PZP Pilot Project to Treat Wild Horses in Fish Springs Community

The American Wild Horse Conservation (formerly American Wild Horse Campaign), in partnership with the Bureau of Land Management and the Pine Nut Wild Horse Advocates, has embarked on a pilot fertility control program for wild horses living in the Fish Springs area of Gardnerville, NV. The horses are living in a Herd Area adjacent to the Pine Nut Herd Management Area. Learn more about the program here.

Community Involvement in Wild Horse Management

This project is a great opportunity to make Fish Springs a model pilot program of private-public partnership and community involvement in fertility control for wild horses. Like other BLM Herd Management Areas (HMAs) such as Little Book Cliffs in Colorado and McCullough Peaks in Wyoming, the local community is volunteering to help the BLM manage wild horses in the Fish Springs area of Gardnerville.

The program is targeted to manage and reduce the number of horses in the Fish Springs area through humane fertility control and natural attrition.