Wild Horses: Come to the Wyoming Statewide Hearing 6/21 and Voice your Comments about this Summer’s Roundups

White Mountain Wild Horses

Wyoming has a series of huge roundups scheduled for this year, starting with the Little Colorado and the White Mountain Herds, and then continuing with Great Divide Basin Herd.  These three herd areas are on vast tracts of land, with almost 3 million acres total between the three areas, and yet the BLM is proposing to round up and remove 696 wild horses from Little Colorado and White Mountain. They will leave only 69 horses, way below the number needed for genetic viability in the Little Colorado Herd Area, and will leave only 205 wild horses in White Mountain:  http://www.blm.gov/wy/st/en/info/news_room/2011/april/08rsfo-gather.html

In Great Divide Basin, they are proposing to remove 1225 horses, leaving 475.  http://www.blm.gov/wy/st/en/info/news_room/2011/may/18rsfo-divide.html

The other issue with these proposed roundups is that not only are they removing horses, they also plan to do fertility control on all the mares released PLUS skew the sex ratio in each area to 60% stallions and 40% mares.  The devastating impact of this misguided and crude population control method as used last year in Salt Wells Creek and Adobe Town were discussed in Wild Hoofbeats’ latest blog post: https://www.wildhoofbeats.com/blog/wild-horses-wyomings-wild-horse-herds-will-never-be-the-same

There is still time to comment on the Great Divide Basin roundup – you must send comments in by June 20 to this address;

Great Divide Basin Scoping Comments
BLM Rock Springs Field Office
280 Highway 191 North
Rock Springs, WY 82901
DivideBasin_HMA_WY@blm.gov
(Please list “Divide Basin EA Comments” in the subject line.)

The Statewide Hearing on Helicopter/Motorized Vehicle Use in Wild Horse Management is in Rock Springs, Wyoming at 5:30 pm on June 21 at the Rock Springs BLM Office:

Tuesday, June 21 at 5:30 p.m.
High Desert District Office
280 Highway 191 North
Rock Springs, WY 82901

Here is the link:

http://www.blm.gov/wy/st/en/info/news_room/2011/may/18hdd-helicopter.html

Please come if you can and make your voice heard on this plan to devastate Wyoming’s herds of wild horses.

Great Divide Basin Wild Horses