Too Many Burros in Beatty?

The Beatty Town Advisory Board has drafted a letter to the BLM seeking the removal of some of the burros that inhabit the area, according to a story dated July 28 by the Pahrump Valley Times.

The town lies within the Bullfrog HMA.

A 2019 roundup, not mentioned in the report, took 690 animals off the range, on top of 404 in 2018.

The HMA intersects one allotment.

The Allotment Master Report puts it in the Improve category, with 1,926 active AUMs on 269,764 public acres.

The permittee is the Nature Conservancy of Southern Nevada.

The Authorization Use Report shows the livestock type is cattle, and, with pasture rotation, the grazing season is twelve months per year.

Both reports suggest that grazing in the HMA is not allowed.

Bullfrog HMA with Allotments 07-29-23

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