The agency said today that the tanks were drawing wild horses and burros away from better forage in the Muddy Creek and Sinbad HMAs and habituating them to unnatural water sources.

An aerial survey on May 30 confirmed that natural water sources were available and that the public should not be concerned just because a pond near a road dries up.

Interested persons should always reach out to a nearby BLM office before taking any actions to support the health of wild horse and burros, according to the news release.

How many examples can you find in this story about the Fish Springs wild horses, who inhabit an area east of Gardnerville, NV?

• Flying an airplane or drone too closely
• Buzzing them in a paraglider
• Stalking them with clipboards and darting rifles

Nope, that last one doesn’t count.  Firing contraceptive darts into their hindquarters, with all the attendant risks, is much less invasive than low-flying aircraft.

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Virginia Range mustangs spar briefly then go their merry way.

At Theodore Roosevelt National Park with Stacey & Siy’s Travels.

Nope, his job is to be wild and free on his home range.  This may be hard to understand, but for that to happen he first has to be conceived and born on the range.

Refer to this story by The Outer Banks Voice.  They’re not predators but desensitizing them to humans is not a good idea.  What happens if they approach you?

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The dished out area in the center of the foot suggests that most of the weight is carried by the hoof wall, not the sole.  With roughly 60% of the weight carried by the front legs, that means about 300 pounds per hoof for an average horse.

Wild horse tech: Estimate the contact pressure in pounds per square inch.

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Is that a mare in the distance?

BLM announced today the beginning of a 30-day comment period on an environmental assessment for wild horse and burro management in the Nevada WHR.

The WHR, one of four areas in the western U.S. (out of 177) managed primarily for wild horses, covers 1.3 million acres and has an AML of 500, for an aimed-at stocking rate of 0.4 wild horses per thousand acres.  Normally a rate that low could be sign of trouble—if it was an HMA—but livestock grazing is not allowed on the WHR.

Amendments to the land use plan restricted wild horse management to approximately 484,000 acres in the northern part of the WHR.

Actions to control herd size could also include sex ratio skewing, contraception and sterilization.  Options are discussed in Section 2.0.

Substantive comments can be submitted at this page.

The last roundup occurred in August 2018, with a 3.9% death rate.

Today the agency cited recent efforts to combat wild horse overpopulation, including the adoption incentive program, fertility control research and report to Congress.

The news release said that an estimated 95,000 wild horses and burros inhabit lands that can only support 27,000.

Why can’t the land support more than 27,000?  Refer to the following image but don’t say anything, because nobody’s allowed to talk about it.

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First time for everything.

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Trailcam photos of some Virginia Range bachelors.

BLM staff will take over later this summer, according to the daily reports.  Thirty burros and twenty five horses had been captured as of May 13, with one death reported.

RELATED: Cibola-Trigo Nuisance Roundup in Progress.

The Forest Service is working on an environmental assessment for the Heber wild horse management plan, according to a story posted this morning by the White Mountain Independent of Show Low, AZ.

Comments on the management plan ended March 16.

The draft EA will be released for public comments around September 1.

RELATED: Forest Service Reviewing Heber Comments.

She was put down on Saturday due to infection, according to a report by OBX Today.

RELATED: Currituck Wild Horse Rescued After Snake Bite.

On the Virginia Range with Stephen Schrader.

The Charlotte Observer has it on film.  Two minutes of horses being horses.

KPNX News of Phoenix, AZ reported today that a man was caught on video harassing wild horses while they were drinking from the river.

The term is not defined in the statute that protects the horses so there is not much that law enforcement can do, according to the story.

Of course, shooting wild mares with contraceptive darts is not harassment because the PZP zealots said so.