Contrary to the remarks in a September 10 article by The Colorado Sun, all parties involved are on the same page.
The author’s bio says she loves to write about agriculture and ranching, the driver of wild horse roundups, but apparently there has been a falling out.
A representative of the Campaign Against America’s Wild Horses, a leader in nonmotorized removal, said the incident, set to begin tomorrow, rejects published science and persistent calls from the governor and state lawmakers to delay the roundup in favor of in-the-wild conservation, a codeword for destroying the herd with PZP.
Advocates with Friends of the Mustangs, applicators of the pesticide, will help the BLM decide which horses stay and which ones go.
And the ranchers whose allotments surround the HMA, not mentioned in the story, are cautiously optimistic about the future and the prospects of fewer wild horses leaving the reservation in search of greener pastures.
They may be giving money to the nonprofits.
BLM allotments in the state support livestock equivalent to 49,546 wild horses on 7,448,367 public acres, or 6.7 wild horses per thousand public acres.
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