It’s not what you think it is.
It’s an opportunity to join hands with the advocates as they pray for the older horses to die, an essential part of the Montana Solution.
Although the average age of a herd increases, along with the death rate (because no new foals are hitting the ground), the process is slow compared to motorized removal—a flaw in the eyes of the bureaucrats and ranchers.
A workaround would be to add other toxins to the darts, not just to hasten equine demise, but to convince their allies that they can be as ruthless as the helicopter pilots and wranglers.
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Western Horse Watchers Association 