As expected, a volunteer with the Campaign Against America’s Wild Horses, a leader in nonmotorized removal, suggests there is a better way to manage wild horses in an opinion piece dated July 24 in the Reno Gazette Journal.
And what would that involve?
Safe, proven and reversible fertility control instead of helicopters and fixed-wing aircraft, code words for poisoning the mares with Zonastat-H, an ovary-killing pesticide.
The roundup schedule has been divided into three parts.
The first part covers nonmotorized removals. The advocates want this section to grow.
The second and third parts cover motorized removals. The advocates want these sections to shrink.
But they still want removals. They still want horses off the range. They still want ranchers to receive the lion’s share of the resources.
They’re not protecting the horses, as the writer would have you believe, they’re protecting the ranchers, while taking market share from the legacy contractors.
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