The BLM continues to wipe out herds of wild horses in Wyoming. The BLM’s “Appropriate Management Level” (AML) is only 480-724 wild horses on over 700,000 acres of public land. The BLM wants to remove every wild horse outside the HMA, and leave only 602 in the Red Desert HMA Complex. The BLM also plans to give PZP to every mare gathered and returned to the range. Let’s keep an eye on the BLM’s oil and gas lease sales in this area. – Debbie

SOURCE: county10.com

File photo of wild mustangs near McCullough Peaks. Photo by Dennis Donohue/Shutterstock.

The Bureau of Land Management Rawlins and Lander field offices announce that a preliminary environmental assessment (EA) analyzing a proposed wild horse gather in the Red Desert Wild Horse Herd Management Area (HMA) Complex is now available for review.

The Red Desert Complex, which includes the Antelope Hills, Crooks Mountain, Green Mountain, Lost Creek and Stewart Creek HMAs, is located in Sweetwater, Carbon, Fremont and Natrona counties west and south of Wyoming Highway 287.

The proposed operation would include gathering wild horses, treating all mares to be released with the PZP-22 (porcine zona pellucida) fertility control vaccine, and removing horses to bring the population of the complex within its appropriate management level. All horses that have moved outside the HMAs would also be removed. The proposed gather may take place late this year or in 2016.

The preliminary EA analyzes three alternatives and is available by visiting the BLM website at: www.blm.gov/wy/st/en/info/NEPA/documents/rfo/red-desert.html.

The 30 day comment period runs from September 8 through October 7, 2015.