BLM Seeks Comments on Silver King HMA Assessment

The BLM hopes the horse gather proposed in the EA would help improve vegetation, habitat, and watershed health.
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The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) has prepared an environmental assessment (EA) for the Silver King herd management area (HMA), in Nevada.

The BLM said it is is seeking comments on the EA, which analyzes the need to gather and remove excess wild horses from within and outside the Silver King HMA. The HMA, located in Lincoln County, Nevada, is 606,000 acres in size. The appropriate management level for the Silver King is 60 -128 horses; the BLM completed a population inventory in February 2017 and estimated the population to be 850 animals.

By implementing the actions outlined in the proposed wild horse gather EA, the BLM hopes to be able to improve vegetation, habitat, and watershed health. Removing excess animals would enable significant progress toward achieving the Standards for Rangeland Health identified by the Mohave-Southern Great Basin Resource Advisory Council, the agency said.

The BLM would also collect information on herd characteristics and determine herd health during the gather. In addition to the proposed gather and removal of wild horses, some wild horses would be released back into the HMA. Fertility control treatments of PZP and GonaCon, are addressed in the EA

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