It’s not in Wyoming, it’s in Nevada, and the plaintiff should be the defendant.
Yesterday, the Campaign Against America’s Wild Horses presented oral arguments in U.S. District Court against the Rock Springs RMP Amendments, according to a news flash distributed by Lucky Three Ranch.
The communiqué said the changes “represent the first time in the 53-year history of the Wild Free-Roaming Horses and Burros Act that the BLM has eliminated entire wild horse herds where sufficient habitat characteristics (i.e., forage, water, space, and cover) exist on public lands,” which is not true.
The agency has a long history of zeroing-out areas identified for wild horses and managing them principally for livestock. The Caliente, Blue Wing and East Pershing Complexes are three examples.
They don’t have enough forage, water, space and cover to sustain wild horses, supposedly, yet roundups are needed to keep the populations in check.
Moreover, the nonprofit, a leader in nonmotorized removal, claimed that, so far, it’s held off the largest wild horse eradication in the history of the Act, but needs your money to continue the fight.
Nonsense. The largest wild horse eradication in the American west is on the Virginia Range, where volunteers with CAAWH are sterilizing the mares with PZP, a restricted-use pesticide that tricks the immune system into attacking the ovaries.
The herd, now at risk of collapse, consists of approximately 3,500 horses, while Divide Basin and Salt Wells Creek contain 1,050 + 1,204 = 2,254 wild horses according to the 2024 population dataset.
Thus, CAAWH and its supporters are responsible for the greatest loss of America’s wild horses, not the BLM.
The judge should take this into consideration as he weighs the testimony of their attorneys.
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