Refer to this summary of her trip to the Palomino Butte, Stinkingwater, Kiger, Warm Springs and South Steens HMAs. She reports that the horses looked good with a few exceptions and that water sources were low, typical for this time of year. She noted that Warm Springs looked ‘ominously empty,’ as if it was a ‘ghost town.’
Not exactly what you’d expect to hear about areas that are overpopulated with wild horses, a claim repeated frequently by the BLM and public-lands ranchers.
