Nevada Resumes Fertility Control for Free-Roaming Horses

April 9, 2019

RENO, Nev.

The state of Nevada is resuming a fertility control project for a herd of free-roaming horses south and east of Reno. This initiative is part of a new agreement with the American Wild Horse Conservation (formerly American Wild Horse Campaign), the same mustang protection group that filed suit last year when the state pulled out of a similar deal.

Nevada Department of Agriculture Director Jennifer Ott announced the new agreement Tuesday with the American Wild Horse Conservation. Ott expressed her enthusiasm for collaborating with the group to achieve a sustainable, long-term solution for managing the more than 2,000 state-owned, estray horses in the Virginia Range.

The California-based group and Cynthia Ashe of Silver Springs filed suit last April to block what they described as "a giveaway of a valuable and cherished Nevada asset" after the state canceled their existing agreement and attempted unsuccessfully to sell the animals.

Originally posted by The Sacramento Bee