TRNP Wild Horse Protection Act Cannot Achieve Stated Goals

Instead of prohibiting advocate involvement, the bill requires it.

Paragraph 5(b)(1) directs the Secretary of the Interior to maintain a genetically diverse herd in the South Unit of Theodore Roosevelt National Park with a population of at least 150 wild horses.

Paragraph 5(b)(2)(B) requires cost-effective management of the herd while ensuring that natural resources not adversely impacted.

Those are codewords for a fertility control program—that could be provided by the advocates at no cost to the Park Service.

Was that language suggested by Christine Kman, who has allowed the tentacles of the Campaign Against America’s Wild Horses to reach into her nonprofit?

Where are the safeguards that prevent it from morphing into a mass sterilization program?

In their zeal to spread the gospel of immunocontraceptives and win the approval of the bureaucrats and ranchers, the advocates will drive the breeding population into the single digits and the goal of genetic diversity will lost forever.