The advocates are so far gone and so hopelessly lost in their pesticide paradigm that they actually want the horses to die.
One example is McCullough Peaks, where the average age of the herd is increasing, along with the death rate, because few if any new foals are hitting the ground.
The older horses may not survive the winter, which the advocates anticipate and desire.
Anything to avoid motorized removal. Anything to prove their darting programs are working. Anything to keep the resources shifted in favor of the public-lands ranchers.
At the Virginia Range, where the Campaign Against America’s Wild Horses operates its flagship darting program, they’re driving the birth rate to zero and letting the herd die off.
They’re telling you that they’re saving the horses while they’re telling the bureaucrats that they’re getting rid of them.
Their affiliates in Arizona are doing the same thing to the Salt River herd, where a zero percent birth rate and six percent death rate will be needed for ten consecutive years to achieve the population target.
By then the mares will be sterile and the herd will be lost.
Ditto for the Virginia Range.
These groups should be banned from areas identified for wild horses.
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