They teamed up with Cowboy State Daily in an article dated January 29 to mislead readers about management practices in the HMA, the lawful home of wild horses.
Fertility control, described as “shooting mares with darts containing birth control medication,” has been implemented there for years according to Angelique Rea.
At McCullough Peaks, the darts contain PZP, a restricted-use pesticide that tricks the immune system into attacking the ovaries. It’s not a medication.
Rae said the BLM failed to provide evidence of rangeland degradation and that removing the horses because they’re above AML is not reason enough.
Yes, it is.
The AML represents a limit on forage available to the horses, not the forage available in the HMA or the number of horses it can actually support.
The roundup will remove the pests and protect the ranchers.
The forage assigned to livestock would support an estimated 535 wild horses, on top of the 140 allowed by plan.
The advocates are silent about this.
Sandy Sisti, a PZP darter and ranching sympathizer, noted that the herd is aging out, a codeword for dying off.
She said the birth control has spared mares the rigors of pregnancy and delivering foals (an essential part of their existence), so they’re living longer.
That’s a codeword for abnormal sex ratio.
These buffoons, and others like them, are sterilizing the mares and driving the breeding population into the single digits, which spells disaster for the herd.
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