The Save Our Wild Horses conference starts next week in Reno against a backdrop of the largest wild horse sterilization effort in the nation.
Volunteers with the Campaign Against America’s Wild horses are driving the breeding population into the single digits, with 11 foals born this year to a herd of almost 3,500.
Many of the mares are at risk of sterility.
The same is true at the Salt River in Arizona, where CAAWH facilitates another wild horse eradication program.
Both herds will reach the tipping point this year, a threshold passed by the Assateague herd over ten years ago.
With too many nonviable mares, the herd is imploding and the only way to save it is to bring in horses from other areas.
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