This letter to the editor marks her third attempt to forestall the bait-trap removal at McCullough Peaks, which was set to begin on November 1.
She’s so far gone and so lost in the pesticide paradigm that she can’t even see that she’s advocating for the ranchers, not the horses.
Let’s take a closer look.
From the second paragraph: To avoid motorized removal, the BLM implemented a reversible birth control program using Porcine Zona Pellucida. This program, administered through field darting, reduced the birth rate to 2% annually, keeping the herd’s numbers within the appropriate management level of 70-140 horses.
It’s not reversible! Damage begins with the first injection and progresses to sterility after five consecutive years. This is happening at the Virginia Range. The advocates refer to these mares as self-boosting.
If the birth rate is 2% per year, the growth rate is -3% per year, assuming a 5% death rate, meaning the herd is shrinking. Exactly what the ranchers want!
Third paragraph: The BLM’s plan involves trapping and removing 41 or more wild horses and using a controversial fertility control vaccine called GonaCon on the mares, for which preliminary evidence indicates permanent sterility.
It’s a pesticide not a vaccine! Vaccines prevent illness, supposedly.
A 2017 labeling amendment extended the interval between primer and booster from 30 days to 90 days but the BLM ignores it, an issue for law enforcement.
The remark about sterility is likely true, because the agency prefers it almost exclusively to PZP. Just look at the news releases over the past year. The condition is sometimes described as long-term infertility.
Fourth paragraph: The aging herd, with a significant portion over 15 years old and 22 horses over 20 years old, requires a population of at least 150 breeding aged adults for genetic viability. To make matters worse, the operation is scheduled to take place next month, before the impact of winter conditions can be assessed, possibly resulting in a slow decline toward extinction of this cherished herd.
That’s not the concern! It’s the size of the breeding population that matters. The 2% birth rate suggests it’s very small and that would be true if the AML was 500.
Describing the herd as “cherished” suggests she walks in lockstep with the Campaign Against America’s Wild Horses, a leader in nonmotorized removal.
No word about resource management and the prevalence of livestock in the HMA.
Next to the federal government, nobody’s getting rid of more wild horses and causing more long-term harm than the advocates.
Western Horse Watchers Association 
Yes, and the recommendation for true long-term viability of a wild equid population in the wild is 2,500 intact equids not 150-200 according to the IUCN SSC Equid Specialist Groups Action Plan. See my book at https://www.amazon.com/dp/1461068983. Look up Minimum Viable Population in the Index