BLM Announces Pancake Bait Trap Roundup

The incident will begin on or about March 15 according to the news release.

The capture and removal goals are 300 each.

The Pancake Complex consists of the Pancake and Sand Springs West HMAs, plus Jakes Wash HA—an area unfit for wild horses.

The Monte Cristo WHT was omitted.

The current population is thought to be 1,436, not including this year’s foal crop.

Operations will not be open to public observation.

Animals removed from the complex will be taken to the off-range corrals at Sutherland.

There are no plans to treat any of the mares with fertility control pesticides and return them to the range.

The complex is subject to permitted grazing.

Foaling season, which runs from March 1 through June 30, usually corresponds to a lull in wild horse roundups.

A schedule for FY26 has not been posted to the customary location.

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BLM Announces Caliente Bait Trap Roundup

The incident will begin on or about March 15 according to the news release.

The capture and removal goals are 350 each.  The gather page says 550.

The Caliente Complex consists of nine former HMAs, all unfit for wild horses.

The current population is thought to be 1,503, not counting this year’s foal crop.

Operations will not be open to public observation.

Animals removed from the complex will be taken to the off-range corrals in Fallon.

There are no plans to treat any of the mares with fertility control pesticides and return them to the range.

The HAs are subject to permitted grazing.

Foaling season, which runs from March 1 through June 30, usually corresponds to a lull in wild horse roundups.

A schedule for FY26 has not been posted to the customary location.

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BLM Announces Antelope and Triple B Bait Trap Roundups

The incidents will begin on or about March 15 according to the news release.

The capture and removal goals for Antelope are 700 each and for Triple B 300 each.

The Antelope Complex consists of the Antelope, Antelope Valley (portion east of U.S. Hwy 93), Goshute and Spruce-Pequop HMAs.

The Triple B Complex consists of the Triple B, Maverick-Medicine and Antelope Valley (portion west of U.S. Hwy 93) HMAs and the Cherry Springs WHT.

The Nevada HMA page has vital statistics.

Operations will not be open to public observation.

Animals removed from Antelope will be taken to the off-range corrals in Fallon.

Animals removed from Triple B will be taken to the off-range corrals in Sutherland.

There are no plans to treat any of the mares with fertility control pesticides and return them to the range.

The HMAs are subject to permitted grazing.

Foaling season runs from March 1 through June 30, which usually corresponds to a lull in wild horse roundups.

A roundup schedule for FY26 has not been posted to the customary location.

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Burro Grazing in New Mexico?

The authorization use report for Y Ranch shows 201 AUMs for burros with a 12-month grazing season.

What production-oriented purpose, as the BLM argued in its decision to cancel the American Prairie grazing permits, do they serve?  Meat, milk or fiber?

Y Ranch is the only BLM allotment in the western U.S. where burros are authorized.

RELATED: Would Y Ranch Make a Good Wild Horse Preserve?

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Advocates Creating Standard for Wild Horse Management?

You can’t take them literally.

Mass sterilization and motorized removal do not constitute protection.

They’re developing a model for ranching superiority in the lawful homes of wild horses, applicable everywhere.

Why are you still giving them money?

RELATED: Salt River Advocates to Become Full-Service Contractor?

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BLM Nevada Seeks Range Techs

The temporary positions are based in Tonopah and Battle Mountain.

The successful candidates will monitor grazing activities and conduct wild horse surveys according to the job posting.

The application period closes on March 18 or when 30 applications have been received, whichever occurs first.

The description did not indicate if you must be certified in the application of restricted-use pesticides or can work comfortably around high-net-worth individuals who pay almost nothing for the resources they consume and the services rendered on their behalf by the government.

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American Prairie Adds Pintail Flatt to Montana Holdings

The property consists of 1,762 deeded acres and 320 public acres according to a March 5 news release.

The announcement did not give any details about the BLM acreage but the listing says it’s an allotment known as Upper Tressler Coulee.

The allotment master report puts it in the Custodial category with 57 active AUMs, equivalent to 14.8 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.

The authorization use report indicates the allotment is permitted for cattle with a 12-month grazing season.

It’s not clear if the nonprofit will petition the agency for a change in livestock type, given its recent about-face in such matters.

RELATED: BLM Reneges on American Prairie Grazing Permits.

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BLM Reneges on American Prairie Grazing Permits

When the decision was announced in 2022, the Public Lands Council hit the ceiling.

The BLM agreed to change the livestock type and season of use on several allotments in response to a request from American Prairie to graze bison instead of cattle.

The nonprofit obtained preference by purchasing base properties tied to the allotments.

Now, bowing to pressure from ranching interests, the agency has flip-flopped on the issue, reversing the original decision and hanging American Prairie out to dry.

In a news release, American Priarie pointed to the state of Montana, North and South Phillips Grazing Districts and the Montana Stockgrowers Association as challengers in the case.

The BLM’s position, according to a story by the Daily Montanan, is that it can only issue permits to applicants who will graze the public lands for purposes of production.

In the new decision, posted to the original project in ePlanning, the agency states that animals to be grazed are used for their meat, milk, fiber or other products.

Animals treated as wild or intended to be released into the wild are not eligible for a grazing permit.

If that’s true, will the BLM target Wild Horse Refuge next?  The nonprofit flipped the grazing preference to wild horses on the former Rio Ro Mo allotments.

What about the Virginia side of Assateague Island, where the salt water cowboys graze ponies on public lands managed by FWS?

If American Prairie charged an admission fee to visit their preserve, the bison would be producing an income for their owners as cattle and sheep do for the ranchers.

Case dismissed.

RELATED: State Tries to Block American Prairie Grazing Decision.

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Foal-Free Friday, Pesticide Delivery Edition

We’re not talking about driving for Amazon or DoorDash.

We’re talking about getting your certification so you can beat the horse populations down in favor of livestock.

That’s what passes for protection in the wild horse world.

PREVIOUS: Foal-Free Friday, Oxymorons and Redundancies Edition.

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BLM Issues Lake Pleasant Final Planning Documents

The Decision Record authorizes Alternative A, the Proposed Action, with the best management practices, design features, stipulations and mitigations of Appendices D, E and G of the Final EA.

The AML would change from 166-208 to 140-250.

The new plan includes forcible removal and fertility control.

The news release put the population at 2,303 wild burros in and around the HMA.

The DR and EA were copied to the project folder with related documents.

RELATED: Lake Pleasant EA Out for Review.

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Currituck Wild Horse Advisory Board to Hold Special Meeting

The Board will review the Wild Horse Management Agreement and discuss other matters of business on March 12 according to the notice.

A link to the agenda was not provided.

Three out of four regular meetings were canceled in 2025, along with the first quarter meeting in 2026.

RELATED: Turmoil at Currituck Wild Horse Advisory Board?

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Would Jackstone and Adobe Hills Be a Good Wild Horse Preserve?

The allotments have a common border but are composed of checkerboard lands.

Together they offer 2,860 active AUMs on 30,107 public acres, equivalent to 7.9 wild horses per thousand public acres.

Your faithful public servants claim that rangeland health will suffer if wild horse stocking rates exceed one animal per thousand acres, yet the allotment master report puts both in the Maintain category.

The permits are up for renewal but the news release did not include a link to the NEPA review.

The Proposed Action would convert 46 horse AUMs in Adobe Hills to cattle but the total authorized forage would not change.  Refer to section 3.4.2 in the Draft EA.

Wild horses can be placed on public lands no identified for their use by acquiring base properties associated with grazing allotments and flipping the preference to horses.

RELATED: The Allotments Tell the Story: They’re Lying, All of Them.

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Advocate Claims BLM Evaded Oversight in Jakes Fire Roundup

Observers were unable to determine the condition of an injured horse according to an opinion piece in the Reno Gazette Journal.

But should you criticize the agency for lack of transparency when you’re guilty of that yourself?

The column was written by the Nevada State Director for the Campaign Against America’s Wild Horses, a leader in mass sterilization and servant of the public lands ranchers, who scrubbed the Virginia Range Darting Resources page from its website, and the monthly reports posted thereto, leaving the public in the dark about the largest attempted eradication of wild horses in the state.

Why are you still giving them money?

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Purdue Researchers Invent New Fertility Control Pesticide?

They are trying to develop it into a controlled-release formulation that induces long-lasting infertility with a single injection according to a March 3 news release.

Humane World for Animals, formerly the Humane Society of the United States, provided financial support for the research.

The BLM has funded a three-year project to test it on horses.

What’s the difference between long-term infertility and sterility?

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