What is an HMA? It’s an allotment with horses on it according to Ty Berg, husband of Anna Fallini Berg, operators of Twin Springs Ranch in southern Nevada and the only permittees on the massive Reveille Allotment.
And, yes, they are legally obligated to let the horses run wild on land their family has worked for over 150 years because the Reveille Allotment contains the Reveille HA, an area identified in 1971 for wild horses, which contains the Reveille HMA, the remnant where horses are still allowed. Refer to this post for a discussion of the arrangement, including a map.
The image at 1:21 in the following video tells you why there are few natural predators in the area.
Regarding the current wild horse population across the American west, discussed at 2:34, there are three times more horses than allowed by plan, not three times more than the land can support. The image at 1:36 explains why this is true.
AMLs are small relative to the available resources because the bureaucrats have assigned most of the forage to the ranchers.
The BLM took 77 horses off the range in July, a detail overlooked by the reporter, making life a little bit easier for the family. Mares returned to the area were treated with two doses of GonaCon Equine, a fertility control pesticide.
Who paid for that? You, not the Fallinis!
How to resolve the conflict?
The consensus of the Love Triangle, an informal coalition united not by methodology but by contempt for wild horses, described as “all sides” by the reporter at 5:34, is fertility control.
The video shows unlawful use of PZP by volunteers with the Campaign Against America’s Wild Horses, a leader in nonmotorized removal, at 5:44.
The Fallinis run 1,800 to 2,400 cattle in the allotment on a 12-month grazing season.
RELATED: Catch-Treat-Release, Misuse of GonaCon, Roll Out at Reveille.
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