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09/26/2026

The Wild Horse Overpopulation Lie – It’s Time to Set the Record Straight

For years, the public has been told that wild horses are "overpopulating" the American West—and that mass roundups are necessary to protect the land. But that story is deeply misleading. And it’s hurting both the horses and the land.

Here’s what the very government entities we pay to protect them ARE NOT telling you: When large numbers of wild horses are removed, the remaining herds respond with a natural survival mechanism known as compensatory reproduction. They may breed younger, reproduce more frequently, and experience higher foal survival rates—not because they are "out of control," but because removing animals alters herd demographics and can drive a natural response to repopulate.

The National Academies of Sciences examined federal wild horse and burro management in 2013 and found that fertility rates increase following removals, contributing to rapid population growth.

So why do roundups continue? Because this system continues to treat wild horses primarily as a population problem rather than addressing the larger questions of habitat, land allocation, water, ecosystem management, and the disproportionate use of public lands.

And here is another question the public deserves to ask:

Why would any organization that claims its mission is to protect wild horses sell out to the "overpopulation" narrative by embracing fertility control as the answer?

If wild horses are supposedly the problem because they reproduce naturally, then making it the mission to prevent them from reproducing does not challenge the overpopulation narrative—it accepts the lie.

And there is another important point the public deserves to understand:
As long as wild horses continue to be defined as an "overpopulation" problem, roundups will never truly stop.

The number of horses considered "too many" can simply be changed, and the cycle of removal can continue. Fertility control can reduce births, but it does not change the underlying system that defines wild horses as excess animals on the landscape.

So why should suppressing reproduction be the goal when there is another solution?

LOVE WILD HORSES FOUNDATION HAS A SOLUTION.

The SAVE THE WILD WEST: Natural Grassland Protection Act proposes a fundamentally different approach: stop treating wild horses as a problem to be removed and start treating them as part of the ecological solution.

Instead of continually removing horses, warehousing them, and spending taxpayer dollars managing the consequences, our proposal calls for rewilding degraded Western grasslands and restoring ecosystems through nature-based land management.

Our model proposes utilizing wild horses and burros currently trapped in government holding facilities to help restore degraded lands—creating greenbelts, rebuilding grasslands, improving soil health, increasing drought resilience, reducing wildfire fuels, restoring ecosystem function, and reducing the enormous ongoing cost of government holding facilities.

That is the choice we should be talking about.
Not:
How do we stop wild horses from reproducing?
But:
How do we create enough healthy habitat for wild horses to live naturally and sustainably?
Not:
How many more horses can we remove?
But:
How can we restore the land and put captured wild horses back to work as part of a functioning ecosystem?
Not:
How do we continue spending taxpayer dollars on confinement and fertility control?
But:
How do we invest those dollars in restoration, water conservation, wildfire mitigation, and returning horses to appropriate on-range landscapes?

Fertility control does not create more habitat.
It does not restore grasslands.
It does not expand available range.
It does not restore water systems.
And it does not challenge the fundamental premise that there are "too many" wild horses.

Our bill does.

Wild horses are not the problem.
They are not disposable.
They are not livestock.
They are not a problem to be managed out of existence.

They are a living part of the American West—and they can be part of the solution to healing it.

The real problem is a broken system that continues to frame natural reproduction as a crisis instead of seriously addressing habitat, land management, water availability, wildfire risk, and equitable use of our public lands.

We are calling for an end to this cycle.

It’s time to rewild the West. It’s time to restore the land. It’s time to protect wild horses instead of managing them toward disappearance. And it’s time to put forward real on-range solutions—not simply another way to control how many wild horses are born.

Stand with us. Speak the truth.

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09/22/2026

BREAKING: The court today denied our request to halt a land exchange between the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and SpaceX on the Lower Rio Grand National Wildlife Refuge.  

Trump’s administration is gifting our public lands to SpaceX, clearing the way for bulldozers to tear into this wildlife refuge as soon as tomorrow and turning a public treasure into a private payday.  

THIS IS NOT THE END. Our larger legal fight against this land transfer continues. We won’t stop fighting to keep this irreplaceable public wildlife refuge — and the vulnerable species it supports, including ocelots, shorebirds, and northern Aplomado falcons — safe from SpaceX bulldozers.

Spread the word and make sure all eyes are on our public lands.  

09/12/2026

David Beamer, the father of 9/11 Flight 93 hero Todd Beamer, called on Michigan to "vote American this time," warning that he believes Democratic socialists pose an existential threat to the nation.

Beamer compared voting in the upcoming election to defending the country, calling on voters to reject what he described as radical agendas.

"These Democratic socialists are really more closely aligned with domestic terrorists than with our way of life," Beamer said.

"The good news is, their weapon of choice is not a bomb or turning an airplane into a guided missile. Their weapon of choice is a ballot," he added.

Beamer's son Todd was among the passengers who fought back against the hijackers on September 11, 2001, rallying fellow passengers to storm the cockpit of United Airlines Flight 93.

The plane crashed near Shanksville, Pennsylvania, killing everyone on board, but the passengers’ actions prevented the hijackers from reaching their intended target in Washington, D.C.

Watch here: https://www.foxnews.com/media/flight-93-heros-dad-warns-enemies-within-aim-destroy-america-ballot-box

09/06/2026

08/28/2026

Easy to sign and keep our country safe!

The administration is repealing the Roadless Area Conservation Rule, opening 45 million acres of beloved forests to logging and development.

07/11/2026

This weekend was a reminder that no matter how experienced you are, horses are still 1,200-pound animals with minds of their own.

One of our trainers, Maddie, took a hard fall at Firecracker jackpot. It wasn’t because of a lack of talent from horse or rider, nor from ground conditions. It was simply one of those unpredictable moments that can happen to any of us. That’s the reality of this sport. We can do everything right and still find ourselves in situations we never expected.

That’s also why our advanced trainer, Payton, has worn a helmet every time she’s competed since the day she started. Even now, you’ll still see her in the competition arena with a helmet on and with no plans to stop. Experience doesn’t make you invincible. If anything, it teaches you to respect the risks that come with the sport we love.

Wearing a helmet doesn’t mean you’re not confident. It doesn’t make you less capable. It means you understand the risks and value the chance to ride another day.

You only get one brain. Protect it.

If this weekend reminds even one rider to put on a helmet before they swing a leg over, then it’s a conversation worth having. Ride hard, chase your goals, trust your horse, and never let pride stand in the way of protecting yourself. At the end of the day, no run is worth a life-changing injury.

EDIT: Wanted to add, Maddie and Rumor are okay! Sore, bruised, but back to work. Both are gritty girls!! We are so lucky to have them.
Also, reminder this is NO ONE’s fault! The ground was great all weekend. This team just had a freak accident!

Another EDIT: Since so many people think this is AI, I’m tagging the PHENOMENAL photographer that took this picture Andrew Jungkunz! I should have done that from the get go, but I didn’t think this would get so much traction.