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The Douglas County Board of County Commissioners passed a resolution Tuesday stating the County's support for the local wild horses and the Pine Nut Wild Horse Advocates, the Gardnerville community organization working to protect local wild horses.

The resolution includes support for the PNWHA effort to prevent wild horses from going into neighborhoods and roadways through a public-private partnership with the Bureau of Land Management and private property owners to construct fencing along the Pine Nut range — including around the Fish Springs area of Gardnerville — to keep wild horses out of neighborhoods and roadways.

The resolutions states, "Residents of Douglas County take great pride in the Fish Springs wild horses and are passionate about the protection and preservation of the Fish Springs wild horse population..."

Over the past six years, PNWHA been working to secure a long-term agreement with the BLM to humanely manage the wild horses living in and around the Fish Springs area of Gardnerville, Nev. In 2018, the Trump Administration's Interior Department, in an effort to have the federal government be good neighbors with the local community, decided not to move forward with the planned massive roundup of wild horses living in and around the Fish Springs area.

This provided an opportunity for the BLM to work with the PNWHA to develop a partnership to work together moving forward. PNWHA is actively engaged in the care and management of the local wild horses and looks forward to creating a partnership with the BLM.

Pine Nut Wild Horse Advocates, located in Gardnerville, Nevada, is a non-profit organization dedicated to humanely manage the Fish Springs horses through the use of humane fertility control, implement fencing and other range improvements to keep wild horses out of neighborhoods and roadways, and to work with the federal government to keep the Fish Springs wild horses wild.