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The facilities will serve as waypoints for animals traveling to adoption and sale events and provide a pick-up location for participants in the Online Corral program.
They must be located east of the Mississippi River and must be capable of holding up to 400 animals.
They will be open to the public.
Instructions for accessing the solicitation are given in the news release.
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The agency has drafted five new forms to collect information from the public regarding adoption or purchase of wild horses and burros.
Refer to this notice in the Federal Register. There was no news release.
Comments on the forms will be accepted through May 26.
Unfortunately, they’re not available online but Western Horse Watchers has requested pdfs to post here.
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Most were taken from the Triple B Complex, the subject of another roundup starting next week, according to a story by KLAS News.
The report did not indicate if any arrests had been made in the case.
RELATED: Kill Pen Horses Traced to Livingston Adoption.
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A story by KLAS News says 15 wild horses sold at the event on February 28 were found at a kill pen the same day.
The animals had been captured in Nevada.
The report did not indicate if the BLM had launched an investigation or if any arrests had been made.
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Report by WFMY News. Seven survived, 36 died.
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The temporary position pays $26.85 to $31.32 per hour according to the announcement.
The facility has a capacity of 775 wild horses.
Applications will be accepted through February 18.
You need not be certified in the application of restricted-use pesticides.
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The scope of work includes transportation of 36 adults, 36 youngsters and 11 burros to a horse and cattle farm in Pikeville between February 15 and February 21.
The solicitation does not give a reason for the move.
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Been waiting for stories like this to filter in.
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The Ninth Circuit ruled today that the agency can continue to use the privately owned corrals, despite claims of pollution and inhumane conditions by Friends of Animals, according to a report by Courthouse News Service.
The November Facilities Report showed 3,210 wild horses at the ORC with a capacity of 4,000.
The BLM spends an estimated $6 million per year to care for those animals while it collects around $52,000 per year from public-lands ranchers grazing in their stead.
Nobody in the private sector would do that.
RELATED: FOA Returns to Court to Appeal Winnemucca Decision.
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The inmate training program will close at the end of February according to a report by KAKE News.
A representative of the Kansas Department of Corrections said the program had been defunded.
Western Horse Watchers was unable to find a statement from the BLM at its news site.
The November Facility Report put the Hutchinson population at 306 wild horses and 16 wild burros.
The move follows the closure of the inmate training program at Cañon City.
RELATED: Was Cañon City Closure Political?
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The original plan was to lease water rights from the ranch to serve mining operations to the south.
But a year and a half before the Final EIS was released, the company bought the ranch, including water rights. Refer to section 4.7 in this report on mineral resources.
Now, the company has listed the property for sale, minus 650 gpm of water and 100 acres for a man camp.
Gone is the grazing preference on the Fish Springs Ranch Allotment.
That asset was retained by or transferred to Bench Creek Ranch in Fallon.
The allotment offers 4,815 active AUMs on 289,292 public acres, equivalent to 1.4 wild horses per thousand public acres.
The allotment master report puts it in the Improve category with most of the AUMs in the suspended column.
RELATED: Water for Vanadium Mine to Be Supplied by Fish Creek Ranch.
UPDATE: The listing on Redfin shows a price increase last October.
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Horse people will get it.
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You can’t make this stuff up!
The event begins at 4:00 PM on November 1 in Colorado Springs.
The announcement did not indicate if TCF staff would demonstrate their pesticide delivery equipment or discuss their contributions to wild horse sterilization.
Tickets range from $50 to $100.
Despite testimony from veterinarians who said the facility is inhumane, a three-judge panel is likely to uphold a 2024 decision approving construction of the off-range corrals, according to a report by Courthouse News.
Plaintiffs were unable to demonstrate that the occurrence of sickness, injury or death was higher in Winnemucca than other such facilities.
An attorney for the government argued that plaintiffs’ claims pertained to stresses caused by the method of capture but the decision to build and operate the corrals did not depend on how the horses would get there.
RELATED: Court Rejects FOA’s Complaint Regarding Winnemucca Corrals.
The off-range corrals will close at the end of November according to a report by The Grand Junction Daily Sentinel.
The decision was financially driven.
Animals currently at the facility will be transferred to corrals in Wyoming and Utah.
UPDATE: The CDOC news release says that approximately 100 horses taken from Colorado HMAs will be placed into private care within the state.
The event, organized by ranchers for the benefit of ranchers, helps the BLM take more wild horses off the range.
Deirdre Macnab still drives the bus.
You’re not supposed to know that she owns a $10 million base property and runs livestock on over 125,000 public acres.
New this year is an Adult In-Hand Division and a Mustang Only Horse Show, scheduled for August 22 according to a report by the Steamboat Pilot & Today.
A bale of alfalfa/grass mix sold for $28 yesterday, 20 bales minimum, compared to $29 in October and $36 two years ago.
The price four years ago was $19.
A horse in private care would need around five bales per month, putting the cost of feed at $140 per AUM.
Forage on public lands sells for $1.35 per AUM.
RELATED: Price of Hay Drops Slightly.
Environmental assessments have been copied to project folders in ePlanning for public review, with comments due on May 7.
RELATED: Another ORP in Oklahoma?
The address is 736 Alvista Loop in Hamilton according to an April 3 announcement.
Approximately 1,600 adopters who had received title when the March 3 decision was issued but had not received the incentive are eligible for payment according to a story by Colorado Politics.
The judge said in an April 1 order that the ruling does not restrict the agency from fulfilling preexisting contractual obligations.
RELATED: Court Halts AIP.
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