Well what can I say, the crazy experiments and mismanagement of wild horses sets new records all the time.
Straight from the Horse's Heart
From the article below, it seems that the National Park Service (an agency under the U.S. Dept. of the Interior), is touting the use of the EXPERIMENTAL, RESTRICTED-USE PESTICIDE (aka fertility control drug) GonaCon on the “feral” horses in the Theodore Roosevelt National Park.
On the website for the National Park Service’s “feral” horses for Theodore Roosevelt National Park, it states there is “now a herd of 70-110 animals.” (THIS IS ALREADY A NON-VIABLE HERD.)
More disturbing is that Blake McCann, the park’s wildlife biologist, gives a different number of horses to the media: “plans to conduct a corral trap this year to start learning how and to manage the 142 wild horses currently in the park, a number well above the 40 to 90 population considered ideal.”
142 horses instead of 70-110? Did stallions give birth?
More importantly, a National Park Service wildlife biologist states that a
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How sad to read of yet more casual cruelty and neglect of natures beautiful kind creatures. It’s as though as a species we can’t bear anything to run free….
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