Who Will Benefit from Beaty Butte Water Improvements?

Wild horses and livestock congregate at Lick Spring in the Beaty Butte Allotment, resulting in compacted soil and reduced native vegetation.

The BLM developed a solution with input from the Beaty Butte Grazing Association.

The Proposed Action, discussed in Section 2.2 of the EA, would run an underground water line eastward from the spring, which is on private land, to two new troughs.

Map 1 in Appendix E shows the arrangement.

The map gives the township, range and sections, so the project area can be found in the NDV by turning on the PLSS layer.

The EA did not indicate if the animals would still be able to access the spring and who would monitor the system when livestock are not present.

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The EA was copied to the project folder in ePlanning with an unsigned FONSI.

The HMA lies within the allotment and includes the spring.