Comments, due by November 14, can be mailed to the Bristlecone Field Office or emailed to the address in today’s news release.
A management evaluation report has been copied to the project folder in ePlanning.
The new plan will support the BLM’s mission to manage healthy wild horses on healthy public lands.
The HMAP would sanction the use of population growth suppression (fertility control pesticides), castration of stallions and sex ratio skewing according to a statement on page 23 of the report (24 in the pdf).
Gather operations would utilize helicopters and bait trapping were feasible.
A remark on page 19 tells you what the HMAP won’t do: “Livestock grazing is administered through the regulations at 43 C.F.R. Part 4100 and must be consistent with multiple use allocations set forth in RMPs. Changes to livestock grazing cannot be made with a wild horse management decision.”
This project is a wild horse management decision.
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