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Written by John Cox, MFA, Cascade Mountains

We can observe how Wild Horses survived, through evolutionary history, as well as sustainability. It is “not” that they are “not” adapting to their environment, what so ever. . .

The truth is, ignorant and bias human’s, in their “Need-For-Greed”, which history will show quite well also — but the need to rein ignorantly, over wildlife that cannot protect itself, is dominant here.

This is all “contrary to Evolution” precisely. Sending Wild Horses to extinction, will never be acceptable, now or within future history — due to the ignorance and bias posed by DOI/BLM as well as corrupted non-profits and the arrogant-ignorance that exists there, as well.

“”Survival of the fittest” is a popular term that refers to the process of natural selection, a mechanism that drives evolutionary change. Natural selection works by giving individuals who are better adapted to a given set of environmental conditions an advantage over those that are not as well adapted.” This is a significant situation, as it provides strength, endurance, and a power-base to those species that will make our Home on Earth, better.

We see the ignorance, within government as well as our non-profits, of today, are “Less-Than” appropriate to be involved in any type of wildlife management — Yes, the evolutionary axes is within the human-species as well, even though many humans feel superior to it. Sustainable Evolution? Probably not!

Why do I say “Need-For-Greed” exists here, with Wild Horses. First the obvious, the Exploitation for Profits, in various methods of deriving profit from Wild Horses, from adoption to slaughter. . .

Secondly, we find the meat industry, in this case cattle and sheep, need human involvement to even exist on our Public Lands — Which is contrary to all ideological premise, or base-line knowledge, precisely, of Evolution and the survival of the fittest.

$Millions of taxpayer dollars are invested in this situation of non-sustainable domestic livestock on Public Lands; which, merely derives a lower than 1% profit base (based upon yearly sales receipts Dept of AG, et al)

History and Time-Frames give us more information

Wild Horses have evolved over centuries. There was never a gap of a physical evolution – which 10,000 years of extinction (i.e. NO EVIDENCE shows the last prehistoric North American horses died out between 13,000 and 11,000 years ago, at the end of the Pleistocene) would have shown quite well, but, does not do so, what so ever. The disappearance cannot be proven as a reality by evidence — certainly not within any written or oral form, as communication between humans simply did not exist.

Then we look at the mostly Nomadic Tribes that existed back then, and War between tribes always existed — as well as being Nomadic, they roamed — other than cave-drawing or hieroglyphics, existed then — and plenty of Wild Horses drawn on caves in the North Americas, show us they existed after the Pleistocene, as well.

Communication, oral and written, and alphabet-systems — visual symbols and phonically — were created only 5,000 years ago. One can be assured, thorough discussions between Nomadic Tribes, first would not take place, and secondly, there was no way to communicate other than grunts or groans, or hand gestures, from those who did so.

But we also have the values of Geology, that was constantly in upheaval. We also find isolated areas of a large diversity of not only Conifers, but of wildlife as well, and Wild Horses a large part of it. Evidence shows, in archeological sites, mostly grazers that roamed this planet, sustained life, inclusive of Wild Horses. There is nothing that shows us different, within any credible and knowledgeable aspect of science.

In another words, this 13,000 to 11,000 years of extinction could not exist, and no evidence shows it did, at all. . .

We need to always Challenge Science — For Credibility

We find today, those who refer to themselves as “Experts” are not at all. Driven for monetary situations only, and within most of them, we discover their research flawed, their terminology in error, and their assumptions have no evidence to back-up their opinions, at all. Most lack experience, and in reality, would not really know if they are looking at evidence or just opinion, or not — thereby the larger problem of those who lack experience, and promote their research. A good example, is the Pesticide PZP Research and opinions forced upon wild horses, backed by no evidence. And yet . . . Outright lies exist, and that is it . . .

The point of all this information, here only a synopsis of events, shows quite well, that we need to Challenge all Science, for its credibility. We have evolved backward, due to not challenging authority, or the science the current authority, or questionable process, currently placed into public perusal.

Too challenge all research, is first and foremost beneficial to a better human evolution, also. And to challenge History, as well, and separate the opinions from facts. Our survival exists upon this to develop, and become part of the process, rather than ignored — as evidence shows us the destruction we cause, daily now, from bad science and bad environmental and wildlife management, that is based upon bad science, and the decisions made from bad science.

And of course, the demeaning nature of this group of people that want to place their bad-science into the financial arena, they will state those of us Challenging Their Science to be uneducated, or whatever comes to their minds . . . How dare us challenge their bullshit!!!

A good example is we know Civilization in the North Americas not only existed, but thrived very well — But, just as the Wild Horses, was ignored, as if these civilizations did not exist —

This is the same type of ignorance and bias, which promoted non-existence of the Wild Horses; even though, so much evidence existed, for both. No one ever challenged the Systematic Process and the “supposed” Credible Science that existed, even today. Many of us find the flaws, and the errors, to be slanted toward financial interests rather than truth.

The Wild Horses and the lack of evidence (researchers take the path of opinion-only when referencing the disappearance of Wild Horses, without proof, which simply expands the lie). Yet, we are told in many scientific research matters, there’s “no evidence” so the Wild Horses had to have disappeared (not of science but blatant bullshit); and yet, evidence abounds in the world of communication, geology, forensics at dig sites, cave drawings, historical Time-frames, and on and on.

We have the means to challenge all Science that ambiguously states that Wild Horses disappeared 13,000 to 10,000 years ago, and yet provide “No Evidence” credible or worthy enough to show this as a Credible Fact. Yet, taxpayers spending $-Billions almost yearly now, to wipe-out what should be listed as an Endangered Species — and yes, we find the Siberian Bloodlines exist in many of the wild horses, where no Spanish Barb exists, at all — and these are the Wild Horses that need Protected, as indigenous Species.

Evolution agrees with all I have written here, as well. It is time to challenge, at every level, the research data and process of research going on today . . . As we are finding too much research that is questionable, and the facts just not consistent toward conclusions. A lot of science today simply lacks credibility, as well as the Peer Review situation, has become absurdly corrupted.

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– John Cox, MA, Cascade Mountains

The Debate without Evidence is no Debate

Just a quick communication here, for ammunition to debate-against the Non-Indigenous status of Wild Horses’, This explains a lot of the evidence, not all, to prove our side of the debate – against their side, which they have no scientific evidence, nor patterns of life-forms consistent with Wild Horses going extinct for 10,000 years (evolution does not “just-happen one day — it is spread over long periods of time, with “no” gaps i.e. Samulson 1991, Godfred 1987 et al.) – The non-indigenous theories are simply all surmised from a base of misinformation and hearsay, with conjecture & opinion added into the false paradigm. . . in another words No Evidence . . .

It’s estimated 11,000 to 13,000 years ago the Wild Horses went extinct, or at the end of the Pleistocene era. But we disagree with those numbers, as well as the extinction-theory, entirely. We discover many problems with the common Carbon-Dating method that establish these numbers for accuracy, due to the averages associated with the Carbon-Dating creates within its process, which can be off by 450-500 with some objects, and within some areas and with examination by testing bone-piles as evidence, 800-1,000 years off — at times, upon each test result – for example, 3 separate bone femurs from supposedly the same horse, could all be “off” by 1,000 years. We know this cannot happen logically, so this is a worthless situation to provide as evidence. . . and to send a species to extinction, simply is just not enough credible evidence to do so.

I will remain generic here, as a paper is in the making, with more of a technical discussion and more elaborate facts . . . Another problem is many resources, out of convenience, simply discuss Alaska, where many mammals, inclusive of Wild Horses, supposedly went extinct (as well as Bison), and after the Pleistocene Era. Keep in mind bone-piles were not available to archaeologists in modern-times in those digs, or areas in Alaska, (“Absence of Evidence does not mean Evidence of Absence”, an old quote by Dr Carl Sagan – means, in a very simple term, that, if there is lack of evidence of presence of a thing, does not always conclude to the absence of that thing totally). What they neglected was the remainder of the southern United States, or the lower 48, as well as British Columbia.

Opinion and conjecture, once again, and absence in limited areas, formed the non-credible yet accepted, terms of non-existence. Then we find it was “. . . noteworthy not to challenge this belief, if one wanted to maintain their credibility in the field of Research (i.e. Smithsonian Inst. Et al.)”

This bias was allowed to become the evidence, only due to – no one wanted to decipher the truth of the information; nor, did anyone really have the equipment at those times, to actually do an accurate job.

It remained, similar to the propaganda that exists today, with the Wild Horse Over-Population on Public Lands. Once again, today, we find the same types of bias, when we find their categorical classification as “non-Indigenous”, as well as designated “Pests” for industrial profits, not based upon any science, at all. This was accomplished approximately 8 to 10 years ago, to use Pesticides on them legally, and in accord with Federal Herbicide and Pesticide use laws – but indeed violated the WH&B Act of 1971. . .

 Then we go to PEER 2015 — detailed in a report how the DOI/BLM dropped cattle from “research” on all Public Lands, and disqualified any researchers that would promote any agenda to do so; then, would assure no funding go to a researcher if they attempted to do so, so destruction in any research papers by cattle would automatically defer to Wild Horses).

The point is, when anyone discusses this particular extinction of Wild Hoses, they are only discussing Alaska and vicinity, as those were the only areas where digs existed when they developed this unsubstantiated opinion into an unproven hypothesis – yet, accepted as truth . . .

The noted extinction of Wild Horses, among other mammals, also grazers, and found direct conflicts exist, with e.g. the Mammoth, Pygmy Mammoth, Cave drawings of horses, and horse bones dated currently within the lower 48 states, at that time as well. et al. In the lower 48, during this supposed extinction episode, they did not go extinct at all. Evidence outweighs the hearsay, currently, but the government and the Smithsonian, for example, refuse to budge on their opinionated history only, that has no evidence to back them up, at all – other than hearsay.

But we see the same things, as we see in several research papers, upon the use of Pesticides as a Birth Control situation, and most, at the start of the Technical Research papers, state clearly, “. . . it goes without saying, Wild Horses upon Public Lands are Overpopulated. . .”

No – it does not go without saying! It would be very significant, and necessary information, to show credible statistics, and rise in populations, if not managed differently.

For example, ratios of horses per land-space, per each state – then compared to cattle and sheep populations, but researchers do not show that; birth and death rates do not show that; even the overly extended numbers from DOI/BLM do not show that; nor, is there any solid evidence that clearly shows us, there is any over-population at all on Public Lands.

Evidence to back the DOI/BLM about much of anything having to do with Wild Horses, does not exist. A lot of hearsay, a lot of conjecture, a lot of DOI/BLM employees that are obnoxious to the public if any one disputes them, and we find no credibility in the DOI/BLM presence on Public Lands, at all . . . for several significant reasons. All Corrupt!

First, no one investigates nor does appropriate research of this “supposed” Wild Horse Over-population even exists; secondly, no one discussed the facts that the DOI/BLM “do not enter” not only Roundup-Deductions of Wild Horses taken off Public Lands, but Birth Rate Ratios vs Death Rate Ratios, are not considered, at all . . . Basic “averaging” of Statistical Data is based upon all of this, but is not done.

The fact is, we have a problem with the way Horses in general have been treated over the centuries. Especially the Wild Horses. Yet, evidence shows us, quite clearly I might add, the evolutionary process never stopped, of the Wild Horses in the Americas. As evidence shows us through simple eDNA and mDNA . . .

We also find, nearly 5,000 – 6,000 years ago, at the beginning of language and the written form of communication, there existed the phonic origination of words (Rome and Egypt, started the basis toward an alphabet for writing purposes et al.), and the symbolic origination (i.e. drawings and symbols – China and Siberia, et al.) of communicating in written form, from China, both Siberian and Mandarin languages, and those traveling bands of Siberian tribes, in the Ancient North Americas. Many finds of lettering and symbolic communication both, drawn upon cave walls, or rock faces in River Gorges, et al, discussing Wild Horses during a time they were supposedly extinct. Many dated found to be 3,000 to 5,000 years old. 1.) Hieroglyph, a character used in a system of pictorial writing, particularly that form used on ancient Egyptian monuments. Hieroglyphic symbols may represent the objects that they depict but usually stand for particular-sounds or groups of sounds. 2.) petroglyphs, or a rock carving, or engraved into stone, especially a prehistoric one.

This information alone, carries the weight of Evidence quite well. This is contrary and directly in opposition against those who want to send America’s Wild Horses to extinction. The government agency corruption & corrupted non-profits and corrupted industry on public Lands, essentially, have no evidence at all for their opinions. Frankly, it becomes nothing more than conjecture, about Wild Horses be non-indigenous.

More on this in the weeks to come.