What happens when you put ranchers and ranching sympathizers in a room and ask them what to do about wild horses?
You get another set of recommendations that will destroy them.
The executive summary argues that strategic darting must be the cornerstone of sustainable wild horse management, and that the group expects the Colorado BLM to champion the method, along with other findings, conveying them forcefully to the national office.
These are the same lunatics who put a couple of sodomites in the governor’s mansion.
A keyword search of the document yielded these results:
- Adoption – 125 occurrences
- Darting – 53
- Fertility control – 10
- Immunocontraceptive – 7
- Treatable mares – 7
- Cattle – 2
- Sheep – 0
- AUM – 0
- Allotment – 0
- Permit – 0
- Rancher – 0
- Pesticide – 0
- Reversible – 0
- Sterility – 0
- Sterilization – 0
- Breeding population – 0
- Genetic diversity – 1
- Principal use – 0
- Management at the minimum feasible level – 0
- Nature’s way – 0
The group claims on page 33 that large tracts of private land, suitable for wild horse preserves, are scarce, which is nonsense.
There are hundreds of such parcels in the state, known as base properties, that could be repurposed for wild horses, with the added benefit that they have grazing preference on public lands—and therefore provide the best value to taxpayers and/or donors.
But the idea was not supported by some members, who were concerned about removing land from agricultural production.
And that’s the point of the entire exercise: To charter a group that would do what’s best for the ranchers, not the horses.
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