The wild horses who call the Roberts Mountain Complex in Nevada home need your voice. The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Mount Lewis Field office is seeking public comment on its plan to reduce the population of mustangs to a mere 104 horses on 162,000 acres of public lands just northwest of Eureka. 

The BLM plans to use helicopters to brutally round up and remove wild horses to achieve the unscientifically low appropriate management level (AML) of just 104 wild horses on 215,000 acres of land. This represents an average of 1 horse per every 1,500+ acres! 

In addition to removing more than 90% of the horses in this Complex, the agency's plan allows for: 

• Inserting unproven Intrauterine Devices (IUDs) in a portion of mares to be returned to the range;
• Administering the experimental fertility control vaccine GonaCon to all mares to be released;
• And skewing the sex ratio to 60/40 in favor of stallions.

Fortunately, the BLM has allowed for the use of the humane, safe, effective fertility control vaccine PZP as part of its proposed plan. Instead of considering roundups and stockpiling, the BLM should focus on using PZP to manage these horses in the wild where they belong!

Take action now and urge the BLM to use humane, in-the-wild management and protect the wild horses of the Roberts Mountain Complex!

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