By Bronson Teichert | March 20, 2019
Utah State University’s School of Veterinary Medicine provides hands-on learning experiences for students early in their education at the university’s Animal Science Research Farm, but some students take it a step further by traveling to the Navajo Reservation in southern Utah during spring break for a horse castration clinic. It is an important service in a place where ecosystems can be damaged by overpopulation of wild horses and animals suffer malnutrition due to too little available wild forage.