If the BLM hears too many complaints about the situation they may order a nuisance roundup.
The 80-acre parcel serving as a laydown yard for Project Greenlink is surrounded by public lands identified for cattle, not wild horses and burros.
A solution might be for the contractor to build a sturdier fence while letting the water run onto public lands as it does now so the animals can continue to drink.
Any talk about new trenches or pipes or tanks on public lands would likely trigger a NEPA review and months or years of delay before anything happens in the field.
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