Instead of explaining the lopsided forage allocations that favor the ranchers and drive the roundups, the Campaign Against America’s Wild Horses, a leader in nonmotorized removal, agreed in a statement today that wild horse numbers should be reduced, but they should come down with ovary-killing pesticides, not helicopters.
That’s according to a story by KLAS News.
We know from their March 8 testimony in Las Vegas that they’ve bought into the overpopulation narrative and want to help the wild horse detractors.
Overpopulation means more horses than allowed by plan, not necessarily more horses than the land can support.
The bureaucrats and ranchers claim that public lands in the western U.S. can only support one wild horse per thousand acres (27,000 animals on 27 million acres), which is a fairy tale.
For every horse allowed on the range, three to six have been consigned to off-range holding because of permitted grazing, not because of inadequate fertility control.
RELATED: BLM Releases 2024 Wild Horse and Burro Population Dataset.
UPDATE: A March 26 news release by Return to Normal (Before WHB Act) says the same thing: Get rid of them with pesticides, not helicopters. The ranchers couldn’t have asked for better allies.
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