Spring Creek Basin Mustangs

If you have questions about PZP, I would encourage you to trot on over to Matt Dillon’s Pryor Wild blog and read his excellent series about this fertility control. To read it from the beginning, scroll down and click “older posts” to get to the start, which has a schedule of topics, or there’s a new schedule on the home page with links to each topic.  I think you’ll find it an extremely informative series with practical information.

Involved advocates are in favor of a PZP program in Spring Creek Basin, but despite the fact that BLM is pushing PZP in seemingly every other herd area, BLM is resistant to its use here. As small as our herd is, and with 100 percent documentation, and the fact that it will keep costs down in the long run – and keep wild horses wild – I can’t figure out why, so we continue to push. With all the practical information available and the fact that Salazar himself says it can be used “responsibly and at a reasonable cost,” there’s no reason we shouldn’t be using it to prevent what I hope we all want prevented – loss of our horses in the wild.

Thanks, Matt, for putting the information together in a logical, easy-to-read way!

Meanwhile, we’re under blizzard conditions in Southwest Colorado, so while you’re cozy in your homes, think about our fuzzy mustangs hunkered down in the wind and snow … and think about all that great snow as spring runoff right into our newly dug-out ponds! BLM did get those ponds dug out last year and has promised more ponds to be dug out this year. Every little bit helps. 🙂