They are like the imposters on “To Tell the Truth,” an early TV game show where they were allowed to lie.
Their job was to siphon off as many of the celebrity votes as possible, as seen in this example.
Today, the advocates try to attract as much of your money as possible for their nefarious purposes, including the sterilization of mares with PZP, a restricted-use pesticide that tricks the immune system into attacking their ovaries.
The advocates try to disguise their intent by referring to them with adjectives such as cherished, beloved, innocent, treasured, iconic and majestic.
Although it’s an unintended consequence of motorized removal, it’s absolutely necessary in nonmotorized removal. Without it, there is no herd reduction.
A National Day of Prayer would give you the opportunity to joins hands with the advocates as they pray for the older horses to die, so their darting programs will appear to the bureaucrats and ranchers an unqualified success.
The advocates snuff out new life with ovary-killing pesticides and pray for the older horses to die.
Any questions?
They’re telling you that they’re saving wild horses while they’re telling their allies (the bureaucrats and ranchers) that they’re getting rid of them.
Why are you still giving them money?
The system will be down for maintenance from 1:45 PM MT on April 19 to as late as 3:00 PM MT on April 22, which will likely affect access to the project.
WHAT TO DO
WHAT NOT TO DO
Like the bureaucrats, the advocates want the ranchers to win, not wild horses.
Although the darting program was shut off eight years ago, the herd has not rebounded and, contrary to a statement in the report, the population has passed through the target zone and continues to shrink because most of the mares have been ruined by PZP, an ovary-killing pesticide.
For years they’ve told us it’s a safe, proven and reversible vaccine.
This weekend, they’ll be eating crow.
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An undated report by the Park Service indicates a population of 73 in March, consisting of 30 stallions and 43 mares, down from 75 a year ago and 76 in March 2022.
Ten deaths and eight births were recorded.
For years the advocates pointed to the herd as a model of wild horse management.
Now they’ve swept it under the rug because it contradicts their lies about PZP.
Describing the sun as a “mighty powerful heat” and the moon as “made up mostly of gases,” U.S. Representative Sheila Jackson Lee tells students at Booker T. Washington High School in Houston to expect complete darkness and she delivers, 100%.
They’re obsessed with ovary-killing pesticides and nonmotorized removal.
They promote management plans that ratify and reinforce the status quo.
They want the ranchers to win.
Those who care about these animals should be trying to restore the WHB Act to its original form.
This does not mean putting the ranchers out of business.
It means confining them to their base properties in a year-round off season and letting them pay the going rate to feed their animals.
They are already doing this part of the year.
No more gravy train, no more sucking on the government teat.
Target prepubescent fillies.
As noted on page 35 of a report distributed by ISPMB, a study by Knight & Rubenstein found that administration of the first dose of PZP before sexual maturity may cause infertility. If you can’t access the file, click here.
Can you think of a simpler way to make your pesticide dollars go farther?
One and done. Females who have not yet reached puberty, which occurs 12 to 15 months after birth, can be sterilized by a single injection.
The technique will be most effective in the early years of a darting program, when youngsters are present.
By summer, the herd will consist of 10 to 20 percent foals, and half of them will be colts.
So the benefit will be small but so will the cost and the idea of not having to stalk those mares for five more years is alluring.
In their desire to be respected by the bureaucrats and ranchers, and to replace motorized removal with nonmotorized removal, the advocates may already be doing this.
Horses have the day off. At the Lake Pleasant HMA with Randy Donahoo.
The bureaucrats and ranchers tell us that public lands in the western U.S. can only support one wild horse per thousand public acres (27,000 animals on 27 million acres).
Therefore, divide the size of the parcel by 1,000, drop the decimals and round the result to the nearest multiple of ten.
The Jordan Meadows Allotment in northern Nevada offers 11,720 active AUMs on 106,495 public acres.
AML = 106,495 ÷ 1,000 = 106.495 → 106 → 110
Wait a minute! The parcel can support 977 wild horses, as noted yesterday.
AMLs are small relative to the available resources so the land can be managed primarily for livestock.
The horses displaced by permitted grazing end up in off-range holding.
Horses consigned to off-range holding = True AML – AML = 977 – 110 = 867
This is why the off-range corrals and long-term pastures are flooded with wild horses.
Later this year there may be more of them off the range than on.
The Allotment Master Report at RAS provides basic data for grazing lands administered by the BLM, including management status, acreage and active AUMs.
The AUMs tell you how many wild horses the parcel could support if it was managed principally for them.
True AML = Active AUMs ÷ 12
The stocking rate depends on the acreage.
Stocking rate = True AML ÷ Public acres × 1,000
For example, the Jordan Meadows Allotment in Nevada offers 11,720 active AUMs on 106,495 public acres.
The True AML would be 977, rounded off to a whole number, and the stocking rate would be 9.2 wild horses per thousand public acres.
Why is this important?
Because the bureaucrats and ranchers claim that public lands in the western U.S. can only support one wild horse per thousand acres (27,000 animals on 27 million acres).
The advocates bolster the narrative with their darting programs.
To the bureaucrats at the Nevada Department of Agriculture, the Campaign Against America’s Wild Horses, a leader in nonmotorized removal, sends monthly updates for the Virginia Range sterilization program.
The report for March indicated that only eleven foals have been born this year to a population of nearly 3,500, thanks to them.
Earlier this week they sent a news flash to their followers about April Foals Day, complete with photos of youngsters, emphasizing their safety and ability to live free, adding that their boots-on-the-ground conservation initiatives ensure they have a chance to grow up wild.
Which story do you believe?
There are three layers of forage demand in HMAs: Horses, livestock and wildlife.
The advocates collaborate with the bureaucrats to beat the herds down so ranchers can access most of their food, and they want you to pay for it.
Story at westernhorsewatchers.com.
Q. What do you call a wild horse removal contractor dressed up as an advocacy group?
A. The Campaign Against America’s Wild Horses.
Q. What do you call an EPA-registered pesticide that can only be used on female horses and burros capable of doing environmental damage?
A. Zonastat-H.
Q. What do you call the application of said pesticide by said group to control herds that pose safety hazards or are thought to be overpopulated?
A. Illegal.
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