Two news releases appeared yesterday, one covering pest control actions in and around the Spruce-Pequop and Goshute HMAs, as well as a portion of the Antelope Valley HMA, and the other for pest control actions in and around the Antelope HMA and remaining portion of Antelope Valley.
Highway 93 Alt, which runs northeast to West Wendover, serves as the split line for Antelope Valley.
The National Data Viewer shows the arrangement. Click on image to open in new tab.
The June 14 roundup schedule suggests they will run concurrently, with start dates of July 9.
Call them resource enforcement actions or rancher protection actions if you’d like.
The HMAs are subject to, and managed primarily for, permitted grazing.
The combined capture and removal goals are 3,107 and 3,107, respectively, with no animals to be returned to their lawful homes.
One of the announcements said 15 mares in the Water Canyon area previously treated with GonaCon Equine will receive another dose of the pesticide before being released back to the range.
Captured animals will be taken to the off-range corrals at Indian Lakes and Palomino Valley.
Gather stats and daily reports for the northern portion will be posted to this page.
Data for the southern portion will be posted here.
The Spruce-Pequop HMA lies mostly within the massive Spruce Allotment, one of the parcels to which Madeleine Pickens obtained grazing preference through the purchase of the associated base property.
The Allotment Master Report indicates most of the active AUMs are held by the Spruce Grazing Association, which Bizapedia ties to a law firm in Elko. One of the company contacts is Saving America’s Mustangs, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit started by Pickens.
A 2018 roundup in the HMA started with the massacre of eight wild horses.
Western Horse Watchers Association 