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Articles and Research – John Cox, M.A., Communications

Dogbert: So, Since Columbus is dead, you have no evidence that the earth is round.
Dilbert: Look. You can Ask Senator John Glenn. He orbited the earth when he was an astronaut.
Dogbert: So, your theory depends on the honesty of politicians.
Dilbert: Yes… no, wait…

When we consider our governments Research and Development situations, we assume credibility – But often, upon further perusal of these same documents, we find more often than not, the credibility simply is not there. It’s estimated that our government spends in excess of $8.2 Billion a year on Research and Development. The bulk of these expenditures are devoted to the physical sciences, for example biological and health sciences. Largely because of its origination as a series of individual-programs initiated in response to specific problems, much of the research and development system is diffuse, reactive, and focused on short range resolutions, derived from special-interests-driven information as realistic-evidence, or required from political, or, from special interests with “profit-only mind-set driven” solutions.

It is because mechanisms to coordinate the products of environmental research conducted by federal, state, academic, and nongovernmental institutions are weak, it becomes difficult to develop the comprehensive information necessary to evaluate significant change in the state of our environment. These situations develop into technical reports and research studies, when perused closely and references also checked, as incomplete information, bias information, and significant information left out due to this bias, and in the case of the Bureau of land management and the Department of the Interior, simply fraudulent activity within many research papers and technical reports.

The fact is complicated and what we must consider urgent in our environmental challenges, cannot be addressed in the piecemeal fashion of the past nor present process of collecting data, interpretation, and derived decision-making processes solely based on the same type of research. We find much of the DOI/BLM research to be flawed, when our Public Lands are involved as well as wildlife and wild horses. This becomes inexcusable.

We do see a resolution. The conundrum we find within government when we compare our Public Lands to their resolutions derived from inadequate research and interpretation of data, we see the need for change. We see the need to establishing more of a priority on our Public Lands as well as all wildlife and inclusive of wild horses, and the entire environmental protection of our natural resources. We see the need of a stronger effort to broaden, and better coordinate all resources, both government and private, in a more truthful and credible methodology – which does not exist right now in government or the private sector. We find the resources would be more focused on identifying root-causes and anticipating emerging problems that is ongoing within our environmental complex today.

The point is — we require strong and effective Research and Development programs as a prerequisite to attacking the programs successfully, and within a credible & truthful decision-making methodology. In doing so, we can establish a coordination, credibly, within our natural resources on our public lands and ourselves as a species. We are appealing toward a better situation between all of our ecology, inclusive of a large diversity of wildlife as well as healthy terrestrial environmental complex situations, and safeguard our natural habitats from human greed and destruction.

Article – Research: John Cox, M.A., Communications

Over the past decades Wild Horse Advocacy has failed the Wild Horses. The same can be said about our government agencies, that have been placed in charge of Wild Horses to manage them under “Prescription by Law,” as a priority living upon our Public Lands. Once again, these are agencies that have failed the Wild Horses’ tremendously – and no doubt have wasted, unnecessarily, $-Billions of taxpayer dollars while doing so – all the while3s ge3neraqting lie after lie to cover up their fraudulent activities. . .

We are at a point, in Wild Horse Advocacy, where we either have to do something much different, and correctly & with truth, or sit back and allow Wild Horses to be experimented upon, as well as be exploited by those who secure their profits through exploitation of them – and the Wild Horses soon extinct; which means, they were sacrificed for temporary profits – nothing more nor less!

Concerns over our environment, within our ecological habitats, have also been neutralized; or, changes to be made to correct the situation – ignored. The struggle centers around the two most significant forces of Public Lands degradation – wrongfully;

1. The government mostly focused on the ever-growing world population; and,

2. The drive for worldwide industrial and agricultural development.

Both debates continue, unabated. . . i.e., as further Commercialization of our environment and ecological habitats is not, nor, ever has been a resolution. History shows us this fact very well, yet ignored.

The pressing threats to our biosphere, lands & water, seem to be closely linked with the mis-functioning of our present world economy, which supersedes anything else that had transpired in our nation’s history. There is no doubt that the situations of resource extraction, production, and consumption, all play a significant and dramatic role in the outcome of something as innocent as Wild Horses and wildlife, which has become the “sacrificial lamps” of today – and we can include taxpayers as well, who bear the burdens of taxpayer money misspent, or our health sacrificed. Both explain the sacrifices, and environmental costs of it all.

Make no doubt that these issues are complex, and must be brought into sharper focus by such situations that you and I, as Wild Horse Advocates, are taking part within, and realize a more active and participating role is required – in saving Our Wild Horses and Wildlife. It is our “not-taking” an active role, that inhibits corruption exponentially, in both government and within non-profits. The Wild Horses and Wildlife lose. . .

The fact is, and just as in human development, accountability and transitions into transparency must take effect. The acceptance of false narratives, false information, fake non-profits (although, paid-off by government grants to indirectly support the lies of Wild Horse Overpopulation’s), fake government agency Wild Horse Heard counts attempt to simply show us all, an overpopulation exists; when indeed, the statistics alone the BLM produce out of their false information and manipulated and bad data, makes it quite obvious that no overpopulation exists, whatsoever.

Horse advocacy has been neutralized. The need for profits by nonprofits, run parallel with the outright lies from government agencies – and both responsible for the safety and well-being of Wild Horses, but do not render such. Evidence? They have none (i.e., no credible evidence), and never had any for 20+ years now. This becomes a challenge for Wild Horse Advocates. Once again accountability and transparency of corrupt entities within our realm of Horse Advocacy – must be accomplished. There are so many fake nonprofits stating they exist, in whole, to save the wild horses. But the only thing that has developed from them, as history shows us very well, is profits from those unaware of this history of facts — and support their trivia and garbage-in garbage-out science, and in 20 years plus – “no horses” have been saved by them whatsoever. Many of these WH non-profits now receive in excess of $2 to $4-million dollars yearly.

There is no doubt that Wild Horse Advocacy people must wake up – and stand up for Wild Horses and Wildlife; although, both challenging in today’s environment of illiterate people (ADM – DoE 2023 Research find a 54% illiteracy level in the United States – those who cannot read, or understand what they read, or read at a grade school level), conduct their own advocacy by bias and joining hateful groups against both Wild Horses and Wildlife. We need to work, you and I, and as Advocates, toward a domestic or national and global objective, to save not just our environment – but Our Wild Horses and Wildlife, and on a global scale. This ultimate diversity, will save our environment and us, as cohabitants on this planet.

The truth is, when I say nothing has been done “proactively” to protect our nation’s Wild Horses, and we can say the same on a global scale, as well, I mean little to nothing has developed within a “proactive analytical” nor within a “policy-making system” that can identify trends, which assist to anticipate problems and address causes instead of symptoms.

Whereas, we see government policies begin to change – but in what direction? Serious questions need to be asked, and the leadership of these initiatives and developments that we see ongoing today i.e., fertility programs that are more based on more experimentation than reality – which makes a tremendous amount of money for the participants – are simply not innovative programs, nor approaches to a program based on any type of reality – nor credible research. Nothing happens from these types of programs, despite their false-narratives and claims of resolutions developing. There are “no resolutions” developing at all.

The challenges that we face today demand a concentrated, and not just a domestic effort, but an international effort. We do not need experimentation on fertility programs in order to enhance industry any further, nor commerce. We can define our ability to respond to the challenges we face by demanding, as taxpayers and the actual people that own this land – as our government is not a separate entity, they are there to represent us – thereby, we need truthful research done by qualified people, and not the fakery and the deceptive who exist today in Horse Advocacy, who simply imagine themselves as research people, but indeed are not, and remain unqualified to do so – and yet. . .

So, the dilemma becomes the fact of how we respond as a group of Americans that are concerned about our Public Lands, about Our Wild Horses, and about our Wildlife. Our conduct must be comprehensive, and not fraught with liars, those who conjure up false-narratives to obtain profit, or those who are so brainwashed by corruption to achieve comfort within their bias, or complacency within their belief system or perception. How well we present ourselves is very important. Our government does not like organized–truth, and do not know how to contend with it, at all.

What we need is “sustainable development” to be achieved through honesty and integrity, as Americans should do. This type of growth can play a leading role in this entire effort, and doing so requires a virtual, well integrated environmental and wildlife research and development system. Many of us look upon government, unfortunately, and their existing federal environmental research and development infrastructure, which was basically built for another time and for a set of issues that no longer correspond to today’s problems.

If the federal government is to provide the scientific-resources and leadership that a national and global Wild Horse / Wildlife Process requires, then a careful examination and rethinking of its research and development effort is essential. The same with Wild Horse Advocacy, where experience counts, and not just academic processes — or, that lack real-life experiences — but indeed, can create resolutions; nor, experience from bias, or mind-sets developed out of ignorance, fakery, sales, and hearsay – but rather truthful sound & credible data-based information, and truth in statistical data, which, only then we can depend upon to make future appropriate decisions.

Sustainability is within our Grasp. . .