refuges.
Wild horses can be placed on public lands not identified for their use by acquiring base properties tied to grazing allotments and flipping the preference to horses.
They’re upset at the prospects of losing around 3,700 wild horses in Wyoming but are silent about the loss of approximately the same number at the Salt River and Virginia Range.
Moreover, if the BLM decided to get rid of the Rock Springs herds in the same manner, they’d drop their opposition and offer to do it at no cost to the government.
