Author: westernhorsewatchers
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Will the Real Wild Horse Advocates Please Stand Up?
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…
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Wild Horse Protection: It’s Not What You Think It Is
The advocates try to disguise their intent by referring to them with adjectives such as cherished, beloved, innocent, treasured, iconic and majestic.
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Death Is a Vital Part of In-the-Wild Management
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…
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How Darting Programs Work
The advocates snuff out new life with ovary-killing pesticides and pray for the older horses to die. Any questions?
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How the Advocates Save Wild Horses
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?
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TRNP Wild Horse Decision to Drop During Data Center Outage?
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.
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How to Help Wild Horses
WHAT TO DO Restore WHB Act to original form Confine ranchers to base properties in year-round off season Manage HAs, HMAs and WHTs principally for wild horses WHAT NOT TO DO Trust the bureaucrats Sympathize with ranchers Accept the overpopulation narrative Give money to wild horse advocates Consume their propaganda on socialist media Like the…
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Assateague Census Brings Great Embarrassment to Wild Horse Advocates
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…
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Litmus Test for Wild Horse Advocacy Groups
If they cover the report by the Park Service about the condition of the herd on Assateague Island, they’re legit. If they ignore it, they’re frauds. RELATED: Assateague Census Shows Shrinking Herd, Abnormal Sex Ratio, 13% Death Rate.
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Assateague Census Shows Shrinking Herd, Abnormal Sex Ratio, 13% Death Rate
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…
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Solar Eclipse Explained
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%.
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The Advocates Have Nothing to Offer America’s Wild Horses
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…
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How to Improve the Efficiency of Your Darting Program
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…
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How to Determine AMLs
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…
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Reading the Allotment Tea Leaves
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…
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Advocate Duplicity Is Off the Charts!
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…
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What You Need to Know about Wild Horse Areas
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.
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More Wild Horse FAQs
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…
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Setup in Progress
Welcome to westernhorsewatchers.us! Like the original, this site will offer much for the bureaucrats, ranchers and advocates to dislike.