The Draft EA for Little Book Cliffs WHR, released for public review earlier this week, indicates in Section 2.1.3 that mares outnumber stallions by a margin of nearly two to one, and that the BLM intends to adjust the ratio to one to one.
How did it get so far out of whack?
The advocates and their safe, proven and reversible darting program.
They don’t refer to the condition as an abnormal sex ratio, they say the mares are living longer.
What’s the solution?
More of the same.
Curiously, they’ve scrubbed their home page of any references to PZP and plastered it with images of foals.
As for the Little Book Cliffs herd, the number of viable mares and size of the breeding population are unknown.
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