Stop Ovariectomies and Massive Roundup in Jackson Mountain Wild Horses

We’ve fought this battle before.

In 2016 and again in 2018, advocates joined together and successfully stopped the Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM) controversial ovariectomy via colpotomy research projects — dangerous surgeries that remove a mare’s ovaries through an invasive procedure.

We spoke out.
We sued.
And together we forced the agency to back down.

Now the BLM is moving in that direction again.

The proposed Jackson Mountains Herd Management Area Plan (HMAP) would allow the permanent sterilization of up to one-third of the herd at low AML. Under the Preferred Alternative, as few as 9 breeding mares could remain to sustain the entire herd.

At the same time, the agency proposes removing 549 of the estimated 679 wild horses currently living in and around the HMA — managing the herd at just 130–217 horses and skewing the sex ratio to 60% stallions and 40% mares.

This herd already faces genetic challenges. In 2012, BLM’s own equine geneticist raised concerns about inbreeding and long-term genetic viability. Yet instead of increasing population levels, the agency proposes to manipulate herd dynamics through sterilization, fertility control, and sex-ratio skewing — all while continuing to reduce the breeding population.

We stopped this before. We can do it again. But only if we TAKE ACTION today.

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