The news release does not indicate if it was associated in any way with the advocates and their mass sterilization program.
The alert runs from December 6 to March 6.
The closure order prohibits riding, hitching, tethering or hobbling a horse or other saddle or pack animal in the Described Area.
The map indicates the Described Area to be most if not all of the designated habitat.
The wild horse habitat overlaps the Goldfield and Sunflower Allotments in the Tonto National Forest.
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