SUBMITTED NEWS RELEASE
RENO, Nev. – The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Winnemucca District has concluded the Calico Mountains Complex gather north of Gerlach, Nev., with 1,922 excess wild horses removed. The gathered horses were transported to the Indian Lakes Road holding facility in Fallon, Nev. where they are being prepared for the BLM’s adoption...
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WINNEMUCCA — The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Winnemucca District, Black Rock Field Office, began the Calico Complex Wild Horse gather today. The Calico Complex includes five wild horse herd management areas (HMAs) in northwestern Nevada in Washoe and Humboldt counties. The gather plan is to start at the Black Rock Range East...
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The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Schell Field Office has released the preliminary environmental assessment for the Eagle Herd Management Area (HMA) Wild Horse Gather. The BLM is proposing to reduce the herd size to approximately 100 animals, to maintain a thriving natural ecological balance among wild horse populations, wildlife and livestock. The BLM...
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WINNEMUCCA — The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Winnemucca District, Black Rock Field Office, has issued the Decision Record for the Final Environmental Assessment (EA) for the Calico Mountains Complex Wild Horse Capture Plan. The decision is for the BLM to gather and remove excess wild horses so that about 600-900...
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SUBMITTED NEWS RELEASE
The Bureau of Land Management’s National Wild Horse and Burro Advisory Board will meet on Monday, December 7, 2009, in Reno, Nevada, to discuss issues relating to the management, protection, and control of wild horses and burros on Western public rangelands. The one-day meeting will take place from 8 a.m. to...
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BLM NEWS RELEASE:
WINNEMUCCA – The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Winnemucca District, Black Rock Field Office is proposing to gather and remove about 2,500 wild horses in several areas north of Gerlach, Nev., in Washoe and Humboldt counties. The proposal and associated impacts are described and analyzed in the Calico Complex Capture Plan Preliminary...
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BLM NEWS RELEASE:
The Bureau of Land Management (BLM), Carson City District-Stillwater Field Office, is scheduled to begin gathering up to 167 wild horses from the Garfield Flat Herd Management Area (HMA) starting on approximately October 16, 2009.
The Garfield Flat HMA is located 10 miles southeast of Hawthorne, Nev. The topography of the HMA ranges from flat valleys through...
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SOCIETY FOR RANGE MANAGEMENT NEWS RELEASE:
Wild and estray horse and burro management policy in the U.S. can be very controversial and polarizing. Natural resource professionals are now indicating that the dynamics and limits of natural ecosystems and current economic realities have collectively given rise to a situation that is not sustainable. In the past,...
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BLM NEWS RELEASE:
The Bureau of Land Management (BLM), the Nevada Department of Agriculture AND the Nevada Department of Corrections invite horse lovers and the general public to a special horse adoption event in Carson City on Saturday, October 10. Saddle-trained horses from the ranges of Nevada will graduate from months of intensive training...
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SEN. REID NEWS RELEASE:
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Sen. Harry Reid released the following statement today following the passage of his resolution in support of National Wild Horse and Burro Adoption Day, which will be held this Saturday, Sept. 26.
“Through adoption of a wild horse or burro, Nevadans have the opportunity to experience and become a part of...
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