John Cox, M.A. Cascade Mountains
Predatory-Profiteering in Wild Horse or Wildlife Management on our Federal/Public Lands, is not, nor ever has worked. Rather, what we see instead, is incomplete government science, and incompetent and even destructive corporate non-profits and corporations’ alike, create their science for their “specific purposes” – False-Narratives and outright lies, remain very common in their rush to obtain tremendous amounts of taxpayer money . . .
More often than not, very destructive to both our Wildlife as well as our “Nations”
Forests and Rangelands. We can go back decades, as this problem has been ignored this long — see Phantom Forests White Paper / Investigations – Horses to Slaughter Investigation – Savage Salvage Investigation of our Public Lands and wasteful Management by DOI/BLM. . . All of which, in the past, simply ignored by government, even though referenced in the Government’s Accountability Reports to politician’s at that time, about our Public Lands and Forestry being mismanaged, and being important to our future ecology and environmental complex . . . So here we are today – the utter destruction of our Public Lands and Forests now ongoing yearly – many of the investigative reports “CONFIRMED” . . . Yet, still ignored.
We also see a lot of unqualified-people, as they scurry under the pretense of unscientific-paradigms, who also take part in the Predatory-Profiteering Management of our Nation’s Wildlife and Wild Horses. This is due to the tremendous amounts of taxpayer dollars available for such irresponsible and entirely unsuccessful ongoing activity – or, for taxpayer money and Federal Grants (for example, the evidence points toward many Predatory-Profiteers in corrupted Wild Horse Non-Profits, as well as Wildlife Advocacy; and, in truth, an unneeded rise in government agency spending, with no success to show, as evidence, of its necessity to spend any taxpayer money what so ever.
Socioeconomics, for example, bears the burden of having “no evidence” (as Federal Court Judge’s have demanded the evidence, or confirmation, of their numbers & data, yet none-provided over the years); which, they have none at all, to show the numbers they use as “assumptive-profits for the Taxpayer’s in America” from e.g. Welfare Ranching on Public lands. Their programs, and their false-narratives, simply do not work, but government profiteers and non-profits insist it does . . . yet, still supply the public no credible evidence . . . but rather, a tremendous amount of false-narratives and outright lies.
Credible Evidence is abundant, showing just how bad scientific research and technical reports supposedly accomplished on our Public Lands, has changed our domestic landscape; which is, i.e. inclusive of, Global Warming. It is not fictitious, but rather a fact provided by good science. Grazing of commercial cattle (i.e. taxpayer’s pay $521 Billion dollars in the past 20 years for welfare ranching subsidies) on Public Lands, ignored – as credible evidence shows, quite specifically — it is “Cattle”, and “Not” Wild Horses nor Wildlife being “Over-Populated”, that directly relates to the current destruction” upon our Public Lands & Forests.
Welfare Ranching remains as a mere 4% of domestic cattle ranching grazed commercially upon Public Lands, and with market-sales receipts (i.e. USDA) still less, consistently over the years, than 1% in domestic Sales. Throw-Away Margins (i.e. USDA) domestically and from grocery outlets, remain anywhere from 24% to 32% yearly – which shows us, also, there is “No Need For Welfare Ranching, nor, their subsidies from taxpayer money to support it, that is being Forced Upon Our Public Lands, destructively. In reality, destroying our Public Lands. . .”
Here is how the DOI/BLM handled the situation in 2010, and is alive and well today, as showing us all, as taxpayer’s, a paramount failure to manage our Public Lands appropriately and successfully – keep in mind this is only one example of many more:
Washington, DC 2010 — 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). The complaint describes how one of the biggest scientific studies ever undertaken by BLM was fatally skewed from its inception by political pressure.
Funded with up to $40 million of stimulus funds, BLM is conducting Rapid Ecoregional Assessments in each of the six main regions (such as the Colorado Plateau and the Northern Great Plains) covering the vast sagebrush West. A key task was choosing the “change agents” (such as fire or invasive species) which would be studied. Yet when the scientific teams were assembled at an August 2010 workshop, BLM managers informed them that grazing would not be studied due to anxiety from “stakeholders,” fear of litigation and, most perplexing of all, lack of available data on grazing impacts.
Exclusion of grazing was met with protests from the scientists. Livestock grazing is permitted on two-thirds of all BLM lands, with 21,000 grazing allotments covering 157 million acres across the West. As one participating scientist said, as quoted in workshop minutes:
“We will be laughed out of the room if we don’t use grazing. If you have the other range of disturbances, you have to include grazing.”
The evidence goes even further. Fertility Programs’, or, as we reference the situation here, as “Predatory-Management for Profiteering” for Taxpayer Dollars and other Federal Grants, remains simply another cost to taxpayers in the $1 Billion to $2 Billion dollars range yearly; which, is yet another insignificant and unsuccessful Predatory-Profiteering Gov. Program, or a dark-abyss where taxpayer money simply disappears . . . In reality, there is no “Need” for any type of Fertility Program, as Credible Evidence shows quite well. For the past 5 years now, we have asked for evidence of any successful situation this Fertility Program has generated – we have, as yet, received no Credible Evidence anything “Saved”; nor, do we find any Management Paradigms to replaced the Bad-Science Management (I.E. EXPLOITATION AND PROFITEERING) that is ongoing, even today — right now, to “Stop” the ongoing destruction of our Federal and Public Lands domesticallyG
Then we go to yet another Predatory-Management for Profiteering Government Program, i.e. DOI/BLM/USDA Forestry, within fraudulent assumptive science, mandatory by Law, by the way, to be accurate and current, to prevent Public Lands Destruction from antiquated science or range-forestry management paradigms that did not work well. We find supposed “Current Management Paradigms” “not accurate” at all, but rather, Fraudulent information and data, copied from data previously found to be inaccurate and non-scientific, or, a lot of data missing. This is not a harmless situation, as it contributes tremendously, to be the leading factor in generating “Roundups of Wild Horses” off of our Public Lands. It is not-of-science, yet a leading factor in “government budget origination and budget decision-making”, at over $1 Billion dollars yearly. To say this type of management of our “Nation’s” Wild Horses is unsuccessful, remains an understatement, for at least 20 to 30 years now. Imagine the amount of wasted-taxpayer money involved over the previous 30 years . . .
(i.e. photo) Taken at an auction in Grants Pass, Or., at a BLM Auction, alongside many Wild Horses being sold at the same time. These were shown as unnecessary roundups, and at that time costing $1.4 million for the roundup, and another (oddly) $235,000 to sell at public sales and auctions (as their budget shows from govspend.org) We see the DOI/BLM spend taxpayer dollars very frivolously, irresponsible, and without anyone taking responsibility for the useless expenditures and improper management.
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