But why the need for fertility control at all? #wildhorses in the U.S. no longer have free-range over vast western rangelands. Instead, pursuant to the Wild Horse Act (1971), they are confined to Herd Management Areas (HMAs) or Wild Horse Territories (WHTs) on public lands. The fed gov manages these areas for "multiple uses" such as livestock grazing, oil & gas extraction & mining, & recreation. The conditions that America's mustangs live in today are anything but natural. #wildhorse pops also continue to be disrupted by roundups & removals.

URGENT ACTION NEEDED! @RepCohen, @RepGrijalvaCS, @RepJoeNeguse, @repdinatitus, @RepSchakowsky, and @RepBrianFitz are sponsoring an amendment that would dedicate funding to protect America’s cherished #wildhorses and burros by requiring Bureau to spend at least $11 mill on PZP. This requirement to implement humane birth control to humanely manage #wildhorse & burro pops in the wild as an alt to cruel roundup and removal of #wildhorses from public lands is done in an effort to rein in the BLM’s cruel, costly & ineffective roundup $ incarceration program.

Roundup (n): The taxpayer-funded gov act of utilizing helicopters to stampede and brutally tear America's #wildhorses away from their homes and into lifelong confinement, resulting in thousands of losing their freedom, and increasingly, their lives. americanwildhorsecampaign.org/reality-roundu… Science says mass roundups are counter-productive. Mass removals act as a catalyst for a phenomenon called compensatory reproduction. Essentially, after a herd's population unnaturally plunges due to a roundup, biology dictates that birth rates will increase.

BREAKING: House Interior Approps bill is out! The good: The subcommittee rejected the President’s budget request for $15.3 mill in additional funding for the WHB Program. The bill continues to prohibit the slaughtering of #wildhorses and burros. #appropriation #freewildhorses The bad: the draft bill would result in Congress handing the Bureau $42 mill in additional #taxpayer funds over 2019 budget levels with no hard requirements to prevent the agency from spending all the funds to #roundup and stockpile #wildhorses and to surgically sterilize them.

"Gov. Mark Gordon’s administration is preparing a bid to Occidental Petroleum for 1 million acres of surface land and 4 million acres of mineral rights" within the Wyoming Checkerboard. rightshttps://www.wyofile.com/governor-preps-bid-for-occidental-land-leaving-lawmakers-out/ Back in April, we submitted comments about the HMAs in the Checkerboard - where the Bureau wants to 0 out & remove many of the horses. A large portion of land within the planning area is owned by the Anadarko Land Corporation, which was purchased last year by Occidental Petroleum

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