GOVERNMENT ENEMIES (#government-enemies)

USGS, BLM, and CONGRESS

‘ARE’ THE BIGGEST THREAT TO WILD HORSES AND BURROS in AMERICA

Scientists Told to Not Consider Grazing Due to Fear of Lawsuits and Data Gaps

The U.S. Bureau of Land Management is carrying out an ambitious plan to map ecological trends throughout the Western U.S. but has directed scientists to exclude livestock grazing as a possible factor in changing landscapes, according to a scientific integrity complaint filed today by Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER).

Recognizing COW BLINDNESS

Government agencies “have put on scientific blinders when it comes to public lands grazing,” stated PEER. Cows outnumber wild horses on BLM lands by a ratio of more than 30 to 1 (in 2021). While wild horses do have impacts of their own, coherent landscape and recovery planning require a hard look at the millions of cows foraging increasingly stressed rangelands.”

BLM ADOPTION SCHEME

$1000 Adoption incentive Program AIP – Gives any applicant a horse and they recieve $500 after pickup, and one year later they recieve another $500 and the title to the horse. Once they recieve the title, the protected mustang looses all of its federal protections, and the owner can then sell directly to slaughter ( even though they signed a declaration that they wouldn’t). There are many repeat offenders documented. BLM knows all about it, and what’s happening to these once federally protected mustangs and hasn’t made any attempt to fix it.

‘These ($1000) AIP Horses are being flipped at Horse Auctions as soon as the incentative is paid. ** At the Local Auctions Wild Horses & Burros are bought by Slaughter Buyers and Shipped to Packing Plants in Mexico & Canada. And to Bi-Product Plants in the USA. ** The Sale Authority Horses have absolutely no Protection as they are sold on a Bill Of Sale and can be Flipped by the Buyer as soon as the Buyer Recieves the Bill Of Sale. ** Most Sale Authority Wild Horses & Burros get shipped directly from the Nearest Local Auction to the Nearest Slaughter or Bi-Product Plant” – AS

aug 16 18  THE TRUTH #23 – The BLM to combine sales and adoptions on the same application form, making it easier to hide how many wild horses and burros are actually being sold (into the slaughter pipeline) in their records.  -WHFF (Tags: BLM,records, combine sales and adoptions, wild horses and burros, sold WHB,slaughter pipeline,FOIA, emails,  emails BLM-Rob Sharp ‘25 horses a day’ not per six months -regarding IM 2018-066, IM 2018-066, Rob Sharp, Wendy Rickman, Patti Wilson, AIP, Adoption Incentive Program)
#truth23

American Farm Bureau (#american-farm-bureau) (#AFB)

AFBF urges Congress to provide and require federal agencies to utilize management tools including roundups, long term and permanent fertility control, adoption and sale without limitations.

Annual Lobbying by American Farm Bureau $1,980,000 Total Lobbying Expenditures, 2021

THEIR POLICY : The federal government must support:

• Acknowledging that wild horses and burros are feral animals;
• Maintaining a thriving natural ecological balance on the range for all multiple uses (as long as you don’t count their livestock being a factor in the degradation and destruction to the land)
• Effective and efficient fertility control including sterilizations to minimize population growth and reduce the cost of gathers;
• Utilizing any humane method of removing excess wild horses and burros from the range including, but not limited to, the use of helicopters, bait and traps and lethal control;
• Transferring title of wild horses immediately upon adoption; (This would leads to instant sale to kill buyers)
• Horses and burros that have been held in government captivity for more than six months and are deemed unsuitable for adoption being sold without limitation to the highest bidder or being euthanized;
• Proportional reduction in wild horse and burro numbers in the event livestock numbers have to be reduced for any reason;
  (WHBA note: As long as you don’t do ‘proportional removal of livestock’ when factoring the actual livestock ratio compared to ‘protected’ wild horses and burros over the years as high as 92:1 (2002-2018), and 30:1 in 2021 as noted by PEER).
• Amending the Act to allow states and tribes the option to manage horses and burros within their respective boundaries; and
• The development of a program to systematically transfer unadoptable mustangs and burros to third world countries as humanitarian effort for the use as small-scale draft animals, transportation and other domestic uses. (which could also lead to food consumption)
• farm bureau archive

FREES (#frees)

FREES-2020 SUMMIT – videos – this produced the CONGRESSIONAL REPORT that is now implemented.

2020 Summit – Healthy Horses on Healthy Rangelands Business Plan – REDGE JOHNSON 

11:32 – 13:43 Managing the herd for the best genetics – Don’t mix them (herds) to make a perfect animal. “Blm says I’m gonna take the best animal off, because those are the ones I can adopt out, I don’t have to put them in long term holding. Anybody who operates a ranch or a breeding facility will tell you, that’s the very worst thing you can do, cause what youre doing is your decreasing your genetics on the range, and then you’re only producing an inferior product. What you want to be able to do is produce the best product that you can so it is adoptable into the future. So BLM if your listening, keep your best genetics on the range, and take the worst genetics off so that in the future we have adoptable animals.  But if all your bringing off is horses with crooked legs, and issues, they are not adoptable.

#WHBA – I found an interesting point where even ‘he recognized’ that removal of the best of the horses per herd for adoption is the worst thing you can do for ‘genetics of the herd’ and this is the same for all species. BLM knows this, and they do this with intention so that the long term viability of the herd becomes riddled with the worse genetics of the herds. In future: these horses will be deformed, show serious health issues, and possibly not able to carry foals to term. Overall will create a herd of weak gene animals and an unpromising prognosis for the future of the herds. BLM POLICY – IM 2009-062 WILD HORSE AND BURRO GENETIC BASELINE SAMPLING 09/30/2010 – Current

14:33 – #WHBA – Making Tribal lands partners opens up a easy access point for slaughter pipeline. Tribal doesn’t follow our laws protecting the horses.

JOHN RUHS (#john-ruhs)

Nevada State Director BLM

Coming soon

34:40 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QRjqrOF0GNI

Nevada Department of Wildlife (#NDOW) & Nevada Board Of Wildlife Commissioners (#NBWC)

Supports: Path Forward, all FERTILITY procedures, and NV roundups

Partners in the Sage (#partners-in-the-sage)

While they make good efforts towards repairing the land, they believe that wild horses interfere with their overall project success. They don’t have a problem with cattle or ranchers utilizing the land, or acknowledge the damage created by the livestock over a hundred years of permitted, and not permitted heavy grazing.

Protect The Harvest (#protect-the-harvest)

“Forest Lucas, owner of Lucas Oil and founder of Protect the Harvest is a personal friend of Vice President Pence. Previously they have collaborated in the case of a father and son ranching family who were jailed for arson on public lands in eastern Oregon. VP Pence and Mr Lucas secured a pardon by President Trump for the Hammonds. That came after the Hammond jail sentence to meet the minimum sentence was rallied against sparking an armed srtand-off in eastern Oregon. That stand-off was led by Ammon and Ryan Bundy (sons of Cliven) who are well-known anti-federal government, cowboys who believe public lands should not be managed by the federal government. The stand-off was staged after the armed group took over a federal building in a wildlife refuge in eastern Oregon.

PROMOTES SURGICAL EXPERIMENTS

Protect the Harvest is also one of the leading organizations promoting the surgical experiments to perform wild mare sterilizations. When BLM was stopped by CAES from doing these experiments, the BLM colluded with Protect the Harvest to have members of the organization purchase horses from the BLM and do experiments on them which circumvented the AWA regulations for experimenting on wildlife because once a wild horse is purchased they lost their wild status and become legally labelled as livestock, thus following livestock laws for the procedures which are much less protective for the animal.

Has Protect the Harvest done any scientific studies on the chemicals in spayed mares that are sent to slaughter for human consumption? Our lawsuit against the spays discussed the use of chemicals that would present a health hazard to animals who prey on wild horses and ingest the meat. So Protect the Harvest cannot say they support slaughter, and at the same time send animals that are full of toxic chemicals, including ones from these surgical experiments that are known to be dangerous for any consumer of the meat.”

TAMMY PEARSON (#tammy-pearson)

The current Commissioner for Beaver County, Utah, a part of the team that created the Path Forward to eradicate and sterilize the WHB.

july 17 20    Video: An update on Wild Horses  – The County Seat
At interval (:55)  She states: “Common sense and accountability”…. Interesting choice of words Tammy. Frisco HMA AML is 30-60 horses for the entire HMA. They were above the recommendation and after removal of 145 during the Sept 2020 roundup, it left a total of 105 estimated horses.

Yet she has 3558 active livestock on a small portion of the Frisco HMA (Beaver Lake allotment, according to Feb 2021 report). Not to mention her other allotments on public lands that currently allow for: Permitted AUM 11,822 though only 6,019 are active due to suspended use from drought and land degradation.

There are four other grazing allotments in that herd management area for other ranchers. Want to know how many more livestock occupy this HMA, visit  Frisco HMA and see for yourself. Did you forget to tell them about all the government subsidies your family has received by taxpayers over the last 20 years? 

Tammy Pearson which has received $14,546 Total USDA Subsidies  1995-2020 and for
Pearsons Ranch which has received $1,028,596   Total USDA Subsidies  1995-2020.

Shocking that people keep believing the repeated lies that come out of your mouths. That horses are solely ‘all the blame’, not the cattle and years of abuse by ranchers for their lack of ‘common sense and accountability’.  

At interval (4:27) – Tammy Pearson… if I had the magic wand, I would get the numbers down to AML and keep them there”. –  I guess that’s why she applied for and was added on Jan 1 2021 – Jan 11 2024 to the National WHB Advisory Board (as a Public Interest (Equine Behavior). Now she can make recommendations with ‘other cattle rancher’ board members on a national level. Decisions as to whether they will send the horses in long term holding pastures to certain death as has been proposed and against the wishes of the majority of public.

The horses that are lucky enough to avoid the legal slaughter pipeline after the roundup and actually make to the pastures are ripped from their families, segregated, and sterilized. All so there is no competition with their cheap grazing allotments on our public lands.

This is a direct conflict of interest of the ‘federally protected wild horses.’

Did you see the article that PEER put out Scientists Told to Not Consider Grazing Due to Fear of Lawsuits and Data Gaps ?

Noted in – AWHC Seeks Reversal of WHBAB Appointment – “‘Pearson Ranch’ in the Operator Information report from RAS, authorization #4304328. The Allotment Information report ties the authorization number to the Minersville #5 UT06105, Smithson UT06209 and Beaver Lake UT06215 allotments.

The Allotment Master report has two in the Improve category and one in the Custodial category.  Pearson holds most of the active AUMs in Minersville and all of the active AUMs in Smithson and Beaver Lake, which is just one of the five allotments located in the Frisco HMA. The wild horse allowance for the entire HMA is 30-60. (estimated at around 100 after the last violent helicopter roundup)

Noted in – New Wild Horse and Burro Advisory Board Members Announced, “Pearson was appointed to the public interest position. She was part of the threat by Beaver county to illegally remove wild horses in the county on BLM land and the push for The Wild Horse Oversight Act of 2014, H.R. 5058 that would turn over management actions concerning wild horses on federal land to the states,  both during the Bunkerville standoff. She runs livestock in the Frisco HMA in Utah and is openly pro horse slaughter. She was a presenter at the invite only Summit of the Wild Horse (that has driven directives in the wild horse and burro program for the last 4 years) and a participant in “Ten Years to AML.”

“Tammy Pearson will be new to many advocates. A fast glance at her social media reveals that she appears to be a climate change denier, sent letters against Covid restrictions, and that she celebrated the pardon of  Commissioner Phil Lyman (who led 50 ATV riders down Recapture Canyon which the Bureau of Land Management closed to motorized traffic, as a protest against federal overreach on public lands).”

ROCK SPRINGS GRAZING ASSOCIATION (#rock-springs-grazing-assoc)

 2013 Consent Decree between the Rock Springs Grazing Association and the BLM  

Western Rangelands Conservation Association (#WRCA)
President: Mark Wintch also the President of Utah Cattlemen’s Association 
VP: Mr. Steven Yardley Yardley Cattle Company
Secretary: Joel Hatch

Mr. Yardley sits on the WHB Advisory Board in direct conflict with WHB protection. He wants horse removed from HMA’s

WILDLIFE SOCIETY (#wildlife-society)

The Wildlife Society has ‘regularly advocated’ for federal agencies to reduce free-roaming horse and burro populations on public lands. As a non-native invasive species, horses and burros compete with native wildlife and damage their habitats.