Drought Forces BLM to Limit Births

by: Chad Mendell, TheHorse.com Managing Editor
The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) has proposed the use of a non-hormonal contraceptive, porcine zona pellucida (PZP), over the next five years to limit equine overpopulation of Pryor Mountain Wild Horse Range. BLM authorities say the range has been taxed by recent drought conditions. In an Associated Press (AP) article, Linda Coates-Markle, BLM's wild horse and burro specialist ...