The Bureau of Land Management has backed off a plan to castrate wild stallions. The original plan had environmental groups infuriated.
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On Friday, the BLM announced it will use a birth control drug on mares to reduce the growth of the herds in southwest Wyoming. Early last week, the agency had informed a federal judge that it was dropping plans to capture and castrate hundreds of wild stallions in the area between Rock Springs and La Barge. The change in plans came in response to a legal challenge from environmentalists. The Agency reports that the count of around One Thousand wild horses in the White Mountain/Little Colorado her management area is around 3 times more that it should be. The agency will be rounding up around 700 horsed between mid-August to September where they will give the mares a birth control drug. The Rock Springs Grazing Association recently filed a federal lawsuit in an effort to force the federal government to remove all wild horses on roughly 2 million acres of private land, including some of the area where the roundups are planned. The association said wild horses are damaging private lands.
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On Friday, the BLM announced it will use a birth control drug on mares to reduce the growth of the herds in southwest Wyoming. Early last week, the agency had informed a federal judge that it was dropping plans to capture and castrate hundreds of wild stallions in the area between Rock Springs and La Barge. The change in plans came in response to a legal challenge from environmentalists. The Agency reports that the count of around One Thousand wild horses in the White Mountain/Little Colorado her management area is around 3 times more that it should be. The agency will be rounding up around 700 horsed between mid-August to September where they will give the mares a birth control drug. The Rock Springs Grazing Association recently filed a federal lawsuit in an effort to force the federal government to remove all wild horses on roughly 2 million acres of private land, including some of the area where the roundups are planned. The association said wild horses are damaging private lands.
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