Exposing the Hypocrisy, Lies and Incompetence of the Wild Horse Advocates
He had been removed from the beach and given his condition, they decided the best thing to do was to let him pass slowly and peacefully according to an October 23 report by WITN News.
The size of the herd is unknown.
Wild horse advocates are known for their opposition to nature’s way.
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UPDATE: A story by the Augusta Free Press says they euthanized him.
A new project was opened in ePlanning yesterday and a preliminary environmental assessment was copied to the folder with other supporting documents.
The scoping phase was apparently skipped.
The project covers the Carter Reservoir HMA, Coppersmith HMA and Buckhorn HMA on the northern CA-NV border.
Alternative 1, the Proposed Action, features forcible removal, fertility control and sex ratio skewing. Refer to Section 2.2.3 in the EA.
As in the Kiger-Riddle EA, the discussion of GonaCon Equine on page 49 (50 in pdf) refers to outdated registrations: “GonaCon-Equine is approved for use by authorized federal, state, tribal, public, and private personnel, for application to wild and feral equids in the United States (EPA, 2013; 2015).”
The 2017 amendment, which increased the interval between treatments from 30 days to 90 days, is ignored.
The BLM news release said the current population is at least 700 wild horses, compared to a combined AML of 195.
The HMAs do not appear on the FY25 roundup schedule.
They are subject to permitted grazing.
The new plan supports three tenets of rangeland management.
When wild horse populations are within AML, other wildlife thrive, according to a BLM article about the 2024 roundup.
In the case of Sand Wash Basin, you cannot have more than 362 wild horses in the HMA or the land will degrade, but you can have livestock equivalent to 1,402 wild horses in the same area.
Curiously, those animals escaped the writer’s attention.
The permanent bait trap and ever-present footprints of the PZP darters are constant reminders that the horses are not a priority in their lawful home.
RELATED: Sand Wash Roundup Ends Early.
Call a press conference.
Announce that you’ve decided to get rid of the herd with PZP.
A sigh of relief will go up from the advocates.
In a few days, letters and emails will arrive offering to dart the mares for free.
After five years they will be sterile and with no new foals hitting the ground, the herd will vanish.
The advocates, led by the Campaign Against America’s Wild Horses, will point to the Salt River and Virginia Range as examples of what can be done.
You just need to be patient and let them show their true colors.
RELATED: Triple B Roundup Announced.
Story by FOX5 News of Las Vegas.
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Table 12 in the Antelope-Triple B Management Evaluation identifies the allotments that overlap the Complex.
The Allotment Master Report at RAS gives management status, public acres and active AUMs by field office (Bristlecone | Wells).
Approximately 90% of the allotment acreage is in the Improve category.
The allotments, which include territory outside the Complex, support livestock equivalent to 6,533 wild horses.
The forage assigned to livestock inside the Complex is estimated to be 44,758 AUMs per year, assuming it’s evenly distributed across the allotments.
That resource would support 3,730 wild horses, on top of the 821 allowed by plan, for a True AML of 4,551.
The pre-gather population is well within this range.
The BLM spends around $6.8 million per year to care for 3,730 wild horses in off-range holding so it can collect about $60,000 per year from the Triple B permittees.
Nobody in the private sector would do that.
BLM allotments in Nevada support livestock equivalent to 173,144 wild horses on 40,194,360 public acres.
RELATED: Triple B Roundup Announced.
The Wind River roundup took about 7,600 wild horses off the reservation in 2023 and 2024.
Their disposition, not discussed in a report by WyoFile, is unknown. The writer said they were “trucked away.” Probably to Mexico or Canada.
An aerial survey in late 2022 found 5,500 animals on one million acres.
A biologist with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service put the estimate at 9,000 or more, for a stocking rate of nine wild horses per thousand acres.
That is what they were trying to eradicate: An outlier that defied the carrying capacity narrative, namely, that western rangelands can only support one wild horse per thousand acres (27,000 animals on 27 million acres).
The Virginia Range in Nevada, another counterexample, had a stocking rate of at least ten wild horses per thousand acres before the advocates got involved.
The Campaign Against America’s Wild Horses, a leader in mass sterilization and staunch opponent of principal use, was tasked with erasing that evidence.
The author did not indicate who paid for the roundup and if the decision to get rid of the horses had been influenced by outside interests such as hunting and ranching.
So says a report by KFYR News.
She was cleared to return to the park (after the roundup) but her condition got worse according to park officials.
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The incident will begin on or about November 1 according to a BLM news release.
The capture and removal goals are 2,255 and 2,155, respectively.
The pre-gather population is thought to be 3,319.
The number of horses allowed by plan is 821.
The Complex includes the Maverick-Medicine HMA, Triple B HMA and a portion of the Antelope Valley HMA west of Highway 93.
A helicopter will push the horses into the trap and operations will be open to public observation.
Animals identified for removal will be taken to the off-range corrals at Palomino Valley and Indian Lakes in Fallon.
Up to 50 mares will be treated with GonaCon Equine, a fertility control pesticide, and returned with 50 stallions to the range.
The Complex is subject to permitted grazing.
Allotments are now indicated with brown borders in the National Data Viewer.
RELATED: Scoping Begins for Antelope-Triple B HMAP.
The advocates know that long-term use of PZP leads to sterility and if no new foals are hitting the ground the herds will vanish.
The ranchers couldn’t have asked for a better ally.
Beware of the wild horse advocates.
File Under: Charlatans.
In the Salt River with SmilinWithTheWorld.
Would that it were.
The original plan was to use tracking collars according to a story by KFYR News, but the devices do not provide locations, they only identify animals.
The report did not indicate if the action was covered by an environmental assessment or other method by which public input was solicited and reviewed.
RELATED: TRNP Wild Horse Roundup in Progress.
Res ipsa loquitur.
She was one of two mares held for fertility treatment before being returned to the HMA.
A report by The Grand Junction Daily Sentinel said she spooked and hit her head on a pipe panel during feeding.
She received an initial dose of GonaCon Equine and the contractors were following the CAWP according to the story.
A second dose was to be given after 30 days, which would violate the 90-day interval of the 2017 labeling amendment.
The other mare was treated with PZP and returned to the range.
The BLM has not updated the figures at the gather page, which should indicate 140 horses captured, 98 shipped, 38 released and four dead, for a net removal of 102.
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The real estate agent, PZP evangelist and disciple of the Campaign Against America’s Wild Horses is back with the good news of nonmotorized removal in the October issue of Horse Tales. Go to “Wild Horse Tales” on page 7.
“All we see with PZP is mares who do not get in foal.”
It’s a miracle drug—for those who are willfully blind.
She and her fellow travelers don’t see the abnormal sex ratios.
They don’t see the onset of sterility.
They don’t see the injuries and injection site reactions.
They’re blind to the tiny breeding populations and loss of genetic diversity.
And they damn sure don’t see the government-sanctioned livestock occupying the lawful homes of wild horses.
You cannot give sight to these people.
They are phonies, allies of the bureaucrats and ranchers, and don’t deserve a penny of your financial support.
Both had been slowing down and in declining body condition for the last several months according to an October 16 story by The Outer Banks Voice.
Can you imagine if the advocates were allowed to euthanize wild horses on public lands in the American west?
The herds would disappear faster than you can dial 9-1-1.
Figures for September 19 have been added to the gather page.
The previous update said it was complete with 59 unaccounted-for animals.
The final tally indicated 140 horses captured, 98 shipped, 37 released and three dead, with two unaccounted for.
The capture and removal goals were 140 and 120 respectively.
The death rate was 2.1%.
The average daily take was 15.6.
The capture total included 37 stallions, 82 mares and 21 foals.
Youngsters represented 15% of the animals gathered, consistent with a herd growth rate of 10% per year.
Of the adults, 31.1% were male and 68.9% were female, outside the expected range of variation from a random process centered at 50% males / 50% females.
Abnormal sex ratios are common in herds treated with Zonastat-H.
Two horses remain in holding for fertility treatments, to be returned to the HMA at an unspecified date.
Go back and read the recommendations published in September by Save Our Wild Horses, an affiliate of Wild Horse Education.
Item 1: Initiate HMAPs promptly, with at least two started per district by year-end, as mandated by 43 CFR 4710.1 with a deadline of 1-year for completion. Enforce strict adherence to HMAP requirements to maintain ethical, humane, and legal standards in wild horse management practices.
For the Antelope and Triple B Complexes, this means
Speaking about their conference in Reno and the ideas flowing therefrom, the president and founder of Wild Horse Education said in a news release “We were also able to dispel the long standing myth that advocates are ill-educated on the subject and, hopefully, our words will be taken into thoughtful consideration.”
You betcha.
Even the casual observer now realizes that they want the ranchers to win.
The incident concluded today with ten horses captured, ten shipped, none released and no deaths.
The capture and removal goals were 60 and 45 according to the latest schedule.
There were no unaccounted-for animals.
The capture total included three stallions, six mares and one foal.
The operation liberated 120 AUMs per year, a disappointment to the permittees.
Western Horse Watchers Association 