A preliminary environmental assessment has been copied to the project folder with several appendices.
Comments will be accepted through May 12 according to the news release.
The Proposed Action, discussed in Section 2.3 of the EA, would remove all excess horses from an area that is roughly 25 times larger than the HMA.
Figure 1 shows the arrangement.
The current population is thought to be 518.
The AML is 7 – 10 so 511 animals are on the chopping block.
There are no plans to treat any of the mares with fertility control pesticides and return them to the range.
A roundup does not appear on the latest schedule.
Table 1 says the HMA is 100% within the Lahontan Allotment but Figure 2 suggests otherwise.
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