Would you attend a lecture based on lies and propaganda?
Consider this statement, taken from the undated announcement:
Wild horse populations grow at a rate of 15-20% per year and compete with cattle, deer, elk, and bighorn sheep for valuable forage and water resources, which threaten fragile riparian ecosystems through soil compaction and overgrazing. While most U.S. policies advocate for the removal of these “non-native” horses, horse advocates continue to push for more territory and rights.
Cattle are the nonnative species and on public lands they outnumber wild horses by a huge margin.
Growth rates of 15-20% per year require birth rates of at least 20-25% per year and this is rarely seen in roundup data.
In discussions of wild horses, conservation is a codeword for eradication, make sure ranchers get most of the resources.
BLM allotments in Arizona support livestock equivalent to 53,662 wild horses on 10,090,546 public acres, or 5.3 wild horses per thousand public acres.
Western Horse Watchers Association 