Tell BLM to Leave Fish Creek Wild Horses on the Range

The following article is from the American Wild Horse Preservation.

The Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM’s) plan for the Fish Creek Herd Management Area (HMA) in Nevada has a number of things right. The agency is increasing use of fertility control and maintaining the natural sex ratio of the population instead of artificially skewing it to favor stallions. However, the BLM intends to remove 200 of the 600 wild horses in the Fish Creek HMA in the next few weeks. The plan includes additional horse removals over a ten-year period to reduce the population down to a maximum number of 170, which may compromise the genetic viability of these herds.

Tell BLM it’s headed in the right direction for managing this HMA, but must take the final turn toward a truly humane and publicly-acceptable management program by forgoing removals, permanently reducing livestock grazing and prioritizing bait trapping over helicopter roundups for fertility control application. Also tell BLM that any methods used to capture horses should incorporate strict requirements to safeguard their welfare, including respecting and maintaining the integrity of their social groups at all times. Please click below to endorse AWHPC’s comments to the BLM!