They’re now claiming they can apply the pesticide as long as they want with no ill effects.
This, of course, is to give cover to their darting programs at the Salt River and Virginia Range, now in their sixth year, where they’re quietly trying to convince the bureaucrats and ranchers that mass sterilization is a practical alternative to helicopter roundups.
If you think they’re being dishonest, here are three steps you can take to cure your doubt and become one of their supporters:
1. Ignore Jay Kirkpatrick’s warning about long-term use. In a 2012 paper, he said “PZP is designed to bring about short-term infertility and is reversible, if not used beyond five consecutive years.”
2. Disavow the disaster on the Maryland side of Assateague Island, where the herd is still shrinking eight years after the darting program was shut off.
3. Ignore the experience of ISPMB, which demonstrated that Kirkpatrick was correct.
A common denominator in many darting programs is the Campaign Against America’s Wild Horses, a leader in nonmotorized removal.
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