BLM NEWS RELEASE
TONOPAH — The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Battle Mountain District, Tonopah Field Office is seeking public comment on the Bullfrog Herd Management Area (HMA) Preliminary Environmental Assessment (EA), which addresses the need to remove excess wild burros from in and around the HMA to bring the number of wild burros to the lower range of appropriate management level (AML). Approximately 58 to 70 wild burros would remain in the HMA after the gather depending on gather efficiency. The proposed gather area surrounds Beatty, Nev., in Nye County, and is tentatively scheduled to begin in March 2012. The BLM would appreciate receiving substantive comments on the preliminary EA by December 30, 2011.
The Bullfrog HMA proposed gather area includes areas outside of the HMA boundaries where wild burros have established residency. The BLM estimates there are currently 144 wild burros within and outside the HMA. The proposed gather is needed to remove excess wild burros to help prevent deterioration of the range, achieve and maintain a thriving natural ecological balance, achieve and maintain healthy, viable wild burro populations, protect threatened desert tortoise and sensitive Amargosa toad habitat and reduce human conflicts with wild burros in Beatty and along the Highway 95 corridor through the HMA.
Comments received during the public review period will be analyzed and considered as part of the decision-making process. The preliminary EA may be viewed at the BLM Battle Mountain District website under the heading Wild Horse & Burro Gathers.
Questions and written comments should be mailed to Thomas J. Seley, Tonopah Field Manager, 1553 South Main, P.O. Box 911, Tonopah, NV 89049. Comments may also be provided through e-mail to: BullfrogHMA@blm.gov.
Before including your address, phone number, e-mail address, or other personal identifying information in your comment, you should be aware that your entire comment – including your personal identifying information – may be made publicly available at any time. While you can ask us in your comment to withhold your personal identifying information from public review, we cannot guarantee that we will be able to do so.
They are part of the American West. You guys are the stewards of Publicly owned land. Stand up for the burros and the people of America.
You need to stop gathering burros and horses period. STOP! It is wrong and unjustified. Stop grazing cattle and sheep. Protect the burros!!!
REALLY? You ask for comments that you don’t give a damn about. You already know the feelings of the American taxpayers who know what you are up to and the ones who don’t know will soon enough. Why do you mock us like this??? The time for change has come and gone. If we could have stopped your killing crusade it would have been long ago before the lies and the executive orders re wrote American history. May God forgive you because the American People never will.
Are you worried that if you stop rounding up and slaughtering you might have too much time on your hands and get laid off like the rest of America?
Do your job!!! Protect the wild burros and horses!They are part of our history. Stop all round-ups.Stop wasting our tax dollars on round-ups and holding pens.
Mexican and Spanish miners were using Burros long before Western Settlements. these wild burros are a distinct population of special status species and should be protected underWildlife Public trust doctrine as well as the ROAM act of 1971. it is your job to protect and preserve these amazing wild burros BLM.The herd size numbers are so low i am watching you allow them to fall into the endangered list with every round up.
It’s my impression that the real motive for gathers, culls, hazing, harassing, and abuse is that so much of our public land is given over for cattle and sheep grazing. Big ranchers, big timber, big agriculture, and big oil companies have an inordinate influence on public policy and the BLM. It’s past time for the BLM to work for the American public and our iconic wild species rather than for wealthy private interest groups. Therefore, I join others in asking the BLM to reexamine and reverse the policy of culling, gathering, and generally abusing wild burros and horses, as well as wolves, bison, beavers, prairie dogs, and other species which have a right to live on public lands.
I would very much appreciate a response. Thank you for taking public comments seriously rather than ignoring them.
There was a recent article printed in the Associated Press that the BLM announced that there wasn’t enough graze land for the wild animals that inhabit our state. The only problem was that the BLM omitted to count cattle and sheep grazing as part of the changing problem. They were forced to revise their “science” and laughed out of the conference room.
When are the officials going to realize that the citizens love and respect the need for a diversity of wild animals–a trophic cascade. It’s the officials who should be gathered up and replaced by representatives who respect the public trust.