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Horses on the Pryor Mountains Wild Horse Range in Montana. The BLM distinguishes between "herd areas" (HA) where feral horse and burro herds existed at the time of the passage of the Wild and Free-Roaming Horses and Burros Act of 1971, and "Herd Management Areas" (HMA) where the land is currently managed for the benefit of horses and burros, though "as a component" of public lands, part of ...
In 1962, public pressure lead to the establishment of the Nevada Wild Horse Range, [66] and in 1968, the Pryor Mountains Wild Horse Range was established. In 1969, the National Mustang Association, headquartered in Utah, [ 67 ] persuaded Senator Frank Moss to introduce a bill (S. 2166) to protect the remaining mustangs of Spanish descent under ...
WINNEMUCCA, Nev. (AP) — U.S. land managers are planning to round up more than 2,800 wild horses across four Nevada counties beginning next week in an effort to reduce pressure on the drought ...
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the county has a total area of 3,589 square miles (9,300 km 2), of which 3,582 square miles (9,280 km 2) is land and 7.2 square miles (19 km 2) (0.2%) is water. [8] It is the fourth-smallest county in Nevada by area. A very small part of Death Valley National Park lies in its southeast corner.
The agency maintains that the program is essential. There are more than 82,000 horses and burros on public land, BLM officials say, which is far higher than the roughly 26,000 the agency considers ...
In a rare legal victory for wild horse advocates, a judge has ruled U.S. land managers failed to adopt a legal herd management plan or conduct the necessary environmental review before 31 mustangs ...
Morin, Paula (2006) Honest Horses: Wild Horses of the Great Basin. Reno: University of Nevada Press; Nimmo, D. G.; Miller, K. K. (2007) Ecological and human dimensions of management of feral horses in Australia: A review. Wildlife Research, 34, 408–417; Text of Wild Free-Roaming Horse and Burro Act of 1971
A judge has asked federal land managers to explain why they should be allowed to continue capturing more than 2,500 wild horses in northeastern Nevada — a roundup opponents say is illegal and ...