Biologist says NO to fertility control for wild horses! (Part 1) Don’t let pesticides like Gonacon™, PZP (native -- 22) or SpayVac® manage native wild horses to extinction. The Spin Dr.’s and some ignorant horse advocates are pushing fertility control on underpopulated wild horses. Know the truth. Interview John Cox: Brett, you’re a retired biologist, previously with the NSA for how many years? Brett Hass: 46 long years John. We met in Vietnam, when we a lot younger my friend (smiles). We were doing wildlife and vegetation studies in your AO (area of operations). That was my first assignment with the NSA, as a matter of fact. John Cox: Let’s cut through all of that. What do you think of Gonacon™ and some of the other fertility controls BLM is using? Brett Hass: As usual, and as government agencies do and BLM and DOI are extremely guilty, they pretend that science guides its wild horse and burro management strategies. So the agencies involved go forth and resolve issues, supposedly, with experimental drugs–in this case GonaCon™. The question is, in reality, does it resolve anything at all, or is it simply to further experimentations with this drug and the wild horses the most expendable of situations currently? The problem is very obvious, with the first-time use of an experimental drug, they act like children with a new toy–but this toy is extremely dangerous, to not only the horses and actually lead them to extinction, but the environmental consequences are apparently neglected entirely? (shakes his head negatively). . . But let’s get real, the very absence of science contradicts any time of sound reasoning for its use whatsoever. So once again we have a government agency, using a Nazi-Type experimental fertility drug on horses and other wildlife–without knowing, or even acknowledging for that matter, what the long-term consequences are–or in perception–the problems that will arise in its actual use. There is no resolution, as I reviewed the population situation and see first hand there is no over-population if wild horses just within the BLM numbers alone; but livestock, that is a completely different matter, in reality. John Cox: In your appraisal of the information you’ve read, would you, as a tenured Wildlife Biologist for over 50 years, use this drug? Brett Hass: Absolutely not! There is no pertinent reasoning to use it right now and especially on wild horses or much of anything else for that matter. Our wildlife and environment is simply too important to be so frivolous with such activity, especially an unknown situation, as fertility drugs used in our natural environment. But as you say, ignorance is quite something, and our government seems to portray ignorance quite well, and frankly the only situation they seem to be competent to accomplish. Brett Hass is a retired biologist previously with the NSA. John Cox is an environmental writer and veteran who is passionate about saving wild horses and wolves. See the Gonacon™ papers here: http://protectmustangs.org/?p=8602 End of Part 1 of the Brett Hass Interview The Spin Dr.s are lobbying in Washington and selling America's wild horses and burros down the river. The Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) is calling wild horses "PESTS" in their pesticide application for PZP to "control population" as if they were vermin. http://www3.epa.gov/pesticides/chem_search/reg_actions/pending/fs_PC-176603_01-Jan-12.pdf Your elected officials are given white papers on wild horses that focus on ways to "dispose" of them. Share the truth with your congressional representative: http://www.contactingthecongress.org Stop the roundups, stop the lies. Wild horses are underpopulated on public land. The captive pens are horrid. Share this petition to help the mustangs who have lost everything: freedom, families and home in the wild. Anne Novak Volunteer Executive Director www.ProtectMustangs.org https://twitter.com/TheAnneNovak https://www.facebook.com/ProtectMustangs https://www.facebook.com/AnneNovakOfficialPage NonProfit Organization Mission: Protect & preserve native and wild horses PROTECT MUSTANGS PO Box 5661 Berkeley, CA. 94705