BLM Announces Surprise-Calico Wild Horse Roundups

The incident starts tomorrow, according to the news release.

Seven HMAs in northwestern Nevada are affected.

• Surprise Complex
  • High Rock, Fox Hog, Wall Canyon
  • Applegate Field Office
  • Planned
  • Current population 1,100
  • AML 496
  • Capture 494
  • Remove 404
  • Destination Litchfield Corrals
  • Treat 45 returned mares with GonaCon Equine
  • Gather stats and daily reports
  • Open to public observation
• Calico Complex
  • Black Rock Range, Calico Mountains, Granite Range, Warm Springs Canyon
  • Black Rock Field Office
  • Planned
  • Current population unknown
  • AML unknown
  • Capture 761
  • Remove 380
  • Destination Palomino Valley Corrals
  • Treat 172 returned mares with GonaCon Equine
  • Gather stats and daily reports (link not working as of today)
  • Open to public observation

The National Data Viewer shows some habitat loss on the west side of the High Rock HA.

Resource confiscation and reapportionment is a much larger problem, indicated by the green borders in the map.  Click on image to open in new tab.

The actions align with three goals of rangeland management: Pest control, resource enforcement and rancher protection.