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The United States’ most powerful grazing association has attempted to eradicate Wyoming’s wild horse herds for many years. Now, the Rock Springs Grazing Association has “persuaded” the Bureau of Land Management to propose a disastrous plan to forcibly remove 4,000 wild horses and surgically sterilize others still remaining. We must act now to protect Wyoming’s wild horses from this heinous plan! 

The Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM) proposed changes to the Resource Management Plan encompass 4,400 square miles in Wyoming, including the two million acre “Checkerboard” where public and private lands intermingle. If implemented, these revisions would essentially relinquish all public land in the Checkerboard to private grazing interests (ranchers). Ultimately, the BLM would “zero out” two entire wild horse herds and would reduce the acreage of another herd population by 40%. 

This plan, devised by the Rock Springs Grazing Association (RSGA), would not only cause irreparable harm to Wyoming’s wild horse herds, but it would also be detrimental to the state’s economy except for ranching interests. Rock Springs created the Pilot Butte Wild Horse Scenic Viewing Loop, which has successfully attracted tourist dollars to the area. If all wild horses are eliminated in this area, tourism dollars will decrease, causing a considerable impact on local economies. 

As if not bad enough, this heartless plan also calls for surgical sterilizations of wild mares through the barbaric ovariectomy via colpotomy method and the castration of wild stallions. Natural wild horse behaviors would be completely destroyed by these actions, and would cause the eventual eradication of non-breeding herds.  

Wild horse advocates have proposed humane solutions for Wyoming’s wild horse herds, including reversible fertility control and land swaps in the Checkerboard area to consolidate the public lands from the private land. To the surprise of no one, the RSGA has refused to participate in land swaps because they want ALL of the land for themselves. 

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