{"id":1859,"date":"2016-11-29T12:00:48","date_gmt":"2016-11-29T12:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging.saltriverwildhorsemanagementgroup.org\/?p=1859"},"modified":"2016-11-29T12:00:48","modified_gmt":"2016-11-29T12:00:48","slug":"arizona-house-congressional-leaders-call-for-humane-fertility-control-of-salt-river-wild-horses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.saltriverwildhorsemanagementgroup.org\/?p=1859","title":{"rendered":"Arizona House Congressional leaders call for humane fertility control of Salt River wild horses"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\"><p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Phoenix, AZ (November 23, 2016)&#8230; In a sign on\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.wildhorsepreservation.org\/media\/salt-river-letter-sec-tom-vilsack\" target=\"_blank\">letter<\/a>\u00a0sent to U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack this week, Republican and Democrat members of the Arizona House Delegation called on the U.S. Forest Service (USFS), a division of the USDA, to immediately approve a humane fertility control program to manage the Salt River horses of the Tonto National Forest. The letter was written by Congressman Trent Franks and signed by his House colleagues, U.S. Representatives Kyrsten Sinema, Paul Gosar, Raul Grijalva, Matt Salmon and Martha McSally.<\/p>\n<div class=\"region region-content\">\n<section id=\"block-system-main\" class=\"block block-system clearfix\">\n<div id=\"node-5860\" class=\"node node-post clearfix\">\n<div class=\"content\">\n<div class=\"field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden\">\n<div class=\"field-items\">\n<div class=\"field-item even\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Salt River Wild Horse Management Group and its national partner, the American Wild Horse Preservation Campaign, are commending the Arizona House delegation for its continued leadership in the fight to protect the cherished wild horse herd, which lives in the Tonto National Forest near Phoenix. The groups said that little progress for a humane wild horse management plan for the horses has been made, despite passage of state legislation, signed into law by Governor Doug Ducey in May, intended to protect the horses.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The congressional letter comes after Tonto National Forest supervisor Neil Bosworth rejected the horse advocacy groups\u2019 October request to authorize the use of PZP on the herd. He responded that the Forest Service doesn\u2019t have authority to manage the horses and therefore cannot authorize anyone else to manage them. He referred the groups to the State Agriculture Department. At this time, however, the Arizona Department of Agriculture does not have the authority over the horses.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The groups believe that the Forest Service has clear authority to authorize the PZP program for wild horses who live on Forest Service lands.\u00a0 Rep. Franks and his colleague, in the letter, agree.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The horse advocacy groups say that the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.animalfertilitycontrolvaccine.org\/\">PZP fertility control vaccine<\/a>,\u00a0which can be delivered via remote darting,\u00a0would be used to limit population growth and maintain a healthy population within the herd\u2019s habitat on the Salt River in order to prevent a future need to remove wild horses. They said time is of the essence because the ideal time frame\u00a0for PZP vaccination is right now and if not implemented they fear that new roundup plans may be in the future.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cWe thank Rep. Franks and his colleagues for once again standing up for the Salt River horses,\u201d said Simone Netherlands, president of the Salt River Wild Horse Management Group.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cUsing PZP now will keep the herd to a healthy size for its habitat and protect horses from being subject to roundups and removal,\u201d she continued. \u201cThe public does not want to see the removal of horses from their home on the Salt Rive. Therefore this is the only humane path forward.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The horse advocates are set to being the PZP program immediately \u2013 at no cost to either the State or the Federal government.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cThis is a great opportunity for a public\/private partnership to manage and protect these beloved horses at no cost to the taxpayers,\u201d said Suzanne Roy, Executive Director of the American Wild Horse Preservation Campaign, which manages the world\u2019s largest humane birth control on wild horses in Nevada\u2019s Virginia Range. \u201cWe have people certified to dart the horses with PZP and all the work will be privately paid for and performed by volunteers. All we need is approval to act, so we can save these horses.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">PZP (Porcine Zona Pellucida) is an organically derived vaccine that prevents pregnancy in female animals \u2013 including wild horses, bison, elephants and urban deer and more than 80 species of zoo animals. It doesn\u2019t harm existing pregnancies, pass to other animals, or pass into the surrounding environment.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">More than 40 wild horse advocacy groups and the Humane Society of the United States have\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.wildhorsepreservation.org\/media\/more-3-dozen-wild-horse-advocacy-groups-press-blm-increased-use-humane-fertility-control\">called on the federal government<\/a>\u00a0to make more use of PZP as a way to end wild horse roundups and removals, which cost American taxpayers more than $80 million each year. The use of PZP fertility control was recommended by the National Academy of Sciences in its 2013 report, \u201cUsing Science to Improve the BLM Wild Horse and Burro Program: A Way Forward.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>The\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/saltriverwildhorses.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Salt River Wild Horse Management Group<\/a>\u00a0(SRWHMG) is an Arizona non-profit organization dedicated to \u00a0protect, monitor and study the Salt River wild horses. The SRWHMG has been spearheading the effort to secure lasting protections for this iconic and beloved wild horse herd in the Tonto National Forest.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>The\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/wildhorsepreservation.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">American Wild Horse Preservation Campaign<\/a>\u00a0(AWHPC) is dedicated to defending America\u2019s wild horses and burros to protect their freedom, preserve their habitat, and promote humane standards of treatment. 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