Alternative 1, the Proposed Action, has been approved for implementation, subject to a 30-day appeal period, according to a Decision Record signed on May 27.
No, the advocates did not invent an injectable retardant that can be administered with their darting equipment. Instead, it’s a chemical treatment sprayed on the ground to inhibit flame propagation, according to a story posted today by KPNX News of Phoenix.
A story submitted yesterday by a reader of Carson Now describes the migration down Main Street and across the Carson River Bridge. The article does not give their destination or what other animals they might encounter at the end of the journey.
Perhaps they were coming off an allotment on the north side of Highway 50, heading for another on the south side. Just a guess. The highway generally runs east-west despite the north-south jog in the following image.
The Operator Information report in RAS shows four authorizations associated with Borda Land and Sheep, 2700069, 2700348, 2702960 and 2703505.
The Allotment Information report ties those authorizations to the Bagley Valley, Buckeye, Carson Plains and Pine Nut allotments.
The Authorization Use report for Carson Plains shows the last grazing season ending today, May 31 and another, on the Pine Nut allotment, starting tomorrow, June 1.
Borda holds all of the active AUMs in Pine Nut. So maybe they were migrating from Carson Plains to Pine Nut.
The Pine Nut Mountains HMA is also on the south side of the highway. Although grazing allotments and wild horse areas sometimes have similar names, Western Horse Watchers does not know if the two overlap. Would you be surprised if they did?
Nicknamed Mr. T, he “was sold three different times for being crazy, dangerous, unrideable and too wild to train…with no consideration that the idiot owners were the real problem.”
The HMA, part of the Calico Complex, is north of Gerlach, NV and west of the Black Rock Playa, site of Burning Man. See page 20 in Nevada wild horse maps.
Images must be captured on BLM lands between January 1, 2019 and August 31, 2021, according to the contest rules. Photos will be featured in a 2022 BLM Nevada Planner.
The May 27 news release suggests a theme of responsible recreation on public lands.
The announcement did not indicate if photographs of wild horses would qualify but an email inquiry has been sent to the BLM representative.
A map showing BLM lands in Nevada was not provided but those areas are generally shaded tan in the wild horse maps for the state.
Entries must be submitted by September 15.
UPDATE: BLM rep said photos of wild horses can be submitted.
The photos in this report by the Pahrump Valley Times tell the story of America’s wild horses and burros—cordoned off from resources so they can be enjoyed by privately owned livestock.
If the woman running a nonprofit to promote sporting activities in the community, including baseball, places her own animals on the ball field for weed control, would that qualify as a conflict of interest?
The town of Beatty is in the Bullfrog HMA, an area set aside for wild burros.
West Virginia has them and so does eastern Kentucky. Some are unbranded/unclaimed and some are privately owned. They’re not federally protected.
Stallions have joined the herds in Kentucky and populations are growing, according to a story posted this morning by WHAS-TV of Louisville.
Volunteers with a nonprofit care for sick and injured animals, Their history page says the horses have been roaming in a nine-county area for at least 30 years, some on reclaimed lands after the mines were closed.
Horses in Floyd county had to be evacuated in late 2019 after 21 were shot dead.
The Fort Polk Army base overlaps some of the territory and in 2015 the order was given to get rid of them.
The Pegasus Equine Guardian Association says the horse have roamed the area for centuries and have reverted to a wild state, especially through their offspring who have never known anything other than wild.
The HMA covers 475,574 acres, so the stocking rate at the new AML would be 1,818 ÷ 475,574 × 1,000 = 3.8 wild horses per thousand acres, about four times higher than the target rate of one wild horse per thousand acres across all HMAs.
A band of six left the 4WD area north of town to visit the local grocery, only to be escorted back to their habitat, according to a story by OBX Today.
The herd manager for the local advocacy group said you should never chase the horses or try to move them yourself. Let the advocates do that or they may be killed.
Western Horse Watchers estimates that the group got rid of ten to fifteen wild horses this year with their fertility control program.
Who’s the greater threat to these animals? You or the advocates?
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