Wild horse management group works to humanely control the population on the Salt River
By FOX 10 Staff
Wild horse management group works to humanely control the population on the Salt River
An Arizona non-profit group is helping to prevent wild horses from being removed from their natural habitat by using birth control darts.
MARICOPA COUNTY, Ariz. - An Arizona group is using darts to inject birth control into wild horses on the Salt River.
The Salt River Wild Horse Management Group helps prevent wild horses from having to be removed from their natural habitat.
"Coming here is just the way to get away from it all. You drive 20 minutes from Phoenix, this big metropolis, and you come here, to a whole different world. The sounds, the sights.. just watching the wildlife and the wild horses is an amazing thing and we're just lucky that we still have that here, said Simone Netherlands, President of the Salt River Wild Horse Management Group.