Emergency Wild Horse Gather Begins in Cherry Spring Area

The BLM said it plans to gather about 60 horses from the Nevada range due to declining water sources.
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The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Nevada’s Elko District and Wells Field Office began an emergency wild horse water- and bait-trap gather on Sept. 19 with placement of corrals near the Cherry Spring area located in Maverick-Medicine herd management area (HMA).

Cherry Spring is approximately 60 miles southeast of Elko, Nevada.

The BLM said wild horses in the Cherry Spring area of the Maverick-Medicine HMA are in an area with declining water sources; this gather is designed to remove excess wild horses from the Cherry Spring area due to the declining critical water source on public lands and prevent further resource degradation and allow the range to recover from wild horse impacts, the agency said.

The BLM said the Maverick-Medicine HMA has an authorized management level of 166-276 wild horses and has a current estimated population of 1,051wild horses, not including 2016 foal crop. Approximately 60+ horses are currently using Cherry Spring based on recent monitoring of the area, the agency added

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