Two bands have migrated into the Lahontan area according to the writer of a guest column in Carson Now and they might be captured and processed as BLM horses.
How would she know this?
She’s the Director of Conservation with the Campaign Against America’s Wild Horses, instigator of the mass sterilization program in their home range.
Her volunteers will chase the mares to the ends of the earth for an opportunity to hit them with pesticide-laced darts.
The column is a sales pitch for nonmotorized removal, a service that CAAWH provides.
Starting tomorrow, wild horses “will lose their freedom forever. Not because science says they must go but because our federal management system has failed to keep pace with modern conservation,” codewords for long-term use of PZP, with the inevitable result of permanent infertility and herd collapse.
Describing current management practices as a broken system, the writer notes that, after a roundup, populations are allowed to grow beyond levels deemed appropriate, which is how nature provides for genetic diversity and long-term viability.
What she proposes is a dead-end for wild horses, the greater of two evils.
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