The FS Plan to Decimate the Heber Wild Horse Herd in AZ

UPDATE: U.S. Forest Service plans to remove as many as 600 Heber Wild Horses in 2024.
The following is from the USFS Dec 2023 Advisory Board Meeting.
Heber Wild Horse Territory:
There are currently about 1700 horses on the territory plus around 1000 feral horses in the adjoining Apache National Forest requiring removal and management. A NEPA and Territory Plan should be approved when sufficient personnel can be available to provide edits, and The Fish and Wildlife can complete their analysis. There is a plan to gather as many as 600 horses in 2024 if the plan is approved. A corral facility to hold horses as they are removed from the Forest is planned to facilitate processing, transfer to larger facilities and adoptions. Funding is needed to move the process forward in a timely manner.
https://www.blm.gov/.../USFS%20Update_Dec%202023...
Everything about this is absurd! Where are they getting those ridiculous numbers? “Currently about 1700 horses on the territory”? There are nowhere near 1,700 wild horses in the Sitgreaves let alone on the 19,700 acres they have arbitrarily designated as the Heber Wild Horse Territory. But the point is obvious that they are planning on wiping out the Heber wild horse herd. They might leave a few but they will finish it off in a matter of years with fertility control.
Is this what they’re counting on...
“If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State.” Joseph Goebbels